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...Neither rain nor sleet nor snow would keep All-American James Blake from living up to that adjective...
Unfortunately, the rain in Texas that left much of the state struggling to stay above water also took its toll on the event hosted by the University of Texas at Austin. As a result, the tournament has been extended at least another day as semifinal play begins today...
...stage, it would have been nice to actually see the concert. With an estimated 100,000 people crowded into City Hall Plaza (a dumb, dumb, dumb place to hold a crowd of this magnitude), fans were lucky enough to see a bunch of umbrellas, some puddles, and rain. And the back of the guy in front of them...
...rain forests are being destroyed at an alarming rate and with them, the cures for just about any disease imaginable. This is taught to every second grader, and it is one of the main themes in the new IMAX film Amazon. Now playing at the Boston Museum of Science, Amazon follows two medicine men--an American ethnobotonist and a tribal shaman--on their separate quests for new plants and possible medicines, before they are gone. Although it hasn't been as well publicized as Everest, the other IMAX film currently playing at the museum, crowds of a respectable size still...
...fortunate that Amazon relies so heavily on stunning cinematography, because as an attempt to tell a story, the film fails rather comically. It is not intended to be a documentary, and it doesn't try to do anything more than give a quick and superficial tour of the Amazonian rain forests. Even with all the colorful visual distractions sprinkled throughout the film, one can't help but notice the handling of this clumsy plot. The persistent "rain forests can cure anything" mantra is annoyingly condescending, but without it, one might as well be watching a per-flight nature video with...