Largest Mural on Inhabited Building (Fubiz.net)
"CitéCréation, a French art firm, claims to have composed the largest mural in the world. It covers this residential building in Berlin, adding wildlife and additional windows." - Neatorama
Connie Schultz: No Closure for Cleveland (Creators Syndicate)
Ten hours after Ohio prison staff found Ariel Castro dead in his cell, Pam Zander Turos was standing in her kitchen in a Cleveland suburb. She was spreading cream cheese on bagels for her two young sons, when the TV came to life in the living room.
Scott Burns: The Incredible Importance of Social Security (AssetBuilder)
It would be difficult to overstate the importance of Social Security. I don't say this as a blind loyalist of our largest social program. I'm simply awestruck by how large it looms for all but the wealthiest Americans.
Froma Harrop: China's Rich, Yearning to Breathe Free (Creators Syndicate)
Thousands of Chinese are fleeing to the United States. We are not talking about impoverished peasants hiding in cargo containers. We're talking about millionaires flying first class and buying condos in the choicest ZIP codes. A big reason for this relocation, real estate agents say, is a desire for America's clean air, as opposed to China's suffocating smog.
Froma Harrop: Spending Behind Your Mate's Back (Creators Syndicate)
A little infidelity, a little cheating, is OK in a marriage - or even protective of it - if the sneaking is just about money. Note the emphasis on "little." Take handbags. Some time back, The Wall Street Journal reported on a woman who kept a secret stash of cash so she could buy very expensive handbags without disclosing the prices to her husband. "He just wouldn't understand," was her explanation. And he probably wouldn't have.
Henry Rollins: Music Keeps You Young (LA Weekly)
I try to refer to my age only when I can make self-deprecating jokes. Beyond that, I am not all that hung up on it. There is not one thing I can do about it. That being said, sitting here, at this moment, I feel completely ageless. Looking at the young people across the street, most if not all of whom were not even born when I started going to club shows, I feel no separation or difference between them and myself. We are here for the same reason.
Lenore Skenazy: Song of the Open Road (Creators Syndicate)
OK, a few almost un-American confessions: 1) I never have been camping. That's right. Even as a Girl Scout, all our troop did (as far as I can recall) was knit yarn octopi. (You read that right. We made little cuddly octopi out of yarn, and someone delivered these - or so we were told - to a nursing home, though God knows why.) Anyway: I never slept in a tent, camper or RV. For all I know, a camper is an RV.
Muscle Beach Party (1964) is the second of seven beach party films produced by American International Pictures. It stars Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello and was directed by William Asher, who also directed four other films in this series.
Dick Dale and the Del-Tones and Stevie Wonder appear in musical numbers, the latter aged thirteen and making his film debut, billed as "Little Stevie Wonder."
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Alan J was first, and correct, with:
Muscle Beach Party
Charlie wrote:
Muscle Beach Party
Marian responded:
Bikini Beach
Jim from CA, retired to ID, has headed to California......back in a few days.
Sally said:
For our Hindu friends!
Stevie Wonder made his film debut in Muscle Beach Party as himself in 1964.
This is the Stevie Wonder I remember. I saw him perform when he was in his early teens, and he had a million-dollar personality, and talent!!
PS: @B2BB, dump that agent, he is losing you gigs... How much are you paying him anyway?? :)
Adam answered:
Muscle Beach Party.
Dale of Sizzling Diamond Springs, Norcali, wrote:
In 1964's Muscle Beach Party (a Frankie and Annette beach movie), Stevie Wonder made his film debut, credited as "Little Stevie Wonder," singing "Happy Street,". What I remember is Dick Dale and the Deltones were "cool" in the movie. But we were all "cool" in Cali back then. Give us another year or so and we were "Groovy". I still revere Annette! But Candy Johnson danced in a bunch of those beach movies!
BttbBob replied:
"Muscle Beach Party"
... here he is with the usual suspects...
...and here, too.. Stevie Wonder 1964 - Happy street - Everybody come on yeah yeah clap your hands - YouTube from the film...
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'No!' Moment - I emailed my congressman, Dan Kildee (D-MI-5th) and told him that I was opposed to any military action in Syria at this time. I told him the reason is that there isn't any firm objective defined other than to 'punish'. Punish how and who and where? Then what? (The same attitude of the DoD, I believe. They are NOT crazy about the idea from the military sites I read) I empathize with the Syrian chemical attack victims, but... He reply @ 7:20pm and said he's undecided and awaiting more info. Maybe Putin's idea of taking the Syrian chemical arsenal will deter any US attack if Assad accedes. I hope so... Enough war...
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Robert points out that when Henry Ford paid his workers thrice the usual amount, people called him a communist.
Available in select nations only.
Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich presents "Inequality for All," which is about the country's widening income disparity. Make it a double-feature with "Richie Rich" to really feel the burn.
CBS begins the night with a RERUN'NCIS', followed by a RERUN'NCIS: The 2nd One', then a RERUN'Person Of Interest'.
Scheduled on a FRESHDave are Billy Crystal and Sheryl Crow.
Scheduled on a FRESHCraig are Anna Faris and Jean-Michel Cousteau.
NBC starts the night with a FRESH'The Million Second Quiz', then a FRESH'America's Got Talent'.
Scheduled on a FRESHLeno are Rose Byrne, Donny Deutsch, and Jennifer Nettles.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Fallon are Michelle Pfeiffer, David Cross, and Volcano Choir.
On a RERUNCarson 'The Scab' Daly (from 4/30/13) are Bryan Fuller, The Iceman, and Blue Hawaii.
ABC opens the night with a RERUN'Shark Tank', followed by a RERUN'The Bachelor's Funniest Moments', then '20/20'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJimmy Kimmel are Simon Cowell, Stacy Keibler, and Gary Clark Jr.
The CW offers a RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway', followed by another RERUN'Whose Line Is It Anyway', then a FRESH'Capture'.
Faux fills the night with a FRESH'So You Think You Can Dance'.
MY recycles an old 'House', followed by another old 'House'.
A&E has 'Storage Wars', another 'Storage Wars', still another 'Storage Wars', yet another 'Storage Wars', followed by a FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', then another FRESH'Storage Wars Texas', followed by a FRESH'Barter Kings'.
AMC offers the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers', followed by the movie 'The Lord Of The Rings: The Two Towers'.
BBC -
[6:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[7:00AM] BBC WORLD NEWS
[8:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 3
[9:00AM] MASTERCHEF UK: THE PROFESSIONALS - Season 4 - Episode 4
[10:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 18 - Cause and Effect
[11:00AM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 19 - The First Duty
[12:00PM] STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - Season 5 - Ep 20 - Cost of Living
[1:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 1 - Ep 10 - Dillon's
[2:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES UK - Season 5 - Ep 2 - The Dovecote
[3:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 5 - Ep 15 - Zocalo
[4:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 3
[5:00PM] TOP GEAR - Season 10 - Episode 4 - Botswana Special
[6:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 4 - Black Pearl
[7:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 2 - Ep 12 - Casa Roma
[8:00PM] RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES US - Season 4 - Ep 11 - Oceana
[9:00PM] ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS
[11:30PM] ROBIN HOOD: MEN IN TIGHTS
[2:00AM] THIS IS SPINAL TAP
[4:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 5 - Evolution Of The Daleks
[5:00AM] DOCTOR WHO - Season 3 - Ep 6 - The Lazarus Experiment (ALL TIMES EST)
Bravo has 'Tamra's OC Wedding', 'Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis', followed by a FRESH'Interior Therapy With Jeff Lewis', and 'Million Dollar Listing Los Angeles'.
Comedy Central has last night's 'Colbert Report', last night's 'Jon Stewart', 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', still another 'Tosh.0', followed by a FRESH'Tosh.0', then a FRESH'Brickleberry'.
Scheduled on a FRESHJon Stewart Bill is Dedman.
Scheduled on a FRESHColbert Report is Shane Salerno.
FX has the movie 'X-Men: First Class', followed by the SEASON PREMIERE'Sons Of Anarchy'.
History has 'Pawn Stars', another 'Pawn Stars', still another 'Pawn Stars', yet another 'Pawn Stars', followed by a FRESH'Top Gear', then a FRESH'We're The Fugazis', followed by another FRESH'We're The Fugazis'.
IFC -
[6:00AM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[8:30AM] Delirious
[10:45AM] Comedy Bang! Bang!-Anna Kendrick Wears a Patterned Blouse & Burgundy Pants
[11:15AM] Whitest Kids U'Know
[11:30AM] Five Fingers
[1:15PM] The Exorcism of Emily Rose
[3:45PM] Escape From Alcatraz
[6:15PM] Undercover Brother
[8:00PM] Jackie Brown
[11:15PM] Jackie Brown
[2:30AM] Saw III
[4:45AM] Monty Python: Almost the Truth (The Lawyer's Cut)-The Much Funnier Second Episode (ALL TIMES EST)
Sundance -
[7:00AM] Night and the City
[9:15AM] Waking Life
[11:30AM] Away From Her
[2:00PM] Night and the City
[4:15PM] Spies Like Us
[6:00PM] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
[8:00PM] Roxanne
[10:00PM] Box of Moonlight
[12:30AM] The Dreamers
[3:00AM] The Private Lives of Pippa Lee
[5:00AM] Robyn Hitchcock: Sex Food Death and Insects (ALL TIMES EST)
SyFy has the movie 'The Bourne Ultimatum', 'Face Off', followed by a FRESH'Face Off', then a FRESH'Heroes Of Cosplay'.
TBS:
Scheduled on a FRESHConan are Simon Pegg, Martin Riese, and Local Natives.
Actress Sandra Bullock attends a news conference for the film "Gravity" at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival September 9, 2013.
Photo by Fred Thornhill
A painting that sat for six decades in a Norwegian industrialist's attic after he was told it was a fake Van Gogh was pronounced the real thing Monday, making it the first full-size canvas by the tortured Dutch artist to be discovered since 1928.
Experts at the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam authenticated the 1888 landscape "Sunset at Montmajour" with the help of Vincent Van Gogh's letters, chemical analysis of the pigments and X-rays of the canvas.
The roughly 37-by-29-inch "Sunset at Montmajour" depicts a dry landscape of twisting oak trees, bushes and sky, and was done during the period when Van Gogh was increasingly adopting the thick "impasto" brush strokes that became typical of his work in the final years of his short life.
It can be dated to the exact day it was painted because he described it in a letter to his brother, Theo, and said he had painted it the previous day - July 4, 1888.
But then Van Gogh confessed that the painting was "well below what I'd wished to do." Later he sent it to Theo to keep.
Actress Julia Roberts arrives for the screening of the film "August: Osage County" at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival September 9, 2013.
Photo by Mark Blinch
Patrick Stewart, 73, got married for the third time this weekend to his 35-year-old jazz singer girlfriend of five years, Sunny Ozell.
The British actor announced the news via Twitter, simply stating:
Stewart's "X-Men" co-star and good friend, Sir Ian McKellen, officiated the ceremony.
"I did my part," the "Lord of the Rings" actor wrote on his official Facebook page, sharing a photo of himself holding a "Minister" t-shirt, the couple's marriage certificate, and giving the "live long and prosper" hand sign to his "Star Trek" star friend.
Napa and Sonoma have their wine tours, and travelers flock to Scotland to sample the fine single malt whiskies. But in Jamaica, farmers are offering a different kind of trip for a different type of connoisseur.
Call them ganja tours: smoky, mystical - and technically illegal - journeys to some of the island's hidden cannabis plantations, where pot tourists can sample such strains as "purple kush" and "pineapple skunk."
The tours pass through places like Nine Mile, the tiny hometown of reggae legend, and famous pot-lover, Bob Marley. Here, in Jamaica's verdant central mountains, dreadlocked men escort curious visitors to a farm where deep-green marijuana plants grow out of the reddish soil. Similar tours are offered just outside the western resort town of Negril, where a marijuana mystique has drawn weed-smoking vacationers for decades.
"This one here is the original sinsemilla, Bob Marley's favorite. And this one here is the chocolate skunk. It's special for the ladies," a pot farmer nicknamed "Breezy" told a reporter as he showed off several varieties on his plot one recent morning.
Cast member Abigail Breslin arrives for the "August: Osage County" film screening at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival in Toronto, September 9, 2013.
Photo by Fred Thornhill
Philippe Dubuc plunges his hands into one of his six old machines used to press vinyl records, trying to find out why it's not working.
A production slowdown is the last thing he wants to be dealing with on a warm September morning at RIP-V, which dubs itself as the only vinyl record pressing plant in Canada.
"I got a production order for 50,000 albums by Arcade Fire," Dubuc explains amid overheated machinery and a strong plastic smell. "And it's a double album so we're talking about 100,000 discs."
The popular Montreal band is one of many top acts still loyal to the medium of Elvis Presley and the Beatles. Punk band Rancid, jazz sensation Serena Ryder and singer Nicole Martin are also among those who want to be immortalized in the fabled format.
"Vinyl never died," says Dubuc, saying its new popularity isn't just because of the quality of the sound.
Marvel Comics has agreed to settle a lawsuit by a comic book writer who sued the publisher over the copyright to the flaming-skulled character Ghost Rider.
The agreement, disclosed in a letter filed Friday in U.S. District Court in Manhattan, if finalized would resolve five-years of litigation brought by former Marvel freelancer Gary Friedrich, who claimed he created the motorcycle-riding vigilante.
The settlement follows a decision by the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in New York to revive the lawsuit. A trial judge had previously dismissed the lawsuit, finding the rights to the character belonged to Marvel, owned by Walt Disney Co.
In a letter to U.S. District Judge Katherine Forrest on Friday, Friedrich's lawyer, Charles Kramer, said that his client and Marvel "have amicably agreed to resolve all claims between, among, and against all parties."
Actress Emilia Clarke attends a news conference for the film "Dom Hemingway" at the 38th Toronto International Film Festival September 9, 2013.
Photo by Fred Thornhill
Russia on Monday named two musicians from US rock band Bloodhound Gang as suspects in a criminal case over inciting hatred after a band member stuffed a Russian flag down his trousers.
The bassist of the band, "Evil" Jared Hasselhoff, stuffed a Russian flag down the front of his trousers, pulled it out from the back and threw it into the crowd at a concert in late July in Ukraine.
The powerful Investigative Committee, the equivalent of the US FBI, said in a statement on its website that it had opened a criminal probe examining the possible guilt of Hasselhoff, referred to by his real name Jared Hennegan, as well as the band's vocalist, James Franks.
The Investigative Committee accused Hennegan and Franks of inciting hatred in an organised group. If charged and found guilty, they could face up to five years in a penal colony.
Ukraine last month banned Hennegan from visiting for five years after videos were published on the web of him urinating onstage on a Ukrainian flag.
Niki Lauda arrives at Universal Pictures "RUSH" premiere after party sponsored by The Hollywood Reporter at The Thompson Hotel on day 4 of the Toronto International Film Festival on Sunday, Sept. 8, 2013, in Toronto.
Photo by Evan Agostini
The "submarine car" used in the James Bond film "The Spy Who Loved Me" sold for 550,000 pounds ($864,600) at auction on Monday, less than had been expected.
The white Lotus Esprit, which transformed into a submarine during a sequence in the 1977 movie starring Roger Moore as 007, had been expected to sell for between 650,000 and 950,000 pounds, according to RM Auctions.
Known as "Wet Nellie" on the set of the film, the fully operational submarine car was among the contents of a storage unit in Long Island, New York, which was bought by a couple in a "blind" public auction in 1989.
Although six Esprit body shells were used in filming, only one was converted into a submarine car, RM Auctions said.
Singer/actor Justin Timberlake and his and wife actress Jessica Biel watch Rafael Nadal of Spain face Novak Djokovic of Serbia in the men's final match at the U.S. Open tennis championships in New York, September 9, 2013.
Photo by Kena Betancur
Bulgaria is set to close a 35-year probe into the spectacular "umbrella killing" of dissident Georgy Markov in London in 1978, the prosecution in Sofia said Monday.
Markov's murder has gone down as one of the most daring and extraordinary crimes of the Cold War.
The prominent journalist and playwright fled communist Bulgaria in 1969 for Britain but continued to lambast the regime in reports for the BBC and Radio Free Europe.
While waiting for a bus on London's Waterloo Bridge on September 7, 1978, he was jabbed in the leg by a passer-by and later told his family that he saw this person drop his umbrella.
Markov developed a high fever and died in hospital five days later without being questioned by police. An autopsy revealed a tiny metal pellet embedded in his thigh that could have contained ricin or some other powerful poison.
Actor Ben Stiller, left, and wife, Christine Taylor, watches play between Novak Djokovic, of Serbia, and Stanislas Wawrinka, of Switzerland, during the semifinals of the 2013 U.S. Open tennis tournament, Saturday, Sept. 7, 2013, in New York.
Photo by David Goldman
A new study of the Monarch butterflies' winter nesting grounds in central Mexico says small-scale logging is worse than previously thought and may be contributing to threats facing the Monarch's singular migration pattern.
The reserve's 33,482-acre (13,550-hectare) core zone lost 41 acres (16.6 hectares) of pine and fir trees so far in 2013, about half of that because of illegal logging, said the study by Omar Vidal, head of Mexico's chapter of the World Wildlife Fund, the WWF, and other authors. The rest of the loss was due to drought or disease-control removal of trees.
Mexico's government has taken a strict stance to protect the Monarch grounds in recent years, shutting down sawmills and going after logging trucks, commercial loggers and their equipment. As a result, the reserve reached a milestone in 2012, when aerial photographs found almost no detectable deforestation due to logging over the previous year.
But the study's comparative analysis of aerial photos taken more than a decade apart showed that small-scale logging has never gone away. Too minor to detect in year-to-year comparisons, the study found incremental losses by comparing 2001 photographs, from the first systematic aerial survey, to ones from 2011.
The Pet Shop Boys perform during the Volkswagen group night at the Frankfurt motor show September 9, 2013. The world's biggest auto show is open to the public September 14 -22.
Photo by Ralph Orlowski
Israeli archaeologists have unearthed a Byzantine-era hoard of gold in Jerusalem's Old City, the Hebrew University of Jerusalem announced on Monday.
Dig director Eilat Mazar described the excavation of 36 gold coins, a gold medallion inscribed with a Jewish ritual candelabrum and a selection of gold and silver jewellery as "a breathtaking, once-in-a-lifetime discovery."
A statement said that the treasure was found about 50 metres (yards) from the southern wall of the Al-Aqsa mosque compound, known to Jews as Temple Mount and venerated as the site of the Jewish temples of kings Solomon and Herod.
Mazar, of the Hebrew University Institute of Archaeology, said that while excavations in the same area had revealed artifacts from the time of Solomon's temple, which according to Jewish tradition was razed by the Babylonians in 586 BC, the seventh century finds were completely unexpected.
A musician plays a melodian during the Abbots Bromley Horn Dance in Abbots Bromley, central England September 9, 2013. The dance comprising of six Deer-men, a Fool, Hobby Horse, Bowman, Maid Marian and a melodian player parade around the parish holding Reindeer antlers above their heads. The traditional Wakes Monday dance is believed to be the oldest folk dance in Britain and some of the antlers have been carbon dated to be over 1000 years old.
Photo by Darren Staples
A toy company has cooked up a mixture of controversy and amusement after its plastic block meth lab set, inspired by the show Breaking Bad, sold out.
Citizen Brick recently offered Superlab Playset complete with "poison" warnings, barrels of ingredients and figurines based on characters in the show for $250.
Citizen Brick's actual target audience, according to its cheeky online marketing, includes "nostalgia benders," "jaded hipsters," "reclusive diorama-builders" and "funny people" - though perhaps the company meant to include "small children who watch television shows featuring violence and drugs" on the list of their biggest customers, but they forgot.
Wired magazine interviewed the owner of Citizen Brick, Joe Trupia, back in August, and he said the company had received a flood of requests to build a lab after its related "chemistry enthusiast" figurine sold out earlier this year.
Cal Worthington, a legendary car dealer whose ubiquitous TV advertising introduced him and his dog Spot to millions of TV viewers, has died at 92.
Worthington, a war hero who became a business success, died Sunday while watching football on TV at his home in Orland, Sacramento attorney Larry Miles said.
Worthington, one of nine children raised in Oklahoma, flew 29 missions over Europe as a bomber pilot in World War II. An intrepid pilot, he received five Air Medals and the Distinguished Flying Cross. He continued flying a Lear jet until his death.
After the war, he began selling cars in Texas and made his way to Los Angeles. He leased a dirt lot to sell used cars, became a millionaire by 30 and built an empire of dozens of auto dealerships and land holdings, including ranches in California, Nevada and Idaho.
He became an iconic car dealer by staring in his own TV commercials that featured his dog Spot. His bouncy, corny jingle - "If you need a better car, go see Cal / For the best deal by far go see Cal" - became indelible in the minds of many Americans.
Worthington is survived by six children, Rod, Barbara, Calvin, Courtney, Susan, and Coldren; and nine grandchildren. Information about services is unavailable.
Smithsonian National Zoo's giant panda Mei Xiang snuggles with her cub in her den at the National Zoo in Washington, in this photo tweeted on September 9, 2013. Keepers are starting to do some training with Mei Xiang in her den, according to the @NationalZoo twitter account.
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Marvel Comics has agreed to settle a lawsuit by a comic book writer who sued the publisher over the copyright to the flaming-skulled character Ghost Rider.
A toy company has cooked up a mixture of controversy and amusement after its plastic block meth lab set, inspired by the show Breaking Bad, sold out.
