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Least Competent Criminals

Not Ready for Prime Time: Lolita Bullock turned herself in to sheriff’s deputies in Jacksonville, N.C., in May, confessing to robbing a Bank of America a week earlier. She then immediately requested the “crimestoppers” reward money, which (since she was then under arrest) she asked be given to her friend who accompanied her. Elevator vandals […]

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People With Issues

Internationally known West Papuan freedom-fighter Jacob Rumbiak, 49, who was once locked up for 10 years by Indonesia as a political prisoner, was convicted in April of three separate incidents, on the same day in 2005, of masturbating in public on trains in Australia (where he is a research associate at RMIT University). According to […]

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The Continuing Crisis

Stylin’ and Profilin’: For fashionable women this season, the area just above the breasts is the most important part of her chest, according to a May New York Times report. A protruding collarbone is said to suggest a taut, fit (even though covered up) body. Many young Sikhs in India are dispiriting their traditionalist parents […]

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Defense Exhibit A

In a Palmerston, New Zealand, court in March, lawyer Janet Robertshawe was called as a witness on behalf of an “alternative health” practitioner who had been charged with taking indecent liberties with female clients, and Robertshawe (a long-time client) agreed to help demonstrate the man’s massage technique. Just feet from the jury, she removed her […]

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Weird Update

The international movement to anoint apes with “human rights” suffered a slight setback in April when an Austrian judge refused to declare a chimpanzee a “person” (which, under Austrian law, would have entitled it to a legal guardian and allowed individuals to donate money to it). The chimp, Hiasl, and a companion are in limbo […]

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Severance

Reviewer’s grade: B Ready for a little “Shaun of the Dead”-like black comedy to go with that helping of ghastly slice ‘n’ dice horror? From England comes this yummy tale of seven employees of a weapons manufacturing firm who travel to Hungary for a weekend team-building retreat. And wouldn’t you just know that the forested […]

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Surf’s Up

Reviewer’s grade: B Let’s concede right off that the world didn’t exactly need another movie about cute ‘n’ cuddly penguins, but “Surf’s Up” is no knockoff. This computer-animated, family-friendly flick visits the world of penguins, but the resemblance to last year’s “Happy Feet” ends there.   “Surf’s Up” is more charming and less bombastic. Consequently, […]

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