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Four Sundance Films That Should Have Been Recognized For Their Extraordinary Craft

By Karrie R. Gil 3 weeks ago

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Sundance Film Festival juries often hand out special prizes to recognize work that doesn’t win one of the two prescribed awards (Grand Jury Prize and Jury Prize for Directing) in each of the competition categories. This year, Sundance found some… well, let’s say, unusual ways to celebrate some tremendous films.

There was the head-scratcher of Eliza Hittman’s “Never Rarely Sometimes Always” winning the “U.S. Dramatic Special Jury Award for Neorealism,” and Josephine Decker’s “Shirley,” competing in the same category, winning the “Award for Auteur Filmmaking.”

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Dozens of new houses set for up-and-coming State Street, West Columbia river district

By Karrie R. Gil 3 weeks ago

A new, 34-home housing development is being built in the heart of West Columbia’s booming River District.

The two- and three-story, single-family homes are replacing older housing stock in a two-block tract bounded by Center, Shuler, Augusta and Herman streets. The houses will range from 1,100 square feet to just over 1,600 square feet and are priced from $232,950 to $249,000.

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GM unveils 10 future EVs, new batteries and its plan to beat Tesla

By Karrie R. Gil 3 weeks ago

General Motors wants to do better at telling the story of its electric vehicle development.

So GM leaders invited about 150 journalists to an “EV day” Wednesday, showing 11 future EVs in its Design Dome at the Warren Technical Center in Michigan. GM did not allow any photographs of the vehicles or provide any to the media.

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‘Nine Days,’ ‘Minari’ Are the Festival’s Competition MVPs

By Karrie R. Gil 4 weeks ago

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We are born, we live, and we die. Before we can get on that particular merry-go-round, however, we must first be interviewed. The interrogator is tall, quiet, fastidious, well-dressed. Small granny spectacles perch on his nose as he asks questions of those who sit before him. And when he’s not doing that, he’s reviewing former “vacancies” that he’s filled, watching on a bank of monitors displaying numerous lives in progress. If we are lucky, we are chosen to go forth, from cradle to grave. If not, perhaps the man will do what he

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