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Over the weekend a massive 11-hour riot broke out at a jail in Chino, just outside Los Angeles. Between Saturday night and Sunday morning some 250 prisoners were injured, with over fifty ending up hospitalized. Though nobody was killed, and no prison employees were injured, the violence between black and Latino gangs did some pretty [...]

On this date in 1848, Nicholas Porter Earp and Virginia Ann Cooksey welcomed their son Wyatt Berry Stapp Earp into the world in the humble town of Monmouth, Illinois. Though many of his occupations (farmer, gambler, buffalo hunter, teamster) were less than thrilling, Earp entered the national Wild West iconography when he participated in the [...]

As we fine-tune our holiday Netflix cues and scour local movie rental offerings for their most yuletide films, why not take the advice of a guy wearing a funny hat? No, we’re not talking about Steven Spielberg.
The late Pope John Paul II, pressed by nobody in particular save the slowly-approaching hand of death, imparted the [...]

The latest issue of Entertainment Weekly features a list whose sweeping claims to authority make it ripe for the picking apart: The 50 Sexiest Movies Ever (Top 25 available online). Somehow Steven Soderbergh’s Out of Sight snagged number one, likely on the sexiness of its stars George Clooney and Jennifer Lopez, rather than its two [...]