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Filling For Jay Marvin Friday
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. . .
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Ball Parks
Neat site with info on major and minor league parks:
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Matthew Yglesias: Iraq: A Shocking Waste of Money (The American Prospect. Posted on Alternet.org)
Forget those early estimates about the cost of our failed war in Iraq; the final tally is likely to be over $1 trillion.
A.C. Thompson: Portrait of the Artist as an Old Man (sfweekly.com)
After a lifetime in the arts, Christopher Lane is wrestling with poverty, mental illness, and a massive debt.
Radical Cheerleaders (radcheers.tripod.com)
Girl Positive Cheers | Queer/Sex-positive cheers | Environmental Cheers | anti-authority cheers | Find a Squad near you | Other cheers | FTAA cheers
Russell Cobb: Cracks in the Christian Ascendancy (slate.com)
Why it's too soon to panic about an American theocracy.
Barbara Ehrenreich: Is Wal-Mart Good for the American Working Class? (slate.com)
I Wish It Were Better.
Timothy Fernholz and Ben Adler: Five Minutes With: Eric Schlosser (campusprogress.org)
Is obesity the next big American political issue?
Julian Baggini: Who needs philanthropy? (guardian.co.uk)
Brits are capitalism-sceptics who are taxed more and give less, albeit in wacky, fun ways. The American low-tax, high-donation model is very different. Should we give it more credit?
Julian Baggini: Should pop stars do politics? (guardian.co.uk)
It's not that songwriters should stick to telling us how much sweet lovin' their baby's gonna get. Political music has a long and noble tradition.
Roger Ebert: 10 most influential films of the century
This list of the 10 most influential films of the century is not to be confused with a selection of the century's best, although a few titles would be on both lists. As film grew into an art form, these were the milestones along the way.
David Bruce: Wise Up! Animals (athensnews.com)
In the early days of automobiles, such contraptions were considered noisy and dangerous. Frequently, the drivers of automobiles would hear pedestrians and people in carriages or wagons pulled by horses yell at them, "Get a horse!'
Cartoon: Boiling Point by Mikhaela Reid - "Milly Jones"
Reader Suggestion
Viagra Endorsement (satire)
We shouldn't have been surprised when Rush was caught
in a Florida airport with illegally prescribed Viagra.
He actually filmed a commercial endorsement several
years ago that never aired. See it here now for the
first time:
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Very little sun, but lots of humidity. Ack.
OTOH, talked to dear old Dad, and he's got cabin fever from all the rain.
He said the rain is drowning his tomato plants but doing wonders for the weeds.
No new flags.
5 Stars For Accuracy
'An Inconvenient Truth'
The nation's top climate scientists are giving "An Inconvenient Truth," Al Gore's documentary on global warming, five stars for accuracy.
The former vice president's movie - replete with the prospect of a flooded New York City, an inundated Florida, more and nastier hurricanes, worsening droughts, retreating glaciers and disappearing ice sheets - mostly got the science right, said all 19 climate scientists who had seen the movie or read the book and answered questions from The Associated Press.
The AP contacted more than 100 top climate researchers by e-mail and phone for their opinion. Among those contacted were vocal skeptics of climate change theory. Most scientists had not seen the movie, which is in limited release, or read the book.
But those who have seen it had the same general impression: Gore conveyed the science correctly; the world is getting hotter and it is a manmade catastrophe-in-the-making caused by the burning of fossil fuels.
'An Inconvenient Truth'
Rhythm & Soul Music Awards
ASCAP
Rapper 50 Cent and producer-writer-executive Jermaine Dupri split songwriter of the year honors at ASCAP's Rhythm & Soul Music Awards, presented Monday at the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Named songwriter of the year at the performing rights organization's Pop Music Awards last month, 50 Cent was honored for his contribution to five of the year's most-performed songs -- "Candy Shop," "Disco Inferno," "Hate It Or Love It," "How We Do" and "Just a Lil Bit." "Candy Shop" also took the award for ringtone of the year.
Dupri, president of urban music at Virgin Records America, was a key player in the success of Mariah Carey's 2005 smash "The Emancipation of Mimi." ASCAP recognized him for his writing work on "Let Me Hold You," "Like You," "My Boo," "Shake It Off" and "We Belong Together."
ASCAP bestowed its Golden Note Award on LL Cool J for his contributions to hip-hop. R&B luminary Bill Withers received the ASCAP Rhythm & Soul Heritage Award.
ASCAP
Bankruptcy Sale Ahead
Adelphia
Time Warner Cable said on Tuesday a bankruptcy judge has approved it and Comcast Corp.'s planned $17.6 billion acquisition of Adelphia Communications Corp.'s cable system assets.
The approval means the last remaining hurdle for the Adelphia sale is with the Federal Communications Commission. Last week, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said he expected the agency to complete its review of the deal by mid-July.
If approved, the deal would transfer Adelphia's 5 million subscribers to the two cable giants, who will share the bankrupt operator's cable systems assets.
Adelphia
Birthday Special
Tony Bennett
Tony Bennett will celebrate his 80th birthday in style -- with a star-studded music special on NBC to be directed and executive produced by "Chicago" helmer Rob Marshall.
"Tony Bennett: An American Classic" is based on Bennett's upcoming album featuring duets with some of the music business's biggest names. A number of them -- including Elton John, Stevie Wonder, Diana Krall, k.d. lang, Michael Buble, John Legend, Juanes, trumpeter Chris Botti and violinist Pinchas Zukerman -- will perform with Bennett on the show.
"American Classic" has begun filming at the historic Los Angeles Theater in downtown Los Angeles. The special is set to air in the fall in conjunction with the September 26 release of Bennett's RPM Records/Columbia Records album "Tony Bennett: Duets/An American Classic," which also includes duets with Bono, Paul McCartney, Barbra Streisand, Sting, Dixie Chicks, Elvis Costello, Billy Joel and Tim McGraw. The first single from the album will be released on Bennett's 80th birthday, August 3.
Tony Bennett
TV's Lois and Jimmy Return
Noel Neill & Jack Larson
Noel Neill and Jack Larson spent some of their best years in bondage, trussed up together waiting for Superman to break down a wall and save them.
The actors who played Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen on the 1950s TV show "Adventures of Superman" are back at it with bit parts in "Superman Returns" - Neill as a dying heiress, Larson as a bartender.
"Superman Returns" director Bryan Singer grew up a fan of the TV show, which starred the late George Reeves as the Man of Steel. So when it came time to do his own take on Superman, Singer made sure to have Reeves' old comrades on hand.
Wearing a Superman lapel pin and a wide belt buckle with the Superman logo, Neill spoke over iced tea alongside Larson at Patrick's Roadhouse, a breakfast and lunch spot along the Santa Monica beaches that's the site of a hamburger joint the two used to hang out at in the 1950s. Both still live nearby.
For a sweet interview, Noel Neill and Jack Larson
Temporary Department of Sanitation Employee
Boy George
Boy George, garbage man. The one-time Culture Club singer will do five days of court-ordered community service as an employee of the Department of Sanitation, a spokesman for the city agency confirmed Tuesday.
"He will be part of our team," said sanitation spokesman Keith Mellis. "We won't know exactly what he will be doing for several weeks, though."
The singer born George O'Dowd, who has struggled with drug problems for years, was ordered to do community service after pleading guilty in March to false reporting of an incident. He called police with a bogus report of a burglary at his lower Manhattan apartment last October, and the responding officers found cocaine inside.
Boy George
Burns Bridge
Star Jones Reynolds
The gloves are off for the women on "The View." Creator Barbara Walters said she was "betrayed" by Star Jones Reynolds' surprise on-air announcement of her exit from the daytime talk show Tuesday. Reynolds said in a magazine interview she felt she was fired.
Either way, the "help wanted" sign is up again at the show, months after it was announced that Rosie O'Donnell was replacing Meredith Vieira as a cast member in the fall.
Reynolds' exit had been rumored for months, intensifying Tuesday after reports on "Access Hollywood" and in the New York tabloids that an announcement would be coming soon.
Still, Walters said she was taken by complete surprise when Reynolds announced her departure after the first commercial break on Tuesday. The announcement had been planned for Thursday, she said.
Star Jones Reynolds
Fires Business Managers
Michael Jackson
Michael Jackson has fired his business managers, has hired a New York firm to oversee his financial affairs and is moving to Europe, his spokeswoman said Tuesday.
His longtime spokeswoman, Raymone K. Bain, said in a statement that she has been named general manager of the new Michael Jackson Co., which will replace Jackson's MJJ Productions.
Jackson has severed ties with his Bahraini lawyers and his longtime accountants and business managers, Bernstein, Fox, Whitman, Goldman & Sloan. Bain said he has hired L. Londell McMillan and The McMillan firm, "known for business restructurings and turnarounds."
Michael Jackson
Bringing Back Spanish Fiction
Gwinnett County Public Library
Faced with public protests, the public library board in a county with a large Hispanic population is expected to restore the funding it cut for Spanish-language fiction.
Trustees of the Gwinnett County Public Library will meet Wednesday to ratify the decision before the library's budget year begins July 1, officials said.
"We heard from people on both sides of the issue and we heard from a lot of the press," board Chairman Lloyd Breck told The Gwinnett Daily Post. "We are choosing to restore that line item. ... We were not trying to send any signal, but everyone seemed to think we were."
Gwinnett County Public Library
Leg-Biting Incident
Axl Rose
Axl Rose spent most of the day in a Stockholm jail cell after allegedly biting a security guard in the leg at his hotel, police said.
The Guns N' Roses frontman was arrested early Tuesday after attacking and threatening the guard and causing damage to the Berns Hotel, where the alleged scuffle took place, police spokeswoman Towe Hagg said.
Rose was released from jail that evening, after he admitted to the charges and agreed to pay a fine of $5,500, Hagg said.
The 44-year-old rocker was also ordered to pay $1,360 in damages to the security guard, she said.
Axl Rose
Feds Drop Request
Library Records
Federal authorities have dropped their demand for records from a library computer, but not without warning the librarians who refused to release them that under other circumstances their failure to cooperate "could have increased the danger of terrorists succeeding."
The FBI said Monday that it has discounted a potential terrorism threat that prompted it to seek records last year from a computer at one of 26 Connecticut libraries that are part of a consortium called the Library Connection.
The American Civil Liberties Union, which represented the librarians who received the demand for records, said the librarians might have been willing to comply with a similar demand had it been approved by a judge.
Library Records
Study Shows All Vulnerable
US Electronic Voting Machines
The nation's three most commonly purchased electronic voting machines are all vulnerable to fraud, a study released on Tuesday found.
The Brennan Center Task Force on Voting System Security, an initiative of the Brennan Center, conducted the study, which it called the most comprehensive study of electronic voting machines to date.
Larry Norden, chairman of the task force of government and private scientists, voting machine experts and security officials said about 80 percent of voters will vote on one of these electronic systems in November mid-term elections.
US Electronic Voting Machines
Changes Colors
'Mud Snake'
Scientists in Indonesia have discovered a new and mysterious species of snake in the depths of rain forest-clad Borneo which has the ability to change colours, the WWF conservation group has said.
The half-meter long snake, known locally as a "mud snake", was collected by a WWF consultant and a German reptile expert in the wetlands along the Kapuas River in West Kalimantan more than a year ago.
"It has since been established that it is really a new species," the WWF's Iwan Wibisono said.
'Mud Snake'
Prime-Time Nielsen
Ratings
Prime-time viewership numbers compiled by Nielsen Media Research for June 19-25. Listings include the week's ranking, with viewership for the week and season-to-date rankings in parentheses. An "X" in parentheses denotes a one-time-only presentation.
1. (X) " NBA Finals Game 6: Miami vs. Dallas," ABC, 15.7 million viewers.
2. (32) "America's Got Talent," NBC, 12.4 million viewers.
3. (3) "CSI: Crime Scene Investigation," CBS, 11.9 million viewers.
4. (8) "CSI: Miami," CBS, 11.3 million viewers.
5. (7) "Without a Trace," CBS, 10.2 million viewers.
6. (19) "Law and Order: SVU," NBC, 9.7 million viewers.
7. (18) "CSI: NY," CBS, 9.383 million viewers.
8. (23) "60 Minutes," CBS, 9.382 million viewers.
9. (56) "So You Think You Can Dance" (Thursday), Fox, 9.2 million viewers.
10. (58) "So You Think You Can Dance" (Wednesday), Fox, 9.1 million viewers.
11. (11) "House," Fox, 9.0 million viewers.
12. (78) "Fox Nextel Cup Winner's Circle," Fox, 8.8 million viewers.
13. (15) "NCIS," CBS, 8.47 million viewers.
14. (37) "Numb3rs," CBS, 8.46 million viewers.
15. (19) "Cold Case," CBS, 8.2 million viewers.
16. (16) "Two and a Half Men," CBS, 8.0 million viewers.
17. (28) "Criminal Minds," CBS, 7.99 million viewers.
18. (99) "Hell's Kitchen," Fox, 7.5 million viewers.
19. (93) "Game Show Marathon" (Thursday), CBS, 7.46 million viewers.
20. (49) "Close to Home," CBS, 7.39 million viewers.
Ratings
In Memory
Arthur Malvin
Arthur Malvin, a composer and lyricist who won two Emmy Awards for his work with Carol Burnett and Frank Sinatra, died June 16 after a long illness, his daughter said. He was 83.
Malvin won an Emmy in 1968 for writing music for a Frank Sinatra television special, "A Man and His Music + Ella + Jobim," which featured Ella Fitzgerald and Brazilian bossa nova singer Antonio Carlos Jobim.
In 1978, Malvin and Stan Freeman shared an Emmy for "Hi-Hat," a Fred Astaire-Ginger Rogers parody they wrote for "The Carol Burnett Show." He worked on the CBS variety program for 11 years.
He was nominated for a Tony award in 1980 for material he wrote for "Sugar Babies," a burlesque-themed play starring Mickey Rooney and Ann Miller.
He also sang on children's records and recorded advertising jingles for products including Sominex, Blue Bonnet margarine and Tang drink mix, said Janet Malvin, his daughter.
Arthur Malvin
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