Archive for November, 2011

Neil Patrick Harris, Courtney Love & More Show Support For Marriage Equality [PHOTOS]

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Neil Patrick Harris, Courtney Love, Sean Avery, Robert de Niro and Julianne Moore were among the celebrities attending the Human Rights Campaign’s (HRC) Americans for Marriage Equality campaign launch event. Monday’s new York City party was hosted by the Calvin Klein Collection‘s creative team of Francisco Costa and Italo Zucchelli. the event was held to [...]

Pirates Organization All-Stars

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

This offseason, MiLB.com will be honoring the players — regardless of age or prospect status — who had the best seasons in their organization. We’re taking a look at each team to determine the outstanding seasons in Minor League baseball. Select a team from the dropdown below. the Indianapolis Indians finished eight games above .500 [...]

Cold comfort: the artist’s love affair with winter

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

There is a strange affinity between art and winter. maybe it’s our memory of the ice age, passed down through the generations. perhaps it’s because the first pictorial artists worked in caves while blizzards howled outside. Whatever it is, we do seem to be genetically disposed to finding winter scenes fascinating. some of the best-loved [...]

The $3m man: Love-lorn doctor pays a high price

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

IT'S a case of lost millions so bizarre we're still scratching our heads. A "mystery blonde", a dating agency and an ageing doctor ended up in the NSW Supreme Court in circumstances the judge could only describe as "so fantastic as to strain credulity", Fairfax media reported. The doctor, 55 and lonely, signed up to [...]

McMillan: Gotta love college basketball

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Published: 2:00 AM – 11/30/11 Why do we love college basketball? It’s the Cameron Crazies. Reading newspapers during opposing lineup announcements. Standing throughout a game. Waving arms frantically to throw off a free throw. It’s 30,000 fans cramming into the Syracuse Carrier Dome on a frigid winter’s night for a Big East battle. It’s Husky [...]

Linkin Park & Coheed & Cambria are touring · earsucker

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

From the press release: Columbia Records is proud to announce that Coheed and Cambria will be supporting Linkin Park on all dates of their upcoming national tour. The tour goes from February 12 to March 10 and will be hitting 19 cities, including Madison Square Garden in New York. The dates come on the heels [...]

O.C.’s Kina Grannis crashes the spotlight again

Wednesday, November 30th, 2011

Take 288,000 jelly beans, 22 months, 2,460 still frames and one Kina Grannis. What do you get? A video that has been viewed more than 3.4 million times on YouTube, and has catapulted Grannis – who grew up in Mission Viejo and graduated from Capistrano Valley High School – into the national spotlight. Once again. [...]

A homeless love story

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

MARTINEZ — Kevin Smith was supposed to die in her arms. She promised him that. their cremated ashes would be mixed together. But Roni Gurulé knows that 25 years of soul-stirring passion, methamphetamine, addiction and homelessness make an unpredictable love story. Smith died Oct. 28 in a county hospital bed in Martinez, one of the [...]

Golf Club Business: McGladrey Renews Sponsorship of McGladrey Classic – Golf Club Business

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

PONTE VEDRA BEACH, Fla. (November 29, 2011) ? the PGA TOUR and McGladrey, whose sponsorship helped launch the McGladrey Classic as a new PGA TOUR Fall Series event in 2010, announced today that the firm has signed a three-year extension as title sponsor through 2015. McGladrey, one of the nation?s leading assurance, tax and business [...]

10 Kids’ Books So Amazing They Made Me Want Kids

Tuesday, November 29th, 2011

I grew up in a reading family. my parents and I would spend all of Saturday at our local, independent bookstore, buy dozens of books, and then spend every Sunday reading them on the couch. I loved books, devoured them in fact. and my tastes ran from the respectable (Roald Dahl) to the highly embarrassing [...]