Boyne Arms, Burwarton ? Shropshire Star

Rating: ** Sharon Walters goes home to cheese on toast after a disappointing meal.

It is very rare that reviewers go home hungry after dining out for the purposes of these columns ? but I did just that last Saturday and had to make myself cheese on toast for supper.

What is even more annoying is that my partner certainly did not go hungry with his food choices and could barely contain his smugness.

Let?s start at the beginning at The Boyne Arms in Burwarton, between Bridgnorth and Ludlow.

I called rather late to check if there was a table available and was told they were very busy but if we got there soon after 6pm we would be all right. That was fine and we set off across country from the Corvedale.

We had a table in the lounge bar, and to be fair it is really a dining room, with all tables used for food that night.

I spotted a venison and Shropshire ale pie with blue cheese crust (?9.95) and immediately chose this for my main course. I deferred on a starter as I expected such a dish to be hearty and did not want to leave food on my plate. How wrong I was.

Neil had seared scallops with pea puree and black pudding (?7.75) to start, a dish that was perfect in every way. The scallops had just been shown the pan, the black pudding was a good consistency and the pea puree was fresh and just a little bit crunchy. He was smiling a lot already.

Next he had the local rib-eye steak (?14.25). It was requested as medium and it was just so ? a little pink in the middle and so tender that he scarcely needed a knife to cut it. It was served with home-cooked chips, peas, crisp onion rings, juicy tomato and mushrooms that actually tasted of fungi and not the bland imposters so often passed off as the real thing.

Meanwhile I took one look at my dish and did a double take. It appeared to have been thrown on to the plate with some cabbage and root mash with little care or thought in presentation, unlike the other two dishes ordered. I know dishes don?t have to be artworks on a plate but this one was a little too Jackson Pollock for me.

Inside The Boyne Arms, Burwarton

The ?crust? was so crusty it was burned black and if it had ever seen blue cheese it must have been many years ago. I cut into it to see if anything could be salvaged but sadly no. The venison was tough and I couldn?t even tell if it was meat from a deer. At this point I asked Neil to have a taste to see if I was being too critical because of the dish?s appearance, but no he said he would not have eaten it and continued tucking into his steak.

I like my vegetables al dente but the cabbage was almost raw. A plus point was that the mash was delicious.

Shortly after the dishes arrived the waitress asked if everything was OK. I pointed at the ?crust? and she shook her head and disappeared. I had no chance to mention the other problems. Neil continued to enjoy his meal and the waitress did not come back. Other diners around me were also enjoying their meals and I was miffed.

An almost full plate was taken from the table and nothing was said. Well the waitress knew we weren?t going to be charged but I didn?t and my dismay grew.

When Neil suggested a pudding I gave him a filthy look and said no!

When paying at the bar Neil spotted our drinks had not been added to the bill or my main course and pointed it out. Mistake with the drinks, he was told, and they were added on, while the waitress said chef had told him not to charge for my main course.

Why didn?t someone tell me that at the table and offer to put something together quickly while I watched Neil eat? Not charging was the right thing but not following through was very lacking. Maybe it was lack of training for staff, I don?t know.

It was very bad luck that I got what appeared to be the only duff meal of the evening, it was redeemable but sadly that was not followed through.

ADDRESS
Boyne Arms, Bridgnorth Road, Burwarton WV16 6QH
Tel: 01746 787 214

MENU SAMPLE
STARTERS
Beetroot soup with crusty bread and butter (?4.50)
Confit duck leg with mixed leaves and gooseberry chutney (?6.95)

MAINS
Lightly spiced chicken breast served with butter beans, tomato and spinach on rice (?12.75)
Vegetable hotpot, vegetables braised in Hobsons beer with a potato topping (?11.50)

SIDES
Chips (?2.25)
Onion rings (?2.50)
Side salad (?2.75)

Source: http://www.shropshirestar.com/lifestyle/dining-out/2012/02/06/boyne-arms-burwarton/

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"Night of the Living Dead" actor Bill Hinzman dies (Reuters)

LOS ANGELES (Reuters) ? Bill Hinzman, who was cast on-the-spot as a zombie in 1968 cult film "Night of the Living Dead" in a role that earned him the longlasting admiration of horror fans, has died at age 75, his daughter said.

Hinzman died of cancer on Sunday evening at his home in Darlington, Pennsylvania, his daughter Heidi Hinzman told Reuters.

He played a prominent role in Director George Romero's low-budget, black-and-white 1968 film "Night of the Living Dead," which is credited with revolutionizing the zombie genre.

Hinzman was working as an assistant cameraman on the film when Romero decided to cast him as the zombie in the movie's opening sequence.

"We'd like to tell the story that it was a hard audition session, but Bill was there and old enough and thin enough and he had an old suit," said the film's producer Russ Streiner.

Dressed in that suit, Hinzman appears at a Pennsylvania cemetery and attacks a pair of young siblings by knocking the man's head against a tombstone and chasing the woman.

He lurches across an open field and eventually chases the woman into a farmhouse.

Fans called Heinzman "No. 1 zombie," said Streiner, who also played a character named Johnny who fought with Hinzman in the cemetery.

"He was a very popular guy, he was very accessible to the fans," Streiner added.

Hinzman also went on to direct and star in the 1980s horror movies "The Majorettes" and "FleshEater."

He will be cremated, as he had asked, said Heidi Hinzman.

"He always joked with me that if he got buried he would come back," she said.

(Reporting By Alex Dobuzinskis; Editing by Tim Gaynor)

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'21 Jump Street' to premiere as SXSW centerpiece (AP)

NEW YORK ? The upcoming remaking of "21 Jump Street" will premiere as the centerpiece of Austin's South by Southwest Film Conference and Festival.

The action-comedy stars Jonah Hill and Channing Tatum in a big screen version of the 1980s Johnny Depp TV series. It will screen March 12 at SXSW, which runs March 9-17.

The conference also announced its closing film will be "Big Easy Express," a documentary about a group of touring folk bands including Mumford & Sons.

SXSW earlier announced that "The Cabin in the Woods," an anticipated horror film co-written by Joss Whedon, will open the festival.

On Wednesday, the festival announced its full slate of 130 features at SXSW 2012. Those were selected from a record 1,957 feature-length submissions.

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Humble Bundle expands to Android with World of Goo, Anomaly and more

The choose-your-own-price Humble Bundle has proven to be a runaway success on desktop platforms -- helping fund indie developers and causes like Child's Play and the EFF alike -- and it's now finally taken the plunge onto mobile devices. That move was kicked off today with the Humble Bundle for Android, which includes the games Anomaly: Warzone Earth, Osmos, and EDGE. Those three are available for any price you choose, but you'll also get World of Goo thrown in if you pay more than the average price (just over $5 as of this writing). As always, you can also choose how you'd like your contribution split between developers and charity (and the Humble organization itself), and you'll even get access the Windows, Mac and Linux versions of the same games as an added bonus. Hit the source link below to get started, or head on past the break for a video if you need any more convincing. We should also note that the Android games are offered as direct downloads, not through the Android Market; installations instructions are provided following your purchase.

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Italian authorities end search for cruise ship bodies (Reuters)

ROME (Reuters) ? Italian authorities have ended the search for bodies in the submerged sections of the capsized Costa Concordia, more than two weeks after the giant cruise liner capsized off the Tuscan coast, officials said on Tuesday.

The civil protection authority said conditions on the wreck had made it impossible for divers to continue working safely in the underwater sections of the 290-metre long vessel.

The decision had been finalized after the families of the 15 people still unaccounted for had been informed.

A total of 17 bodies have been recovered since the accident on January 13 in which the Concordia, carrying more than 4,200 passengers and crew, was holed by a rock after its captain steered to within 150 meters of the tiny island of Giglio.

The chief executive of the ship's owner Costa Cruises told an Italian Senate committee Tuesday that all safety systems on board had been in order at the time of the accident but there had potentially been delays leading up to evacuation.

"We know there is a sequence of orders that has to be given before the evacuation. Some of these orders were given, but we are not certain of the timing or who gave them," CEO Pierluigi Foschi said.

"Possibly the period of time between one order and the next was too long," he added.

The ship's captain, Francesco Schettino, is under house arrest and is blamed for causing the accident. He is also accused of abandoning ship before the evacuation was complete.

Passengers have complained the evacuation was chaotic, with some left waiting in lifeboats for two hours before being able to leave the ship. Several bodies were found by divers in submerged evacuation assembly points, wearing life vests.

Italy's top-ranking Coast Guard official, Marco Brusco, said last week that Schettino lost "a precious hour" which made evacuating the ship more difficult.

Costa Cruises has offered 11,000 euros in compensation to each of the passengers aboard the liner, in a bid to limit the legal fallout of the accident.

Searching is set to continue in other sections of the half-submerged ship and in waters up to 18 square kilometers around the vessel, where a number of objects have been spotted which investigators believe could turn out to be bodies.

Salvage crews plan to begin pumping more than 2,300 tonnes of diesel from the wreck this week but bad weather has delayed the start of operations expected to take between three weeks and a month.

Foschi said that Costa Cruises, a unit of Carnival Corp, remained a strong company despite the disaster.

"The firm is financially strong, it's structured to be strong. My concern now is how we can recover our image and the confidence of customers in Italy and the world," he said.

(Writing by James Mackenzie and Catherine Hornby; Editing by Giles Elgood)

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Mark Axelrod: "Spanish Is a Language of the Ghetto"; or, Newt y Yo

It's amazing how things get taken out of context especially in the "lamestream media." Allegedly, Newt Gingrich allegedly said that "Spanish is a language of the ghetto." What people don't know is that it wasn't Newt who said that, but Newt. You see, what people don't know about Newt is that Newt has been a longtime admirer of the work of the Argentine writer, Jorge Luis Borges and one of his most favorite short stories of the maestro is "Borges y yo" or "Borges and I." Yes, he's been quiet about that, but if one goes back to his Tulane days and has access to the library books he checked out during his tenure there one would find evidence that, in fact, Newt was a closet Borgesian.

Now, the Borges story explores the basic notion of the self and begins: "The other one, the one called Borges, is the one things happen to. I walk through the streets of Buenos Aires and stop for a moment, perhaps mechanically now, to look at the arch of an entrance hall and the grillwork on the gate; I know of Borges from the mail and see his name on a list of professors or in a biographical dictionary. I like hourglasses, maps, eighteenth-century typography, the taste of coffee and the prose of Stevenson; he shares these preferences, but in a vain way that turns them into the attributes of an actor."

You see, just as there are two Borgeses, there are two Newts (this latter newt should not be confused with the newt one reads in a Julio Cort?zar short story, "Axolotl" which is an entirely different newt, but not necessarily a different newt). We all see the public Newt, the Newt that insulted Ronald Reagan, the Newt who was fined for his unethical congressional behavior, the Newt that's a Washington insider, the Newt who asked his second wife for an open marriage with his third, the Newt who took money from Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac ad astra.

But that's only Newt, there's also the Newt that is known by itself, the one that questions things about the public self, the one that weeps over the death of his mother. So, you see the Newt that called Spanish "the language of the ghetto" was not said by Newt, but by Newt. The Newt who said those things is not the Newt who knows that the Spanish of Cervantes is not the Spanish of the ghetto or the Spanish of Neruda is not the Spanish of the ghetto or the Spanish of Borges is not the Spanish of the ghetto. The Newt who knows those things admires Latinos and feels compassion for whatever plights they may have to deal with. Likewise, the Newt that rails against Saul Alinsky as being a Jewish socialist or about Obama as being a Kenyan socialist, is quite candidly anti-Semitic and racist, but the other Newt is not. That's the Newt who loves Israel and takes Shedon Adelson's Jewish contributions to support his race to the White House or the Newt who wrote so lovingly about education in the Belgian Congo.

No, just as Borges was also Borges, Newt is also Newt and one only needs to read that chapter of his PhD dissertation titled, "Pierre Mentiroso, Author of the Quixote" to get a true understanding of who Newt actually is. Happy reading.

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