And so it begins. Wednesday night, the Giants continued their amazing run through the playoffs with an 11-7 defeat of the Texas Rangers in Game 1 of the World Series. On a night when Timmy Lincecum struggled on the mound (four earned runs over 5 and 2/3 innings), the pressure was on the Giants hitters to pick him up, and boy did they ever. They jumped on the heretofore unbeatable Cliff Lee (7-0 with a 1.26 E.R.A in eight career playoff starts coming into Game 1) for six earned runs, and knocked him out of the game in the fifth. In true Giants fashion, even though they won the game handily (the Giants held leads of 8-2 in the fifth and 11-4 in the eighth), there were plenty of moments o

Battle for Terra Directed by Aristomenis Tsirbas By Tony Sheppard Capitol Weekly “Battle for Terra” is the latest politically-charged kids’ movie. It’s also the latest to come to the screen—where available—in ‘Real D’ 3D. Thankfully, it didn’t seem quite so overt in its pandering to the 3D technique and, as such, I think I enjoyed the effect more than when I feel like I’m being played by having things cinematically thrown at me. Alternatively titled as just “Terra” the story expands on an idea that director Aristomenis Tsirbas explored in a seven minute animated short of the same name in 2003. We’re first introduced to an alien world of seemingly near-idyllic bliss, with a capable but s