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...sitting around...This is the first time I thought man, I really want to take a vacation.”“Vacancy” offers some frightening real-life parallels for Wilson. “I’ve done most of my driving around the southwest, all around Texas. It can always get gnarly around there in the desert. It’s pretty desolate,” he says. “There’s this stretch where it says ‘Next gas 73 miles,’ and I always just have...
...Free or Die” aspires to be a hybrid between “Garden State” and “Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid,” and it has won jury commendations at both the 2006 Seattle Film Festival and the 2006 South By Southwest Film Festival. Unfortunately, the film’s mixture of soul-searching angst and renegade idealism creates more melancholy than comedy in a cinematic experience that gets old fast. The story is about the rise and fall of John “Rugged” Rudgate (Aaron Stanford...
...chatter about Twitter escalated into a virtual roar two weeks ago during the South by Southwest multimedia festival in Austin, Tex., when the barebones service owned by Blogger founder Evan Williams, 34, was named the best blogging tool and attendees used it to meet up at parties. Since then, the fawning attention to the seven-month-old service has come full-circle as reviewers have begun to realize how boring most people's lives really are. (As if YouTube's gallery of puppy and kitten videos hadn't already driven that point home.) Nonetheless, Twitter has been the top term...
...fifteen years, Planned Parenthood of Southwest Missouri clinics in Joplin and Springfield have offered free breast and cervical cancer screenings as part of the state's "Show Me Healthy Women" program. Now Governor Matt Blunt has announced that he will cut off all program funding to Planned Parenthood and redirect it to other health clinics. "Patients should not have to go to an abortion clinic to access life-saving tests," Blunt declared. Refusing to fund cancer screening at the clinics, he said, "ensures women may access important preventative care without contributing to abortion providers' goal of facilitating the destruction...
...Here's the twist: The clinics in question do not provide abortion services, though they will discuss the procedure and make referrals. "He was being dishonest," says Kellie Rohrbaugh, director of public affairs for Planned Parenthood of Southwest Missouri, who says her office received a fax alerting them to the funding cuts 45 minutes before the governor's press conference. "We asked the administrator of the program if women had complained about going to Planned Parenthood, and she said we'd been a very good partner. We could get people in quickly, have them seen, refer them to treatment quickly...