Celebrity Rehab: Shia LaBeouf
Jan16

Celebrity Rehab: Shia LaBeouf

Let’s pretend for a minute that you are famous.  Like really famous.  But you weren’t always.  One day someone who is even more famous than you could ever imagine decides to pluck you up and make you into one of the biggest young stars in Hollywood.  You star in a franchise based on a toy, you star in an oddly-decent ripoff of a Hitchcock film, and you costar in the rebootquel of one of the most iconic adventure films of all time, in...

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Local Guide: My Favorite Asian Food Spots In New York
Jan14

Local Guide: My Favorite Asian Food Spots In New York

Dim Sum It is my favorite Chinese dining experience. If you have not tried it, servers come around in carts with small baskets or small plates of food for you to see and pick. My personal favorite dishes are beef wrapped in rice noodles, fried dough wrapped in rice noodles, spare ribs (beef or pork), taro cake, and lotus leaf rice. I also love the chicken feet but hesitant to recommend it unless you are either Chinese or adventurous....

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Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at ‘Her’
Jan13

Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at ‘Her’

The opening shot of Her is an XCU of Theodore Twombly’s (Joaquin Phoenix) face. And I do mean his face: the background is blurry, his hair and ears are out of focus. The only clear image you have is of his eyes (piercing), his nerdy little mustache, and his skin, which in this film is pocked and dimpled. He speaks directly into the camera, sweetly, in a seeming confession of love. The things he says aren’t really much more than...

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Instant Coffee: NFL Divisional Round Weekend
Jan13

Instant Coffee: NFL Divisional Round Weekend

Overview The games were not as good as Wild Card Weekend. There was not a lot of drama except for a couple of late game comebacks that fell short. I also got my AFC selections wrong. However, I would have been 2-0 if I did the NFC preview. Nevertheless, the Divisional Round sets up two juicy matchups for next week. In the AFC, we are treated to another Tom Brady and Peyton Manning showdown as the New England Patriots face the Denver...

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Bonus 2013 Penguin Award: Athlete of the Year
Jan13

Bonus 2013 Penguin Award: Athlete of the Year

First off welcome to the Penguin Awards.  This is Rookerville’s attempt to wrap up the year.  The one guarantee about awards shows and end of the year lists is that, inevitably, no one can ever agree on them. Rather than attempting to assign a numerical rank to something so subjective in nature, our approach to quantifying what took place during the previous calendar year is more broad – our own preferences in each...

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NFC Divisional Playoffs Weekend Preview
Jan11

NFC Divisional Playoffs Weekend Preview

Man I love playoff football.  I wish I could be watching the Cowboys, but we can’t all be winners. This weekend, much like the last is filled with great matchups, but it will have a tough time living up to the excitement last weekend.  I got both my games wrong last weekend, but I did call the Chargers.  Too bad I’m not writing the AFC column.   Let’s get to the games. New Orleans Saints vs. Seattle Seahawks...

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