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  • Beatles treated with all respect Friday, November 21, 2008 @ 12:14AMAlmost two years ago, Jim Witter brought his "Piano Men" concert featuring the works of Billy Joel and Elton John to Bartlett for a sold-out show.
  • People: Louis Theroux, Sir Paul McCartney and Keira Knightley Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 3:32PM“Too many documentaries, frankly, do no more than shock and titillate, to thrill,” said Richard Klein, the head of commissioning for BBC Knowledge, in a commendably frank recent speech.
  • News of the weird Thursday, November 20, 2008 @ 3:26AMA plumbing error last month at the annual Grape Festival in Marino, Italy, stymied the traditional hook-up in which white wine cascades through the famous fountains in the center of town. Instead, water continued to run in the fountains, but about a dozen nearby homeowners must have thought it glorious divine intervention, briefly, when they opened their taps and found white wine flowing freely.
  • Radio’s Kitty Kinnin Returns To The Triangle Airwaves—And Her Longtime Fans Are Thrilled Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 9:42PMRadio host Kitty Kinnin is still amazed by the number of e-mails she receives every morning.
  • Mike Mussina announces retirement Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 6:03PMMike Mussina calls it a career after first 20-win year
  • Top Story Videos Wednesday, November 19, 2008 @ 2:17PMTonight: Olympic Athletes Speak Out . More athletes, including a gold medalist, are coming forward to support claims of threats and bullying by USOC officials.
  • 10 LittleBigPlanet... Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 5:52PMAfter a few initial, post-launch hiccups last week, LittleBigPlanet has taken off rapidly. Hundreds, if not thousands, of PSN users have been uploading a continuous stream of homemade levels to the game’s straining servers, with varying levels of quality and dedication.
  • Sideswipe: Tuesday Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 2:54PMA Californian wine maker tells it like it is. 1. How many seconds it takes to microwave four fish fingers perfectly. 2. The design marvel that is Velcro-strap shoes.
  • Diya Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 12:47PMSocially aware Diya Mirza believes that actors can do a great deal to raise awareness about current issues.
  • 11-17-08 EUR ALL ON ONE PAGE Monday, November 17, 2008 @ 2:05AMWANDA SYKES GOT MARRIED UNDER PROP 8: Comedian says recent overturn led her to finally speak publically about being gay.
  • Playtime Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 10:22PMMANILA, Philippines - To many, Dr. Vicky Belo is the embodiment of the fulfilled woman: wealth and influence, career high, contented family relationships, easygoing social interactions, physical endowments—and exciting love life.
  • Sellers – an evolving books and more shop Eclectic bookstore brings "Philly-feeling" to Jim Thorpe Saturday, November 15, 2008 @ 8:03AM
  • My Job: Chad Adams, creative services director Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 9:45AMChad Adams has been an animal ecology major, a grip/gaffer (production term for "go get my lunch"), a custom closet builder and a truck...
  • NEWS OF THE WEIRD Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 3:05AMDebt collectors in Spain are legally allowed to humiliate deadbeats in front of neighbors and relatives, and thus have much success, according to a Wall Street Journal dispatch last month from Madrid. One collector has employees make house calls in "top hat and tails," another asks them to impersonate Franciscan friars, and still another sends bagpipe players to announce debts in public.
  • Students Mix It Up at East Bank Friday, November 14, 2008 @ 12:08AMCHARLESTON, W.Va. - Sixth-grader Adam Eddy discovered he has a couple things in common with one classmate. Both would like to vacation in California, and both like rock n roll."It was a girl, which was weird," Eddy said of their mutual taste in m...
  • BLOTCH: Hip Tips, Vol. 6 (Anthony Mariani) Thursday, November 13, 2008 @ 5:41PMNew-ish indie-rockers you might like, divvied up into two groups: 1.) When Bad Videos Happen to Great Songs, and 2.) When Good Videos Happen to Great Songs.THE BAD (VIDEOS, BUT GREAT SONGS)1.)
  • A taste of the Chop Suey Circuit Wednesday, November 12, 2008 @ 3:43AMFeature documentary uncovers a forgotten period of American showbiz
  • BLOG CENTER Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 4:03PMHere are blogs from the Daily Journal staff members and readers. Biz Buzz - Get the most up-to-date news, insights and analysis of Northeast Mississippi business. Dennis Seid and Carlie Kollath bring you the business buzz.
  • Me and my hero Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 3:07AMA political stand-up who lost his bite, a former cricket legend who fell from grace, and two 80s popstarswhose careers hit the skids. What happened when four Guardian writers caught up with their childhood idols?
  • No Frown Is Left Unturned Tuesday, November 11, 2008 @ 12:12AMFred Flare, a new store in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, is full of happy, cheap, eclectic thingies.
  • CD Reviews: Two Brits and a bee sting Monday, November 10, 2008 @ 10:18PMLady Gaga reminds me of those pseudo-groups that make fake music videos on the Disney Channel, or maybe that annoying singer from the recent 7-11 commercial (“I want my icy drink from 7-11!”).
  • Billy Currington Dives in on "Top 20" Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 4:44PMNov. 7, 2008 — Suzanne Alexander will host this week’s edition of GAC’s Top 20 Country Countdown from the PBR World Finals in Las Vegas, and one of the young bucks with a video on the list is Billy Currington, who turned a coffee run into a fear-inducing film stunt.
  • Simmons: Powerful glimpse into the future Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 11:32AMAs the weather turns cold and the NFL enters its stretch run, Bill Simmons ranks all 32 teams in his latest power poll.
  • Funny Found Footage Continues this Weekend Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 10:04AMVHS ain’t dead. In fact, like cockroaches, plutonium and Sly Stallone, it keeps on hanging around in one form or another – just ask the guys from the Found Footage Festival .
  • CNN Promo Turns Headlines Into T-Shirts Friday, November 7, 2008 @ 10:01AMNEW YORK Should you desire, the next big Britney story could become fodder for a T-shirt courtesy of CNN.
  • Your Kids Could Be Getting High on This Herb Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 5:44PMWe have a warning for parents. Your sons and daughters might be getting high on an herb called Salvia.
  • Enter the Allosphere Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 12:53PMInside UC Santa Barbara’s three dimensional immersive theater, the 21st century face of our discipline-bending university.
  • HOME OF THE FREE Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 9:32AMWith the economy in shambles and every pocketbook in crisis mode, forget thinking of paying - these sites will help you procrastinate or prioritize without charge
  • Dead People in 1700s Were the First Celebrities Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 6:31AM The modern obsession with celebrity started in 18th-century Britain with obituaries of unusual people published in what served as the gossip sheets of the era, an English literature scholar says.
  • The Juggernaut: Obama and ‘the Elecular’ Thursday, November 6, 2008 @ 4:23AMThe vote last night was surely a crude and belated American judgment on the misrule of George Bush and Dick Cheney, on the economic catastrophe they had such a hand in bringing down on us, and even on the Iraq War, says Tom Engelhardt .
  • Mirror, mirror, off the wall Wednesday, November 5, 2008 @ 3:06AMKung-fu mopping, barking actors and a mechanical dancer in the dark - a revolution is taking place at the stuffy old Royal Academy. Adrian Searle joins in the fun
  • 10 LittleBigPlanet levels you have to play Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 8:07PMAfter a few initial, post-launch hiccups last week, LittleBigPlanet has taken off rapidly. Hundreds, if not thousands, of PSN users have been uploading a continuous stream of homemade levels to the game’s straining servers, with varying levels of quality and dedication.
  • News of the weird Tuesday, November 4, 2008 @ 2:51AMReggie Townsend, a 29-year-old serving 23 years in a Wisconsin prison for the reckless homicide of an 11-year-old girl, recently won $295,000 from a jury as compensation for a two-month confinement with a "wet, moldy and foul-smelling" mattress.
  • Search Month: October 2008 Search News, In Review Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 6:25PMSearch Month is a monthly newsletter that recaps stories covered on Search Engine Land over the past month. It’s also available by feed here . Below, news about Search Engine Land itself, then our 10 most popular stories from October 2008, then a major story for various search topics along with other stories related to those topics covered during October.
  • Onion plans wall-to-wall satire for election Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 3:02PMThe Onion squeezing every last bit of fun out of the Bush era before the political comedy epicenter will shift to Barack Obama or John McCain.
  • ACTOR WAS JOAQUIN UNSTEADILY Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 4:01AMFRIENDS of Joaquin Phoenix are worried about the star, who has had a very public battle with drink and drugs. The two-time Oscar nominee ("Walk the Line" and "Gladiator") showed up to a tribute to Paul Newman last week in San Francisco and "was out...
  • NEWS OF THE WEIRD Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 2:50AMA British government-funded poster campaign, introduced in August, aims to encourage people waiting for municipal buses to do Pilates-type movements to improve physical fitness. Among the suggestions: standing on one leg, pointing the toes forward, clenching the buttocks.
  • BlackBerry Bold: Not just for professionals anymore Monday, November 3, 2008 @ 12:58AMA handful of thanks from our friends at Globe Telecom for providing us their latest BlackBerry offering.
  • Money makes the political world go around Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 9:38PMWASHINGTON: In a presidential race filled with broken barriers, money has shattered far more than its share. Together, Democrat Barack Obama and Republican John McCain have amassed nearly US$1 billion - a stratospheric number.
  • Censorship, or What Really Weirds Out Weird Al Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 8:19PMA censorship battle has reignited over a 2006 Weird Al Yankovic song about file-sharing.
  • 2008/11/02 Sunday, November 2, 2008 @ 6:00PMExpect Ella (centre) of S.H.E. to swim in a skimpy swimsuit if album sales soar. ELLA of popular Taiwanese girl group S.H.E. will don a skimpy swimsuit and swim for the Press if sales of the group’s new album exceeds 100,000.
  • Waterboarding: The psychological damage is indescribable Saturday, November 1, 2008 @ 4:50PMChristopher Hitchens lasted seconds under waterboarding. And they say it isn’t torture
  • Nintendo DSi Impressions and Comparisons Saturday, November 1, 2008 @ 3:12PM The Nintendo DSi finally went on sale today for 18900 yen (around 190 dollars) and we got a chance to compare the DS Fat, Lite and the new I first hand. Before we got to that though, we opened the box, and in true post-Gamecube Nintendo fashion, the packaging was quite nice and easy to open. First up we are going to talk about the superficial hardware differences of ...
  • Garage-cam catches thieves in act Thursday, October 30, 2008 @ 3:30AMAs a technician for Eagleye Technologies in Saskatoon, Brad Proudlove is used to watching surveillance videos -- just not ones of events taking place in his own home.
  • Simmons: Predicting the NBA on a curve Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 4:36PMAfter rejoicing that the NBA finally has its sexy figure back, Bill Simmons has 20 predictions about the upcoming season.
  • Tech Terms to Avoid Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 1:28PMIn two weeks, I’ll celebrate my eighth anniversary writing this column. And if I do any ruminating during my 15-second celebration, I’ll recognize that one thing still hasn’t changed: there’s still no single technical level of writing that makes everybody happy.
  • Elevator Pitch: Diary.com has new designs on an old tradition Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 8:56AM Diary.com is trying to do something different with the online diary, making it more personal and shareable than conventional blogging by adding a social networking feel. Launched in January this year by Keld van Schreven and Peter Brooke , the site is funding by a handful of business angels and has four staff working from their base in Shoreditch, east London. Van Schreven explains ...
  • Community Calendar Tuesday, October 28, 2008 @ 3:51AMThe Music Department and Music Boosters are having their annual costume concert at 6 p.m. tomorrow in the Grafton High School auditorium, 24 Providence Road. Students, dressed in costumes, will perform selections from their fall repertoire. Audience members are also encouraged to come in costume. Admission is $2; $5 per family.
  • Rivers Cuomo Talks Alone II, Weezer, That Hair Monday, October 27, 2008 @ 3:59PM Weezer frontman Rivers Cuomo is nothing if not well-organized. Less than a year after the release of demos collection Alone: The Home Recordings of Rivers Cuomo -- and some six months after his band of a decade and a half put out its sixth LP, the so-called Red Album -- Rivers will issue the spoils from yet another trek through the archives in the form of Alone II . The ...