09/05/2008 -
Fatherhood softens coach, but Grizzlies still his baby
There really is a soft side to the hard-boiled coach. Honest. It comes in the form of a tireless 21-month-old girl named Miko. The coach is Granite Bay High School's Ernie Cooper, who has embraced the title of Papa Cooper. The Bee concludes its online preseason countdown of the top 20 high school teams in the Sacramento area with our No. 1 team Coach Ernie Cooper has been the focus for ...
Source:
The Sacramento Bee
http://www.sacbee.com/100/story/1212301.html
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09/05/2008 -
Meet Digital Dave and his marathon gamers
The enduring image of those who play video games as hopeless, lifeless geeks doesn't come out of nowhere. It comes from images as diverse as the 13-year-old shrilly calling you and#8212; a man twice his age with a college education, who was playing "Super...
Source:
Portsmouth Herald
http://www.seacoastonline.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/ENTERTAIN/8090
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09/03/2008 -
EBAY ITEM OF THE WEEK
No nerd collection is complete without the "signed Battlestar Galactica guitar" (item No. 220273343169). "Whether you're a fan of the Sci Fi Channel's reinvented Battlestar Galactica series or simply covet classic Fender guitars," the listing states, "you'll want this Stratocaster . . . signed in silver Sharpie marker by the primary cast." Just imagine all the Galactica tribute songs you could ...
Source:
The Columbus Dispatch
http://www.dispatch.com/live/content/flipside/stories/2008/09/03/3_EBAY03_ART_09
-03-08_D10_FUB5SLK.html?type=rss&cat=&sid=101
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09/05/2008 -
Storytelling: The piano teacher who 'pulled music out of my fingers'
Our Storytelling series on favorite teachers turns to learning outside of the classroom...
Source:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08249/909601-294.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml
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09/05/2008 -
Summery judgments
Hot town, summer in the city at the movies (from May through Labor Day) ? shorts, T-shirts, sandals; popcorn, soda, Red Vines. The sunny season accounts for nearly half of Hollywood's annual ticket sales. This year's revenue was about even with last year's record $4 billion summer.
Source:
San Diego Union-Tribune
http://www.signonsandiego.com/uniontrib/20080905/news_1c05outtakem.html
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09/05/2008 -
Dion, like Clark, not to be underestimated
A minority government, the same hot-button issue, the same sorry optics - the parallels of Stéphane and Joe
Source:
The Globe and Mail
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/servlet/story/RTGAM.20080905.wmacgregor05/BNStory
/National/?page=rss&id=RTGAM.20080905.wmacgregor05
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09/05/2008 -
Professors redesign courses for success
Anyone who thinks computer-programming courses are as boring as binary code hasn't been to the University of Pittsburgh, where Daniel Mosse has enlisted Samurai warriors and ballerinas to help teach.
Source:
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08249/909607-298.stm?cmpid=localstate.xml
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09/05/2008 -
Jane Seymour's having a great time painting, dancing and playing the older hottie
Jane Seymour seems to be the poster girl for that famous Cosmopolitan magazine archetype - fun, fearless and female.
Source:
The Palm Beach Post
http://www.palmbeachpost.com/news/content/accent/epaper/2008/09/05/a1e_janeseymo
ur_0905.html?cxtype=rss&cxsvc=7&cxcat=2
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09/05/2008 -
ON SCREEN
Theater info C12 | Colonial Mall 12, 272-6598 BR16 | Broadway 16, 445-1616
Source:
The Myrtle Beach Sun News
http://www.myrtlebeachonline.com/entertainment/story/582530.html
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09/05/2008 -
Placing cats and critters is his lifelong pet project
Three young cats restlessly paced the floor searching for who knows what. A bearded dragon lizard lazily soaked up the sun in the window, while an older cat sat on a counter curiously watching Robert Shapiro making and taking calls at his Social Tees Animal Rescue Foundation, at 124 E. Fourth St.
Source:
The Villager
http://www.thevillager.com/villager_279/placingcats.html
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09/05/2008 -
Superbad - without heart
Josh Peck of TV's "Drake & Josh" left his kiddie TV show days behind him with the indie coming-of-age dramedy "The Wackness" this summer, playing a pot dealer who finds love and sex over one magical summer before college. Drake Bell of TV's "Drake & Josh" -- he plays Drake, y'see -- tries to go Josh one better, or worse, in "College," a raunchy comedy that plays like a Superbad without the ...
Source:
Belleville News-Democrat
http://www.bnd.com/entertainment/story/461024.html
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09/05/2008 -
Parkside Theatre plans five plays for 2008-09 season
KENOSHA -- Parkside Theatre at the University of Wisconsin-Parkside has announced plans for an ambitious 2008-09 season.
Source:
Lake County News-Sun
http://www.suburbanchicagonews.com/newssun/news/1145894,5_1_WA05_PARKPLAYS_S1.ar
ticle
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09/05/2008 -
Patriots season preview
Thirteen Patriots ? including seven rookies ? have never taken a regular-season snap with New England. A quarter of this roster is starting new in Foxboro.
Source:
The Standard-Times
http://www.southcoasttoday.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20080905/SPORTS/809050
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09/05/2008 -
Check out what's on stage around town this week
Live music and more, tonight through Thursday, compiled by Shaun Brady, Sara Sherr, Jonathan Takiff and Damon C. Williams. POP
Source:
Philadelphia Daily News
http://www.philly.com/dailynews/features/20080905_Check_out_what_s_on_stage_arou
nd_town_this_week.html
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09/04/2008 -
Stu Bykofsky: Hey, Mayor Nutter: Let's reward our Nerds
WITH PHILADELPHIA schools opening today, let's talk about the Nerds - nose-in-the-book grinds who grow into overachievers like Bill Gates, Alicia Keys, Condoleezza Rice, Yo-Yo Ma, Steven Spielberg.
Source:
Philly.com
http://www.philly.com/philly/news/20080904_Stu_Bykofsky__Hey__Mayor_Nutter__Let_
s_reward_our_Nerds.html
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