• When John Holmstrom wanted to start a new magazine, his friend and co-conspirator Legs McNeil didn’t see the point. Mr. Holmstrom explained, “If we have a magazine, people will think we’re cool and stuff and want to hang out with us.” Mr. McNeil still didn’t see the point, so Mr. Holmstrom explained further, “If we have a magazine, people will give us drinks for free.” Mr. McNeil saw the point and even named the new magazine: Punk.
• Mark Twain and Bill Nye journeyed to Nevada, where the frontiersmen tried to drink them under the table. However, after a night of hard drinking, the only people still conscious were Mr. Twain and Mr. Nye. Finally, Mark Twain told his friend, “Well, Bill, what do you say we get out of here and go somewhere for a drink?”
Animals
• Children’s book author Marion Dane Bauer once used her son’s dog, which was named Nimue, as a character, also named Nimue, in her novel Face to Face. The dog was due to have a litter, and so she had read about what to do when a dog had a litter. One of the things she read was that when a puppy is born with a cleft palate the best thing to do is to kill it because it can’t nurse and will starve to death. In her novel, Ms. Bauer used a situation in which a puppy had to be killed — and Peter, her son, was furious and forbid her to use his dog in the novel. Eventually, he relented and let her use his dog in the novel after she explained to him the need for conflict in a work of fiction.
• Following World War II, when Gary Paulsen, author of Hatchet, was a child, he lived with his parents in the Philippines. There, he and his dog, Snowball, wandered everywhere and saw many things. Together, they discovered a very poor Philippine family living under an overturned Jeep. Despite the family’s poverty, they offered young Gary and even Snowball a bit of food. Thereafter, Gary took food from home and brought it to them, and they shared meals of sardines and rice. Snowball once saved Gary’s life. Walking barefoot along a trail, Gary came across a pretty — but deadly — snake that was about to bite him. Snowball grabbed the snake, shook it, and broke its neck.
• Cat-owning famous authors have the same problems as other cat owners. The young daughter of the niece of the ex-wife of Walter Tevis, author of the novels The Hustler, The Color of Money, and The Man Who Fell to Earth, all of which were made into movies, remembers this about her famous relative: “The cat pooped in his red sheepskin slippers. He put his foot into it and then threw the shoe out the window.”
• Some creative people have unusual pets. The poet Gérard de Nerval kept a lobster as a pet and took it out for walks. According to Mr. de Nerval, the lobster was a good pet because “it does not bark and it knows the secrets of the deep.”
• One day a woman asked Sydney Smith for a motto for her dog. Because he had never liked dogs, he suggested, “Out, damned Spot!”
In Greek mythology, Persephone, also called Kore ("the maiden"), is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter. She became the queen of the underworld through her abduction by Hades, the god of the underworld. The myth of her abduction represents her function as the personification of vegetation, which shoots forth in spring and withdraws into the earth after harvest; hence, she is also associated with spring as well as the fertility of vegetation. Similar myths appear in the cults of male gods like Attis, Adonis, and Osiris, and in Minoan Crete.
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Mark. was first, and correct, with:
Persephone.
mj wrote:
Hades got lonely and
Kidnapped Persephone, whose mother, Ceres, did not take it well. As
goddess of the harvest she stopped that until Hades would return her
daughter. But, Persephone had already eaten food in the underworld (6
pomegranate seeds, I think), and was, therefore, stuck. As a compromise,
Hades agreed to let her live with her mom for 6 months of the year, and
spend 6 months below with him. That's why we don't have harvests all
year long.
Billy in Cypress U. $. A. said:
Persephone
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Alan J answered:
Persephone.
Randall replied:
Persephone
Dave responded:
Persephone, maiden of green and growing things. Daughter of Zeus and Demeter, goddess of agriculture. Persephone became the wife of Hades when he seized her and dragged her down to the underworld by force. A fairly typical courtship of the Greek gods. Anyway, in her grief at the abduction Demeter went on strike, causing the crops to fail. To end the Demeter strike, Zeus commanded Hades to release Persephone from Hell 8 months of the year although she had to return to her prison for the other 4 months. Conveniently, the Greek fields are barren between the autumn harvest and the spring rains when Persephone is annually released from her prison in Hell. I wondered why crops don’t grow in the winter, that must be the reason.
Cal in Vermont said:
Persephone. She is the daughter of Zeus and Demeter.
zorch wrote:
Persephone was queen of the Underworld and the wife of Hades.
Micki said:
Persephone.
Adam answered:
Persephone, but not quite by choice.
Leo in Boise replied:
Persephone, daughter of Zeus and Demeter
Mac Mac responded:
Persephone
Ed K wrote:
Lindsey Graham?
Kevin in Washington DC said:
Persephone.
Daniel in The City
Persephone
I knew that one because of this statue that’s in the Borghese in Rome.
Michelle in AZ
Persephone
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She was mainly known as "Persephone", but those of us who knew her best called her simply "Per".
Deborah, the Master Gardener wrote:
Well, I blew it yesterday, forgetting about Teaberry gum (which I used to enjoy as a kid) and the Teaberry Shuffle. Oh, well. I got my flu shot, so there’s that.
Today’s answer is Persephone. I was pretty sure and double-checked.
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Ba-dum-dum. Happy weekend!
Jacqueline replied:
Persephone
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CBS begins the night with a RERUN'Bull', followed by a RERUN'SWAT', then '48 Hours'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Stanley Cup Crap', then pads the left coast with local crap.
Of course, 'SNL' is a RERUN, with Eddie Murphy hosting, music by Lizzo. (This is the episode that finally provided Eddie Murphy with an Emmy last Sunday)
ABC fills the night with LIVE'College Football', then pads the left coast with local crap.
The CW offers some old 'Friends', followed by some old '2½ Men'.
Faux fills the night with LIVE'MLB Baseball'.
MY recycles an old 'Weather Gone Viral', followed by an old 'Storm Of Suspicion'.
A&E has 2 hours of old 'Court Cam', followed by a FRESH'Live Rescue'.
AMC offers the movie 'Rocky Balboa', followed by the movie 'Casino'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - SUMMER
[7:00AM] THE POLAR BEAR FAMILY AND ME - AUTUMN
[8:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - OCEAN OF ISLANDS
[9:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - CASTAWAYS
[10:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - ENDLESS BLUE
[11:00AM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - OCEAN OF VOLCANOES
[12:00PM] PLANET EARTH: SOUTH PACIFIC - STRANGE ISLANDS
[1:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - NORTH AMERICA: EXTENDED
[2:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - SOUTH AMERICA: EXTENDED
[3:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - ASIA: EXTENDED
[4:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - EUROPE: EXTENDED
[5:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - ANTARCTICA: EXTENDED
[6:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - AFRICA: EXTENDED
[7:00PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - AUSTRALIA: EXTENDED
[8:00PM] ANIMAL BABIES - MOUNTAIN BABIES (EXTENDED)
[9:10PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - NORTH AMERICA: EXTENDED
[10:10PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - SOUTH AMERICA: EXTENDED
[11:10PM] SEVEN WORLDS, ONE PLANET - ASIA: EXTENDED (ALL TIMES ET)
Bravo has the movie 'Boo! A Madea Halloween', followed by the movie 'Boo! A Madea Halloween', again.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Joe Dirt', followed by the movie 'The Internship'.
FX has the movie 'The Equalizer', followed by the movie 'The Equalizer 2'.
IFC -
[2:15am] The Expendables
[4:30am] Saved By The Bell
[5:00am] Saved By The Bell
[5:30am] Saved By The Bell
[6:00am] Saved By The Bell
[6:30am] Saved By The Bell
[7:00am] Saved By The Bell
[7:30am] Saved By The Bell
[8:00am] Saved By The Bell
[8:30am] Saved By The Bell
[9:00am] Saved By The Bell
[9:30am] Saved By The Bell
[10:00am] Saved By The Bell
[10:30am] Saved By The Bell
[11:00am] Galaxy Quest
[1:30pm] The Expendables 2
[3:45pm] Oblivion
[6:45pm] John Wick
[9:00pm] The Lost World: Jurassic Park
[12:00am] Jurassic Park III
[2:00am] Galaxy Quest
[4:30am] Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Return - At The Earth's Core (ALL TIMES ET)
Sundance -
[6:00am] the andy griffith show
[6:30am] the andy griffith show
[7:00am] the andy griffith show
[7:30am] the andy griffith show
[8:00am] the andy griffith show
[8:30am] the andy griffith show
[9:00am] the andy griffith show
[9:30am] the andy griffith show
[10:00am] the andy griffith show
[10:30am] the andy griffith show
[11:00am] hogan's heroes
[11:30am] hogan's heroes
[12:00pm] hogan's heroes
[12:30pm] hogan's heroes
[1:00pm] hogan's heroes
[1:30pm] hogan's heroes
[2:00pm] hogan's heroes
[2:30pm] hogan's heroes
[3:00pm] hogan's heroes
[3:30pm] hogan's heroes
[4:00pm] hogan's heroes
[4:30pm] hogan's heroes
[5:00pm] hogan's heroes
[5:30pm] hogan's heroes
[6:00pm] hogan's heroes
[6:30pm] hogan's heroes
[7:00pm] silver bullet
[9:00pm] pet sematary
[11:00pm] pet sematary two
[1:00am] cujo
[3:00am] columbo - The Most Dangerous Match
[4:45am] columbo - Double Shock (ALL TIMES ET)
SyFy has the movie 'Doctor Strange', followed by the movie 'Avengers: Age Of Ultron'.
Bill Murray and the Doobie Brothers star in today’s feud you probably didn’t see coming — but then again, it’s 2020.
A lawyer for the Doobie Brothers hilariously asked Murray pay up for using one of the group’s songs in a commercial without permission. Attorney Peter T. Paterno fired off a letter to the Caddyshack star and the only way to describe it is epic. It all started when Murray used the hit “Listen to the Music” in an advertisement for his William Murray line of golf clothing.
“It’s a fine song. I know you agree because you keep using it in ads for your Zero Hucks Given golf shirts. However, given that you haven’t paid to use it, maybe you should change the company name to ‘Zero Bucks Given,’” Paterno, one of music’s most powerful lawyers, begins. He notes that Tom Johnston of the Doobie Brothers wrote the song.
“We understand that you’re running other ads using music from other of our clients. It seems like the only person who uses our clients’ music without permission more than you do is Donald Trump,” the letter continues.
“This is the part where I’m supposed to cite the United States Copyright Act, excoriate you for not complying with some subparagraph that I’m too lazy to look up and threaten you with eternal damnation for doing so,” Paterno adds. “But you already earned that with those Garfield movies. And you already know you can’t use music in ads without paying for it.”
An all-star digital performance of scenes from Tony Kushner’s Angels in America, benefiting amFAR’s COVID-19 fund, will feature Glenn Close as Roy Cohn, with other roles from the Pulitzer Prize-winning play performed by, among others, Laura Linney, Patti LuPone, S. Epatha Merkerson, Brian Tyree Henry, Paul Dano, Andrew Rannells and Slave Play playwright Jeremy O. Harris.
The 60-minute livestream benefit for the Foundation for AIDS Research (amfAR) Fund to Fight Covid-19 and titled The Great Work Begins: Scenes from ‘Angels in America’, will feature seven scenes selected for their focus on the experience of living through a plague, according to amFAR. The free event – made up of self-filmed performances woven together – will stream Thursday Oct. 8 at 8:30 pm ET on the Broadway.com YouTube channel.
A donation of $100 or more will provide access to a 45-minute live conversation immediately following the performance, featuring Kushner, several cast members, director Ellie Heyman, amFAR CEO Kevin Robert Frost, and moderator Paul Wontorek of Broadway.com.
Some of the Angels characters will be played by more than one performer: Henry, Dano and Rannells will perform scenes as Prior Walter; Harris, Merkerson and Larry Owens as Belize; Lois Smith and Vella Lovell as Harper Pitt; Linney as Hannah Pitt; and, as the various angels, LuPone, Linda Emond, Nikki M. James and Daphne Rubin-Vega. Brandon Uranowitz will play Louis Ironson, and Alan Cumming, Whoopi Goldberg and Jake Gyllenhaal will participate in interstitial moments throughout the production.
Also participating are composer Ellis Ludwig-Leone and production designer Paul Tate dePoo III.
The Sanderson sisters are ready to save Halloween.
Bette Midler, Sarah Jessica Parker and Kathy Najimy are reuniting once again and for a good cause. The stars of the 1993 Halloween film Hocus Pocus are hosting a virtual event titled "In Search of the Sanderson Sisters: A Hocus Pocus Hulaween Takeover" on Oct. 30. Due to the pandemic, the virtual festivities are replacing Midler's annual star-studded "Hulaween" costume gala. Similar to previous years, the event will benefit the New York Restoration Project (NYRP) with all proceeds going to the organization's "critical work in the environmental and social justice space," per the official press release.
Since the "Hulaween Takeover" will be virtual, the event is open to everyone. Youngsters of all ages—or those who are just kids at heart—can experience a bit of real-life Hocus Pocus magic from Winifred, Sarah, and Mary Sanderson, played by Midler, Parker, and Najimy respectively. Fans of the film can surely expect to see the actresses reprise their classic roles with—fingers crossed—costumes and all.
Outside of the main event, Halloween lovers will also be able to attend the Sanderson Sisters Charm School virtually and buy limited-edition merchandise.
The $10 tickets, merch and Charm School classes can be purchased at www.nyrp.org.
Disney and Pixar are being sued by the son of famous stunt performer Evel Knievel over claims of improperly basing Keanu Reeves' Toy Story 4 Duke Caboom on him.
A federal trademark infringement lawsuit alleges that the motorcycle-riding toy character was intentionally based on Evel.
Son Kelly Knievel – who has held the publicity rights to his father's name since 1998 – has accused the filmmakers of never seeking permission to use Evel's likeness (via Hollywood Reporter).
"Evel Knievel did not thrill millions around the world, break his bones and spill his blood just so Disney could make a bunch of money," Kelly said in a statement.
He is suing for unspecified damages totalling more than $300,000 over allegations of unjust enrichment and false endorsement.
A federal judge on Thursday dismissed a lawsuit against Fox News after lawyers for the network argued that no "reasonable viewer" takes the primetime host Tucker Carlson seriously, a new court filing said.
The case was brought by the former Playboy model Karen McDougal, who said Carlson defamed her on his show, "Tucker Carlson Tonight," by saying she extorted President Donald Trump "out of approximately $150,000 in exchange for her silence about an alleged affair," the filing said.
Fox News asked the judge to toss out McDougal's case by arguing that "Carlson's statements were not statements of fact and that she failed adequately to allege actual malice."
But Fox News argued that Carlson "cannot be understood to have been stating facts, but instead that he was delivering an opinion using hyperbole for effect," the ruling said.
McDougal made headlines in 2018 when it surfaced that Michael Cohen, Trump's longtime lawyer and fixer, had arranged for American Media Inc., the owner of the tabloid the National Enquirer, to pay her $150,000 for her story that she had an affair with Trump in 2006. AMI purchased but never published McDougal's story to shield Trump in the weeks before the 2016 election, a practice known as "catch and kill."
The Trump administration rescinded an award given to a journalist in Finland after they discovered she had criticised the president on social media, a report by the State Department’s internal watchdog has found.
The report, filed by the Office of Inspector General (OIG), also found that the administration also gave a false explanation for withdrawing the honor from journalist Jessikka Aro.
Ms Aro, a Finnish investigative journalist who broke stories on Russian propaganda and misinformation efforts was selected for an International Woman of Courage Award in March 2019.
The award was later withdrawn by the administration and Ms Aro was told that the notification of her selection had been a mistake.
The report, conducted after eight senators requested an investigation into Ms Aro’s situation found that the administration revoked it on the basis of social media posts she had previously made.
Wildfires are burning the West Coast, hurricanes are flooding the Southeast — and some of those storms are rising from the dead.
"Zombie storms," which regain strength after initially petering out, are the newest addition to the year 2020. And these undead weather anomalies are becoming more common thanks to climate change.
"Because 2020, we now have Zombie Tropical Storms. Welcome back to the land of the living, Tropical Storm #Paulette," the National Weather Service wrote on Twitter on Tuesday (Sept. 22).
Earlier this month, Tropical storm Paulette formed in the Atlantic Ocean and made landfall in Bermuda as a Category 1 hurricane, according to CNN. It then strengthened over land into a Category 2 hurricane, before weakening and dying off five and half days later.
Paulette regained strength and became a tropical storm once more about 300 miles (480 kilometers) away from the Azores Islands on Monday (Sept. 21), according to CNN. The term "zombie storm" is new, and though the phenomenon has been recorded before, it is thought to be rare.
The history of today's stainless steel industry can be traced back to the early 19th century, when scientists noticed iron-chromium alloys resisted corrosion by certain acids. New research, however, suggests a similar alloy was being developed much, much earlier than this – even as far back as a thousand years ago.
Archaeologists have found what they think is evidence of low-chromium crucible steel in the 11th century in what is now Chahak in Iran, a long time and a long way away from the European Industrial Revolution. The metal would have been used to manufacture armour and weapons, including swords and daggers.
Stainless steel is also known as chromium steel – it's the chromium in the mix that stops the rust – and while the earlier metal alloy isn't an exact match, it does show evidence of chromium being mixed with pig-iron in an alloy known as crucible steel.
"This research not only delivers the earliest known evidence for the production of chromium steel dating back as early as the 11th century CE, but also provides a chemical tracer that could aid the identification of crucible steel artefacts in museums or archaeological collections back to their origin in Chahak, or the Chahak tradition," says archaeologist Rahil Alipour from University College London.
A bank manager discovered a 9.07-carat diamond at a state park in southwestern Arkansas after thinking the precious gem was a piece of glass.
Kevin Kinard of Maumelle found the second-largest diamond in the 48-year history of Crater of Diamonds State Park on Labor Day, according to a news release from Arkansas State Parks.
Kinard said he and his friends hauled sifting equipment to the state park in Murfreesboro. Kinard noted that he's been visiting Crater of Diamonds regularly since he was a kid but had never stumbled upon a diamond until Sept. 7.
Upon having his finds assessed, an employee informed Kinard he had discovered a diamond.
“I honestly teared up when they told me,” Kinard said. “I was in complete shock!"
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