April 24, 2008 - Got the urge to load up your iWhatever ™ with some newjams? Well, Apple’s iTunes music storehas posted a fresh batch of sonic stuff for your perusal. It’s a long list ofreleases this week, but we’ve done the hard work for you. Here’s what’s new andhot oniTunes:Emo rockers […]
Talk of Rev. Jeremiah Wright continued. Last night’s TV focused on Barack Obama’s presser. Obama: “In some ways, what Reverend Wright said yesterday directly contradicts everything that I’ve done during my life. … I do not see that relationship being the same after this” (mult.).CNN’s Brown: “It has been 43 days … since Barack Obama […]
Future looks Rose-y?“You are absolutely right about the NBA potential of Memphis point guard Derrick Rose. The way for the Nuggets to get him is trade Carmelo Anthony for the draft rights to Rose. The Nuggets have the two biggest ball hogs in the league. Allen Iverson and Melo can’t change. It’s in their DNA. […]
Twice this week, in the midst of Kentucky Derby festivities, they’ll honor the Courier & Press racing writer and Equibase chart caller who died unexpectedly at age 52.Today, exactly two weeks after Guilliams’ death, Churchill has designated the seventh race the Cliff Guilliams Memorial. His wife, Susan, and some of his fellow turf writers will […]
IEAH Stables and Paul Pompa Jr.’s Big Brown, the unbeaten winner of the Florida Derby (gr. I), remained the top choice of Kentucky Derby fans as the third and final pool of Churchill Downs’ 2008 Kentucky Derby Future Wager reached its midway point April 4.The Richard Dutrow Jr.-trained son of Boundary, who was not among […]
Authorities are investigating mysterious claims that a man killed by Houston police after a car chase was a CIA agent, MyFOXHouston reported.Roland Vincent Carnaby, 52, was initially pulled over during a routine traffic stop Tuesday, but drove off when the officer discovered his concealed weapon license. A high-speed chase ensued, during which Carnaby was said […]
Fade in. Three twelve-year-old Mississippi boys find themselves enraptured by the 1981 Lucas/Spielberg classic Raiders of the Lost Ark. It’s summer, and they’ve yet to discover girls. Or maybe it’s the girls who have yet to do the discovering. The guys rent a video camera and enlist anyone willing to come along for the ride. […]
COLUMBIA CHILDREN’S THEATRE: Season auditions, 6:30-8:30 p.m. May 15, 1-4 p.m. May 17, Booker Washington Heights Cultural Arts Center, 2611 Grant St. Ages 15 and older. Prepare a one-minute comic monologue and 16 bars of a song to be sung a cappella. (803) 681-4548LUNCH AND LISTEN MUSIC SERIES: Classical guitarist Marina Alexandra, 12:30 p.m. May […]
SOME people would just as soon ignore the culinary potential of the Carolina flying squirrel or the Waldoboro green neck rutabaga. To them, the creamy Hutterite soup bean is too obscure and the Tennessee fainting goat, which keels over when startled, sounds more like a sideshow act than the centerpiece of a barbecue.Saving rare breeds […]
Sen. Barack Obama (D-Ill.) picked up two more congressional superdelegates Wednesday.Reps. Bruce Braley (D-Iowa) and Lois Capps (D-Calif.) said they were drawn to Obama's message of unity in announcing their endorsements.Braley, a freshman House member, also noted the excitement Obama generated among voters when he won the Iowa caucuses.“In this same spirit, I believe there's […]