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...traditional Irish bar and restaurant complete with dark wood paneling and dim lighting, this popular nightspot is also a good place for an intimate brunch. The signature brunch special is the Irish Breakfast (8.35), complete with white pudding—a meat and onions concoction—and black pudding, a version of the former with the addition of pig’s blood. For the less adventursome, the wild mushroom ravioli (5.75) and pan fried crab cakes (6.75) are quite delicious. Flirt with the perky Irish waitress...
Although a formulaic thriller at heart, director Philip Kaufman’s Twisted still manages to entertain, effectively playing on its setting in the San Francisco Harbor area to create a dark and seedy atmosphere. Combined with dank sexual undertones, the ambience gives Twisted the key components of a suspense film to hold the attention of a thrill-seeking audience...
Twisted does not aspire to or achieve anything more than the typical suspense film, but it seems that’s what audiences are looking for most weekends. It provides the dark, sinister, provocative elements needed to keep thriller aficionados entertained, but does not attempt to do more. Even though this could be seen as the film’s downfall, it is refreshing and fun as a simple weekend movie...
...denied keycard access between 2:30 a.m. and 7:30 a.m.; upperclass students who walk between the Science Center and River Houses at night cannot swipe into first-year dorms even at normal hours. Although students who feel uneasy can phone HUPD, waiting for the cruiser outside in the dark puts them in danger...
...night at Saddam’s wore on and one beer turned into three or four, the dark realities of their lives began to surface. During a cigarette break outside the palace, Aaron—a tan, spiky-haired 25-year-old who liked to talk like Mr. T—told me about the time when his convoy got stopped on the outskirts of Kirkuk. Stopped at a checkpoint, a young boy approached Aaron’s truck with an AK-47 in his hands. The child pointed the assault rifle at Aaron and Aaron shot the child...