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My job at Vox is to talk to interesting people. And in 2020, I got to talk to a lot of really, really interesting people. Nine conversations in particular stick out to me. They were the ones that challenged me the most, got me thinking in a new way about a difficult problem, or simply explained what the hell was happening in this disorienting year. There’s no unifying thread tying all these conversations together, but each of them, in its own way, left a strong impression on me. One of my fav...

Die Hard is actually a Christmas movie, as much as a workable distinction exists. Studies suggest that viewers do draw a delineation: 50% of British audiences believe that a movie set at Christmas is not inherently a Christmas movie. A YouGov survey in December 2017 suggested that 56% of Americans and 52% of Britons don’t believe that Die Hard is a Christmas movie. The following year, a poll from Morning Consult and The Hollywood Reporter was even more definitive, suggesting 62% of Americans...

Andrew B. Wilson Has the age-old conflict between liberals and conservatives ceased to matter? To put it another way, has the philosophical debate between left and right devolved into the semi-comic spectacle of "two bald men fighting over a comb?" That is how the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges described the bloody war in 1982 between his country and Britain over ownership of the windswept and desolate Falkland Islands. Signs of exhaustion and confusion abound on both sides of the left/rig...

Bandera: Cowboy Capital among Hill Countrys finest  For Sale Lisa Harrison Rivas, Staff Writer Dec. 28, 2020 FacebookTwitterEmail 1of6 Banderas small-town atmosphere appeals to many homebuyers.San Antonio Board of RealtorsShow MoreShow Less 2of6 Ranch-style houses are most common in Bandera, but some subdivisions do have large two-story homes.San Antonio Board of RealtorsShow MoreShow Less 3of6 4of6 The Medina River flows through this historic town thats about 53 miles from downtown San Anton...

The departed: Heroes, celebrities and rogues, from Oregon and beyond, who died in 2020 Updated Dec 28, 2020; Posted Dec 28, 2020 Among those we lost in 2020 (clockwise): Retired Lakers basketball star Kobe Bryant, Sisters of the Road co-founder Genny Nelson, former Trail Blazers executive Harry Glickman and sexuality expert Shere Hite. Facebook Share 2020 has been a rough year, and we’ve lost far too many people along the way. Below The Oregonian/OregonLive offers up a list, far from exhaus...

100 Best Movies of 2020, According to Audiences By Madison Troyer, Stacker News On 12/27/20 at 10:00 AM EST When the coronavirus pandemic hit the United States in early 2020, movie theaters were among the first places to close. In many states, including New York, they have yet to reopen. With many national chains reporting devastating losses quarter after quarter—the countrys three largest chains reported $1 billion worth of losses in Q3—many have begun to fear that the theater experienc...

ARI SHAPIRO, HOST: Tom Hanks is going to be a captain again. The last time Hanks teamed up with director Paul Greengrass, it was for the movie "Captain Phillips," where he played the resolute skipper of a hijacked freighter. Now the two have joined forces to make "News Of The World." And while Hanks is once again playing a resolute captain, critic Bob Mondello says its a very different kind of movie. BOB MONDELLO, BYLINE: Its a few years after the Civil War, and Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd make...

Since we’ve been so engaged by American politics — between the November election and the January inauguration — I recently decided to explore US history and culture through a well-established medium: the cowboy Western. So I watched 15 classic Western films, one after another. I’d never been a follower of the Western — regarding it as boys’ entertainment — but it is recognised as an original genre which illuminates the American story. Some compare it to Greek drama, Japanese epics...

Skooz OK, so its like this. This used to be a really nice profile page; pics galore, nice wallpapers, and if I say so my self, pretty cool. Then, Comcast deactivated the web pages of their subscribers, including me, and all the painstaking HTML was orphaned overnight. One of these days Ill get around to rebuilding this page. One of these days ... ungh!! "Will you raise or lower my taxes?" Until that question is answered, I do not hear a word they have to say. All Hail the Mighty Kansas C...

Private Jet Service Wins TRO to Keep Doing Business at John Wayne Airport SANTA ANA, Calif. (CNS)—A federal judge granted a temporary restraining order on Dec. 23 blocking Orange County from denying a permit for a private jet service from operating on the corporate jet side of John Wayne Airport. It could be a short-lived victory, however; the lease expires at year’s end, and it is unlikely to be renewed by ACI Jet, the airport’s fixed-base operator (FBO), because county and Newport Beach...