Vol: 2
Issue: 10
Date: 2006-01-16
Sago Mine from a Journalistӳ Personal View
Around the same time FOX Network personality Bill OӒeilly was defending his defense of Christmas and the War in Iraq to television-talk show host David Letterman, the news scroll started to roll at the bottom of the set.
News around midnight on Tuesday, Jan. 3 was that 12 of the 13 miners trapped ...
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Brew Locally, drink perpetually, eat carnivorously
Once upon a time, two young men were leaning against a newspaper box in the Strip. They had sandwiches. A woman was passing by. Comments were exchanged. (Nothing like that, you smutmonkey.) And thusly, a partnership was born. One of those young gents was Dan Calig, publisher of this fine rag. The ...
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Chattering Teeth
Ԕhe severity of manӳ denial is commensurate with the size of his cable packageԠeff Schneider
ԉt ainӴ no mystery if itӳ politics or history. The thing you gotta know is, everything is showbiz.Ԡel Brooks, Ԕhe Producersԍ
"I am not smart enough to debate you point by point on this, but ...
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Life in Business (Survival in the Dark)
What do you do when the lights go out in your business? I don't mean this metaphorically, because we could go on for volumes of issues on this subject. I'm talking about a true, temporary interruption of electrical service, here.
On Dec. 13, 2005, at 1:00 p.m., two frolicking and rambunctious squirrels ...
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I was a Teenage Pariah
Winston Churchill had a lonely childhood that haunted him throughout his life. Winona Ryder was once beaten by a group of male classmates because of her strange appearance. Mark ԃhopperԠRead, notorious Australian heavyman, claims to have been bullied as a child, lamenting, Ԇrom being stood over, ...
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Thank you, Mark Cuban.
There are many reasons for the Pittsburgh Pirates to be going on a spending spree during this off-season: Increased revenues from the Washington Nationals franchise purchase, another round of profit-sharing, and, undoubtedly, the growing complacency of Pittsburgh fans towards their oldest sports team.
A ...
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ChiaBaba
Eric: Listening to you guys, itӳ hard to tell what your influences are. What would you say are the bands that influence your style the most?
Dino: I think that all three of us are greatly different, and we put all three together to make our sound. The music that inspires me is Zappa, ...
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Ed Wood
This column is dedicated to the people who are always watching movies, but are never quite satisfied. If thereӳ any justice in the world, this column might open your eyes to some films that are probably collecting dust in your local video store. Itӳ not because theyӲe not great ֠itӳ because there ...
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Sir Andrew Returns
Will Ԕhe Phantom of the OperaԠever die? The legendary musical take on the 96 year old novel has been flourishing and swirling non-stop now for 19 years, 17 of them on Broadway. So itӳ no surprise that another road company production has landed here to thrill the faithful and astonish the yet-unexposed. ...
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COMPRESSIONISM: "The Wind in the Leaves of the Trees"
The young man moved into the downtown YMCA. The days and nights passed. He lounged about gathering strength from long walks beside the river, from the texture of old buildings and the pigeons in the square and from the wind in the leaves of the trees. At night there was the glow of the fires in the ...
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