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  • Philly's mean streets featured in 'Wreck Chasers' Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 6:35PMThe mean streets of the City of Brotherly Love are once again coming to television.
  • Philly's mean streets featured in 'Wreck Chasers' Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 3:59PM(AP:PHILADELPHIA) The mean streets of the City of Brotherly Love are once again coming to television. "Wreck Chasers," a reality show about the city's notoriously aggressive tow truck drivers, is shooting and is slated to premiere in late October on TLC.
  • Rosh Hashana traditions, with twists Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 11:03AMThe Jewish New Year meal is built on Talmudic guidance and symbolism. But there are different ways of incorporating the foodstuffs. The Jewish New Year meal is built on Talmudic guidance and symbolism. But there are different ways of incorporating the foodstuffs.
  • Dulcy Mahar: Phases of the loon -- Obsession with gardening sneaks up on you gradually Thursday, September 2, 2010 @ 10:00AMBuying a home can be just the first step on the slippery slope to becoming hooked.
  • The flash crash Saturday, August 28, 2010 @ 9:46AMA few months ago the US share market plunged l000 points in a few minutes, and trillions were traded both up and down. What caused it, and can it happen again. Tiny high frequency computer algorithms - or algos - roam the markets, buying and selling in a parallel universe more or less uncontrolled by anyone. Did they go feral, or was it the fat finger of a coked out trader? In September US ...
  • In Defense Of... The Dandy Warhols Post-2005 Friday, August 27, 2010 @ 3:53PMIn Defense Of... is an ongoing CHARTattack column where our contributors stand up for otherwise maligned acts past and present. Disgust for The Dandy Warhols runs deep.
  • Michael McCarthy: The delights of the vibrant harebell Thursday, August 26, 2010 @ 6:11PMI first became aware of harebells when I was 18 and working as a volunteer warden at a nature reserve on Anglesey. It was August, and I hadn't appreciated that small, bell-like, sky-blue flowers nodding on the ends of their stalks appeared at the end of the summer; I thought such things appeared in the spring, and were called bluebells. I suspect the confusion between harebells and bluebells ...
  • Recapturing our legends Tuesday, August 24, 2010 @ 9:27PMFATHERHOOD inspired singer-cum-musician Edry Abdul Halim to feature a local legend for his directorial debut. The film, Magika , will be shown on local cinemas on Sept 23.
  • Grave robberies mystify Thursday, August 19, 2010 @ 10:15PMIt was very, very odd.Late last year, contractors working on the Conestoga Greenway Trail were walking through a secluded, wooded area just off South Duke Street, preparing to clear the recently opened path that runs along the Conestoga River.In a hidden area of the woods, they were surprised to fin...
  • Mother Teresa Wasn't Afraid to Die Wednesday, August 18, 2010 @ 2:07PMROME, AUG. 18, 2010 ( Zenit.org ).- In many parts of the world events are under way to recall the centenary of Mother Teresa's birth on Aug. 26, 1910.
  • Step back in time in Germany Saturday, August 14, 2010 @ 2:14PMA medieval trove and witches' revels lend charm to the remote mountain town of Quedlinburg.
  • Fishing for an answer to the Beadnell conundrum Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 4:59AMHousing proposals have split opinion in Beadnell. Here, JIM NORRIS, who has owned a holiday home in the village for 10 years, gives his views on how the dispute could be res
  • Fishing for an answer to the Beadnell conundrum Friday, August 6, 2010 @ 4:53AMHousing proposals have split opinion in Beadnell. Here, JIM NORRIS, who has owned a holiday home in the village for 10 years, gives his views on how the dispute could be resolved. (04/08/2010 14:32:03)
  • Why do they call it that? Highlands County and Ballast Point Park Wednesday, August 4, 2010 @ 12:42PMA South Tampa park that has connections to the Transformers movies and a 90's rock band, plus a county's Scottish-sounding name isn't what it seems.
  • Back-to-school: A playbook Sunday, August 1, 2010 @ 6:27PMThe days before school starts are sometimes frantic for families. (The first full day of school is Aug. 11 in Hamilton County public schools.) Times Free Press reporters have prepared the following lists and short reports to make the back-to-school transition easier.
  • The culture of the anting-anting: and you shall be as gods (Part 1) Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 10:34AM, a former Catholic priest, trained auto mechanic, one-time circus performer, and failed candidate in the past three presidential elections at that time. read more...
  • And you shall be as gods: The culture of anting-anting Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 10:34AM, a former Catholic priest, trained auto mechanic, one-time circus performer, and failed candidate in the past three presidential elections at that time. read more...
  • Four Corners, Two Wheels Saturday, July 31, 2010 @ 1:18AMWE had awakened before dawn to get a jump on the desert heat and rolled out under a headlight moon, pedaling fast in the cool morning of the Dolores River Canyon. There were no cars, not out here. There was only the sound of bike tires on asphalt, the river's murmur, the cascading song of a canyon wren and that beginning-of-the-world smell of river mud in the blue morning. Horses nuzzled the ...
  • Review: 'Show of Hands' offers plenty of substance at the hands of the Northwest's female artists Friday, July 30, 2010 @ 9:11PMThe exhibition "Show of Hands: Northwest Women Artists 1880-2010" at the Whatcom Museum successfully draws a line (or several lines) from the early days of women painting the Northwest landscape to contemporary artists working in myriad media and subject matter.
  • Kenney says plan would make wreckers tow the line Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 2:21AMCOUNCILMAN Jim Kenney yesterday called for a suspension of the city's tow-truck rotation until the licensing status of the 96 companies on the list, including two involved in violence last week, can be reviewed.
  • Life at the R&T Thursday, July 29, 2010 @ 12:31AMThere was a time when Wildwood, N.J. was a little slice of heaven for the working class. It was a place where a man could take his family to get away from the heat and grime of the city. Bennett Avenue was a typical street, lined with clean, simple apartment houses. In the days before an ugly... [This is a summary. To read the full article on SouthPhillyReview.com, click the headline above.]
  • A minister, an imam and an atheist explain why they believe in a Holy Spirit -- or not Monday, July 26, 2010 @ 10:30AMReligion World asked these Central Florida residents to give three reasons why they believe what they do. Here are their responses.
  • Rugby: How they're shaping up for NPC Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 2:17PMAs New Zealand's domestic rugby competition gets ready for action next week, the Herald's rugby writers check out the prospects for every team and take a look at the rising talent. * Auckland Coach: Mark Anscombe...
  • Royal Madness Thursday, July 22, 2010 @ 11:45AMThe Old Globe is staging two plays about monarchs gone mad: Shakespeare’s King Lear and Alan Bennett’s Madness of George III . Lear’s is self-inflicted. A seemingly simple test of love has a “butterfly effect.” Families fall, nature almost unravels, and the king’s insanity scourges his being.
  • Perplexed by the Guides? Wednesday, July 21, 2010 @ 2:40PMI’m not one for magical thinking, but the way Kabbalah — the ancient tradition of Jewish mystical and esoteric wisdom — has evolved in our time does make me wonder. For centuries, Kabbalah was kept secret by a small elite of Jewish men. Its innovative theology and mind-scrambling puzzles were deemed too destabilizing for the masses, so even the few Kabbalah books committed to writing were ...
  • 'Mad Men' returns Sunday Monday, July 19, 2010 @ 6:37AM``Who is Don Draper?'' is the question that opens the premiere of the fourth season of ``Mad Men.'' And that's an insider's joke, a wink at viewers who have spent three years burrowing into the cryptic ad man's buried secrets and damaged psyche.
  • Comment on The German Genuis by dinobeano Sunday, July 18, 2010 @ 8:46AMThanks, Menyalak-er and Dr. Phua for your input. The Germans are a highly driven people. I was privileged to work with them in 1963 (the Konrad Adenauer--Ludwig Erhard era of the German Economic Miracle) when I was an exchange student. There must be something unique in their culture and belief system that produced philosophers, scientists, mathematics, great composers, political leaders ...
  • Star Man Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 8:17PMRemembering one of the last experts in the ancient art of Pacific Ocean wayfaring.
  • Pick of the Fringe 2010 at a glance Friday, July 16, 2010 @ 11:03AMA STAGGERING 2453 shows. That's how many productions are set to descend on the Capital next month, as the 64th Edinburgh Festival Fringe swings into action. Theatre, comed
  • Sounds, scores and stories: Does new writing about music match the magic of its themes? Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 6:18PMToday the BBC Proms begin with the roof-raiser to outblast all rivals: Mahler's Eighth, the "Symphony of a Thousand", performed at the Royal Albert Hall 100 years after its composer's death. Long ago that work, and that venue, lent my childhood a slightly raucous high note when I made up a tiny short-trousered cog in its vast choral machine under Leonard Bernstein at his most gloriously ...
  • Calendar Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 4:44AMFossil collecting field trip will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 17 departing from Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, 220 Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst, and traveling by motor coach to a quarry near Rockford. Collect Ordovician Period (450 million years old) marine fossils in limestone. Collectable fossils include brachiopods, gastropods, corals crinoids, trilobites and cephalopods. For ages 8 ...
  • Become a member of our community! Thursday, July 15, 2010 @ 4:11AMVisit zip2save.com for all your favorite circulars & coupons! Fossil collecting field trip will be held from 8 a.m. to 3 p.m. July 17 departing from Lizzadro Museum of Lapidary Art, 220 Cottage Hill Ave., Elmhurst, and traveling by motor coach to a quarry near Rockford.
  • Disney Interactive Studios' Sorcerer's Apprentice Video Game Magically Appears on Shelves Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 8:01AMBURBANK, Calif.----Disney Interactive Studios today announced the release of The Sorcerer’s Apprentice video game, inspired by the upcoming feature film “The Sorcerer’s Apprentice” from Walt Disney Pictures and Jerry Bruckheimer Films, in theaters July 14, 2010.
  • The best of the Proms 2010 Tuesday, July 13, 2010 @ 4:46AMWhen it comes to the BBC Proms we can hold our heads up high. These may be tough times for the country economically but you'd hardly know it from the glittering roster of talent or the sheer range of activity lined up at the Albert Hall over the next two months.
  • SCREED: WWII Makes for Unconvincing TV Monday, July 12, 2010 @ 3:21PMAUTHOR: Scott "Squid314" of LiveJournal FORUM THAT IS SURPRISINGLY STILL IN USE: LiveJournal COMPLETE HEADLINE: "Stuff" THESIS: History Channel documentaries on "the so-called 'World War II'" are not believable. WWII SHOWS ARE: "Nothing more than overwritten collections of tropes impossible to watch without groaning." SHOWS THAT ARE BELIEVABLE: Doctor Who, Babylon 5 SLOPPY CHARACTERS: "It's ...
  • Hubris and high notes in Bavaria Monday, July 12, 2010 @ 1:11PMThe setting is half the attraction at this well-appointed classical music festival. Like everywhere else in Europe, music in the Czech Republic moves to the countryside for the summer.
  • Jacksonville lobbyist loved, loathed - but respected Sunday, July 11, 2010 @ 1:38AMHe is Jacksonville's highest-profile lobbyist, with a reputation for delivering for his equally high-profile clients. He is also a hot-tempered and cunning strategist who likes to win big, even if it means ticking off the competition. And he is seen as so powerful that even his political foes won't criticize him publicly. Paul Harden, a Jacksonville native and son of a former School Board ...
  • Calendar Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 4:45AMCorky Turtle's 65th birthday celebration will begin at 11 a.m. July 10 at Brookfield Zoo, First Avenue and 31st Street. Come out of your shell and join in a birthday celebration for Corky, a 65-year-old American red-bellied turtle. The festivities begin with a slow-paced Turtle Parade that concludes at Hamill Family Play Zoo. Youngsters there can participate in a variety of turtle-themed crafts ...
  • Become a member of our community! Thursday, July 8, 2010 @ 4:11AMVisit zip2save.com for all your favorite circulars & coupons! Corky Turtle's 65th birthday celebration will begin at 11 a.m. July 10 at Brookfield Zoo, First Avenue and 31st Street. Come out of your shell and join in a birthday celebration for Corky, a 65-year-old American red-bellied turtle.
  • Underground Art Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 8:40PMAny self-respecting art lover in New York is sure to visit the Met, but may overlook the M.T.A. "There are many people throughout the world who would be amazed; curators who take the subway are blown away," said Sandra Bloodworth, who has directed the Metropolitan Transit Authority's Arts for Transit program since 1996, adding murals and mosaics by Museum of Modern Art stalwarts like Roy ...
  • ‘Alchemist’ Graphic Novel: Words Into Pictures Tuesday, July 6, 2010 @ 6:47AMOn Tuesday HarperOne, the HarperCollins imprint that releases Mr. Coelho’s novels in the United States, said it would publish a graphic-novel adaptation of “The Alchemist.”
  • Apalachicola's 'Oil Boy' artist makes his grandest statement yet Monday, July 5, 2010 @ 3:21PMAn artist pours onto canvas his feelings as BP's spill threatens his small fishing town.
  • Attack On Lahore Shrine Kills 42 Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 10:34AMPakistanis blame US after shrine attack kills 42
  • Pakistan blames U.S. for deadly shrine attack that killed dozens Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 10:13AMLAHORE, Pakistan -- Pakistanis lashed out Friday at the U.S., blaming its alliance with their government and its presence in Afghanistan for spurring two suicide bombers to kill 42 people at the country's most important Sufi shrine.
  • 24-hour party people Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 9:00AMThe ABC is about to launch an ambitious non-stop news service. Here's a preview
  • Pakistanis Blame U.S. After Shrine Attack Kills Dozens Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 6:40AMMany Pakistanis are blaming the Pakistan/U.S. alliance, and the U.S. presence in Afghanistan, for Thursday's attacks on the country's most important Sufi Muslim shrine.
  • Pakistanis blame U.S. after shrine attack kills 42 Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 6:11AMSuicide attacks on popular Sufi shrine leave dozens dead, nearly 200 wounded
  • At least 42 killed in Pakistan shrine bombings Friday, July 2, 2010 @ 5:41AMSome blame U.S. presence in Afghanistan for militants’ suicide attacks on popular Sufi shrine
  • 1986 New York Giants: Third Best Team of the 80s Bull Market Era Saturday, June 26, 2010 @ 8:32PMIt's a great quarterback nickname, coined by the cynical New Yorkers of the late 1970s. "Parkway Joe" Pisarcik, was described by the tabloids' sportswriters as "the bargain basement quarterback." No $427,000 bonus here.  No photographs of Parkway on...a Parkway.  No Super Bowl victory guarantees.   No Super Bowls. Then, the following year it was, “Where the hell is Morehead State University ...
  • Commentary: There's no "I" in USA Friday, June 25, 2010 @ 11:47AMPRETORIA, South Africa — In terms of sports and all the truisms, hyperbole, platitudes and clichés that help describe the action and scenes, somewhere along the continuum of “truth” lies a tiny sweet spot.