Category: Sports and Entertainment
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In Honor of Black Friday
In honor of Black Friday, I needed to reprise a little Daniel Amos from 28 years ago: Mall (All Over the World) from the album "Doppelgänger" Words and Music by Terry Taylor©1983 Twitchen Vibes/ Paragon Music Corp. ASCAP Mall all over the worldMall all over the world… Moving into the age of leisureWhere east meets…
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A Hitch in time: save the Hitchcock 9
Guardian: A Hitch in time: save the Hitchcock 9 Nine of the 10 films Hitchcock directed in the 1920s are getting a full restoration. Henry K Miller enters the dusty world of the archivists and learns about the race to save the silents. The audience at the Capitol cinema in London during the middle week…
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It’s thrilling: the rise of Africa’s amusement parks
Global Post: It's thrilling: the rise of Africa's amusement parks What Africa's booming middle class really wants is a roller coaster. … At least eight theme parks have opened or are scheduled to open in West Africa alone since 2000. The region’s roller coaster tycoons — some foreign, many local — brave one of the…
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New Time Warp for ‘Doctor Who’
New York Times: New Time Warp for ‘Doctor Who’ The namesake character in “Doctor Who” can travel through time and space, but he cannot outrun the Internet. When new episodes of that long-running BBC science-fiction drama were broadcast in Britain last year, executives at the BBC America cable channel observed a major spike in illegal…
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God at the Grammys: The Chosen Ones
Wall Street Journal: God at the Grammys: The Chosen Ones … When this year's Grammy winners accept their awards on Sunday night, God is likely to be thanked and praised more than a few times. It's a longstanding showbiz tradition, after all, prevalent at the Oscars, the Emmys and even the AVN Awards for adult…
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Chiefs: 40 Years in the Wilderness (or “O Come, O Come, Matt Cassel”)
Forty-one years ago this month, Len Dawson led the Chiefs to their first and only Super Bowl Championship in Super Bowl IV. For forty years, the Chiefs have been wandering in the football wilderness. But to make matters worse, the Chiefs have had chances to return to the big show six times over the last…
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MLB Discusses World Series Winner Playing Japanese Champion
Business Week: MLB Discusses World Series Winner Playing Japanese Champion Dec. 17 (Bloomberg) — Major League Baseball will continue talks next month on a plan that would pit the World Series winner against Japan’s champion. Jim Small, MLB’s vice president for Asia, said at a media conference in Tokyo yesterday that MLB officials will meet…
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Behind Colbert’s Right-wing Funny Man, a Quiet Faith
Ethics Daily: Behind Colbert’s Right-wing Funny Man, a Quiet Faith … It was a different kind of religious message than Colbert typically delivers on Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report,” where he often pokes fun at religion—even his own Catholic Church—in pursuit of a laugh. Yet it was the kind of serious faith that some of…
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What Will Happen to Agent Gibbs?
Tonight is the season premiere of NCIS. When we left NCIS in May, the leader of the Reynosa drug cartel was plotting to kill everyone Gibbs cares about. Despite the intervening four months, I suspect she still is. The last episode ended with her walking into the Stillwell, PA store owned by Papa Walton ……