Well capitalized banks (money from investors and retained earnings) will be able to make loans and further investments and survive this financial crisis. Examples: People's United Financial (PBCT) and Investors Bancorp (ISBC). - USA Today (John Waggoner)
across the street from Virage is a 50% off Sushi restaurant and a small wooden fries joint
Carmine's Restaurant 200 W. 44th St, New York, NY
claim: huge portions, each one about $15-22 and good enough for two.point.five people. Family like atmosphere with quirky waiters who have some spunk and rough-but-friendly attitudes. Italian btw, go for the filling pasta dishes.
Euzkadi Restaurant 108 East 4th St, New York, NY (b/w 2nd and 1st ave)
claim: amazing ambience with very delicious basque-spanish cuisine. Tapas are good and the main meat dishes are tender and flavorful. Romantic-redish atmosphere, and the seating is close and intimate. If you're a good customer, they'll pay you in drinks on the house. Desert ice-creams are worth it too with desert wines.
A parody trailer of Million Dollar Baby. A story about a failing student and a washed up eating competition coach. The student finds a second wind and enters the wing-bowl competition when he convinces the French Coach Jacques to wing him.
screened at 2005 Philly Film Festival, a great hi-tech and cleanly developed crime thriller...worth looking into.
Soundless aka: Lautlos Germany 2004, 96 min Director: Mennan Yapo
This German thriller about a hit man who falls in love with his intended victim is filled with high-tech gadgets and exciting action sequences — but it truly excels with its excellent performances and astute portraits of the characters’ inner worlds. This thoroughly entertaining and engaging crime thriller offers a decidedly Teutonic twist to the time-honored tale of the assassin with a heart of gold. Viktor (Joachim Król) is the consummately professional hit man, working with infallible, machine-like precision: he always hits his target and he never gets caught. But when bizarre circumstances cause him to cross paths with the emotionally fragile Nina (Nadja Uhl), something warm punctures the veneer of Viktor’s usually cold and emotionless conscience. Love — the downfall of many a cinematic hero — has seeped into the life of this otherwise heartless, calculating superhuman killing machine. But fear not, for this is no blathering lovefest; under Mennan Yapo’s confident direction, Viktor and Nina maintain their icy exteriors and embark on a plan to escape their mottled pasts, right up to the thrilling denouement. Soundless delivers all the goods we’ve come to expect from the genre, from car chases and high-tech gadgetry to heart-pounding action sequences, but what sets it above the competition is Yapo’s attention to his characters’ inner struggles, and his painstaking attention to detail as he fills in their fascinating backstories. Following in the cinematic footsteps of Jean Reno in The Professional, Król (whom many will recognize from Tom Tykwer’s Run Lola Run and The Princess and the Warrior) does a superb job of winning over the audience’s sympathies with his emotionally complex portrayal of a dangerous yet alluring desperado. (German with English subtitles) -- Eric Moore
Bright green and vivid colors. Neon yellow matched with dark blue does well also. Clashes and contrasts catch my eye and so do raging waterfalls. I don't have much rage; maybe I do, but it is self contained within an explosive water drop. I can't smell, I wear glasses and I have troubles hearing my mom call my name. But I would contest that my senses are sensitive. Maybe they are selectively sensitive. I can taste like a king, melodic rifts enrapture me, and visual effects catch my eye like a fish on a hook. White neon lights lining a dark ceiling seem lively. I like observing motion and colors and lights, while eating a red piece of perfectly grilled steak. I won't pay too much for anything. I'll hunt down goods with the lowest price until I no longer need the good, then I go on to the next hunt. Sometimes I emerge from product hunts without any catches, but that is okay because I can just hunt again. I like the rush, but sometimes I can not handle it.
