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RED TAILS, the story of the WWII American heroes, the Tuskegee Airmen, opens this weekend in theaters nationwide and it needs our support.

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As a kid, Frank Younce liked to hop on his skateboard and ride down to the Top Hat Burger Palace whenever he found enough spare change in the seat cushions of the family couch.

“It was an adventure,” he said of the 30-block journey. “I only took it when it could get the money together to buy a chili cheese dog.”

Younce, now 50, kept going to the Top Hat until he couldn’t anymore. That was in February 2010, when, after six decades at Palm and Main streets in downtown Ventura, Top Hat was evicted by the owners of the parking lot on which it sat in an 8-foot by 22-foot shack.

Aside from the boarded-up burger shack, the lot is unoccupied and surrounded by a chain-link fence.

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F,Reviews Posted by Brian Salisbury – January 6th 2012 @ 3:41 pm

The Devil Inside, directed by Stay Alives William Brent Bell, is the story of a young woman whose mother was committed to an asylum after she murdered three people during an exorcism; her own exorcism. The young daughter is now traveling to a hospital in Rome, where her mother was transferred, to examine the validity of her possession. She brings along a film crew to document the experience.

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The Dark Knight Rises, perhaps the most highly anticipated motion picture of the year, arrives in theaters July 20th. Batman appears on the cover of this week’s Entertainment Weekly and star Christian Bale and director Christopher Nolan shared a few details about their final Bat flick.   Christian Bale revealed to the magazine that he was under pressure during filming of The Dark Knight Rises because he feels he owes it to the fans. “I can tell you the truth because I’m done with it: I felt immense pressure. And I think it’s a good pressure, because you owe it to the films – and the people’s expectations – to make great work”, he said. Read full post…

Prominently posted at Frankie’s Sammiches is a list of promises to customers, starting with a declaration: “We only make happy food.” Happiness, of course, can be defined in many ways. At Frankie’s, it is tasty comfort food at reasonable prices.

Open since last summer, Frankie’s occupies a corner along a strip of popular Irish pubs and sports bars. The ornate tombstones of Calvary Cemetery face the restaurant through the tall plate-glass windows, and the famous retractable roof of Miller Park is visible beyond the tree line. With counter service and only three sit-down tables, the emphasis is on carryouts, though customers in no hurry often eat in. Frankie’s isn’t a slow cooking bistro, but it’s not fast food either. Read full post…