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- Returning the favor Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:45PMSince 1999, Carlos Arreola has been the owner and chief caregiver at Little Woman Home for Animals, a no-kill sanctuary he founded just outside Huntsville to care for a group of rescued donkeys. Hundreds of animals — from dogs and cats to rabbits and ducks — now call Little Woman home, and for Arreola, it all goes back to a desperate hour in his teenage years.
- Family history turns into Civil War drama Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 10:29PMFrom Gettysburg to Robert E. Lee, most historical narratives about the American Civil War are about the big battles and the big names of the conflict.
- Doing 3-D horror-comedy on cheap Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:18AMThe hefty cost and steep learning curve to make a movie in 3D isn’t stopping low-budget Canadian filmmakers April Mullen and Tim Doiron from diving into the technology.
- Music plays for Hoops dreams Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 8:02PMHOW much would you pay to hear Tony Britten’s Champions League anthem fill the evening air at your football club?
- Night and Day: Jazz Meets Heavy Metal Wednesday, July 13, 2011 @ 8:42AMThe Winter NAMM tradeshow, one of the musical-instrument industry’s foremost annual events, accommodates a world’s worth of different music and musicians each year in Anaheim, Calif.
- 'Dance With Dragons' gets Martin back in the game Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 4:47PMDismayed fans of HBO’s “Game of Thrones” who grumble at the nine-month wait until the show’s second season don’t know how easy they have it. George R.R. Martin published the first three books of his Song of Ice and Fire series at roughly two-year intervals beginning with A Game of Thrones in the mid-1990s.… [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]
- Safeco All-Star memories live on Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 2:33AMTen years ago today, when juice was a boxed drink kids sipped from a straw and light-tower homers inspired more awe than suspicion, the All-Star Game came to Safeco Field.
- Roseanne Barr: Roseannarchy: Dispatches from the Nut farm Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 1:38AMWriter and comedienne Roseanne Barr discusses her latest memoir Roseannearchy: Dispatches From the Nut Farm . 1988 was the first year of the American sitcom Roseanne , which was built by and around the comedy and family and opinions of the stand-up comedienne Roseanne Barr. It reached nearly 40 million viewers at its peak and stood out for being about a working class family struggling to support ...
- After Dark: Summer fun and festivals continue this weekend Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 10:44AMI hope everyone had a happy Fourth and long weekend - it was a beautiful weekend and a great time for hanging out and enjoying this great city and area we call home. From the fantastic bluegrass on City Dock and packed arts fest on West Street Sunday afternoon to the great downtown parade, Naval Academy Band concert and fireworks spectacular on Monday, the downtown area was hopping all weekend ...
- Beer Heaven Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 2:06PMChris Dunn’s in the military. He’s here with Betsy and Clementine. Uh, they’re not his women. They’re his Bassett hounds, sprawled around the legs of his stool. He’s joshing, of course, though when it comes to beer, he’s dead serious. Keeps notes on everything he drinks. In a beer journal.
- Devotion to image revealed Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 12:13PMAt Steffich Fine Art on Salt Spring, Steven Friedman’s photographs could be described with just a few nouns, they would be light, colour and detail.
- Devotion to image revealed in Steven Friedman photographs Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 12:13PMSteffich Fine Art, Salt Spring, Steven Friedman
- Comment on Aristotle and the Higher Good by Abnizar7 Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 10:37AMKathy, just so that you may want to fortify your own convictions, keep aside those Spiritualists in the Mystical traditions viz : like Gautama Sidharta, Confucious or Loa Tze, Guru Nanak ( the great Guru ), Mohd Bahalullah of Bahai Faith, Ibni AlArbi or AlRumi, etc etc. Go even into the life history of Great Scientists in the Western Christian traditions, you will find Scientists like Albert ...
- Summer solstice, the Ukrainian way Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 5:02PMAs a rainy evening seeped through woodlands in one of Kyiv’s wilder parks, a group of 16 people frollicked despite the prospects of a heavy downpour. Wearing traditional Ukrainian embroidered shirts, they picked a green patch right on the Dnipro River bank.
- 'Saint' Jose Rizal Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 6:28PMF or the past few years, I have been studying some of the Rizalista sects in Mount Makiling, Mount Banahaw, and Mount Arayat. These sects worship Jose Rizal as God. They call Rizal by a variety of names: the Tagalog Christ, the Jove Rex Al, the Son of God, Amang Doktor, Amang Rizal, and so on. One time, in a discussion about Rizal’s various mystical powers, one ageing Rizalista seriously told me ...
- 2011 FIREWORKS BUYER’S GUIDE Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 6:07PMThe diversity of consumer fireworks sold in honor of America’s Independence Day is wide, not unlike the melting pot whose birthday they symbolize. What’s new? What’s loud? What’s colorful? Is that $30 fountain really worth the money and how long is it?
- Rock climber to chart difficult Kinabalu route Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 3:09AMKota Kinabalu: Mount Kinabalu has stirred the interest of yet another international climber.
- Washington Nationals' Fans Had Hope, And It's Finally Being Rewarded Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 7:59AMNatstown is happy these days as the team rides perhaps its best stretch in its history in D.C. On the darkest of days, the team and fans clung to one essential feeling that now makes the current win streak that much sweeter. Well the grill is going hot, Bob Marley is playing on the radio and the Carlo Rossi sangria is flowing like an out of control fire hose out of the vats I have stored in my ...
- New Recordings Monday, June 27, 2011 @ 12:12AMPop Music supervisor Randall Poster reeled in a whale of a lineup for Rave on Buddy Holly, an uncommonly good tribute album to the Lubbock, Texas, wonder who left behind a songbook of staggering quality when he died in a plane crash in 1959 at age 22. The
- Shana Ting Lipton: Rock, Riots, Rebellion and the Real Notting Hill Sunday, June 26, 2011 @ 5:32PMThis neighborhood is alive, vibrant, colorful, stylish and oh so charming with its mostly Victorian townhouses. People chat on stoops, and rare and forgotten psychedelic tunes waft out of flats.
- McKeon's tough-guy approach could get old fast for Marlins Saturday, June 25, 2011 @ 10:39AMJack McKeon didn't need to bench one of his better-known players to trigger the "old" jokes. Just accepting a major league managing job at age 80 will do that. Still, when Hanley Ramirez assumed the pine in Trader Jack's first day back on the job after a six-year hiatus, the quipsters practically fried their megabytes getting in the first shots at a man who announced upon his hire, "Maybe I'm ...
- True Blood: 10 Fangbangin' Facts About Season 4 Friday, June 24, 2011 @ 7:59PMSpoiler Alert, True Bloodievers! If you don't want to know any hints about all the "something wickeds" that this way come for Season 4, it's time to back browser...
- Column: McKeon's tough-guy approach could get old fast for Marlins Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 10:25PMJack McKeon didn't need to bench one of his better-known players to trigger the "old" jokes. Just accepting a major league managing job at age 80 will do that. Still, when Hanley Ramirez assumed the pine in Trader Jack's first day back on the job after a six-year hiatus, the quipsters practically fried their megabytes getting in the first shots at a man who announced upon his hire, "Maybe I'm ...
- Beginning of the Great Revival: Film Review Thursday, June 23, 2011 @ 10:13PMMaggie Lee Smaller in historical scope than its predecessor, hence less grandstanding and more intimate in tone, the Chinese propaganda movie co-directed by Han Sanping and Huang Jianxin is laced with a soupcon of romanticism in its portrait of Mao Zedong as a young political theorist. read more
- Factbox - Glastonbury music festival gets underway Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 7:03AM(Reuters) - Here are some facts on Glastonbury, the world's biggest open air arts and music festival which officially opens on Wednesday. The main event starts on Friday and ends on Sunday night.
- Postcards from Pakistan: Karakoram and beyond Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 3:59AMFar from the busy bazaars of Rawalpindi, the grand mosques of Lahore and the hustle and bustle of southern port city Karachi which altogether, under the sweltering summer heat results in a maelstrom of life and buzz that characterize Pakistan, lies a different world.
- McKeon's tough-guy approach could get old fast for Marlins Wednesday, June 22, 2011 @ 3:14AMJACK McKEON didn't need to bench one of his better-known players to trigger the "old" jokes. Just accepting a major league managing job at age 80 will do that.
- Kenya: Coaching Issues, Lack of Support Led to Jelimo's Fall Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 10:11AMOne of the things that is amazing about Kenyan athletes is that every year, you can be sure that new names will emerge and that there will be sensational performances produced by either hitherto-unknowns or middle level performers.
- 06/13/2011 15:06 EGYPT - ISLAM The future of the "Arab Spring", held back by poverty and fundamentalism Monday, June 20, 2011 @ 5:38AM» by Samir Khalil Samir In Egypt and elsewhere, the new attempts at democracy risk failure because of the enormous poverty, ignorance, fundamentalism. The West can not just sit back and watch or take on policing duties.
- Mural artist, gardeners help Habitat homes Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 8:28PMAn Alaska snow-skiing scene, a combined football and cowboy theme, and a mystical forest, complete with unicorns, are some of the murals that will adorn the children's bedrooms of one of the two new homes for San Angelo families.
- In Part Five of a series, Salma Mahmud describes an era filled with memories of past glory Friday, June 17, 2011 @ 3:12AMSimla in 1943 was poised between two worlds... the world of the great Raj days, when India was the Jewel in the Imperial Crown, and the India of a creaking empire which was reeling and tottering on its heels.
- Movie Times, June 17, 2011 Wednesday, June 15, 2011 @ 1:03PMTHEATERS AND LOCATIONS
- Bonnaroo Festival in Tennessee Wraps Up Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 5:23PMFor 85,000 people, plenty of music to think about on the way home.
- 06/13/2011 15:06 EGYPT - ISLAM The future of the "Arab Spring", held back by poverty and fundamentalism Monday, June 13, 2011 @ 8:12AM» by Samir Khalil Samir In Egypt and elsewhere, the new attempts at democracy risk failure because of the enormous poverty, ignorance, fundamentalism. The West can not just sit back and watch or take on policing duties.
- Ask Hal: The umpire admitted his error, leaving Sparky speechless Saturday, June 11, 2011 @ 10:32PMHall-of-fame baseball writer Hal McCoy knows a thing or two about America’s pastime. If you’d like to tap into that knowledge, send a question to halmccoy1@hotmail.com.
- The Queen and I: Her Majesty's cousin lifts the lid on the private lives of the Royals Saturday, June 11, 2011 @ 4:32PMAs the Queen prepares to celebrate her Diamond Jubilee, one of her closest relatives and oldest friends has been allowed to give an unprecedented insight into the family life of the Royals.
- 'Midnight in Paris': Woody Allen's charming romance forces Owen Wilson to choose between Marion Cotillard and Rachel ... Thursday, June 9, 2011 @ 5:06AMWoody Allen's lighthearted lark of a film takes us to France, today and in the 1920s, with Owen Wilson, Rachel McAdams and Marion Cotillard learning joys and mysteries of "Midnight in Paris."
- Activision Showcases Innovative Slate at E3 2011 Monday, June 6, 2011 @ 6:00AMActivision Publishing, Inc. is proud to present the latest in immersive entertainment at the 2011 Electronic Entertainment Expo taking place at the Los Angeles Convention Center on June 7 â 9, 2011. Â Activision's newest innovations will be on display in booth number 647 in the South Hall.
- Cote d'Ivoire: Gbagbo Supporters Tortured, Killed in Abidjan Thursday, June 2, 2011 @ 11:18AMArmed forces loyal to President Alassane Ouattara have killed at least 149 real or perceived supporters of the former President Laurent Gbagbo since taking control of the commercial capital in mid-April, 2011, Human Rights Watch said today.
- Dorfman: Mixed martial arts is a mixed bag Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 6:58PMThe state of New York still bars mixed martial arts fighting, although my guess is that advocates eventually will get it made legal. Meanwhile, it is legal in New Jersey and many other states, but it would have been a major score for the sport if New York approved it.
- G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's Tree of Life Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 3:13PMEminently lyrical and rapturous in the cinematic manifold that it kaleidoscopically brings into and out of focus onscreen with each turn of the Terrence Malick lens, Tree of Life is one of those singular cinematic milestones.
- G. Roger Denson: Terrence Malick's 'The Tree of Life' Plays Garden of Eden to the Family of Man Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 3:13PMEminently lyrical and rapturous in the cinematic manifold that it kaleidoscopically brings into and out of focus onscreen with each turn of the Terrence Malick lens, Tree of Life is one of those singular cinematic milestones.
- Power Rankings: Sample size too small -- except to see Twins stink Tuesday, May 31, 2011 @ 9:16AMMemorial Day brings us summer, and the 1/3 mark. Yet the numbers still don't show much -- except the Twins are kinda bad. But Larry Dobrow says things are clearing up, like the BoSox being really super awesome.
- For A.J. Foyt, it's about the place and the race Saturday, May 28, 2011 @ 11:11PMAs the Indianapolis 500 celebrates its 100th anniversary Sunday, stop and ask yourself: Is there anyone more closely tied to the race than A.J. Foyt, whose personal history here covers more than half of that century? Of course not.
- The Futon's First Look: "Locke & Key" (FOX) Friday, May 27, 2011 @ 12:33AMPlease note: As a courtesy, please do not reproduce these comments to newsgroups, forums or other online places. Links only please.
- Hometownstations.com-WLIO- Lima, OH News Weather SportsSex scandal rocks Turkish election campaign Tuesday, May 24, 2011 @ 8:36AMISTANBUL (AP) - The black-and-white videos are grainy. Sometimes, they flicker. Yet the images are stark and often graphic, appearing to show senior members of a Turkish opposition party in liaisons with women who are not their wives.
- The secret life of Terrence Malick Monday, May 23, 2011 @ 6:07PMTerrence Malick wasn't around to pick up his Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival for his film The Tree of Life. But it shouldn't have come as a surprise – the director wasn't there for the film's premiere, either. Never mind that this was billed as the culmination of his glittering career so far, Malick wasn't going to break his reclusive habit for anyone.
- Emin's skill has been usurped by celebrity Sunday, May 22, 2011 @ 3:22AMA scrupulous art critic must admit that it was with a groan that he greeted the first news of Tracey Emin 's exhibition at the Hayward Gallery, with a groan that he read the premature ejaculatory articles and with a groan that he wandered through this retrospective celebration of unmediated autobiographical relics and self-centred sentimentality.
- How to spot a psychopath | Jon Ronson Saturday, May 21, 2011 @ 7:31AMFrom Broadmoor to boardroom, they're everywhere, says Jon Ronson, in an exclusive extract from his new book It was visiting hour at Broadmoor psychiatric hospital and patients began drifting in to sit with their loved ones at tables and chairs that had been fixed to the ground. They were mostly overweight, wearing loose, comfortable T-shirts and elasticated sweatpants. There probably wasn't much ...
- THE READING PROMISE: My Father and the Books We Shared Friday, May 20, 2011 @ 6:04PMWhen Alice Ozma decided that she would let her dad read to her every night for 100 nights, she didn't realize that it would actually end up being every night for eight years, from the time she was 10 --- and her mom left them in the lurch --- until she went to college.