
Posted on 17 November 2011. Tags: basic human needs, plug in hybrid
By Christopher John Farley GettyProtesters have been getting close during the weeks spent camping out in Zuccotti Park. What’s the deal with sex and romance among the Occupy Wall Street protesters in Zuccotti Park? After twenty years, does Pearl Jam still rock? and should Iraq help pay for the Iraq war? a look at the [...]
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Posted in Pearl Jam Twenty

Posted on 16 November 2011. Tags: emotional reaction, heavy one, memoir, subject matter, teachin
Steamboat Springs — Jenny Lewis’ English class of Soroco High School seniors was relatively quiet in the middle school auditorium Thursday morning. Lewis said they’re normally a lively group, but during Thursday’s workshop, they had a lot to think about. The night before, the group of students had gotten on a bus to Steamboat Springs [...]
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Posted in The Glass Castle: A Memoir

Posted on 15 November 2011. Tags: hagerstown area, hagerstown md, john allison, maryland theatre, quarter life crisis, single father
A trailer has been released for the independent film “Greencastle.” The Greencastle/Hagerstown area is the backdrop for the film, a quirky, offbeat faith-based drama about man’s search for meaning amid the ache of despair. The story chronicles Poitier, a single father who works as an assistant manager at a small town pet shop, as he [...]
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Posted in Man's Search For Meaning

Posted on 15 November 2011. Tags: linda kelly, police commissioner, president gary, sex abuse
HARRISBURG, Pa. – Joe Paterno, major college football’s oldest, winningest and perhaps most revered coach, was engulfed Monday in a growing furor over the alleged cover-up of a sex abuse scandal at Penn State. The Pennsylvania state police commissioner said Paterno fulfilled his legal requirement when he relayed to university administrators that a graduate assistant [...]
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Posted in All I Can Handle: I'm No Mother Theresa

Posted on 15 November 2011. Tags: albany state, golden rams
Patton Chambers nailed a 29-yard field goal with nine seconds left to give Miles an improbable 20-17 victory over 15th-ranked Albany State Saturday in the SIAC championship game. Chambers’ shot wasn’t a sure bet, even from under 30 yards, knuckling down and barely clearing the crossbar. Still, it gave the Golden Bears (7-4) and first-year [...]
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Posted in The Other Wes Moore: One Name, Two Fates
Posted on 15 November 2011. Tags: monroe county, wind speeds
At 3:47 p.m. on April 27, an EF-5 tornado with wind speeds of more than 200 mph leveled the town of Smithville, Miss., population 942. Seventeen people died in Monroe County, about 130 miles southeast of Memphis. The tornado destroyed Town Hall, the police station, the post office, four churches, more than 150 homes and [...]
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Posted in Man's Search For Meaning

Posted on 14 November 2011. Tags: jamaica, magnets
Fans of the horror core group Insane Clown Posse don’t just sit around listening to crappy music together they also engage in gang activities according to a recent report filed by the Federal Bureau of Investigation. The FBI called the Juggalos (the name for ICP fans) a “family gang” during their latest national gang threat [...]
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Posted in What It Is Like To Go To War

Posted on 13 November 2011. Tags: earthquake, horses, smile, terror
JACOB PAGE OPINION: down a lot of money, feeling slightly sun burnt, bloated and vengeful towards the horses that have let me down, I can only look back and smile on the most anticipated week in Canterbury. Addington Raceway’s slogan for their New Zealand Cup meeting on Tuesday was “Back on Track”. it was quite [...]
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Posted in Across The Fence

Posted on 13 November 2011. Tags: antoine walker, china, commercials, target number, training camp
Victor Baldizon/NBAE/Getty ImagesThere were good times when Shaquille O’Neal played for the Miami Heat. But in his new autobiography, O’Neal details the bad times that led to his departure from South Beach. Editor’s note: this is an excerpt from “Shaq Uncut: my Story,” by Shaquille O’Neal with Jackie MacMullan. Copyright 2011 by Mine O’Mine inc. [...]
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Posted in Are You There, Vodka? It's Me, Chelsea
Posted on 13 November 2011. Tags: billionth time, jack nicholson, kiss
BIOSHOCKPosted Thursday, November 10, 2011 12:10 PMMolly LambertTodd Williamson/Getty Images FACEBOOK TWITTER PRINT E-MAIL Diane Keaton wrote A Memoir! It’s called then again! these are the key best excerpts from the People magazine three-pager about it. Boy, did I just fall in love with Diane Keaton for the billionth time. She’s so self-deprecating and cute [...]
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Posted in Climbing The Broken Stairs, A Memoir