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iPhone, the Blog (Free subscription) | 2 hours ago
Filed under: Software, Odds and ends, Holidays, App Store, App Review My wife and I are unabashed Disneyphiles, so the last two months have been a lot of fun. After my wife taught a tutorial in L.A. last month, we spent a few days at the West Coast properties — Disneyland and California Adventure. This month, [...]
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Federico Fellini (Free subscription) | yesterday
Variety has a report of the newly announced theme park to be developed in Rome by Cinecitta Entertainment. I get this thinking to a point: Alemanno said... "Theme parks are a global phenomenon that prompts hundreds of thousands of people...
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Eye On Miami (Free subscription) | yesterday
The PR says that the new Royal Caribbean "Oasis of the Seas" is five times larger than the Titanic. It has its own climate and Wikipedia page. It is a small floating city for 4500. I live in a city. Why would I pay, to go to sea in floating one? I look at this vessel, and all I can see is a market top. In fact, the ship was commissioned at the peak of the housing asset bubble in the US. Bigger...
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IMDb News (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Cinecitta World will be modelled on Hollywood's and also draw inspiration from the iconic movies shot in the historical city, most notably the work of legendary director .
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Wonkette (Free subscription) | 20/11/2009
Hey heads up: PETA is offering to take whatever prison that Obama decides not use for terrorist collecting—Guantánamo, or that maximum security job in Thomson, IL that might be New Guantánamo—and turn it into a “All Living Beings Empathy Center.” It’d be symbolic as shit, right, because the Guantánamo human torture can be sort of [...] People for the...
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Times of India (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
The injured 60-year-old female elephant rescued by the forest officials from Double Puliya area on Tuesday last has been finally transferred to the Kanpur zoo for further medical treatment here on Saturday.
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Japan Times (Free subscription) | yesterday
Neal Adams became a cult star as a graphic artist with DC and Marvel comics during the late 1960s and '70s through his work on series such as "The Spectre," "Batman," "Superman" and "Green Lantern" — and also his contributions, at Marvel, to "X-Men" and "Conan the Barbarian." Since then Adams, now 68, has — in between designing...
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Orlando Sentinel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Tyra Banks sent three girls and their moms to Walt Disney World this week. It was the first visit to the Orlando theme park for the children. The supermodel popped in last night to celebrate when the children attended a...
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The Leaky Cauldron (Free subscription) | yesterday
PotterCast's 209th episode is online and ready to be downloaded. This episode of PotterCast, our Harry Potter podcast , starts off with a run down of the latest in the Potter world, with news on the release of a featurette from the upcoming Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince DVD, rumors about the Wizarding World of Harry Potter Theme Park release date, further construction updates about t...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
CHENNAI: A four-year-old sub adult cow elephant died at Vandalur zoo, on Friday due to a suspected attack of herpes virus. The zoo authorities said the elephant, Chellamma, was rescued from the Andhiyur forests in Erode district and ...
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Hindu (Free subscription) | yesterday
Thrissur: Seven barn owls found in a house at Elthuruthy were handed over to the Thrissur Zoo on Friday. A team of forest officials and animal-lover Xavier Antony Kunjappu caught the owls from the house and transported them to the ...
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France Holiday Blog (Free subscription) | yesterday
In July of 1955, Disney opened its first theme park in Anaheim, California. In 1971, Walt Disney World opened in Orlando, Florida, promising to be even bigger and better than its predecessor. In 1983, Disney Hong Kong became a huge success, even though the weather wasn’t as nice in this new, foreign market. Following the [...]
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Anchorage Daily News (Free subscription) | 6 hours ago
PORTLAND, Ore. -- Oregon Zoo officials say Pete, an 18-year-old black bear who loved to lounge in a tractor tire, has been euthanized because of his age and debilitating arthritis.
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Big Cat News (Free subscription) | yesterday
Berens was attacked last year by cheetahs she purchased for $40,000 ( http://www.palmbeachpost.com/localnews/content/west/epaper/2008/04/05/m1a_cheetah_0406.html ). Horsewoman focuses on passion for big cats By By Amy Bower Doucette Posted: 10:50 a.m. Wednesday, Nov. 18, 2009 Judy Berens lives on several acres amid the sprawling equestrian estates of Wellington. Although she is an accomplished rider,...
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Dad29 (Free subscription) | yesterday
No matter how Tommy Barrett's flack tries to spin this article , here's what counts: Republicans in control of the Legislature in 2005 sought to move the Zoo Interchange project ahead by putting $38 million for engineering into the 2005-'07 budget, but Doyle vetoed all but $3 million. He then changed course, first seeking money to start the Zoo project in 2012, then pulling back on the funding when...
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bsalmons | 04/05/2009
he project, which has yet to attach a writer or director, is set up at Disney Studios and is but one of author-artist TenNapel's titles being fitted to the big screen. Paramount has the rights to make Monster Zoo , described on Amazon.com as "the story of a young boy who discovers his local zoo may be more frightening than he imagined!"