Corpus Christi Caller-Times from Corpus Christi, Texas • 25

Corps Caller Hunt aNarxom HHJwton September 5 2002 B15 Ratings war: KRIS beats Kill Last flip in 10 pm news rank was in 2000 GALLERY FROM BI4 together Morales who paints at K-Space Art Studios has lived in Corpus Christ! for about two years She grew up in Texas spending summers in Mexico with her extended family Much of her work incorporates phrases and sentences set around ink or acrylic images In for example the phrase never thought a white guy would date is repeated over and over again taking its place among several circles of color Morales hopes her work makes Viewers rethink and re-examine the familiar and the expected out there provides some sort of stimuli for Morales said image will beget an idea take something from marketing something from social rituals maybe language Then something clicks and the challenge is to ihanifest that idea in Rubio also uses words in his art Most of them are in Spanish reflective of his experience learning the language while in Mexico art for me is a way of bringing together some of my main interests: painting crafting of objects make excuses but I do like to take blame It was strictly my fault not the station's not the news CBS affiliate KZTV attracted about 6 percent of local television viewers at 10 pm meanipg the station attracted about one-fifth as many viewers as its main competitors Spanish-language Univision affiliate KORO posted similar numbers Ratings at 6 pm had Kill beating KRIS by about five percentage points with KZTV again trailing significantly The numbers for pm were similar KZTV management has vowed to improve the traditionally low news ratings since new owners Eagle Creek Broadcasting took over in January been little progress so far but general manager Dale Remy says that the station will continue to hire new talent arid that in October the channel will begin using new graphics and music will not be your Channel 10 in Remy said Contact Brendan Walsh at 886-3763 or wals hb9cal lercom minated early and KRIS recruited former Kill afternoon anchor Lee Sausley for its the 10 pm newscast Sausley took over the anchor chair at KRIS on Aug Kill general manager Bob White said that the most recent upset was due mostly to a one-time glitch Nielsen data indicates that his station scored aberrantly low ratings on July 29 and August 5 On those two dates the 10 pm news was pre- empted by sports coverage White said Usually White would have informed Nielsen about the preemption so the ratings company factor those two days into the average White said he forgot to do that cost us probably a couple of ratings points right White said not one to kli JL6 yz hit Hf Fit Greek exploded during summer of duds Others such as failed to entice filmgoers aces onBRIDGE By Bobby Wolff Unitaed Feature Syndicate Against three no-trump your opening lead of the heart four goes to 10 five and declar- jack Now declarer plays a club to queen and a club back to his 10 and your jack Where do you go for honey? Did you assume that declarer has the bare heart A-J and that his ace will fall if you play a second heart? Well ignore tricky heart jack ask yourself who has the heart seven! When your partner cannot beat a low card from dummy he will give you count not attitude So he cannot have the heart seven he has either the doubleton five-two of hearts or the bare five Either way declarer has concealed the heart seven and you cannot safely continue the attack on hearts However do not give up all hope of setting the game What you need to do is to find partner with the spade ace and a doubleton heart so that he can play a heart through for you and allow you to clear the hearts Your club ace will then be your re-entry to run the hearts One more thing: in order to make your life easy shift to the spade nine just in case partner is tempted to win the spade ace and continue the attack on spades So long as East takes his ace and reverts to hearts fate is sealed NORTH 4 Q10 8 VQ108 A742 QS3 WEST EAST 964 A7S2 K9643 52 K6 109853 A J9 42 SOUTH KJ3 AJ7 10 8 7 6 Vulnerable: Both Dealer South The bidding: South West North East 1 NT Pass 3NT All pass Opening lead: Heart four BID WITH THE ACES South holds: A752 52 109853 42 South West North East 1 Dbl Pass 1 2 Pass Pass ANSWER: Bid two spades You can see that hearts will play well enough for your opponents Meanwhile partner has promised spade support and you have some extra shape and not a complete bust So try to up the ante a little by making your opponents work a bit harder to buy the hand Local games: Mon Wed 12:30 pm Hies Thun 12:30 pm 7 pm Fri Sun 2 pm Sat 1 pm Information: 852-4700 991-1702 or 853-1954 Closesp shot of Tag from Grog Rubio's CodoctioN at tbo Art Musomu of South Unas composing music and learning Rubio said lot of my art refers to work that done before which is why this show works so well You can see how something in my 1999 series crosses over to the 2000 work and then appears again in In the past the museum has hosted gallery walks for Phyllis Finley Mary Nekmuth Mito Carmen Lomas Garza and Luis Jimenez Contact Brendan Walsh at 886-3763 or wdlshb9callercom well-reviewed to cost $80 million and broughtin a modest $90 million was always a tough sell for the popcorn season More pfer-' plexing was the poor showing of The a $100 million Harrison Ford submarine thriller that quickly vanished joins and Adventures of Pluto as the biggest tankers By the numbers Unless you count films Stitch" has generated $140 million since June' but Country and Little both foundered cost a lot more than $100 million but has made only $60 million The problem might be- PG-and PG-13-rated competition: are going to see or Powers Dergarabedian said Or seeing the Vin Diesel thrill ride collected $107 million over three weeks More surprising is the staying power of Night rather thoughtful sci-fi picture which reclaimed its No 1 spot over the weekend and has racked up $174 million advantage for certain quieter films in August is that not going against heavy said Dergarabedian citing and the photographers a wonderful said Larry Davis a coordinator of the exhibit such a sad event and so many sad images of it there was something about photo) that was very uplifting with the handprints and the American Ward 32 grew up in the Calallen area and was home-schooled during his high school years He attended Abilene Christian University a Bv Brendan Walsh Caller-Times For the first time since November 2000 NBC affiliate KRIS attracted more viewers than ABC station Kill during its all-important 10 pm weekday newscasts according to the most recent Nielsen ratings which meas- ured viewership between July 11 and Aug 7 On average 30 percent of people watching television at 10 pm tuned in KRIS while 29 percent watched Kill KRIS news has traditionally trailed Kill by at least a few percentage points The Nielsen ratings help determine the advertising rates that stations can charge KRIS president Jim Smith said he was pleased with his performance but never gives too much weight to the numbers from individual ratings periods "We done anything different we still had (ex-anchor) Carlos (Vergara) Smith said understand (Nielsen ratings) and n'ever contract was ter Correction Mm Corbett and Nia Vantalos la this true phenomenon Big Fat Greek Made for just $5 million the tiny romantic comedy written by -and starring newcomer Nia Vardalos has raked in an astonishing $64 million since April and just hit No 4 on the box-office list Surprise hit hit a said Gary Goetzman producer The picture added -theaters as word of mouth spread reaching 1300 last weekend opened April 19 against The Scorpion and every weekend we were threatened to be thrown out of Goetzman said and later moved to Houston and then to Dallas to oilier people Today Ward is a freelance art photographer who works in a Richardson shop that sells cameras and develops film After he snapped the photo of the flag at the pueblo he read a photography magazine article- about Soho Photo Gallery and he decided to enter his photo in competition SCORPIO (Oct 23-Nov 21): Emphasis on power authority and intense relationship You will be in charge 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coming school year or NFL season and studios unload curiosities like and The real story was a somewhat lackluster July The two blockbusters Powers in and in Black are each approaching $200 million which makes a smash and in a slight disappointment given its $140 million budget Another big July release the weighty beautiful and PHOTO FROM B14 The juried exhibit the Lens of September features the works of 38 photographers from 14 states Contributors reacted to the terrorist attacks using abstract and documentary photography photo titled was selected from 546 images by 146 horoscope always be moved the hall to (theater) 14 and then be moved to No 8 when the other pictures live up to Two other holdovers from spring Wedding" Ti Mama drew about $13 million the United States a fraction of take but a bounty for foreign films you strike it with a word-of-mouth said Steve Indig a marketing manager for Landmark He compared response to and to that of another art-house crowd favorite martautfiMLCBm 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