Wisconsin Fish Report: Chubs Disappearing from the Planet
Fans of the tasty fresh water Chubs are in for bad news. Our beloved fish seem to be swimming towards extinction.
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San Francisco Int’l. LGBT Film Festival
FIND YOUR STORY: For the 36th year, Frameline brings us the longest running film festival dedicated to lesbian, gay, bisexual, and transgender programming. This year’s theme is “Find your story.” That story is somewhere in the more than 217 films from 30 countries. One of the most buzzed about is a documentary called “Love Free…
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BAG IT! GAME APP REVIEW
COMPETITIVE GROCERY BAGGING: I thought I was master of my recycled shopping tote. Darn that BAG IT! game app. Hidden Variable Studios has created the ultimate brain tease for iOS and android devices. MOVE OVER BUBBLE WRAP: Ever the intellectual snob, I’ve always preferred the stimulating pop-able plastic, shunning all forms of poker, Pokemon, and…
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What To Expect When You’re Expecting: Film Review
Critics will trash this film, audiences will make it a summer hit. What to Expect When You’re Expecting delivers exactly what you expect. Heidi Murkoff wrote the same-titled pregnancy manual 28 years ago. Hollywood has apparently decided the masses are ready to laugh at the terrifying side effects of being preggers. Stuff like uncontrollable flatulence,…
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San Francisco Int’l. Film Festival 2012
DON’T STOP BELIEVING This was a rough year for the San Francisco Film Society. Besides the usual stress of putting together the 55th annual film festival program, the staff was in deep mourning after the loss of their beloved executive director. Graham Leggat resigned his post last year and passed away soon afterwards of cancer….
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Prison Dancer: Film Review
Are You A Digital Native?Everyone knows that if you can’t fix your computer, ask a twelve year old. These kids who were born and raised on YouTube and instant messaging are pushing aside the baby boomer grasp on the media. It hit me whack upside the head the night I showed up at the New…
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FAILCON: LEARN FROM THE BEST
Failure is so popular these days there’s even a convention extolling it’s virtues. Presenting FailCon to the rescue, an annual one day conference of encouragement and enlightenment for start-ups and fans of all things tech. Seems there are lots of reasons why we fail, the first being that fear keeps us from even trying. Speaking…
