May 2007

Nomaville: Art Thief

May 31, 2007

Black market art world – bad news. First there are the art thieves, a hoary bunch of lycra-clad thugs who believe their chosen line refines them beyond the specter of criminality. When they’re not plucking paintings off museum walls, they’re in the gym doing Pilates, their steel eyes far-away and dull, hypnotized by the electronica [...]

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Title Blight at the Movies

May 16, 2007
Title Blight

There is a phenomenon that occurs with enough frequency in cinema that it might some day merit its own film studies class. I am, of course, thinking of that portentous breed of upper division course stitched together from the dross and shavings of previous lesson plans and festooned with such grandstanding titles as “The History [...]

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Planet News Now with Kimi Sato

May 10, 2007

Last week saw the launch of Planet News Now with Kimi Sato, an intergalactic space vixen and broadcast personality who reports on global news from the vantage of a satellite orbit. The project is one of several multimedia endeavors we’re rolling out under the FilmArt3 banner at Three House MultiMedia (the parent company of the [...]

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And the nominees are…

May 10, 2007

Been meaning to mention that, as of last week, your humble hack is a national finalist in the Association of Alternative Newsweeklies annual nod to the news racket — in this case in the “Food Writing/Criticism” category for a publication with a circulation greater than 60,000. This would be the North Bay Bohemian for which [...]

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