1. "Tumult at City Pages: Film Editor Axed, Cost-Cutting Memo Leaked": On the unceremonious axing of City Pages editor Rob Nelson. From the Minnesota Monitor, via GreenCine Daily.

[""Everything we know about security is wrong," reads the headline of this week's cover story. Given today's firing of film editor Rob Nelson—and considering other high-profile exits in recent months—one might get the impression the piece is about job security."]

["Magazines reported that Wilson tried to kill himself. Sources tell he cut his wrists and took a number of pills—and was discovered by a family member, who alerted authorities. "]

["It took months of bickering—sorry, discussion—and weeks of sulking—sorry, reflecting—but here, finally, is Total Film's locked down, rubber-stamped, definitive selection..."]

["It's been listin' time again this week, as what seemed like every man, woman or child who ever blogged lined up to take part in a poll organised by Edward Copeland to find the world's most esteemed non-English language movies. And rigorous the process has been too, with a nominating committee, no less, proposing 122 candidates from which to choose your favourite."]

["I want to talk about the Harry Potter series, and address the negative, both private and printed, critiques that I have read or heard from acquaintances. Please do not read this if you have not read the books. The following essay contains more spoilers than a white-trash Trans-Am circa 1979 (with a big fire eagle painted on the hood). I think that the series is a great one...one of the landmark literary achievements of our time, and do not want to spoil the pleasure of any body's first read of the Potter saga."]

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