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Highly anticipated film to hit silver screen

June 30 — Finally, the wait is over. It has been more than a year since the preview for “The Last Airbender” hit the big screen, and now it is set to premiere. Friday, July 2, Paramount Pictures will release one of the year’s most highly anticipated films.

Features, Movies

Film looks at Coloradans overcoming disabilities

June 25 — Fifty-four million Americans battle with some form of disability every day. Whether it is paralysis, deafness, amputations, multiple sclerosis, blindness or Traumatic Brain Injury, many have to live with these disabilities for the remainder of their lives. The film “Invisible Voices,” which debuted June 21, 2010, captures the essence of those who have to live with their disability and reveals the confusion, depression, everyday struggles, tears and even laughter.

Features, Food & Dining

How to Pinkberry

June 23 — Just in case you live under a rock: it is June in Colorado, and it is HOT! Wanting to cure my sweating woes, I went out searching for the newest cold cure to help me welcome the summer heat more cheerfully, and I stumbled upon Pinkberry.

Features, Food & Dining, Reviews

City, O’City offers Pizza, O’Flavor

June 23 — Pizza has come too far to be treated like this. Honestly, you could ask any food lover what their most beloved dish is and they just might say, “pizza.” It should be pure and simple, but this delectable circle of baked dough, sauce and cheese has become so homogenized and dull that it is usually pushed to the wayside.

Features, Movies, Reviews

A hunt for the real ‘Boogeyman’

June 23 — Every place has their urban legends, and Staten Island is no different. As a kid in the 80s, living in Staten Island you knew the urban legend of an escaped mental patient who lived in the tunnels under the old abandoned Willowbrook Mental Institution who would come out at night and snatch little children. Or at least, that’s what your parents told you so that you would behave.