James Rainey: No paper might mean no news (LA Times)
… newspapers could do a lot more to tell their unique stories to the public. It's seldom in many towns that that you see advertisements for the local paper - outside the "house" ads that promote the local daily to people who already get it. Where is the radio spot or billboard campaign to plug the star sports columnist or the government scandal the paper just exposed? Those promotions, once fairly routine, have become an endangered species.
Henry Rollins: Henry Speaks On His Consciousness-Expanding Trip to the Library of Congress With Ian MacKaye (LA Weekly)
One of the high points for me was a draft of the Bill of Rights, as it went back and forth between the two houses of Congress. What became the Second Amendment had several more words to it, while the last words of what became the 10th Amendment -- " ... or to the people." -- were a handwritten addition. Wow! I can't tell you how awesome it was to see that. The other high point was reading the words of Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln out loud with Ian. Perfection.
CHARLES MUDEDE: "'Chasing Madoff': Bush Doesn't Appear in a Film About Bush's Presidency" (The Stranger)
Where to begin? How about this: George W. Bush. His years in office: 2000 to 2008. Now the year the protagonist in this documentary, a money manager named Harry M. Markopolos, discovered that Bernie Madoff was a fraud: 2000, and the year Bernie Madoff admitted he was a fraud: 2008. As you can see, the years match perfectly, and this isn't coincidental.
David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."
The man on the left is Derek J. Bailey, presently Ogemaw of the Grand Traverse Band of Ottawa and Chippewa Indians, and soon to be the new US Congressman from Michigan's First District. He has to go through a couple of elections first, but there he is. You may recognize the man on the right. Oh yeah, and they're both Democrats.
Wikileaks can add another company head to their collection of pikes. This time, the victim is Al-Jazeera director Wadaj Khanfar, who officially resigned yesterday after an unflattering Wikileak compromised his journalistic integrity.
The leak showed that the eight-year director for the Middle Eastern news network censored images on behalf of the U.S. government. The images that Khanfar had removed were pictures of injured civilians harmed during the Iraq war, and they were cut in an attempt to portray a more favorable image of the U.S. to Al-Jazeera's viewers.
With the leak, Wikileaks has demonstrated either their lack of loyalty or bias (pick one). In 2010, Al-Jazeera was one of the only networks Wikileaks could turn to that would cover their Iraq War Logs. In contrast to their Western media counterparts, Al-Jazeera seemingly warmed to the idea of Wikileaks, starting their own Wikileaks style platform that same year.
The news network has never been known for glowing American sentiment, but they won praise from Hilary Clinton, as well as scores of internet viewers, for their coverage of Egypt's uprising against former president Hosni Mubarak.
Supposed to be cool with rain, turned out sunny and hot.
Tonight, Sunday:
CBS starts the night with '60 Minutes', followed by a FRESH'Amazing Race', then a FRESH'The Good Wife', followed by a FRESH'CSI: The 2nd One'.
NBC fills the night with LIVE'Sunday Night Footballl', then pads the left coast with local crap, and maybe an old 'Dateline'.
ABC begins the night with a FRESH'America's So-Called Funniest Home Videos', followed by a FRESH'Extreme Makeover: Home Edition', then a FRESH'Desperate Housewives', followed by a FRESH'Pan Am'.
The CW offers an old 'Friends',followed by another old 'Friends', then the movie 'Just My Luck'.
Faux has a RERUN'Cleveland Show', followed by a RERUN'Simpsons', then a FRESH'Simpsons', followed by a FRESH'Cleveland Show', then a FRESH'Family Guy', follwoed by a FRESH'American Dad'.
MY has an old 'How I Met Your Mother', another 'How I Met Your Mother', then an old 'Big Bang Theory', followed by another old 'Big Bang Theory', then still another 'Big Bang Theory', followed by yet another 'Big Bang Theory'.
AMC offers the movie 'Se7en', followed by a FRESH'Breaking Bad'.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[7:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 1
[8:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[9:00 AM] Charles Darwin and the Tree of Life
[10:00 AM] Unexpected Wilderness
[11:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3
[12:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[1:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[2:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[3:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 1
[4:00 PM] 24 Hours in the ER - Episode 2
[5:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 3 The Priory
[6:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 8 - Lido Di Manhattan Beach
[7:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 9 - Le Bistro
[8:00 PM] Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
[11:00 PM] Master & Commander: The Far Side of the World
[2:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 6
[3:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[4:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 4
[5:00 AM] Top Gear - Episode 3 (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Real Housewives Of NJ', another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', still another 'Real Housewives Of NJ', followed by a FRESH'Real Housewives Of NJ'.
Comedy Central has the movie 'Broken Lizard's Super Troopers', 'South Park', another 'South Park', still another 'South Park', and yet another 'South Park'.
FX has the movie 'Hancock', followed by the movie 'Wanted', then the movie 'Wanted', again.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', 'IRT Deadliest Roads', followed by a FRESH'IRT Deadliest Roads', then the FRESH'Around The World In 80 Ways'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] Swimming With Sharks
[8:00AM] Waking Life
[10:15AM] Choose Me
[12:30PM] Undeclared - Pilot
[1:00PM] Undeclared - So You Have a Boyfriend
[1:30PM] Undeclared - Eric Visits
[2:00PM] Undeclared - Jobs, Jobs, Jobs
[2:30PM] Swimming With Sharks
[4:30PM] The Limey
[6:30PM] Layer Cake
[8:45PM] The Boondock Saints
[11:00PM] Whisker Wars - Its Norway or the Highway
[11:30PM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Da Spot
[12:00AM] Freaks and Geeks - Beers and Weirs
[1:00AM] The Boondock Saints
[3:15AM] Layer Cake
[5:30AM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Da Spot
[12:30AM] Indie Sex II: Teens
[2:00AM] Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
[4:30AM] Wilfred - There is a Dog (ALL TIMES EST)
Whoopi Goldberg samples a burger at the New York City Wine and Food Festival's Burger Bash, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011, in the Brooklyn borough of New York.
Photo by Diane Bondareff
After a summer of scandal, the spotlight has shifted from News Corp's phone hacking crisis to its entertainment business, where its TV network and movie studio are searching for fresh hits to meet sky-high expectations.
Fox's tentpole shows -- "Glee," "The X Factor," and "Terra Nova" -- debuted this month to audience figures that fell short of Hollywood's expectations, partly due to out-sized ratings hopes and partly to the highly competitive, fragmented TV landscape that has made business tough for all the networks.
For "Terra Nova," believed to have cost Fox about $20 million for the first episode and featuring Steven Spielberg among a roster of a dozen big-name producers, the ratings bar was set extremely high.
But the premiere episode pulled in only half as many viewers as the 20.5 million that tuned into "Two and a Half Men" on CBS the same night, putting it in danger of being labeled an underachiever.
Steve Martin and the Steep Canyon Rangers perfrom at the International Bluegrass Music Association Awards show on Thursday, Sept. 29, 2011, in Nashville, Tenn.
Photo by Mark Humphrey
Toby Keith says gay marriage doesn't bother him and trying to stop it wastes time and money.
The country superstar tells "CMT Insider" airing Saturday on CMT that he doesn't see the reason behind getting into people's personal lives. He says refusing a marriage license to people because they are gay won't stop them from living together, so it accomplishes nothing.
Keith also weighed in on the military's now-repealed "don't ask, don't tell" policy that banned gays serving openly in uniform. He says that anyone with the training and passion should have the right to defend the country, adding: "Somebody's sexual preference is, like, who cares?"
Frank and Louie the cat was born with two faces, two mouths, two noses, three eyes - and lots of doubts about his future.
Now, 12 years after Marty Stevens rescued him from being euthanized because of his condition, the exotic blue-eyed rag doll cat is not only thriving, but has also made it into the 2012 edition of Guinness World Records as the longest-surviving member of a group known as Janus cats, named for a Roman god with two faces.
Frank and Louie's breeder had taken him to the Cummings School of Veterinary Medicine at Tufts University, where Stevens was working at the time, to be euthanized when he was just a day old. Stevens offered to take him home, but experts told her not to get her hopes up.
Janus cats almost never survive, and most have congenital defects, including a cleft palate that makes it difficult for them to nurse and often causes them to slowly starve or get milk in their lungs and die of pneumonia. The condition is the result of a genetic defect that triggers excessive production of a certain kind of protein.
Lenny Kravitz, left, points the microphone at his lead guitarist Craig Ross during the Rock in Rio music festival in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, Friday Sept. 30, 2011.
Photo by Felipe Dana
An autopsy has ruled that "Taxi" and "Grease" star actor Jeff Conaway's May 27 death was accidental and caused by major internal infection.
Los Angeles County coroner Craig Harvey says coroners did not conduct a toxicology test because Conaway had been hospitalized for weeks prior to his death, so his blood would have come back clean.
However, Harvey says when Conaway entered the hospital May 10, opiates and other drugs were in his system.
It turns out Elvis the King of Rock and Roll spawned Elvis the lawsuit - a whole lotta lawsuits.
Now all those cases are helping other attorneys study the law.
Legal Aid of East Tennessee is sponsoring a continuing education session in Chattanooga on Tuesday billed as "Elvis Law. The state and federal cases dealing with the late king of rock 'n' roll."
Topics will include ownership of Elvis' name, likeness and image; media access to his autopsy records; disputes over concert tickets sold before he died and other issues.
Jodie Foster and John C. Reilly attend the gala presentation of "Carnage" at the opening night of the 49th annual New York Film Festival, in New York, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011.
Photo by Charles Sykes
A 16-year-old girl has been placed on an airport watchlist in Australia after going to court to prevent her parents sending her to Lebanon for a forced marriage.
The Federal Magistrates' Court ruled that the parents of the teenager, who cannot be named, could not remove or attempt to remove their daughter from the country to marry the young man she has met only once.
Magistrate Joe Harman also ordered that the parents not assault, molest, harass, threaten or otherwise intimidate the girl or take her out of school.
In his judgement, delivered in April but revealed by Australian press on Friday, Harman said the girl's application to prevent her parents from sending her away for the marriage was one that was becoming increasingly common.
Harman found there was a psychological risk posed to the girl if he did not stop her marriage to a man who was essentially "a stranger".
People dressed as El Cid, a hero of medieval Spain, attend a parade in front of the Arco de Santa Maria in Burgos, October 1, 2011 during the "Weekend Cid" festival.
Photo by Felix Ordonez
A Houston-based museum exhibiting a set of rare 13th-century frescoes that were looted from Cyprus more than three decades ago has agreed to return them, the leader of the divided island's Orthodox Christian church said Friday.
Archbishop Chrysostomos II said the Menil Collection plans to return the Byzantine frescoes early next year after the church insisted that they not "allow them to remain there even for one second longer."
Antiquities smugglers looted the frescoes from the Ayios Themomianos church in northern Cyprus following a 1974 Turkish invasion that split the island into a Turkish-speaking north and a Greek-speaking south.
Menil Collection founder Dominique de Menil obtained the frescoes in 1983 and struck an agreement with the Cyprus church to keep and exhibit them at a purpose-built chapel in Houston.
Model presents a creation by Belarus designer Alexandra Goradko in Minsk, Belarus, Saturday, Oct.1, 2011. The collection was shown as part of the festival of modern and vanguard art "Mammoth-2011". (
Photo by Sergei Grits
It sounds like a horror movie: Biting ants invade by the millions. A camper's metal walls bulge from the pressure of ants nesting behind them. A circle of poison stops them for only a day, and then a fresh horde shows up, bringing babies. Stand in the yard, and in seconds ants cover your shoes.
It's an extreme example of what can happen when the ants - which also can disable huge industrial plants - go unchecked. Controlling them can cost thousands of dollars. But the story is real, told by someone who's been studying ants for a decade.
The flea-sized critters are called crazy because each forager scrambles randomly at a speed that your average picnic ant, marching one by one, reaches only in video fast-forward. They're called hairy because of fuzz that, to the naked eye, makes their abdomens look less glossy than those of their slower, bigger cousins.
And they're on the move in Florida, Texas, Mississippi and Louisiana. In Texas, they've invaded homes and industrial complexes, urban areas and rural areas. They travel in cargo containers, hay bales, potted plants, motorcycles and moving vans. They overwhelm beehives - one Texas beekeeper was losing 100 a year in 2009. They short out industrial equipment.
An Afghan boy throws up a kite with the photos of former U.S. president, George Bush, left, and Arnold Schwarzenegger, American actor, on the Nader Khan hilltop in Kabul, Afghanistan, Friday Sept. 30, 2011. Kite flying is a popular pastime in Afghanistan.
Photo by Kamran Jebreili
There are no props, no music and no elaborate costumes -- and if these performers have their way, no applause either.
Dressed in white from head to foot, the two men sit on thick white pillows. Candles flicker nearby as they conjure up a world of sorcerers and djinns, tricksters and kings, using only their voices and a few simple gestures.
It's the lost art of Dastangoi, storytelling based on medieval Urdu tales, brought back to life by two men determined to pass this ancient art form on to future generations -- and not doing badly, if the spellbound response of audiences from New Delhi to New York is a guide.
That's quite an achievement for Mahmood Farooqui and Danish Husain, considering that they had only the bare bones of the extinct Mughal art form to work with: a treasure trove of volumes of forgotten stories from the late 19th century.
There is also a rare 1920 audio clip of a performance by Mir Bakar Ali, the last great storyteller -- or "dastango" -- in this tradition.
The beloved Mexican comic known as "Capulina" died Friday at age 85, after a six-decade career as Mexico's equivalent of funny fat man Oliver Hardy.
The spokesman for Mexico's National Actors Association said comic actor Gaspar Henaine Perez died at a Mexico City hospital. The cause of death hasn't been released. Henaine Perez had suffered pneumonia and ulcers.
Capulina acted in nearly 100 films, often appearing as a bumbling but good-natured sidekick wearing an old hat with no crown. He later appeared in children's TV series and movies.
Actors Association spokesman Gustavo de Anda said a memorial service was being held Friday night.
Born on Jan. 6, 1926, Henaine Perez is survived by his wife, a son and a daughter.
This image provided by the San Diego Zoo shows an affectionate lowland paca named Poco at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, Friday, Sept. 30, 2011 in San Diego. This is the first time a paca has been hand raised at the San Diego Zoo or the Safari Park. The rodent was born on Sept. 7, 2011.
Photo by Ken Bohn
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