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Darren Afronsky’s Requiem for a Dream enjoys a special place in our DVD collection. It was one of those films that was superbly put together, but because it was so well done, we find it hard to just sit down and casually watch. It is the East Coast “here’s your brain on drugs” film. Tonight at the Midwest Independent Film Festival, the Midwest is responding with our drug film in the form of Iowa. Iowa... more ›

Wow, it's been an interesting week for local Internet startups. Earlier, FeedBurner completed its first acquisition, and we heard last night that 37signals picked up some investment cash from Jeff Bezos. (Bezos is the guy who founded and runs Amazon; 37signals is a local company offering project management and organization tools over the web.) What's interesting about this investment is that 37signals claims that they didn't need the cash: Since we launched Basecamp we’ve... more ›