Valentino is a movie archivist at UCLA but his business card reads “film detective.” His job: tracking down prints of old Hollywood movies before they deteriorate and are lost forever.
As “Frames” opens, Valentino has just sunk all of his savings, and then some, into buying the decrepit Oracle Theater in the hope of restoring it [...]
15
May
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19
Mar
Think Ureweras. Think Tuhoe. Think police raids. Think again. Clive Lind found peace and beauty on a Lake Waikaremoana guided walk.
Te Urewera National Park might be the fourth-largest in New Zealand but it deserves to be first in the stakes for the most interesting name. Literally, Urewera means burnt manhood, reflecting the story of a [...]
11
Mar
A 22-year-old Aucklander busted by the FBI for an internet blackmail scam is in jail after admitting internet fraud worth $300,000.
Tomasz Grygoruk was awaiting trial for a March 2006 attempt to extort $US10,000 ($13,000) from an American teacher when police last month laid fresh charges against him in Manukau District Court.
Grygoruk had been denying the [...]
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Feb
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15
Feb
MADRID, Spain - A Spanish court ordered the reopening of Operation Puerto, a widespread doping probe that has implicated some of cycling’s biggest stars.Spain’s Provincial Court on Thursday decided to re-examine the case after investigative magistrate Antonio Serrano had closed it a year ago without issuing any indictments because Spain’s new doping law was not [...]
15
Feb
LAYTON %26#151; Police raided a novelty gift shop inside the Layton Hills Mall, seizing 15 boxes of items they said were sexually explicit.
The raid happened Tuesday morning just as Spencer Gifts was opening for business. Police said a search warrant was drafted, seeking numerous items [...]
25
Jan
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil (AP) — Tourists in the know have begun flowing in to Brazil to see preparations for the Feb. 3-4 Carnival parade, but the real work has been in full swing for six months already, transforming Rio’s humble shantytowns into riots of color and song.
In the Mangueira shantytown, a grim collection of [...]
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