On the Sci-Fi Channel tonight (January 16th): A new episode of “Battlestar Galactica,” The first of their final ten episodes.
It is difficult to convey how good this show is without coming off like a gushing fanboy. It’s that name. True, revisualizing the mostly silly original show was the reason it was greenlighted, but it makes [...]

Back in 2001, A nice little summer action film called The Fast and the Furious was released by Universal. At the time, this studio had an unusual knack for putting out good teen movies: American Pie, Bring It On, Blue Crush and 8 Mile all came out around the turn of the millennia. (it wasn’t [...]

There was construction everywhere along the strip when I was there. A mega-casino called The Cosmo was nearing completion; Cranes atop framed towers worked 24 hours a day. A cab driver told me these projects were working on prior secured funding: if the financial and credit markets had not gone into the dumper in the [...]

Just returned from a three-day visit to Sin City. Haven’t been there in a very long time. 1975, in fact.
It’s changed a bit since then.
It’s too much to take in, three days of sensory overload. To wander the Strip and take in the state of the art in wallet-vacuuming technologies is an education in the [...]