'Best of TBH Politoons'
Filling For Jay Marvin Tomorrow
Erin Hart
Erin Hart on
AM 760 June 30, July 3 and 4.
A quartet of shows coming up as Erin fills in for the vacationing Jay Marvin,
morning host on Boulder's Progressive Talk, AM 760, Friday, June 30th,
as well as Monday, July 3rd and Tuesday, the 4th, from 6am - 10am (MDT).
Celebrate what's left of our nation after the Bush administration by taking
our country back.
Please check out
erinhartshow.com for further details.
Adventure is everywhere. . .
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Christopher Hayes: The New Funding Heresies (inthesetimes.com)
What everyone knows (but no one will say) about funding the left
Barbara Raab: Sticks & Stones - and Dykes (inthesetimes.com)
If there is anybody who really understands the word "dyke," it is Joan Nestle, an author, editor and activist in the LGBT community for nearly half a century.
Beth Quinn: On taking gay marriage out of the closet (recordonline.com)
While most gays have been out of the closet for some time, the gay issue gets stored there "-- at least until an election year, when it gets taken out and dusted off for a session of meaningless debate.
Robert Scheer: Hillary 'War Dove' Clinton
Self-proclaimed "moderate" Democrats, who defend staying in Iraq, like to pretend they are the grown-ups in the argument. In reality, they are like children who have closed their ears to avoid hearing an uncomfortable truth: The longer we've stayed, the worse things have gotten, and that will continue to be the case.
Annalee Newitz: Nevermind Brookers, Here's 'Dragostea din Tei' (AlterNet.org)
A random Moldavian pop tune has sparked countless online video homages.
Scientists OK Gore's Movie for Accuracy
The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy. ...
As far as the movie's entertainment value, Scripps Institution geosciences professor Jeff Severinghaus summed it up: "My wife fell asleep. Of course, I was on the edge of my chair."
The Daily Show: The Miami Seven (Video)
Gonzales: These individuals wish to wage a quote: "full ground war against the United States."
Stewart: Seven guys? I'm not a general. I am not anyway affiliated with the military academy, but I believe if you were going to wage a full ground war against the United States, you need to field at least as many people as say a softball team.
The Happiness Music Video ('Dragostea din Tei')
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Sunny, hot & humid - a little taste of Florida.
No new flags.
Baseball Hall of Fame
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan has played at historic Doubleday Field - music, that is. Now, he's back, and for good, just a block down Main Street in the Baseball Hall of Fame.
The museum has added the baseball episode from the famed singer-songwriter's weekly music show, "Theme Time Radio Hour," on XM Satellite Radio to its archive, it was announced Wednesday.
The one-hour episode contains Dylan singing an a cappella rendition of "Take Me out to the Ball Game," along with classic baseball-announcing calls, such as Curt Gowdy's description of Ted Williams' home run in his final at-bat with the Boston Red Sox.
The CD will be added to the National Baseball Hall of Fame Library archive, which features more than 10,000 hours of recorded audio and video, and will be available for researchers.
Bob Dylan
Director To Be Honored At Outfest
Kenneth Anger
Groundbreaking director Kenneth Anger has been chosen as the recipient of the 10th annual Outfest Achievement Award, which will be presented at Outfest 2006's opening-night gala July 6 at the Orpheum Theater in downtown Los Angeles.
From 1947's "Fireworks" to "1963's "Scorpio Rising," Anger's films pioneered the presentation of homoerotic images. In 1959, he authored "Hollywood Babylon," a best-selling compendium of Hollywood scandals.
Kenneth Anger
Early Curtain In Toronto
'Lord of the Rings'
The curtain will fall on the blockbuster Canadian production of the "Lord of the Rings" musical in September, just five months after it opened to mixed reviews, the show's producers said on Wednesday.
The news comes just as the C$28 million ($25 million) show won some of Canada's top theater awards earlier this week. It will close on September 3. Tickets had been on sale until September 24 and producers had earlier said it might take up to a year to test the show before debuting in larger markets.
A reworked and shorter version will reopen for previews in London on May 9, 2007, and will take over at London's historic Theater Royal Drury Lane from the award-winning Mel Brooks musical "The Producers." It is hoped the show will then go to Germany in 2008.
'Lord of the Rings'
Ex-Assistant Sues Estate
Hunter Thompson
A woman who worked as Hunter S. Thompson's assistant for some 20 years has filed a lawsuit against his estate and defunct corporation, claiming she is owed more than $100,000 US in wages.
The lawsuit, filed Friday in Pitkin County District Court, claims the journalist (Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas) did not pay Deborah Fuller for work she did between 1983 and 1996. The lawsuit says Thompson had financial problems at the time and repeatedly promised Fuller, verbally and in writing, that he would pay her when he could. The lawsuit said she was never paid.
Fuller, who lives in St. Paul, Minn., worked for Thompson from 1983 to June 29, 2004.
In 2000, Thompson accidentally shot and slightly wounded Fuller when he fired at a bear on his property. No charges were filed.
Hunter Thompson
Back To 'General Hospital'
Genie Francis
"General Hospital" is giving fans much to talk about: the reunion of Luke and Laura Spencer, the ABC soap opera's most popular couple.
Genie Francis, who originated the role of Laura nearly 30 years ago, will return to the show - and to the fictional town of Port Charles - to celebrate the 25th anniversary of Luke and Laura's wedding, which was seen by 30 million viewers on Nov. 16, 1981, ABC announced Tuesday.
No details were provided about Laura's story line and the upcoming anniversary. Four years ago, the character suffered a mental breakdown after she killed her father, and has been living at a psychiatric hospital in a catatonic state.
Genie Francis
Pickled Shark Is Rotting
Damien Hirst
Artist Damien Hirst's iconic pickled shark, part of the Britart sensation when it went on display in the early 1990s, is rotting.
Hirst is in talks with the owner of the 1991 work, U.S. hedge fund manager Steve Cohen who bought it less than two years ago for what media said was 6.5 million pounds ($11.8 million), to replace the original specimen.
The work, called "The Physical Impossibility of Death in the Mind of Something Living, 1991," was originally commissioned by British collector Charles Saatchi for 50,000 pounds.
According to The Art Newspaper the shark's skin is showing "considerable signs of wear and tear, and the shark itself has changed shape."
Damien Hirst
Settles Suit
Gene Simmons
Gene Simmons of the rock group Kiss has settled a defamation lawsuit brought against him by a former girlfriend who charged that he made her sound like a "sex-addicted nymphomaniac" during a documentary shown on VH1.
The settlement, announced Wednesday, said the "amicable resolution" of Georgeann Walsh Ward's lawsuit over the way she was portrayed in the documentary "When Kiss Ruled the World" involved no payment of money to her.
Ward, 53, was a girlfriend of Simmons' in the 1970s. She filed the lawsuit in January 2005, alleging that the documentary defamed her by juxtaposing Simmons' commentary about himself with photographs that included her.
Gene Simmons
Banned Books Stay For Now
ACLU
The Miami-Dade County school district must keep a series of banned children's books until arguments in a legal challenge can be heard next month, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.
The American Civil Liberties Union sued last week to stop the district from removing copies of a book that contains images of smiling children wearing uniforms of Cuba's communist youth group and a carnival celebrating the 1959 Cuban revolution. The district owns 49 copies of the book in Spanish and English.
The school board's June 14 ban also covers 24 other books in the same series about visiting other countries.
U.S. District Judge Alan Gold told the district to keep the books, saying he wanted to "hold the status quo" until a July 21 hearing.
ACLU
Erased From 'The View'
Star Jones Reynolds
Star Jones Reynolds was booted from "The View" Wednesday, one day after surprising ABC and Barbara Walters by saying on the air that she wouldn't be returning to the daytime talk show in the fall.
Reynolds was quickly erased from the show's opening credits, now down to three women from the usual five.
"It is becoming uncomfortable for us to pretend that everything is the same at this table," show creator Walters said. "Therefore, regrettably, Star will no longer be on this program."
Walters didn't discuss on the air why Reynolds, an original cast member who's been on the show for nine years, wasn't being asked back. She said in an interview Tuesday that research showed audience members were turned off by Reynolds' dramatic weight loss and glitzy wedding to banker Al Reynolds in 2004.
Star Jones Reynolds
Flight Diverted
Southwest Airlines
A Southwest Airlines flight was diverted Wednesday after a passenger found a threatening note scrawled on two tray tables.
The message was discovered after the Boeing 737 took off from Orange County on a flight to Las Vegas. Officials would not elaborate on its contents.
The flight's 136 passengers were escorted to a secure area in the airport, while authorities inspected the jet.
Passengers were still waiting for the flight to resume nearly seven hours after landing in Ontario, about 40 miles east of Los Angeles.
Southwest Airlines
U.S. Championships
Air Guitar
The Bowery Ballroom was packed. The hip downtown Manhattan music hall had been sold out for weeks and fans stood outside begging for extra tickets. Inside, the raucous crowd waited for the show to start, chanting for the performers backstage.
The concert, though, was created purely out of thin air - because this was the U.S. Air Guitar Championships, where last week 15 contestants with such stage names as The Godfather of Air and Thunderpants the Destroyer took to a barren stage.
Thirteen of the 15 contestants have won their respective regional contest; one qualified from a VH1.com contest and another was the collegiate champ. The winner is sent to the world championships Sept. 6-8 in Oulu, Finland - a place spoken of with hushed reverence in air-guitar circles.
A panel of four judges score the air guitarists on an Olympic figure skating scale (6.0 being best) based on technical prowess, stage persona and a more opaque quality known as airness.
Air Guitar
Cable Networks
Ratings
Rankings for the top 15 programs on cable networks as compiled by Nielsen Media Research for the week of June 19-25. Day and start time (EDT) are in parentheses.
1. Movie: "Broken Trail, Part One" (Sunday, 8 p.m.), AMC, 6.8 million homes, 9.9 million viewers.
2. "The Closer" (Monday, 9 p.m.), TNT, 4.9 million homes, 6.11 million viewers.
3. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 10 p.m.), USA, 4.12 million homes, 5.8 million viewers.
4. Movie: "A Girl Like Me" (Monday, 9 p.m.), Lifetime, 4.01 million homes, 5.1 million viewers.
5. "WWE Raw" (Monday, 9 p.m.), USA, 3.7 million homes, 5.17 million viewers.
6. "Saved" (Monday, 10 p.m.), TNT, 2.94 million homes, 3.51 million viewers.
7. World Cup Soccer: Ghana vs. United States (Thursday, 9:48 a.m.), ESPN, 2.9 million homes, 3.81 million viewers.
8. Movie: "Broken Trail, Part One" (Sunday, 9:45 p.m.), AMC, 2.85 million homes, 3.79 million viewers.
9. Movie: "The Princess Diaries" (Monday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.81 million homes, 3.69 million viewers.
10. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 2:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.8 million homes, 3.57 million viewers.
10. Movie: "Wendy Wu: Homecoming Warrior" (Thursday, 8 p.m.), Disney, 2.8 million homes, 3.77 million viewers.
12. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 2 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.76 million homes, 3.54 million viewers.
13. "Fairly Odd Parents" (Saturday, 10:30 a.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.64 million homes, 3.48 million viewers.
14. Movie: "Open Range" (Saturday, 8 p.m.), AMC, 2.61 million homes, 3.63 million viewers.
15. "SpongeBob SquarePants" (Monday, 1:30 p.m.), Nickelodeon, 2.58 million homes, 3.56 million viewers.
Ratings
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