Re: [MLUG - DISCUSSION] those of you waiting for a Fry's or BestBuyin Columbia...

[Jonathan King <EMAIL:PROTECTED>]

On Wed, 9 Oct 2002, Mike Miller wrote:

> On Tue, 8 Oct 2002, Jonathan King wrote:
> 
> > You may have noticed that there are only two
> > first-run-through-the-killing-floor movie theaters in town these days.
> 
> And they are both AMC theaters!  So if something isn't carried by AMC, you
> won't get it in Columbia unless...

OK, so I'm confused.  I thought the Forum 8 was owned by Goodrich
and the Stadium 14 was Hollywood, and that neither of these was AMC.  
(AMC's website does not suggest they own either one of them.) Did
massive merger happen when I wasn't looking?
 
> > Ragtag's success (such as it is) rests precisely on the fact that they
> > offer something completely different, flout the fact that they're
> > completely different, and have enough audience to fill their tiny venue.
> 
> They are great.  I miss them.  You can see movies in Columbia that I can't
> see here in Minneapolis and it's only because of Ragtag.

Now that completely shocks me.  There really isn't a single "art 
hourse" in the whole Twin Cities?  Yikes...
 
jking

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