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Me, I'm Steve Head. I co-created the movie news website IGN Filmforce, which is now IGN movies, and that's where much of my writing goes. There, we essentially live and breathe news and interviews. From 1997 to 2000 I was co-editor of TheForce.net - your daily Star Wars news. I've also written for The Boston Phoenix. I do marketing promotions for The Brattle Theater (http://brattlefilm.org) here in Cambridge, MA. And I'm Editor in Chief of The New England Film Movement, www.beanywood.com.

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Traffic Enforcement Agent Blocks Fire Hydrant During A Fire
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Traffic Enforcement Agent Blocks Fire Hydrant During A Fire

Do No Evil – I saw this on the news last night about a dude named "Jimmy Justice" A Brooklyn native who goes around filming city employees i.e. Traffic Enforcement Agents who gleefully hand us tickets but break the law as well. New York certainly is a city of double standards when it comes to justice.

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:46pm

Whatever Happened to We the People?
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Whatever Happened to We the People?

Do No Evil – Thomas Jefferson once said, "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:45pm

Couple arrested for not covering up anti-Bush t-shirts get $80k settlement
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Couple arrested for not covering up anti-Bush t-shirts get $80k settlement

Politics – On July 4th, 2004, Nicole and Jeffrey Rank (pictured) were arrested for refusing to remove their anti-Bush T-shirts at a rally at Charleston, West Virginia, where Bush gave a speech. In September of that year the ACLU filed a lawsuit on their behalf. Today the ACLU announced they have settled for $80,000.

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:45pm

Apartheid-era minister pleads guilty in poison trial
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Apartheid-era minister pleads guilty in poison trial

News – South Africa's former law and order minister, Adriaan Vlok, today became the only senior politician in the country's white regime to be convicted of apartheid-era crimes when he pleaded guilty to the attempted murder of a prominent cleric.Mr Vlok received a 10-year suspended prison sentence under a plea bargain by admitting he ordered the security

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:45pm

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Superbad: Geek Love

Movies – More than a decade ago, Greg Mottola spent $30,000 and 17 days filming The Daytrippers, a small but smart story about a feuding family looking for a wayward spouse on a sudden, daylong road trip through New York City.

Submitted and Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:43pm

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Aniston may star in 'He's Just Not That Into You'

Movies – Jennifer Aniston is the latest actress linked to "He's Just Not That Into You," a new comedy based on the bestselling book of the same title about the seemingly endless ways in which men and women misunderstand each other.

Submitted and Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:42pm

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Variety: Jodie Foster sticks to guns in 'Brave'

Movies – Women in mainstream Hollywood dramas rarely use guns. Outside of the action fantasy realm, they don't kill, and if they do, it's a crime of passion involving a husband or lover. And they don't kill repeatedly, for revenge.

Submitted and Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:40pm

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Wall Street Rethinks Its Role in the Movies

Money – Wall Street's flirtation with Hollywood is showing signs of strain as the credit squeeze dents already waning enthusiasm for so-called slate-financing deals. Several funds set up to provide financing for movie studios are facing uncertainty, both in terms of underwriting existing deals and closing new ones.

Submitted and Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:39pm

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DiCaprio's March of the Inconvenient Truths

Movies – With last summer's "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore managed to bump global warming to the top of the national consciousness -- and sell over $24 million of U.S. tickets. Now Leonardo DiCaprio is betting he can repeat the feat.

Submitted and Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:37pm

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A movie studio in Philadelphia

Movies – A California production company already trying to lure Hollywood Hollywood productions to New Mexico is proposing to build a movie and television studio in the Philadelphia area. It's a project that could eventually create several thousand jobs.

Submitted and Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:36pm

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Fleshing Out the TIFF Foreign Film Selections

Movies – One of the most maddening things about film fests is that when the film selection announcements first start rolling out, you can hardly ever find anything about most of them. It's enough to drive a cinephile insane how few independent films have official websites up (or even enough info on their IMDb pages) by the time their fest inclusion is annou

Submitted and Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:34pm

Hansen Sets the Record Straight About NASA Climate Data
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Hansen Sets the Record Straight About NASA Climate Data

Science – The nation's top climate scientist is so frustrated over the nonsense racing about the blogsophere and mainstream media about the tiny flaw in NASA's U.S. temperature database that he has already sent out two e-mails on the subject showing that even when corrected, the data shows the same pattern of warming.

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:26pm

 Considerable Sounds / Byrne-ing Down The House
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Considerable Sounds / Byrne-ing Down The House

Music – A short story and an overview of The Talking Heads influence and influences in music. A glimpse of the 1980's.

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:26pm

U.S. Defends Surveillance to 3 Skeptical Judges
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U.S. Defends Surveillance to 3 Skeptical Judges

Politics – Three federal appeals court judges hearing challenges to the National Security Agency's surveillance programs appeared skeptical of and sometimes hostile to the Bush administration's central argument Wednesday: that national security concerns require that the lawsuits be dismissed.

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:25pm

10 rescuers reported injured at mine
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10 rescuers reported injured at mine

News – At least 10 people working to find six men trapped in coal mine were injured Thursday night, authorities said.

Voted for on August 17, 2007 05:25pm

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