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...Hollywood gave them one: the architect played by Charles Bronson in Death Wish. After his wife is murdered and his daughter raped, he is given a gun and, when attacked, kills the assailant, then stalks the city looking for muggers to punish. Reflecting and exploiting urban anxieties, the movie was panned by critics who found it reprehensible - "Poisonous incitement to do-it-yourself law enforcement," Variety proclaimed - and wildly garish. "This doesn't look like 1974," Roger Ebert wrote of Death Wish at the time, "but like one of those bloody future cities in science-fiction novels about anarchy...
...packaged kits to help them make their wines. Wineshops and vineyards are offering blending seminars, tutored tastings of grape varietals where you can create your own blend and take home a bottle of the mix. But for those who want the full winemaking experience, Crushpad, a San Francisco urban winery, allows clients to create a custom wine, from vine to uncorking, without having to move to wine country...
After a slow start, Crushpad is blooming. In 2004 it produced 200 barrels. This year there will be more than 1,000. And Brill hopes to create more Crushpads to take the winemaking process closer to urban enologists. First up is Tokyo, where Crushpad Japan recently opened, bringing West Coast winemaking to the Far East...
...borntough, ruthless, addicted to vengeance. This thriller, directed by Neil Jordan, has so many plot loopholes, it makes sense only as the fantasy of a bereaved soul. Or perhaps as an answer to the 1970s-era Death Wish films. Troubling and engrossing, it suggests that to become an urban hero, you first have to forget you're human...
...know that Allston residents will have to endure decades of construction in our densely settled urban neighborhood. We have watched local businesses, useful services, and hundreds of jobs leave our neighborhood and not be replaced because Harvard is purchasing and mothballing dozens of acres of land. We are told that Allston kids are not welcome in the same daycare as Harvard kids and Harvard doesn’t want Allston residents using the same fitness center or mass transit as Harvard people...