By Ricky Simpson The Reader Starring: Kate Winslet, Ralph Fiennes, David Kross Michael Burk (Fiennes, Kross), a middle age judge reminisces on a past romance with an older woman, Hanna (Winslet). Set in post World War II Germany, the unconventional couple keeps their affair a secret but both are obsessed with the idea of one [...]
Continue reading …In my opinion, the last 25 years have given us few films more compelling than 1998’s “Run Lola Run.†The film centers on a young woman named Lola as she races through the streets of Berlin trying to rescue her boyfriend, who faces an ultimatum of death from a local gangster, after misplacing 10,000 Deutschmarks. [...]
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Column by Wesley Robinson Today, America is in the midst of probably the most important historical changes in its relatively short history, and all over the television, internet and in the newspapers, there is a sentiment that we are experiencing the effects of post-racial America; for example, last week a black man officially became the [...]
Continue reading …Column by Nate Waters Mining receives a great deal of negative publicity due to concerns over the impacts on the environment and worker health and safety. However, mining provides us with minerals that are essential to our everyday activities. Many materials that are used in our lives originate from plants or are naturally occurring minerals [...]
Continue reading …Lexingtonians, there is an invisible “For Sale†sign in our front yard. Our government is so full of loopholes and suggestive plans, that anyone with the funding can invade the city and throw up a building that will forever change Lexington’s landscape. Lexington residents had a fast one pulled over them when the CentrePointe project [...]
Continue reading …Classes before 11 a.m. on Thursday are canceled, said Beth Goins, a UK spokeswoman. Classes beginning at or after 11 will meet at their regularly scheduled times. Employees should report at 10 a.m., Goins said, except those required to be at work earlier under UK’s Plan B. The continued delay — which began with closings [...]
Continue reading …By Rosalind Essig Around 36,500 Lexington residents were among the hundreds of thousands throughout the state without power Wednesday night in the second-largest power outage recorded in Kentucky’s history, according to the Public Service Commission. Power outages totaled 473,000 in the Kentucky Public Service Commission’s jurisdiction at noon Wednesday, according to a Public Service Commission [...]
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As Mike Jones works at UK, he does something unexpected on a campus covered by a blanket of snow and ice: He sweats. Jones is one of the university employees in charge of maintaining UK’s three heating facilities. While much of UK remained closed Wednesday, he did what he has done for decades, poking at [...]
Continue reading …By Katie Saltz With a new administration there is a renewed call for better science and technology education in schools by President Barack Obama. Funding is seen as an obstacle for a better plan, but Susan Band Horwitz believes the real problem is a lack of respect for the science community in the U.S. Horwitz, [...]
Continue reading … By Stephanie Ingolia Deborah Lander has played the viola since age 11, but it wasn’t her first instrument of choice. The Sydney, Australia native originally played the violin but began studying with a viola teacher and made the switch to the larger, deeper instrument. “I just fell in love with the sound,†said Lander, [...]
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