Steve Almond: "Super Hot Prof-on-Student Word Sex #7:The Rumpus Interview with Jennifer Close"
What, if anything, do you remember from our time together in class? Specifically: please explain in what ways you would never have been able to pursue a career in the literary arts without my guidance. [Note: in previous installments, interviewees have rushed through this question, and it has proved fatal to their careers.]
Michelle Welch: "Variation on a Theme: An Interview with J.K. Simmons" (PopMatters)
J.K. Simmons's most visible credit to date is the scenery-chomping role as J. Jonah Jameson in Sam Raimi's 'Spider-Man' trilogy. But in 'The Music Never Stopped,' a deeply rewarding film about music therapy, family, and the Summer of Love generation, Simmons shines in his first lead film role as the uptight father of an amnesiac hippie.
Randy Lewis: 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?' soundtrack grows with age (Los Angeles Times)
By all rights, "O Brother, Where Art Thou?" should have been no more than a cult classic when it was released a decade ago. The movie, made by indie film world heroes Joel and Ethan Coen, placed star George Clooney in the middle of a wacky Depression-era tale equal parts grand ambition and grand larceny, with a soundtrack full of old-time American music, the likes of which had received scant attention on commercial radio in half a century or more.
20 Questions: June Millington (PopMatters)
'Play Like a Girl' is a new studio album from Jean and June Millington, the founding members of Fanny. The sisters have been making music together since they were children playing ukuleles in the Philippines.
Roger Ebert: Review of "Out Idiot Brother" (Rated R; 3 stars)
It's refreshing, this late in the summer, to find a hot weather comedy that doesn't hate its characters and embed them in scatology and sexual impossibilities. "Our Idiot Brother," directed by Jesse Peretz and written by Evgenia Peretz and David Schisgall, is as good-hearted as its hero.
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Tarragon or dragon's-wort (Artemisia dracunculus) is a perennial herb in the family Asteraceae related to wormwood. Corresponding to its species name, a common term for the plant is "dragon herb". It is native to a wide area of the Northern Hemisphere from easternmost Europe across central and eastern Asia to India, western North America, and south to northern Mexico.
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Marian was first, and correct, with:
tarragon
Alan J said:
Tarragon
Jim from CA, retired to ID, replied:
I am wondering if you spelled that correctly.....Dragon's Wort is aka Tarragon.....
Charlie responded:
I'm guessing we're looking for tarragon, or Artemisia dracunculus L.
Adam answered:
Accounting for the typo, it's otherwise known as Terragon, the secret ingredient in a Greek Salad.
Sally's electricity took a dive, see note below:
MAM wrote:
Tarragon, one of the four fines herbs of French cooking, and particularly suitable for chicken, lasagna, fish and egg dishes.
And, Joe S answered:
Do you mean "Dragon's wort?" (Sorry) The answer is tarragon.
Dragon's-wort
Dragon warts
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I am extremely gratified to report to all that SallyP weathered 'Irene' with minimal damage (a few tree limbs down). However, she's at this point enduring maximal inconvenience i.e. no power since 2am Sunday. Her electrical utility company has said that all should be up by Friday midnight (with some help from Michigan mutual aid utility crews, I might add. Texas, too) I've checked their web site for her and reported back by phone their statements of conditions, updates etc etc... Sally eschewed her daughter's offer of fleeing to The Bronx before the storm feeling that she'd rather bravely endure all that might come in her own home (Huzzah!). Her daughter has repeated the offer now that Sally is, in effect, camping out, but Sally says she comfy enough at home. She has her books, candles, battery radio (for NPR, naturally) and her own bed (I hear that one, I'm tellin' ya). In addition, the temperature isn't too hot... She hasn't opened her refrigerator nor freezer and she's bummed cuz there's some peach ice cream calling her... She seems in good spirits, all things considered. Hopefully, her power will return so she can entertain everyone with her, no doubt descriptive, ordeal...
CBS opens the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then another RERUN'NCIS'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Joe Namath, Alec Baldwin, and Lenny Kravitz.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Chi McBride and Ariel Tweto.
NBC begins the night with a FRESH'It's Worth What?', followed by a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Jeff Bridges and Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Will Forte, Amy Sedaris, Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks, and Killer Mike.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 5/23/11) are Adam Carolla, Mark Woollen, and the Airborne Toxic Eventr.
ABC starts the night with a RERUN'Wipeout', followed by a FRESH'Take The Money & Run', then a FRESH'Combat Hospital'.
On a RERUNJimmy Kimmel (from 8/10/11) are Jesse Eisenberg, Jerry Springer, and Incubus.
The CW offers a RERUN'90210', followed by a RERUN'Shedding For The Wedding'.
Faux has a RERUN'Glee', followed by a RERUN'Raising Hope', then another RERUN'Raising Hope'.
MY has 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', followed by another 'Are You Smarter Than A 5th Grader?', then 'Don't Forget The Lyrics', and another 'Don't Forget The Lyrics'.
A&E has 3 hours of 'Billy The Exterminator', followed by a FRESH'Billy The Exterminator', and yet another FRESH'Billy The Exterminator'.
AMC offers the movie 'Mercury Rising', followed by the movie 'Top Gun', then the movie 'Top Gun', again.
BBC -
[6:00 AM] BBC World News
[7:00 AM] BBC World News
[8:00 AM] The Graham Norton Show - Ep 1 - David Tennant, Catherine Tate, Josh Grobin
[9:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[10:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 4 Finn McCool's
[11:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 9 - Le Bistro
[12:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 7 42
[1:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 9
[2:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 5 Sandgate
[3:00 PM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 Hannah & Mason's
[4:00 PM] Star Trek: The Next Generation - Ep 3 Brothers
[5:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 2 Tooth and Claw
[6:00 PM] Doctor Who - Ep 3 School Reunion
[7:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 2
[8:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 7
[9:00 PM] Top Gear - Episode 5
[10:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[11:00 PM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[12:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[1:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 7
[2:00 AM] Gordon Ramsay's F Word - Episode 8
[3:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 6 - Mama Rita's
[4:00 AM] Ramsay's Kitchen Nightmares - Ep 7 - Sushi Ko
[5:00 AM] BBC World News (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Flipping Out', 'Most Eligible Dallas', followed by a FRESH'Flipping Out', and another 'Flipping Out'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Jon Stewart', last night's 'Colbert Report', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', yet another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', and 'Workaholics'.
On a RERUNJon Stewart (from 8/2/11) is Jason Bateman.
On a RERUNColbert Report (from 8/11/11) is Gloria Steinem.
FX has '2½ Men', another '2½ Men', followed by the movie 'Superbad', then the movie 'Superbad', again.
History has 'Marijuana: A Chronic History', 'Cocaine: History: Between The Lines', followed by a FRESH'Top Shot'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
[8:30AM] Dark Mirror
[10:15AM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Taxidermy
[10:45AM] The Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:15AM] Strangers in Good Company
[1:30PM] The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
[4:00PM] The Making Of: Transformation
[4:05PM] Nosebleed
[4:15PM] Dark Mirror
[6:00PM] Arrested Development - Missing Kitty
[6:30PM] Arrested Development - Altar Egos
[7:00PM] Whisker Wars - Don't Mess With Texas
[7:30PM] Rhett & Link: Commercial Kings - Designated Drivers
[8:00PM] Lord of War
[10:30PM] Chaos
[12:45AM] Reservoir Dogs
[2:45AM] The Making Of: Transformation
[2:50AM] Lord of War
[5:20AM] Whisker Wars - Don't Mess With Texas
[5:55AM] The Making Of: Transformation (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[6:00 AM] The Wilde Ones
[6:20 AM] Amreeka
[8:00 AM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: Redondo Beach (Episode 6, Season 1)
[9:00 AM] Love Lust & Street Eats
[11:00 AM] The Ground Truth
[12:20 PM] The Necessities of Life
[2:05 PM] Kate! The Making of an Icon
[3:05 PM] Amreeka
[4:45 PM] The Ground Truth
[6:05 PM] The Royal Tenenbaums
[8:00 PM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: One More Bite (Episode 7, Season 1)
[9:00 PM] Love Lust & Secret Societies
[10:00 PM] QUIRKY: Huge Gamble, Huge Reward (Episode 1, Season 1)
[11:00 PM] LUDO BITES AMERICA: One More Bite (Episode 7, Season 1)
[12:00 AM] Love Lust & Secret Societies
[1:00 AM] QUIRKY: Huge Gamble, Huge Reward (Episode 1, Season 1)
[2:00 AM] Total Eclipse
[3:55 AM] The Necessities of Life
[5:40 AM] The Wilde Ones
[6:00 AM] Comrades in Dreams (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves', followed by a FRESH'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', then the movie 'Troy'.
TBS:
On a RERUNConan (from 5/3/11) are Steve Martin and Atticus Shaffer.
Actress Sarah Jessica Parker shows off her shoes during a presentation in Moscow August 28, 2011. The U.S. actress is visiting the Russian capital to promote her new film "I Don't Know How She Does It". Picture taken August 28, 2011.
Photo by /Ivan Burnyashev
The new cast of "Dancing With the Stars" has been revealed.
ABC says the 13th season of the hit show will feature a mix of actors, athletes and TV personalities. Set to tango and quickstep with professional dance partners will be basketball star Ron Artest; World Cup soccer player Hope Solo; reality stars Robert Kardashian, Kristin Cavallari and Chaz Bono; TV personalities Nancy Grace, Carson Kressley and Ricki Lake; singer-actress Chynna Phillips; actors David Arquette and J.R. Martinez; and Italian actress Elisabetta Canalis, who may be better known in the United States for being George Clooney's ex-girlfriend.
The new cast members will perform their first dance routines on the season premiere on Sept. 19. The first celebrity contestant will be eliminated on Sept. 20.
Singer Katy Perry and her husband, actor Russell Brand, arrive at the 2011 MTV Video Music Awards in Los Angeles, August 28, 2011.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni
Lady Gaga and Katy Perry have once again found themselves at the top of a music chart. Unfortunately, this chart is for songs that the Chinese government has given the thumbs-down to, CNN reports.
Gaga and Perry both made the list of 100 songs that China's Culture of Ministry has ordered websites in that country to remove by September 15, lest they face punishment.
Gaga racked up a staggering six songs on the list, all from her most recent album "Born This Way." "The Edge of Glory," "Hair," "Marry the Night," "Americano," "Judas" and "Bloody Mary" were all included in the ministry's announcement. (The album's title track was included in an earlier list issued by the government; the ministry has issued three lists of banned foreign songs since it began regulating internet content two years ago.)
Perry placed twice in China's latest banned-songs collection, with "E.T." and "Last Friday Night (T.G.I.F.)."
Other notable entries on the ministry's litany of musical no-no's: Beyonce's "Run the World (Girls)," Britney Spears' "Burning Up," and the 1999 Backstreet Boys chestnut "I Want it That Way."
What will Mike Tyson say about Charlie Sheen at his Comedy Central roast?
Anything he wants to. Ba-dum.
Look for better jokes than that as the former heavyweight champ joins TMZ's Harvey Levin, "Jackass" Steve-O, and roast veterans Anthony Jeselnik and Jeffrey Ross in roasting Sheen next month. They were announced Monday as the first roasters in the upcoming Sheenanigans.
The roast will be taped September 10 and air September 19, the same night Ashton Kutcher debuts as Sheen's replacement on "Two and a Half Men." "Family Guy" creator Seth MacFarlane was previously announced as the Roast Master.
Ross was basically a given for the roast, given his acumen with insults and participation in Sheen's Violent Torpedo of Truth Tour. Other choices are inspired: Tyson knows what it's like to be inside a media maelstrom, and Steve-O, like Sheen, has battled drug abuse. The now-sober "Jackass" star should have plenty to say about Sheen's past penchant for seven-gram rocks.
A reveller dances as they parade through the street during second day of the Notting Hill Carnival in London, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. The carnival, Europe's largest street festival, began successfully with few problems reported on Sunday. The festival closed before dark this year to discourage any repetition of the arson and looting which erupted in London and other cities earlier in the month. Metropolitan Police described the opening day of the two-day festival as peaceful, and reported only 33 arrests, including six for assault and one for an offensive weapon.
Photo by Simon Dawson
Irreverent British hit comedy "Absolutely Fabulous" is returning to television with three new specials celebrating the show's 20th anniversary, the BBC said on Monday.
Stars Jennifer Saunders and Joanna Lumley will reprise their roles as raucous, fashion and champagne-addicted PR guru Edina and magazine editor Patsy, along with the other original stars of the 1990s series.
The three new shows will be broadcast on BBC television in the UK toward the end of 2011, and on BBC America and cable channel Logo in the United States in early 2012.
The BBC said the third of the specials would see Edina and Patsy play their part in the 2012 London Olympics.
Fox News scored a legal victory Monday, with U.S. District Court judge deciding in the network's favor in a suit filed by the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission on behalf of Fox reporter Catherine Herridge.
Herridge, who was granted a trial run as an anchor from 2006 to 2007, was sent back to her Washington, D.C. bureau reporter beat following the trial period, and the anchor position was eventually given to a man.
During her trial run, Herridge lodged a series of complaints against Fox News, alleging discrimination.
Declaring that "a reasonable jury couldn't infer retaliation from the record," U.S. District Judge Richard J. Leon granted Fox's request for a summary judgment, noting, "the plaintiff's claims must be dismissed."
A porn industry group says an adult film performer has tested positive for HIV, resulting in a production moratorium in Southern California while the organization investigates to see if the virus has spread.
Free Speech Coalition executive director Diane Duke told The Los Angeles Times (http://lat.ms/mX0vin ) on Monday that her group became aware of the HIV case Saturday.
Duke declined to release the performer's name, age or gender. She also declined to tell the Times how her group learned of the case.
According to Duke, the case was found in an out-of-state clinic that doesn't report to California state officials. Duke says the performer is being retested to confirm the HIV.
Matthew Fox, the star of the TV shows "Lost" and "Party of Five," was detained here over the weekend by police investigating reports he had assaulted the female driver of a party bus.
Fox, who is in Cleveland filming an adaptation of the James Patterson novel "I, Alex Cross," allegedly attempted to board the bus early Sunday morning along with the members of the bachelor party that had rented the vehicle.
Heather Bormann, 29, was driving the bus and says she "confronted" Fox as he attempted to get on with the other passengers.
Bormann told police Fox hit her in the chest and stomach before she hit him back to defend herself. She said it took three men to pull Fox away from her and that an off-duty police officer detained him until the police came.
An Indian boy returning from school looks at idols of elephant-headed god Ganesh displayed for sale by a roadside ahead of Ganesh Chaturti festival in Hyderabad, India, Monday, Aug. 29, 2011. The idols will be immersed into oceans and rivers at the end of the festival that celebrates the birth of the Hindu god.
Photo by Mahesh Kumar A.
Israel's "A Star is Born" TV singing competition has a new reality spinoff -- a criminal case against one of its judges, accused of using strongarm tactics to ensure she got a cut of a former contestant's earnings.
The judge, Margalit Tsanani, a popular singer in her own right, was indicted on Monday along with her alleged enforcer on extortion charges which both have denied.
According to the charge sheet, Tsanani, popularly known as "Margol," co-managed along with a musical agent the lucrative career of one of the competition's former contestants.
But the agent withheld Tsanani's cut and she went to legal arbitration, which she won. The agent still refused to pay and Tsanani turned to an enforcer -- nicknamed "Tooth Puller" -- to collect, the indictment said.
Prosecutors alleged the judge awarded points to one contestant -- who did not win -- in accordance with a text message she received from tne enforcer during a live broadcast of the show.
Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei has launched his first scathing attack on the Chinese government since his release from secretive detention in late June, accusing officials of denying citizens their basic rights.
In a strongly worded commentary published late on Sunday on the website of Newsweek magazine, Ai -- whose detention sparked an international outcry -- said the capital Beijing was "a city of violence."
He criticized the government for rampant corruption, the judicial system and its policy on migrant workers -- issues that have inflamed social tensions in China.
Ai's commentary signals his growing impatience with the strict terms of his release from custody in late June after 81 days. It also presents Beijing with a direct challenge on how to handle the country's most famous social critic.
LEFT: Tibetan Buddhist monks carry a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting unique to Tibet, to be displayed on a hill during the Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region August 29, 2011.
Photo by Jacky Chen
RIGHT: Tibetan Buddhists and tourists view a giant thangka, a religious silk embroidery or painting unique to Tibet, during the Shoton Festival at Drepung Monastery on the outskirts of Lhasa, Tibet Autonomous Region August 29, 2011.
Photo by Jacky Chen
Rush Limbaugh (R-Junkie) is not exactly a paragon of factual accuracy or moral rectitude, but Monday's claims about President Obama and the media were a bit absurd -- even for him.
On his radio show -- the nation's top-rated program -- Limbaugh claims that Obama wanted Hurricane Irene to be more devastating that it actually was.
"Obama, I'll guarantee you this. I'll guarantee you Obama was hoping this was gonna be a disaster as another excuse for his failing economy. If he's out there blaming tsunamis, earthquakes and whatever other natural disaster there are, this one was made to order, but it just didn't measure up," Limbaugh said.
Rest assured Mr. President, Limbaugh had some not-so-kind words for the media as well. Limbaugh felt the media overhyped this, a sentiment that I shared Sunday, but his assertion that this is a product of the liberal media and liberal politicians is utterly preposterous.
"You know how the media lies, how politicized everything is to push the leftist agenda," Limbaugh said. "You know how the media distorts."
The Gypsy sat for decades in a restaurant amid the Old West kitsch that fills this former gold rush town, her unblinking gaze greeting the tourists who shuffled in from the creaking wooden sidewalk outside.
Some mistook her for Zoltar, the fortune-telling machine featured in the Tom Hanks movie "Big." Others took one look at those piercing eyes and got the heebie-jeebies so bad they couldn't get away fast enough.
But until a few years ago, nobody, not even her owner, knew the nonfunctioning machine gathering dust in Bob's Place was an undiscovered treasure sitting in plain sight in this ghost town-turned-themed tourist attraction.
The 100-year-old fortune teller was an extremely rare find. Instead of dispensing a card like Zoltar, the Gypsy would actually speak your fortune from a hidden record player. When you dropped a nickel in the slot, her eyes would flash, her teeth would chatter and her voice would come floating from a tube extending out of the eight-foot-tall box.
Word got out when the Montana Heritage Commission began restoring the Gypsy more than five years ago, and collectors realized the machine was one of two or three "verbal" fortune tellers left in the world.
Blues musician David "Honey Boy" Edwards, whose roots stretched back to blues legend Robert Johnson, has died.
Longtime manager Michael Frank says Edwards died of congestive heart failure Monday morning in his Chicago apartment. He was 96.
Born in 1915 in Shaw, Miss., Edwards left home at age 14 to travel with bluesman Big Joe Williams. His father, a guitarist and violinist, bought his son a guitar from a plantation worker.
Edwards played with a number of noted musicians, including Johnson, Howlin' Wolf, Little Walter and Muddy Waters. Among Edwards' hit songs were "Long Tall Woman Blues," ''Gamblin Man" and "Just Like Jesse James."
Edwards won a 2008 Grammy for traditional blues album and received a Grammy Lifetime Achievement award in 2010.
In this Aug. 28, 2011 photo released by China's Xinhua News Agency, emperor penguin "Happy Feet" is seen in his room at Wellington Zoo's hospital, New Zealand. The emperor penguin has been booked onto a research vessel scheduled to leave the country Aug. 29.
Photo by Liu Jieqiu
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