NYC sets record for film, TV productions in '06
NEW YORK (AP) - You might have seen a vampire on one corner, a princess on the other and a gangster down the block last year in New York City, which set a record for the number of film and television shoots.
City, 8 landowners OK deal on water services
A deal between Surprise and a group of eight landowners is expected to bring sewer and water service to a 59-square mile portion of raw land in the city's southwestern corner.
'Pan's Labyrinth' is teen, adult fare
Rating: R for graphic violence and some language. What it's about: A young girl faces tests and enters the world of fairies in a remote corner of the horrific Spanish Civil War.
Sundance opens with a blast from past provocations
On some subterranean sonic level you can hear Nick Nolte growling away in the far corner with some friends, even though the place is filling up fast. I am not in that corner. I suspect I never will be. I am in the opposite corner, around midnight Thursday in The Spur, a Main Street hangout in the ski town eaten alive for 10 days every January by the Sundance Film Festival.
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SOMALIA - Standing amid a pile of rubble on a Mogadishu street corner two young men, faces covered by red scarves, loaded their rocket-propelled grenade launchers. Three spare grenades and an AK-47 were slung over their backs.
Hawks Hold Off Gamblers
A pair of second period goals put the Waterloo Black Hawks ahead of the Green Bay Gamblers and on their way to a 3-1 win Friday. Less than two minutes into the period, on a rush up ice, a puck found its way to Blake Kessel who wristed it into the top corner of the net.
