March 2008 Archives

Is IMAX the future of American cinema?

If you think about it, home entertainment centers are increasingly becoming sophisticated and a major part of the modern home. Why go out to the theater when you can nearly duplicate the experience for less money in your house?

Not with IMAX. There are no imitations.

If you're squeemish about the idea of taxes--this is Naperville, after all--you should be probably take a dramamine. More taxes are on the way. Is that a good thing?

It's the most famous party for high school seniors and college students who want to get away from miserable March weather and the false pretense of tyrant parenting.

But parents should be worried about the supposed vacation that essentially invites underage kids to drink, indulge some more, and get even more drunk in foreign locations with unknown people. Just recently a riot broke out in Texas due to spring breakers.

Let us also consider the most troubling part of these weeklong parties: they put young women in horrible situations where they are often very vulnerable.

Considering Naperville's stellar reputation for family living, I'm wondering if Naperville's parents will take a stand against letting their children go on spring break?

The violence is gratuitus and palpable. This Coen-Brother classic is already a Best Picture winner and one of the best movies in modern cinema--but what does it exactly mean?

There is a good (Tommy Lee Jone) bad (Javier Bardem) and a nobody (Josh Brolin); they serve as metaphors for how there is an evil in this world. The evil preys on nobodies; the good try to make sense of it all.

Is that right?

Is that how the world works? Is my interpretation of the movie accurate?

Comedy is a word that doesn't automatically validate a director or producer's effort to make you laugh.

Consider these titles like "Joe Dirt" and "White Chicks".

So you see where we are going.

Naperville residents who pay about $100 for their electric bill can expect to pay as much as $11 more per month, after the Naperville City Council agreed Tuesday night to raise its electric service rates by 2 percent.

The 2 percent increase is on top of the already 9.25 percent planned increases that are scheduled to go into effect May 1. The city is one of the few towns in the state that purchases its power whole sale.

In the summer of 2006, the city agreed to a new four-year agreement with electricity providers J. Aron and Company/Goldman Sachs that would lock a fixed billing schedule through 2011.