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WWW.UPANDCOMINGWEEKLY.COM FEBRUARY 5- 11, 2020 UCW 27 WEEKLY HOROSCOPE NEWS OF THE WEIRD by the Editors at Andrews McMeel Syndication These were extreme measures An unnamed 55-year-old man from the town of Pitalito, Colombia, got cold feet before his scheduled marriage over the weekend of Jan. 18 but lacked the courage to tell his fian- cee. Instead, with the help of his best friends, he faked his own kidnapping, reported Oddity Central. The groom's pals told authorities they had seen a group of armed men on motorcycles abduct their friend, and because kidnappings for extortion are not unknown in Colombia, the local po- lice responded in force. Police Com- mander Nestor Vargas ordered roads closed, sealed off the town and began a search. That's when the friends got nervous and admitted they'd made the whole thing up. Authorities kept the groom's identity a secret to pro- tect him from other townspeople who've been down this road before. This is the second time the groom has left a bride waiting at the altar. He and his cohorts will likely face jail time of up to six years. This is weird science On Jan. 22, the National Weather Service expanded its cold-weather warnings in South Florida to include falling iguanas along with falling tem- peratures. According to the Associ- ated Press, the NWS alerted folks that the reptiles can become stunned by the cold and fall from their perches in trees. As temperatures rise during the day, they wake up, unharmed. Males can grow to 5 feet long and weigh 20 pounds. They aren't considered to be dangerous to humans — unless they land on your head. This is awesome Downtown Winston-Salem, North Carolina, is a little safer these days, thanks to the efforts of Night Watch, a helpful vigilante dressed in all black, with his face partially covered and wearing reflective goggles, WGHP re- ported on Jan. 22. "I'm not looking to be a Batman and go around beating up criminals," he told a reporter. In- stead, he's an anonymous superhero who's been patrolling the nighttime streets for about a month, hauling around a bag filled with food, cloth- ing and toiletries for those in need. "There is no prerequisite for being a good person," Night Watch said. On that night, he helped out about a dozen homeless people in the com- munity. "It's just nice that people aren't totally freaked out," he said. "Now they know who I am and that I'm trying to help." Question: I get frustrated watching "Emer- gence" because the music is so loud that it is difficult to hear the dialogue. Can't someone notice that and fix it? — Marion Matt Roush: If I ran every complaint I got on this issue, there'd be no room for anything else. At least this one was specific, so I'll use this as my annual op- portunity to address the incontestable fact that almost every show, especially in TV drama, is culpable in laying on the music too thick, so what's intended as background becomes foreground. I'm especially aware of it in medical shows when music plays over scenes when surgical masks further inhibit dialogue, but action and suspense series are just as guilty. e other most common complaint: TV shows are shot too dark. If networks and producers get even a fraction of the mail I receive on this sub- ject, they know it's an irritant and they obviously don't care. In my own limited experience, not being all that techni- cally minded, we bought a sound bar to enhance and sharpen the sound com- ing out of our primary TV and have had less trouble because of it. Others have taken to activating closed captioning, which we sometimes do on streaming services with some of the British dramas, but that's more about thick accents than loud music. It's intrusive, but at least you'll get the dialogue. To submit questions to TV Critic Matt Roush, go to: tvinsider.com. By Damian Holbrook Cheers to "e Circle" for finding an upside to social media. Netflix's "Big Brother-ly" competition locked players in tricked-out pads where they could only chat via messaging, texts and status updates, resulting in real gems, like fan fave Joey Sasso and some really crafty catfishing. Jeers to "Dracula" for taking a bite out of time. After two solid episodes rooted in the famous vamp's original era, the Netflix mashup from the folks behind "Sherlock" jumped ahead to the pres- ent day for a silly modern epilogue about Drac (Claes Bang) rising again in search of blood, babes and Wi-Fi. Not exactly high stakes. 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