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This Can't Be Good

This post is both a bit off sports topics (though I have always considered drinking a sport) and entirely out of character as it criticizes an innovative new way to mainstream public drinking in America. Regardless... TALKER 2 - USA Today A3 - "Some food and alcohol with your flick? Cinemas hope so: It's all part of a nationwide trend to lure more people in to theaters for a pleasing (and profitable) time." The number of first-run theaters serving booze has grown from 14 in 1997 to more than 400 today, says a theater-owners' group. This has train wreck written all over it. I suppose if you are married to someone who forces you to go to a movie theater it has merit, otherwise I think I saw my last Big Picture with the release of Casino Royale. I have come to consider theater visits among the worst experiences in life right after prostate exams and Devil Rays games. We pretty much limit our visits to once every 2-3 years when the horror of the last experience has suffi...