In theaters this week, an impossible journey to the core of the human heart.
A family of five begin their winter vacation in Thailand, looking for some fun in the sun. Soon their holiday turns into a nightmare as a giant tsunami rises up from the ocean and sweeps them away in The Impossible. Naomi Watts and Ewan McGregor head up this cast that tells the true story of one family's experience during the devastating 2004 tsunami that devastated Southeast Asia. The acting – though there is very little dialogue – is amazing, and the special effects, especially in the first 45 minutes, are mind-boggling. Watts is being considered for an Oscar for her performance, but the kids, in my opinion, steal every scene in which they appear. The film runs two hours, and it is a bit sappy at times, perhaps too sentimental. So the …
The new law goes into effect on July 1, and business owners in the Buford Highway shopping complex say they don't know what to make of it.
Julio Penaranda, the general manager of Buford Highway’s landmark Plaza Fiesta shopping center, was grabbing lunch one recent afternoon when he made a surprising observation: The mall’s typically bustling food court was nearly empty. Penaranda speculated to himself that Georgia’s new stringent immigration law was responsible for the uncharacteristically thin crowd. But as he returned to his office, food in hand, the lunch rush intensified and he breathed a sigh of relief. Penaranda said his fellow Plaza Fiesta business operators share the same uneasiness ahead of the immigration law’s July 1st start date. The 380,000 square foot shopping facility and self-described “heart” of Georgia’s Latin American community houses more than 200 …
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5:22 pm on Monday, June 27, 2011
Our "American" fore fathers fought and died for what we have in this country and it is going down the tube fast. If you cannot even speak our language you should not be here. Congress is even trying to pass a bill that would allow illeagal imagrants to be elligable for Social Security Benefits. Where do we draw the line America? The State of Georgia is at least trying, what about the rest of our … more ›