The Big Picture (Free subscription) | yesterday
No one is going to throw a pity party for Nic Cage, the $20-million movie star who not only has made more bad movies than Nicole Kidman ("National Treasure: Book of Secrets," "Bangkok Dangerous," "Knowing," "Next" and "Ghost Rider," just...
Port Reporter Unlimited (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
OK, so a couple of weeks ago the final membrane layer (FML) was about to be placed on the last bit of the landfill by the end of that week ... and yet, here it was a special meeting of the City Council on Nov. 5 and the MassDEP was telling us how the contractor laying the membrane had to leave to go to another job and won't be back until Nov. 18, or so. But never fear, landfill neighbors - it should...
Move Trends Real Estate Blog - The Leader in Online... (Free subscription) | 06/11/2009
In the news again for his outlandish spending habits, Nicolas Cage is undeniably infamous for how he decides to use his movie-making moolah. In addition to the yachts, islands, cars, and comic book collections worth over $1 million, reported by Yahoo!, Cage also owns an extensive amount of real estate. Move Trends has featured his [...]
Cele|bitchy (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
The Daily Beast has a pretty fascinating profile of Nicolas Cage’s mind-boggling lifestyle. Action star Cage, 45, owes over $6.5 million in back taxes and is currently suing his former business manager for fraud, alleging that the manager “placed Cage in numerous highly speculative and risky real estate investments” and essentially is responsible for Cage’s [...]
Rhondda Leader (icWales) (Free subscription) | 05/11/2009
MAERDY’S iconic workingmen’s hall has finally been demolished after years as a derelict shell – bringing 104 years of history to a close.
Port Reporter Unlimited (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
OK, here are the unofficial "official" results (Clerk Richard Jones did not release the absolute official numbers by the time I left City Hall). Mayor - Donna Holaday Ward 1 - Allison Heartquist (new) Ward 2 - Greg Earls (unopposed) Ward 3 - Bob Cronin (new) Ward 4 - Ed Cameron (unopposed) Ward 5 - Brian Derrivan (unopposed) Ward 6 - Tom O'Brien (unopposed) At-large councillors: Barry Connell...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
DETECTIVES IN Russia are investigating the murder of a former KGB agent who was shot dead in Moscow on Monday in the latest contract killing in the capital.
The Daily Beast (Free subscription) | 04/11/2009
The star is blaming his ex-money manager for his money problems. But insiders say it was Cage who spent his way into big troubles. Jacob Bernstein reports on the star's head-spinning treasure trove: more than a dozen houses, two Bahamian islands,...
The KnifeMan (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Exams all finished. Now just3 weeks of anxious waiting. As for my supergroup, I think I want Freddie Mercury, and Janis Joplin. And maybe Elvis. Can't quite decide... Then again, what about Tom Jones....
Word Magazine blogs (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
I've just been reading a list of the best selling singles in the UK, year by year, and it made for interesting, if somewhat slightly depressing, reading. During the four periods that British bands were supposedly at the forefront of music (mid-60's, Glam era, punk/new wave era and Britpop) the best selling singles were as far from those genres as possible, with the latter period being dominated by...
Contactmusic Ltd (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
GEORGE MICHAEL was on hand to present British broadcasting favourite JONATHAN ROSS with a special award on Monday (02Nov09) in recognition of his commitment to the...
gmtPlus9 (-15) (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Images of the Ho-Chunk on Exhibit at the WHS. "...The latest exhibit at the Wisconsin Historical Museum examines nearly 150 years of the Ho-Chunk people as documented through the lenses of three photographers. This exhibit, Images of the Ho-Chunk, features 1860s photographs by James F. Bodtker, turn-of-the-20th-century images by Charles Van Schaick, and recent images by Ho-Chunk photographer Tom...
Times Online (Free subscription) | 03/11/2009
Gunmen shot dead a former KGB spy in his car a few hundred yards from the office of Vladimir Putin.
News.com.au (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
GUNMEN shot dead a former KGB spy turned basketball tycoon in his car yesterday a few hundred metres from the Moscow office of Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin, officials said.
wears the trousers magazine (Free subscription) | 02/11/2009
Joss Stone Colour Me Free! •••½ EMI “I kind of woke up one morning and wanted to make an album,” says Joss Stone of her fourth studio recording, the way most of us would likely speak of toast. Not that the Kentish-born R&B diva is already becoming cavalier, though with a $6 million fortune and having appeared on [...]
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