Nine points regarding Shane Acker's film, 9. Just be careful not to get bogged down in all the deep pseudo-symbology.

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Snivel/drivel, film reviews that don't get 50s fashion and goddamned interns who have never been to Baltimore.

The movies of the American workplace would be worse off without the skeptical empathy of writer-director Mike Judge. It’s not that Judge is any kind of labor-relations expert, or even a cinematic genius. It’s just that he knows what it’s like to have to work for a living and how that knowledge might well be channeled into diverting entertainment.

Overheard at Indian Market and downtown.

The Gov. off the hook, DWi-stoppers and celebrations.

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Antique activists, pot protectors and the development dizzies.

In the Loop offers a deliciously corrosive backstage view of the Iraq War years, as Brits and Yanks danced around what they knew was a foregone conclusion of their own making.

But adventure racing enthusiasts don’t want the sport’s image as one of multiday, nonstop globe-trotting marathons—think Survivor producer Mark Burnett’s 10-day Eco-Challenge—to scare away more casual outdoorsmen from trying out the sport and, in the process, taking advantage of New Mexico’s beautiful natural surroundings.