The NY State Fair opened today, and after the fair ends this year's butter sculpture will be turned into biodiesel fuel for the first time. "This year's New York State Fair has brought something new to...
At long last, some members of the media are starting to look at the Barack Obama celebrity phenomenon, and evaluate how he's been covered vs. other candidates. The results, including one comprehensive study noted in this article, are clear: the media loves Obama and features...
Is Eva Mendes too hot for TV? Apparently so! The sexy Latina actress has a starring role in a new Calvin Klein fragrance commercial, but most U.S. broadcast networks have opted not to show the steamy perfume...
The specific locations may be in Ireland but I am sure that this problem, one of my "pet hates", is not confined to this country alone. In this instance my pet hate is the developing trend of selling naming rights to...
Sometime in the early morning of June 30, 1908, some sort of massive explosion shook central Siberia. Witnesses at the time said they saw a fireball detonate in the sky above a desolate, forested region. What occurred during this time isn't exactly known, but the...
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[note: The word "fired" in this article is used very informally in service to the employment analogy later in the piece. It refers to the fact that the Marines chose to rescind Zoriah's access and unembed him due to a blog entry and some photographs he posted. Please...
Coldplay performed its third and final free concert at New York's Madison Square Garden last night and it was anything but worthy of full-priced ticket."The 70-minute set featured mostly material from the new album...
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Special Effects god Stan Winston passed away last night."We’ve been hearing for a while that effects maven Stan Winston was in bad health, but this is still incredibly shocking. On June 15th, 2008, Stan Winston passed away at the age of 62.Over his long career, Winston was...
Oops. Apparently, Microsoft didn't explain it as well as they might have. Can they get a do-over?"The Internet cried foul when Microsoft said underperforming Xbox Live Arcade games would be removed from the service.The blame falls on Microsoft, according to Aaron...
" On May 28, 2008, members of the U.S. Marshals sponsored Hornet’s Nest Task Force captured escapee Richard Allen Sloan in Kings Mountain, North Carolina after being on the run for approximately one year. Sloan...
At Art Center Pasadena, Bumsuk Lim's students are putting their skills to work in the service of their professor's passion: motorcycles. Yeah, another bike story. Anyway, Lim's class is in pursuit of the next goal in...
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OpinionBarry Artiste, Now Public ContributorHere is a companion piece to Now Public's Cythnia Yoo coverage on Burma and her link at the end of this story.Perhaps I am wrong in my assessment of Burma's Ruling...
OPINION: I am going to attempt to recount what has brought us to this secret Presidential "finding", see story below, but what passes for logic in the Whitehouse is so Byzantine in its convolutions it is difficult to...
" In July 2007, AT Kearney ranked Egypt 13th in their list of top 50 outsourcing destinations worldwide. This placed Egypt at the top-most position among all African countries featured in the report, an annual compilation by the well-respected research...