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2009 Boe Badley Awards — your Academy alternative

As soon as I got my first computer in 1996, I couldn’t wait to start a spreadsheet of all the movies I was seeing in the theater. Not being able to resist the temptations that my geekdom casts upon me, I decided to channel my love for movies into a special little award given only by me, the quintessential film expert.

by Boe Badley

Entertainment

Cop Out

This movie is AWESOMEly bad. I have only walked out of one movie in my life — “Meet Wally Sparks,” starring Rodney Dangerfield. This was almost the second.

by Eric Jones

Entertainment

Johnny Cash — American VI: Ain’t No Grave

Wired Oregon’s Jayson Berray reviews Johnny Cash’s American VI: Ain’t No Grave. Read the review, then listen to the album here.

by Jayson Berray

Entertainment

NBC’s whale of a fail

A month after NBC went through a public relations nightmare with its late-night line-up, the network once again finds itself in the midst of a firestorm, this time due to its lackluster coverage of the Winter Olympics.

by Joshua Kagi

Sports

Generals on the rise

While much of the country is engrossed with the Winter Olympics taking place just up I-5 in Vancouver, a local institution is hoping to take advantage of increased interest in ice sports — particularly hockey.

by Joshua Kagi

Entertainment