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Do I Need A Lawyer When A Dog Attacks Me?
Pets are a valued part of our society. However, sometimes, owners or keepers of pets create dangerous situations for both their pets and others. If you or a loved one is attacked by a dog, the damages can be serious….By: Ward and Smith, P.A.
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Many in Gaza City Ignore Israel’s Calls to Leave
Israel’s military dropped leaflets laying out four “safe corridors” for them to use to flee south, but few appeared to be heeding the warning on Thursday.
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‘We Want Our Real Lives Back’: For Gazans, Egypt Is Safe, but It’s Not Home
Cairo now houses tens of thousands of Palestinians who fled the war in Gaza, with few job prospects, dwindling savings and no way to put their children in the local public schools.
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What NATO’s Warning to China Means
NATO’s rare rebuke of China could lead to actions pressuring the country to curb exports to Russia. Beijing denounced it as “prejudice, smears and provocation.”
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Kenyan President Fires His Cabinet After Nationwide Protests
President William Ruto dismissed all but one of his cabinet secretaries after demonstrations over a finance bill that would have raised taxes led to the deaths of at least 41 people.
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Russia Vows ‘Military Response’ to U.S. Missile Deployments in Germany
The United States and Germany announced episodic deployments of longer-range American missiles in Germany starting in 2026.
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The Gene Siskel Film Center Celebrates the First and Last of Famous Filmmakers with their Entrances & Exits Series
The first and last films of any filmmaker’s oeuvre serve as fascinating signposts of their work — sometimes they feel like acute demonstrations of their progress as filmmakers throughout the years, others feel like elliptical representations of the same themes and images they’ve been obsessed with their whole career. A bold debut can mellow into…
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Transplendent: Shelley Duvall (1949-2024)
Some people become actors because they crave an audience, a camera, a director, or the fans. Some do it because they love to become other people, transform themselves, or tell stories. Shelley Duvall, who died this week at age 75, became an actress because Robert Altman saw her and knew that movie-goers would be instantly drawn…
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Fly Me to the Moon
“Fly Me to the Moon” lurches wildly from zippy, retro rom-com to cynical political satire to weighty, remorseful drama and back again. Tonally messy and overlong, director Greg Berlanti’s film ultimately squanders the considerable charms of its A-list stars, Scarlett Johansson and Channing Tatum, who are individually appealing but have zero chemistry with each other. Johansson is especially charismatic here as Kelly Jones, a late-’60s ad executive who gets plucked…
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The Ouray Film Festival Creates Encouraging Space for Art
Film festivals are good for the soul. While the big ones like TIFF and Sundance can sometimes feel a bit like money machines, the little ones give oxygen to art. Even one where the altitude is high enough that there’s less of it in the air. In June 2024, the fifth annual Ouray Film Festival…
