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For one Weekend Skip out on the Discotheque, Head Over to the Cinematheque

I guess I get titles like that when I start do this earlier than usual. Anyway, CIA’s Cinematheque is hosting a weekend of local films with everything from comedy, to fantasy-drama, and thrillers. Of course The Plain Dealer’s ace reporting only informs us that this is happening on Friday and Saturday. Lucky for you, unlike The PD staff, I know how to use google. So here’s the schedule. What is a little unnerving about the film choices however is that the Cinematheque’s director merely states, “Those just sounded like the more interesting features done in the past year or two in this area.” Has dude even seen the flicks? Note to self, when done making film give it a good title if you plan on having it shown at the Cinematheque.

The Noid Strikes Akron

A recent string of food delivery robberies in Akron have local pizza joints shaken up. One driver was even robbed twice this summer. The orders are typically for abandoned houses or apartment buildings. Once the drivers arrive and leave their cars they are jumped. Luckily the Akron police are investigating and have already determined, “Here you got people who are ruining that priviledge (sic) that we can be utilizing every day,” says Lt. Rick Edwards of the Akron Police Department. “It is alarming.” Hey, Rick, why don’t you stop worrying about whether you are going to have to go pick up that calzone and start and making some arrests? The god-damned Noid is easy enough to spot (Jesus, people still use Angelfire? And is that a digital version of Blitzkrieg Bop?). Well at least now we have another reason to bad mouth Akron.

Will You be My Guitar Hero?

That’s right mother fuckers! Guitar Hero tournaments at bars are no longer merely mythical events hosted in NYC and Boston, they are heading on over to Ohio!!! Scene has an article about the rise of Guitar Hero’s popularity, even if it is patchy (since when is Guitar Hero “Tetris-like?”) and how the game is now making the move into bars, including Glory Days at Kent State and Johnny Rotten’s. Start flexing those fingers now nerds, here’s your chance to shine. Oh, and don’t forget “Free Bird” is already banned.