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ACROSS
1 Triangular sail
4 Fermi's bit 37
8 Workout venues
12 Old French coin 4
13 Gaucho's weapon
14 Lothario
15 Meddler
17 14- Across' look
18 Ship-building wood
19 Erect
20 Juggler's props
22 Beard site
24 Agitate
25 Loaf keeper
29 Curry of NBC News
30 Times of prosperity
31 Einstein's birthplace
32 Popular TV school
34 Cruising
35 Greet the villain
36 Francisco's farewell
37 Aquamarine or emerald
40 Remove the lid
41 Skip
42 "Sex and the City" writer
46 Approaching
47 Wrinkly fruit
48 Witness
49 Apothecary measure
50 Suitable
51 Touch-down score
DOWN
1 Dubya's brother
2 Hosp. area
3 Very active
4 Mahmoud of the PLO
5 Stole
6 On in years
7 Possibly will
8 Earth
9 Boo-Boo's buddy
10 Think (over)
11 Burpee product
16 Scream
19 Prejudice
Solution time: 25 mins
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The Bottleneck
Friday, March 11th
Trampled by Turtles
In the United States / Ekirk Koslanik
Saturday, March 12th
Norma Jean
/w Impending Doom / Of Legends
Sunday, March 13th
The Get Up Kids
/w Miniature Figen / Brian Bonz
Tuesday, March 15th
Mike Gordon Band
Wednesday, March 16th
Ott w/ Phtureprimitive
Thursday, March 17th
Yo Mama's Big Fat
Booty Band
Thursday, March 24th
James McMurtry
Saturday, April 2nd Hayes Carll
20 Actor Pitt
21 Top-notch
22 Irate
23 Half (Pref.)
25 Employer
26 Work
27 Bread spread
28 Grand opening day?
30 $50, in "Monopoly"
33 Beat
34 Mideast gulf
36 Orchard pest
37 007
38 Eastern potentate
39 One European capital ...
40 ... and another
42 Annoy
43 Actor Tognazzi
44 Island souvenir
45 Super-man foe Luther
Thursday, April 7th
Brendan James
w/ Matt White / Lauren Pritchard
Thursday, April 14th
Justin Townes Earle
w/ law Nash
Wednesday, April 20th
Mike Watt
w/ Brynock Device
Friday, April 22nd
The Civil Wars
Saturday, April 23rd
The Black Angels
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Words come easily. People want to hear, even when you let your imagination go wild. Just make sure that you speak to what they're listening for.
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HOROSCOPE
ARIES (March 21-April 19)
TAURUS (April 20-May 20)
It doesn't always have to be "me, me, me." Practice random acts of kindness, like putting spare change in someone's parking meter or volunteering at a soup kitchen.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21) Today on 8
Today is an 8
Give a grin. Wavy Gravy, the Woodstock clown master of ceremonies, has the word "smile" painted on the ceiling above his bed as a waking reminder. It's contagious.
CANCER (June 22-July 22)
If you believe everything you think, your drive yourself crazy. Sometimes it's good to tell the voice in your head that you need a break and won't pay attention.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22)
Today is an 8
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A friend shows you a different way. Be open to change, which may bring pleasant surprises. Revit your goals and dreams today. Trust your intuition first. Then rely on a solid plan.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)
Believe in your dreams. New career possibilities open. Did you always want to be an astronaut? What's stopping you? Woody Allen says, "90 percent of success is just showing up."
Adventure time! Let go of limitations and discover new territories within. You find new ways to express yourself that you never considered possible.
Today is an 8
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
Today is an 8
If you say there's gold at the end of the rainbow, then there must be. Be true to yourself and follow your path to joy. Enjoy the ride. The destination can wait.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21)
Today on 9
Partnership is key, at home and at work. The collaboration goes both ways. Be ready to listen and to recognize other's ideas. They may be right.
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LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)
it's a good time to write and reflect on nature. What can you do that would involve both activities? Fix a picnic lunch and escape for a journal outside
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb.18)
Consider a creative activity with children.
Volunteer at your local school, if you can.
Or just spend time reading to a younger family member. They teach you.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) Today is on 8
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Cast members of Mars' discuss moms
MOVIES
LOS ANGELES — It's not just Mars that needs moms.
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The "Mars Needs Moms" cast and crew talk about what they learned from their mothers.
Seth Green said, "I always wanted to be an actor and my mom was really supportive."
Elisabeth Harnois said, "My mom's an amazing woman. Any compassion, patience, understanding I have in my blood comes from my mother"
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MOVIES
'Battle' follows tradition of old World War II films
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — Before we begin, a moment of silence please for all the brick and mortar that made the ultimate sacrifice for "Battle: Los Angeles." Sob. Let me just grab a tissue. Sorry.
the local freeways.
Let us not forget the rockets' red glare, the bombs bursting in air either. The pyrotechnics are patriotic, sizable and clearly the star of "Battle: Los Angeles," so don't let the tight shots of Aaron Eckhart's chiseled jaw and cleft chin fool you.
The movie, directed by Jonathan Liebesman, is very much in the tradition of those old World War II films you find on late-night cable with rickety fighter planes engaged in long skirmishes that you can't follow all that well except you know a few good men are trying to save the day. But with less story and instead of Germans or Japanese for hostiles, we get hordes of vengeful aliens, their monstrous UFOs choking the L.A. skies like rush hour on
Chris Bertolini's script is totally predictable from the first few moments when Eckhart's Marine staff sergeant signs his discharge papers only to have them put on hold. It's not really about acting either, though Eckhart does his best to play the hero, lead his little band of brothers (and a sister), save some civilians, including kids in case the stakes weren't high enough, while delivering stagy lines in a teeth-clenching growl: "Retreat? Hell. We just got here."
Nope, "Battle: Los Angeles" is all about the boom-boom as Santa Monica by way of Baton Rouge, La., where the movie was actually shot, is reduced to rubble. But, as the title suggests, L.A. is on the firing line, so the city's skyline is blown to bits. Burning, broken, blackened bits. So if that what you're in the mood for, that is what the film delivers, endlessly, but in that cheesy-camp way that can make a bad movie good fun.
The story opens with an
unknown military force and its complicated-looking flying battleships strafing most of the big cities around the world for unknown reasons. It turns out they are aliens in search of water. But before we know what or who, the U.S. military is mobilized, civilians are evacuated, and the battles begin.
The alien forces, for that's what all the hoo-ha is all about, are a wild bunch. They come roaring in, in their big black "Transformers" like machines, wrecking mayhem. Yet on the ground they look silvery and slim, kind of stylish, prissing their way through all the mess they've made as though they don't want to get their silver shoes dirty.
All of this unfolds in either headache-inducing shaky camera close-ups or long shots of explosions. Director of photography Lukas Ettlin was the one in charge of trying to shoot everything from the Marines' point of view, thus the shake, rattle and roll of battle extends to everyone watching.
MOVIES
'Red Riding Hood' blends romance, horror, fairytale
MCCLATCHY-TRIBUNE
LOS ANGELES — The horrortinged romance of "Red Riding Hood" is at its heart nothing more than a fashionable fairy tale version of what's all the rage in teen love stories these days. The basic formula includes a moody beauty falling for the wrong boy, who may actually be a vampire-alien-werewolf-whatever. Can "Pinocchio at 15" be far behind?
With "my, what big eyes you have" Amanda Seyfried the girl in the scarlet cloak and that edgy shaman of young angst, Catherine Hardwicke, in the director's chair, the movie comes with great expectations. So it kills me to say — or at least it bothers me a lot — that what we have here is a sheep in our clothing.
Gorgeously shot, smartly conceived, cleverly cast, badly executed — the lush medieval beauty here is at best only skin deep. Within this forest dark and deep.
David Leslie Johnson's screenplay finds its ominous undertones in the earliest versions of the Red Riding Hood story — before the beast in Grandma's bonnet was defanged for modern children's
Though Valerie is smitten with Peter, he's poor, so V's mom has someone else in mind. A marriage to the village's Richie Rich is arranged — that would be Henry (the scion of Jeremy Irons, Max). Soon Miss Bright Eyes is being torn between the two, and there's a bad moon rising. For this is a town in the stranglehold of a werewolf, and this particular season of the wolf is the one in which his bite comes with transformative power for some, death for others, starting with Valerie's sister.
the two ax men to watch for are Cesaire (Billy Burke) as a drunk of a father to Seyfried the Valerie and the young hunk Peter, played by Shiloh Fernandez ("Skateland"), whose eyes fairly crackle with mischief and manace.
Sometimes, it's literate and lofty,
as when the fire-and-brimstone Father Solomon (Gary Oldman in purple velvet) comes to rid the town of its wolf problem and remind us of how creative implements of torture can be. More of the time, it's mind-numbingly simplistic and served up on a platter like leftovers.
delicate sensitivities. The "evil dwells among us" premise is a fine one that has fueled many a thriller in countless imaginative ways. It's the dialogue that is problematic.
That, as much as the wolf, is one of the great tragedies of this tale. There is also a problem on the terror front. The visual effects work until the wolf starts talking, killing off the fear factor faster than the villagers.
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I'm not sure which is the greater tragedy here: That all of "Red Riding Hood's" promise was squandered? Or that it was clearly designed with a sequel in mind? Growl.
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