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...Best Play Three Brit imports (Rock 'n' Roll, The Seafarer and The 39 Steps) vs. a lone American play, August: Osage County, and for once the homegrown entry is the favorite. And for once I'm backing a winner: Tracy Letts' explosive family drama is the easiest choice of the night...
...never forgot his roots in Western New York, and his hometown has always celebrated his great accomplishments. A graduate of Canisius High School, he is still known as legendary Buffalo Bills fan." - Gov. David Paterson, D-N...
Italy has its Fiat 500, germany its VW Beetle and the Brits their beloved Mini. France's iconic cute car is the Citroën 2CV - the deux chevaux (two horse) car named after its minimal horsepower. The first 2CV rolled off the production line in 1948, and the car sold well until 1990, when the last of five million left the assembly line after its design fell out of kilter with E.U. safety regulations...
...dusty cityscape shows remnants of a civilization: an empty bank, a cratered warehouse mall, tattered billboards for colas and travel agencies, all bearing the logo of Buy-N-Large. TOO MUCH TRASH--EARTH COVERED reads an old headline, and we note that some of the skyscrapers are made of compacted trash cubes. The planet has become one huge junkyard, as if all humanity were a rock band that had made a shambles of a hotel room, then just strolled out. The only remaining sign of organic life on Earth is that unkillable little bugger, a cockroach...
...parody a government that does such an outstanding job of parodying itself? That's the daily challenge facing Nicaraguan cartoonists Pedro X. Molina and Manuel Guillen. Take the moment, three and a half years ago, when conservative former President Arnoldo Alemán and leftist current President Daniel Ortega, sworn political enemies with a similar fondness for power, agreed to divvy up their kingdom in an infamous power-sharing pact: Molina decided to lampoon the deal by drawing the two men seated at a banquet table being served Nicaragua on a plate. But the internationally acclaimed cartoonist for El Nuevo...