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Kurt Loder Reviews Oldboy

Spike Lee’s remake
of Oldboy is every bit as brutal as the 2003
South Korean cult film on which it’s modeled. Lee’s movie retains
the carefully muted color design of director Park Chan-wook’s
original; and while it elides a few of Park’s most startling scenes
(there’s no hammer dentistry here, and no octopuses are eaten
alive), Lee replaces them with some grisly inventions of his own.
The story, inventively adjusted by screenwriter Mark Protosevich,
remains a very nasty piece of work, says Kurt Loder.

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from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/27/kurt-loder-reviews-oldboy
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Ask Father Paul

11/27/2013
Answers to your questions about life, religion and the Bible

Who was Job? Was he a Jew?

Dear Father Paul: I am fascinated by the story of Job in the Bible … his struggles, his ultimate vindication and the restoration of all that he lost, etc. But who was Job anyway? Was he a Jew? — Lenda

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/blogs/father-paul-massey/11-27-2013/ask-father-paul

Menorah lighting to be held Dec. 1 in Peachtree City

Chabad of Peachtree City, an Orthodox Jewish congregation, will conduct a menorah lighting at 6 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 1, on the lawn of the City Hall in Peachtree City.

Rabbi Rossi Lew, spiritual leader of the congregation, said the event will occur during the observance of the Jewish holiday of Hanukkah, also known as the Feast of Lights and Feast of Dedication.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-27-2013/menorah-lighting-be-held-dec-1-peachtree-city

COS announces December events

Christ Our Shepherd Lutheran Church in Peachtree City will begin Advent Dec. 1 with a family festival at 9:45 a.m. All will create Advent wreaths. Midweek Advent services begin on Dec. 4 at 6:30 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall.

From Nov.30-Dec. 1, members will hear the new Zimbelstern. A gift of the Dietmeyer family, these five little bells are installed on the organ’s façade.

The annual Blue Christmas service is Monday, Dec. 2, at 7 p.m.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-27-2013/cos-announces-december-events

Turkeys for the needy

In the spirit of the upcoming holidays, the community showed up once again with the help of the T-shirts for Turkeys program (sponsored by the JOY FM, Chick-fil-A and Franklin Financial), and 874 turkeys were given for families in need for Fayette County through the Real Life Center. For information on how to get help or get involved, contact the Real Life Center at www.reallifecenter.org or 770-631-9334. Shown, L-R, John Leake, Sam Hogan and Mike Martaus. Photo/Special.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-27-2013/turkeys-needy

Hopewell celebrates Lamar Wallace’s 102nd birthday

To celebrate member Lamar Wallace’s 102nd birthday this Thursday, members of Hopewell United Methodist Church in Tyrone recreated a 1940s themed “USO Canteen.”

The event was held on Nov. 13.

In the tradition of the USO, church members provided home-made chili and hot dogs, and provided home-grown entertainment from the World War II era. Members scoured attics and basements and provided vintage memorabilia to use as table decorations. Old uniforms were taken out of mothballs and younger and leaner youth were recruited to wear them for the occasion.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-27-2013/hopewell-celebrates-lamar-wallace%E2%80%99s-102nd-birthday

McDonough Road Baptist presents ‘It’s Christmas!’

The Celebration Choir and Orchestra of McDonough Road Baptist Church in Fayetteville will present “It’s Christmas!” Sunday, Dec. 8, at 10:55 a.m. and 6 p.m. Childcare will be provided.

“‘It’s Christmas!’ is an exciting, thrilling, invigorating time of worship and music that emphasizes the true meaning of Christmas,” said Mark Karki, minister of music and worship.

A variety of Christmas music will be shared, Karki said. “You’ll hear timeless classics that make Christmas ‘Christmas,’ along with fresh songs that will stir your heart.”

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-27-2013/mcdonough-road-baptist-presents-%E2%80%98it%E2%80%99s-christmas%E2%80%99

Bratcher will sign new book at Flat Creek Baptist senior event

Local author Connie Campbell Bratcher will sign her new inspirational poetry book, “Shine the Light,” at the B-Acts (senior citizens) Christmas party at Flat Creek Baptist Church, Fayetteville, on Dec. 12 at 7 p.m. The artist/illustrator will be there to sign as well. The book contains excerpts from her previous three books which have been endorsed by many local pastors.

Signed copies of the books can now be purchased at Pam’s Hallmark in Peachtree City or through Bratcher’s website: www.FaithPoetry.com, and soon will be available to order through any bookstore.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-27-2013/bratcher-will-sign-new-book-flat-creek-baptist-senior-event

Religion Briefs 11/27/13

Advent services begin at WOG tonight
Word of God Lutheran Church invites the community to attend mid-week Advent worship services on Wednesday evenings beginning Wed., Nov. 27. Prior to the service snacks and dessert will be served at 6:30 p.m., with the service beginning at 7 p.m. Advent services in December will be held on Dec. 4,11, and 18. The services will be preceded by a soup and bread meal at 6:15 p.m., with the service beginning at 7 p.m. Word of God is at 303 Kelly Drive, Suite 10, Peachtree City. For more information, call 770-897-4508.

via The Citizen http://www.thecitizen.com/articles/11-27-2013/religion-briefs-112713

“Every day is ‘Buy Nothing Day’ in North Korea—and look where that’s gotten them”

In my latest
Time.com column, I bravely take a stand in favor of shopping on
Thanksgiving Day:

Just as you can’t have Thanksgiving without a meal that fully no
one actually enjoys (and a guest list that always seems only
slightly less arbitrary, resentful, and ill-mannered than the
manimals in The Island of Dr. Moreau), you can’t have
a functioning free-market economy without massive amounts of
shopping. Every day is “Buy Nothing Day” in North Korea and look
where that’s got them….

And yet we encounter stories denouncing “the war on
Thanksgiving.” Haven’t you heard, bellows Dean Obeidallah
at The Daily Beast, that “thousands of [people] will be
compelled to leave their Thanksgiving celebrations to go to work”
because down-on-their-luck chains such as K-Mart are opening as
early as 6 a.m on Thursday. “Stand up for the real meaning of
Thanksgiving,” opines T.J. McCormack at Foxnews.com, and “skip
the shopping on Turkey Day.” Facebook pages such as Boycott
Black Thursday and Boycott Shopping on Thanksgiving
Day are easier to find than the cans of jellied cranberry
sauce you bought last year after worrying the supermarket would be
sold out by the time you remembered to get some this year.

Enough already. The only thing worth getting bent out of shape
over is that it took the nation’s retailers so long to move the
nation’s biggest sales day, Black Friday, up by 24 hours and give
us all one more reason not to watch the Detroit Lions get
shellacked on TV. We’ve already been going out to the movies in
greater and greater numbers over the years, so why not also pick up
a Star Wars Trooper T at the Gap (open 9 a.m. to 9 p.m.
at most locations, by the way)?

Read the whole thing.

from Hit & Run http://reason.com/blog/2013/11/27/every-day-is-buy-nothing-day-in-north-ko
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