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  • Actress Bynes arrested in NYC on marijuana charge

    apartment building on West 47th Street at about 7:40 p.m. Thursday. Police say a building official called police to complain that Bynes was smoking marijuana and rolling a joint in the building's lobby. The officers went to Bynes' apartment where they saw heavy smoke and a bong, which Bynes then threw out the window in front of the officers. Bynes was arrested on charges of reckless ...

  • Seach for Ithaca man who went missing on Cayuga Lake to resume authorities say

    Christopher Dennis, of Cayuga Heights Road, left a campsite around 5 a.m. Wednesday in the town of Covert and put a canoe into Cayuga Lake alone. When Dennis didn't return later in the day, his friends began looking for him and found an overturned canoe in the middle of the lake around 12:30 p.m., the sheriff's office said. The friends called 911. On Thursday searchers from the ...

  • I-5 bridge collapses in NW Wash. no fatalities reported

    An Interstate 5 bridge over a river north of Seattle collapsed Thursday evening, dumping vehicles and people into the water, the Washington State Patrol ...

  • New York tour operator cancels Bronx ghetto tours

    NEW YORK, NY - A New York company offering tours of Bronx neighborhoods has shut down after officials objected to its advertising that claimed to give visitors "a ride through a real New York City 'ghetto'," according to a statement from Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz Jr. The tour's controversial description states that when thinking of the Bronx, people envision ...

  • New York biker events May 24-26

    The D.U.P.A. event which was held last Sunday was a great success, with about 30 people in attendance at Petrocelli Photography studio in Latham, NY. Participants learned some valuable information from Attorney Ben Rabin from the Rabin Law Firm in Syracuse, and Hank McGrath of Bikers Against Discrimination, as well as compelling stories of police aggression suffered by their own peers in the ...


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Movie Review

The Fourth Man (De vierde man)

The opening scene of Paul Verhoeven's Dutch erotic comedy/thriller "The Fourth Man" is none too subtle: in queasy close-up it shows a large spider capturing and devouring a helpless fly that has become caught in its web. For a film that deals with a blond femme fatal who may or may not have knocked off three husbands and may or may not be positioning herself to get a fourth, this is not a good sig ... ...

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