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The Golden Globe award nominees were announced this morning, and although it’s been a pretty quiet year for entertainment in general, as an io9 reader, there are still a few choices that should pique your interest especially since Baby Yoda and Cthulhu are finally getting the Hollywood recognition they’ve deserved.
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Star Wars entertainment universally recognized by its divisive horde of fans as great since 1980, has been nominated for Best Television Drama Series, as has HBO’s adaptation of Mark Ruff’s horror-drama period piece,
Lovecraft Country. Movie-wise, the excellent time loop comedy
Palm Springs has been nominated for Best Comedy/Musical Movie, as well as star Andy Samberg for Best Actor in the same category (although it’s annoying that Cristin Milioti, who plays the movie’s bigger lead, was omitted from the Best Actress category). George Clooney’s recent scifi flick
Philadelphia police are investigating a double homicide in the city's Bustleton section on Friday. The incident was discovered just before 3 p.m. on the 9400 block of E. Roosevelt Blvd.
New Mpls. building is one of the city s finest works of contemporary architecture The new Public Service Building in Minneapolis is designed to complement the surrounding buildings.
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It s neither a soaring skyscraper nor a colorful icon like the nearby Guthrie Theater. But the new Minneapolis Public Service Building at 505 4th Av. S. is one of finest works of contemporary architecture that downtown has seen in years, perhaps generations.
With its shiny metal exterior and relatively low scale, this 11-story building gleams like a jewel box. A brilliant complement to the solid granite, 19th- and 20th-century architecture of City Hall and the Hennepin County Government Center, it s also a bright punctuation point for the Government Center Plaza.