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Cast: Eva Green, Josh Brolin, Jessica Alba, Mickey Rourke, Bruce Willis, Rosario Dawson, Powers Boothe, Joseph Gordon-Levitt

Director: Robert Rodriguez, Frank Miller

The original Sin City, which bowed in 2005, was a blast, a graphic novel brought to life on the screen and drenched in pastiche and noir.

So, it's a surprise to see that a sequel's taken nearly 10 years to be made; in this latest, there's another raft of adaptations from Frank Miller's books and a few new sequences written especially for the film all interlaced into one piece.

The kernel of the movie centres around a flesh baring Eva Green as femme fatale Ava Lord who manipulates her former lover and world weary Dwight (Josh Brolin) to help her out; fashioned around this tale of sex, lies and betrayal is a story about Joseph Gordon Levitt's card shark Johnny out for revenge on Powers Boothe's corrupt senator and Jessica Alba's Nancy seeking to finish off what started years ago with "That Yellow Bastard".

Sin City: A Dame To Kill For continues the cinematic trend laid down by the first flick - through a sleazy world brought to life in all its monochrome glory, with splashes of colour - and even brings some welcome new additions in the form of Eva Green, who provides much needed life to this second outing which sags into tedium at times.

Green's perhaps one of the only reasons that the second works in places; her seductive energy fizzles the black and white world with colour and sparkles in among the moody stylings on the screen. Noir has thrived on the femme fatale trope, and Green certainly earns her place in the pantheon of the past. But she's one of only two well written women in the piece (along with Alba's troubled stripper Nancy) and the film feels bereft when it shifts its compromised morals to other targets and stories.

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Wynn Resorts Ltd. ( WYNN ) has won the race for the lucrative $1.6 billion Boston-area casino license, according to media reports. The Las Vegas-based casino giant triumphed over rival Mohegan Sun, mainly on the strength of its economic development potential.

Connecticut-based Mohegan Sun had proposed a $1.1 billion casino at the Suffolk Downs horse racing track in Revere. The decision of The Massachusetts Gaming Commission came after Wynn made a number of significant additions to the plan, including re-designing its 27-story hotel tower and spend more toward plans to regulate traffic through Sullivan Square in Boston.

The Massachusetts Gaming Commission voted in favor of Wynn Resorts' plan to turn a former chemical plant site on the Mystic River in Everett into a casino resort. However, a final round of voting will take place today, after Wynn agrees to certain regulatory terms and conditions.

Last week, the regulators reportedly released detailed reports indicating that Wynn Resorts has a stronger financial position to manage the casino while Mohegan Sun has a stronger overall design for its casino. Wynn then won the contest mainly due to its stronger development financing plan, a much larger construction investment, and a bigger projected workforce and payroll.

Massachusetts legislators were reportedly authorized in 2011, to grant licenses for three regional resort casinos and one slot parlor. This is the second regional resort casino license the commission has issued.

Earlier, MGM Resorts International ( MGM ) won the license for a casino in Springfield in the western region. Penn National Gaming Corp. ( PENN ) is building the slot parlor in Plainville. Discussions are on to select a licensee for the third casino in the southeastern region of Massachusetts.

However, reportedly, among all these, the most valuable of the state's casino licenses is the Greater Boston license, which Wynn has won. This region is estimated to be worth almost $800 million annually in gaming revenues. This will help Wynn Resorts to offset some of the troubles faced by the company in its other major operating region, Macau

Wynn currently carries a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold). Better-ranked stocks in the same industry include 500.com Limited ( WBAI ), which carries a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).

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Lanham, MD (PRWEB) September 17, 2014

Thompson Creek Window Company, the mid-Atlantics leading home improvement replacement product company, has been named #6 on Remodeling magazines annual list of Top 550 remodeling and home improvement companies in the United States. Thompson Creek Window Company is the only Maryland-based window manufacturer to appear on this list. Remodeling Magazine leverages residential remodeling revenue data gathered from a web-based survey conducted jointly by Remodeling Magazine and its sister publication, Replacement Contractor. Specpan, a third-party data collection provider, hosted the survey and compiled the data. Additional information was gathered via mailings, phone calls and public information sources.

Rick Wuest, president of Thompson Creek, said, I am proud to have our company recognized as one of the top remodelers in the country for another year. Sustainability in our business requires the highest-quality product, perfect installation, and top-notch customer service. Thompson Creek reviews feedback from every customer survey to make sure that we are living up to our mission to create the best customer service experience in our industry. Our growth is a result of the business we generate from our satisfied customers and the great feedback they are giving to their friends and neighbors about our company.

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ROANOKE COUNTY, Va. -

The Fall Home Show is in its 19th year, but this weekend's event has plenty of new additions.

The event is at the Salem Civic Center on Saturday, September 20 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and Sunday, September 21 from 12 p.m. to 5 p.m.

Hundreds of local and national vendors will showcase their products and services related to building, remodeling, decorating or improving your home, garden and life.

One new addition is the "Home Show University." Local home improvement professionals will hold 35-minute courses on everything from choosing the right contractor, flooring, buying generators and window replacement.

Another new part of the Fall Home Show is the art gallery, featuring top local artists with crafts that can put the perfect final touch on your home project.

This event is sponsored by the Roanoke Regional Home Builders Association. For more information, click here.

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ISHPEMING - Having waited for more than five years for information about when the motionless wind turbine in Ishpeming will be taken down and replaced with a working model, the company responsible for the turbine still can't provide a date the residents of Pioneer Bluff Apartments can expect to get some of their power from the wind.

Bryan Zaplitny, president and CEO of downstate Brighton-based Clean Green Energy, issued a press release in December entitled "Ishpeming Wind Turbine Not Forgotten," in which he said the company expected to bring the replacement model turbine to market sometime in 2014.

But in a prepared statement, CGE told The Mining Journal that it cannot yet say when the new, smaller turbine will be installed.

"We remain faithful to our plan to replace the prototype with a fully functional WIND-e20 wind turbine following its completion as well as provide Pioneer Bluff with free power from WIND-e20 for the first five years of production," the statement noted. "Due to the complexities of building the manufacturing assembly line we cannot yet provide a date for the installation but we will provide an update as the build date grows near."

The 162-foot tower, which can be seen from many places around the city, has in the past been controversial for the city and the Ishpeming Housing Commission, which owns the Pioneer Bluff Apartments. Some residents have called the motionless turbine an eyesore and the city council has on at least one occasion called for its removal.

CGE has said the current prototype turbine is operational, though it has never operated, and was determined to be too expensive and labor-intensive to produce and install or to run on a large scale, with blades that would likely fail.

"We are appreciative of the Ishpeming community's willingness to host the early prototype and we have committed one of (the) earliest available WIND-e20 turbines for installation at the Ishpeming Pioneer Bluff site," CGE's press release states.

The smaller, 105-foot, 65 kwh WIND-e20 model is expected to correct the flawed design issues of the prototype, and can be installed much more easily using a hydraulic control system and a backhoe rather than in a protracted process involving large cranes.

In December, CGE entered into a partnership with metal fabricator and military contractor Burtek Enterprises Inc., in which the downstate Chesterfield-based company will be CGE's strategic manufacturing and assembly partner for the WIND-e20. CGE said Burtek is currently designing the assembly line to manufacture the turbines.

"We have full confidence that their patented WIND-e20 will revolutionize the way people think about distributed power and we are committed to taking the time needed to get the details right," CGE said in the release. "The people of Ishpeming have a right to expect action on getting the new turbine installed."

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