It’s been a cruel summer, folks. Nobody knows this more than acclaimed choreographer Merce Cunningham, who is now dead. Merce joins the ranks of Walter Cronkite, Karl Malden, Billy Mays, Gale Storm, Michael Jackson, Farrah Fawcett, Ed McMahon, David Carradine, Dom Deluise, Oscar Mayer, Frank McCourt, and Mollie Sugden, as victims of the bloodiest celebrity […]
Death has been no friend to the glitterati this summer. In truth, Summer 09 is playing out like a real-life celebrity slasher flick, and this weekend was no exception. Frank McCourt and Walter Cronkite are the latest victims cut down in the prime of life, and Hollywood has been left wondering: who’s next? While we
I was eyeing rainboots at Berk’s and Spectrum-India the other night, but then I thought, would I really wear these, even if they have little skulls and crossbones on them?, and walked away. What a dummy. Now, with this crappy weather streak, I’m soaked from toes to bum for walking a measly 3 blocks downtown earlier this morning,
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And glorious: [youtube]hWABJzHrGww[/youtube] Session’s out for somewhere between 2 and 28 weeks, so they say…
Thank God for global warming: An Antarctic ice shelf is at risk of losing a chunk the size of Rhode Island after a retaining ice bridge began to break up. The ice bridge between two islands, which holds back the Wilkins ice shelf, began to develop faults yesterday, according to the European Space Agency,
Remember fun? It looks and sounds like this. Tickets are still available for Thursday’s show at the Foxboro venue, Showcase Live. Brendon Small, the creative and musical genius behind Dethklok, will be performing some Dethklok songs and ‘Metal Klassix’ with the School of Rock All-Stars which is not as bogus as you might think (and
A timely reminder of why we moved away from nukes, and probably shouldn’t look back. [youtube]n-c1PrCLaRw[/youtube]
(No spoilers below, just lamentation of the rotten final scenes.) What’s up with drilling that poorly-written prophetic bull-crap into our skulls at the end of the final episode, and reducing Battlestar Galactica to hackneyed didactic sci-fi drivel? (Forcing the muting of the final two minutes of the show, to avoid the painful dialogue.) For those
Update: Colbert reminds us that Xenu is Scientology’s evil Galactic Overlord. Original Post: Beth- Does “Xe” play? Blackwater is trying to re-brand, henceforth to be known as Xe. And it doesn’t even stand for Xenon. “As many of you know, because we focus on continually improving our business that Xe is in the process of
Despite the Public Utilities Commissions astounding ongoing efforts to block the viability of renewables projects in Rhode Island, Portsmouth is pushing forward with the installation of its new wind turbine. Hard Deadlines has ongoing coverage — and footage of this awkward moment: Okay, I ran the good pix first, but now I’ve logged today’s video,
New worries that that microscopic black hole could last a little longer than was first thought: Three physicists have reexamined the math surrounding the creation of microscopic black holes in the Switzerland-based LHC, the world’s largest particle collider, and determined that they won’t simply evaporate in a millisecond as had previously been predicted.