HOW TO NOT BE A TERRORIST TARGET

Two women friends and I were in the Wadi Do’an in southeastern Yemen, ancestral home to Osama bin Laden.  It was 2004.  Our vehicle had made its way along the rocky dry stream bed for a couple of hours and we’d finally arrived at the halfway point in the wadi, the...

2014 Specsavers Crime Thriller Award Winners

The 2014 Specsavers Crime Thriller Awards were presented today at London’s Grosvenor House Hotel tonight. The star-studded awards ceremony was hosted by Bradley Walsh and attended by the cream of actors, writers and producers from the world of crime TV and fiction,...

Film Review: A SUMMER'S TALE

A SUMMER’S TALE Written and Directed by Eric Rohmer Starring: Melvil Poupaud, Amanda Langlet, Aurelia Nolin, Gwenaelle Simon A SUMMER”S TALE was released in 1996 in France but for some reason never found a distributor in the U.S. until now. It is part of...

Chilling Adventures of Sabrina with Kate (and Dan)

Dan and The Dog return to the Asylum in St. Paul to find Kate sitting in the dark. The house is silent, except for the occasional sniffle and whimper from Kate. The curtains are drawn, even though the sun is shining brightly. Dan: Another guy with truck nuts cut you...

THE BIG UGLY BY JAKE HINKSON

Beat To A Pulp October 11, 2014 Ellie Bennett served her time. She kept her mouth closed and served her 13 months in Eastgate Penitentiary for Women. Now she’s got to put herself back together as a free woman. It was almost ironic, really. As a corrections officer at...

Tales from the Thin Blue Line 27

Reporting on the Trayvon Martin/George Zimmerman crime incident began with the exact same elements as all inter-racial confrontations in this country: People in control of the information highway instantly get in front of the telling of the story. It is well...