Movies - June 10, 2005
A top-notch film, "Head On" confronts troubled characters
Don't let the poster fool you. While the soft focus, yellow-tined image of Istanbul overlaid with a couple dancing and making love, might attempt to paint the German film "Head On" as a romantic picture, it's a bit misleading.
Tags: Head On, Fatik Akin, Birol Unel, Sibel Kekilli, Istanbul, Hamburg, German, Turk

Arts & Entertainment - June 18, 2004
Bay View provides the setting for Stefaniak's debut novel
The prize-winning author of a book of stories, "Self Storage and Other Stories," Mary Helen Stefaniak teaches at Creighton University and lives in Omaha and Iowa City and "The Turk and My Mother" is her first novel.
Tags: Turk, Stefaniak, Creighton, Bay View, Frolics, Hungarian, novel