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Winter Not Gone Yet; Another Round Of Snow On TapCBS LocalThe jetsetter.com site found that the number of hotel bookings in warm-weather spots made by customers from Illinois, New York, Massachusetts and the Washington, D.C. area rose 7 percent in January compared with last year. But if you can’t get away … …read more Source: […]
WDAM-TV(BOEING/FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION/CNN) – It’s a smartphone that would make James Bond jealous. Aerospace manufacturer Boeing unveiled a new “self-destructing” smartphone this week, called the “Boeing Black.” The company says …Boeing going, GONE: Black mobe will SELF-DESTRUCT in 30 secsRegisterNew cell phone will “self destruct” rather than release informationKRMGBoeing Unveils Self Destructing SmartphoneInformationWeekThe Australian –Digital […]
Days Gone By: Clothes in mid-1800s San Francisco cleaned at Washer …Contra Costa TimesDoing laundry wasn’t easy for the thousands of men and the very few women who arrived in California during the Gold Rush. In order to wash your own clothes in San Francisco, you had to buy water, paying 25 cents for two […]
VentureBeatJoe argues that we shouldn’t be so hard on Flappy Bird’s creator for pulling the mobile game. Aside from money, we can only guess at what his sudden burst of fame has brought him. This post has been edited by the GamesBeat staff. Opinions by GamesBeat …Upset gamer starts White House petition to bring back […]
CNN(CNN) — Pete Seeger, the man considered to be one of the pioneers of contemporary folk music who inspired legions of activist singer-songwriters, died Monday. He was 94. Seeger’s best known songs include “Where Have All the Flowers Gone,” “Turn! Turn!How Pete Seeger (1919-2014) made my high school famousLos Angeles TimesAP WAS THERE: Pete Seeger’s […]
Chicago Weather: ‘Dangerously cold’ winds, snow hit againABC7Chicago.comJanuary 24, 2014 (CHICAGO) (WLS) — A Winter Weather Advisory remains in effect until 6 a.m. Saturday as gusting winds drive wind chills down to at least 15 below zero. Dangerous Cold: How to prepare for winter storms, extreme cold | Winter driving …‘There is no foreseeable end […]
Los Angeles TimesNine Inch Nails frontman Trent Reznor and English musician Atticus Ross will put their knack for chilly, moody soundscapes to use once again in director David Fincher’s upcoming thriller “Gone Girl,” an adaptation of the Gillian Flynn novel about a man …Trent Reznor Sinks His Nine Inch Nails Into ‘Gone Girl’ ScoreMTV.comTrent Reznor […]
San Francisco ChronicleGone are the green Naugahyde seats. Gone is the coleslaw with peanuts. Gone, too, is the flashing neon dotted “I,” visible for miles in any direction. But for those who love Biff’s, Oakland’s long-dormant 24-hour diner, hope never dies – it just gets … …read more Source: Oakland News By Google
People MagazineAlicia Rhett, a Southern actress who gained minor stardom on the strength of a single movie role – as the spinster India Wilkes, in 1939’s Gone With the Wind – has died. She was 98 and the oldest surviving cast member of the Oscar-winning Civil War epic, …Alicia Rhett, oldest surviving ‘Gone With The […]
Los Angeles TimesWith Oscar nominating ballots out to Academy members and the deluge of top-10 lists perhaps on the downward slope, there’s no time like now to start thinking about potential awards movies for next year. Which may be why on Friday 20th Century Fox posted …Check Out Ben Affleck in the First Still from […]
MTV.comAfter several brutal deaths and a diaspora of epic proportions, the future of ‘The Walking Dead’ is anyone’s guess. By Josh Wigler. Warning: Massive “Walking Dead” Spoilers Are Ahead! After seven episodes that moved at a crawl at times, “The Walking Dead” …‘The Walking Dead’ Recap – ‘Too Far Gone’: Who Survives The Midseason FinaleStarpulse.com‘The […]
TV.comYou know, for an episode that featured a tank shooting up the prison, a handful of main character deaths, and the showdown between The Governor and Rick that we’ve all been waiting for since the Season 3 finale ripped us off by leaving it out, “Too Far …‘The Walking Dead’: Chad Coleman talks about the […]
UPDATE: Paula Deen Dropped By Smithfield Foods Paula Deen Update One. In this Paula Deen Update, reporting on the latest since The Food Network dropped her for using the N-word in working with her employees, the first real news is that there are over 260 comments and battles on this Zennie62 YouTube video-blog: And while […]
Hope Solo and Jerramy Stevens, her husband as a result of their marriage last October, were spotted by ESPN at today’s U.S. vs. Germany World Cup Soccer Qualifier Match at RFK Stadium in Washington DC (which the USA won 4-3). And you may wonder how this blogger came to know this? The answer is a […]
UPDATE: Hope Solo Brings Jerramy Stevens To USA V. Germany Soccer Match Jerramy Stevens and Hope Solo can celebrate as for the first time in over a decade, and going back to 1997, he has no legal troubles hanging over his head. Guys, that’s a testament to finding the right woman to stick by you. […]
Kelly Clarkson’s, who was amazing at President Obama’s Inauguration, is in a fight with legendary record mogul Clive Davis, and if her tell-all-rant on her website is true, she’s winning, and making Davis look like a jerk in the process. Here’s Clarkson at CES Las Vegas in 2012: Clarkson, who’s known for such songs as […]
The Academy Of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences reports that there are 75 original songs up for “Best Orignal Song” at the 85th Academy Awards. Among them is Adele’s amazing, haunting song “Skyfall” from James Bond’s Skyfall is up for consideration. Here’s that song: Nominations will be announced January 10th; here’s the giant list of […]
The famous Oaksterdam University Mural created by artists R.B. Morris III and Munir is gone. There’ no explanation for the removal of the work that defined a district, a building, a university, and for some Oakland itself. There are other curious, small developments, most notably one of the main artists, R.B. Morris, lists himself as […]
Star Trek: Into Darkness is creeping up on us Trekkers in a J.J. Abrams sort of way. The poster for the next installment in the series of J.J. Abrams movies, posted by various publications starting just about midnight PST, has already caused “Star Trek Into Darkness” to appear as a Twitter Top Trend. What this […]
When I got the news that the Oakland Tribune was no more, I could not understand why the reaction expressed above just came out, as “Yipee,” but it did. Spontaneously. Then I had to admit that it was because, from my perspective, the real Oakland Tribune died a long time ago. It passed on the […]