"The Twilight Saga: New Moon" is out in theaters now, and is already breaking records and attracting all sorts of fervor about the ending, whether it's better than the first film and what the possibilities are for "Eclipse" (which is set to release in June of 2010 but is already being buzzed about in the [...]
It’s almost time to start thinking about Christmas shopping isn’t it? Well today here on ENS, not only do we have something that you might want to keep for your own stocking, but it could make an awesome gift for that classic music lover on your list. We have copies of 3 very [...]
Everything from a chili cook-off to a picnic raffle to a watermelon eating contest helped raise more than $26,000 for the Golden Empire Gleaners. "When you come see what the organization is about, you get taken with it," said Diane Duran, who has volunteered with Chevron for 17 years and was chairwoman of her fundraising team.
BY JAMIE DAVIS Bishop Allen [pictured, above] are basically a fun little Brooklyn indie pop band: Fairly nonsensical lyrics, a xylophone player, skinny jeans and guitars worn 1964 George Harrison style. On disc, the songs sound pretty much as you’d expect, catchy, low-key, nothing really fantastic but pleasant enough to hold the moment, if not [...]
I was probably around 13 or 14 when Marvin Gaye's life was ended by the very man that contributed to his existence. At the time the only song I truly appreciated was his 1981 hit Sexual Healing. Of course as an eleven year old, I didn't fully understand what the song was talking about. But I loved watching him sing it and his voice was like sweet nectar to my ears. After graduating high school and...
A break in the Arcos underwater cable left most of Costa Rica without an internet connection for almost two hours. The cable connects the Instituto Costarricense de Electricidad (ICE) network to the world by internet to Miami. The break occurred at 10:20am by a ship in the Caribbean about 2.5 kilometres from the building that houses [...]
'Is democracy about living in fear? Is that what our forefathers fought the British for? Do you think there is any difference between a man who comes from out of the country to spread terror and the man who stays in this country and spreads terror? Terror is terror, no?'
"Fully Committed" is the best possible description for actor Steven Burge's energetic and exhaustive performance in Becky Mode's one-man play of the same name. Rating: ***1/2
If you closed your eyes last Saturday night in Las Vegas, it felt like another era. Throughout the MGM Grand Garden Arena, iconic athletes (Derek Jeter and Magic Johnson) mixed easily with A-List (Sean "Diddy" Combs, Will Ferrell and Mark Wahlberg) and B-list (Jon Seda, Kevin Dillon) celebrities. The ringside parade of fighters included legitimate boldfaced names -- Roberto Duran, Thomas...
It's Dallas week, and thanks to the win at home on Sunday, it actually feels like it matters. Over at the Redskins.com mothership, the estimable Larry Weisman has composed a nice retrospective of the Redskins/Cowboys feud ; it's worth reading as a whole, but here's the section that stuck out for me: Back in the early 1980s, before the Cowboys began their slide into mediocrity, Dallas Week roused the...
Last season, I wrote a piece that attributed a song to each Premier League team that reflected their current status or something that was going on at the club at the time. At the risk of going over old ground, I thought I would update the songs for the teams in this years Premiership with my current musings. Just to give you a flavour of some of my songs from last year we had Blowin’ in the Wind...
I got my first professional writing job on none other than MTV's Remote Control. It was a blast to work on that show and to get to hang out with Ober every day.
We all have guilty pleasures in life, though it is whether we admit to them. So in the words of Edith Piaf ‘non, je ne regrette rien’… and last Friday I settled down to watch ‘Classic Albums: Duran Duran - Rio’ on BBC4. And what was shockingly embarrassing was that I still remembered the words from the album after [...]
The Atwater FFA Chapter held its 31st annual Greenhand - Chapter FFA Degree Ceremony on Nov. 3 at the Buhach Colony High School performing arts theater. The purpose of this annual event was to recognize 736 Atwater High School agriculture students who earned their Greenhand and Chapter FFA degrees.
this weeks newbies are i always wanted a pony , with a band name like that it's hard not to like them. and when you couple that with the faint whiff of new romanticism spliced with swedish electro pop, ding ding ding !!!!! ..... winner. the swedish duo of, felix and tobias could easily be the noughties answer to the human league or duran duran , with synthy pop tracks such as 'the weekend' that wouldn't...