Google Fiber Splits Along Kansas City's Digital Divide

Google Fiber Splits Along Kansas City's Digital Divide

Two days before the deadline to get neighborhoods signed up, Google's effort to bring ultra-high-speed internet to a major American city could end up reinforcing the digital divide. When Google Fiber launched last month, the announcement of the service came with the caveat that to get the super-fast 1 gigabit broadband hookups, neighborhoods would have to pre-register a certain percentage of households for the service. The deadline for pre-registrations is Sunday at midnight.

10 episodes that find the ’60s Batman at its campy best

TV: TV Club 10: 10 episodes that find the ’60s Batman at its campy best



There are two ways to look at the ’60s television series incarnation of Batman: as a successful attempt to turn dark material into lighter fare, or as a gaudy and shallow mess that sullies the serious reputation of an iconic character. From a modern perspective—and with the three super-serious Christopher Nolan films fresh in the mind—it is difficult to view the series objectively.
Series producer William Dozier supposedly hated comic books, so his approach was to turn Batman into a campy comedy, with oversized villain performances, outlandish gadgetry, and two playful lead performances from Adam West as Bruce Wayne and Burt Ward as Dick Grayson, his young ward. The bright and breezy attitude of the show is antithetical to the Nolan films, which lash out with great but murky purpose. Those films are spectacular, but they are by no means definitive, and the ’60s television series embodies an ...

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Venice Real Estate: Big Lebowski House at 606 Venezia

Venice Real Estate: Big Lebowski House at 606 Venezia

606 Venezia, which was used as a location in the film The Big Lebowski, has sold below asking a year after being put on market.

From Adrian Glick Kudler at LA Curbed:
“The Dude” Lebowski’s bungalow court (from, duh, The Big Lebowski) has just sold after more than a year on the market. The Venice property has six one-bedroom units, all with side yards and garage parking, and it provided exteriors for The Dude’s place (which had a rug that really tied the room together) in the 1998 film (interiors were shot on a soundstage in West Hollywood). The court went on the market last June asking $2.295 million and suffered several false starts–four total “sale pending”s, according to Redfin–and just closed escrow yesterday at $1.59 million.