Live Nation Changes Name Of Philly Venue
- June
- 9
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The Fillmore at the TLA in Philadelphia recently underwent a name change, part of Live Nation’s cross-country re-branding of several of its theaters. The venue has quietly returned to its original name, Theatre of the Living Arts aka TLA.
Other Live Nation owned Fillmores include the Fillmore at Irving Plaza in New York, the Fillmore Miami [...]
The contrasts of Cindy McCain
- April
- 18
DJAKOVA, Kosovo - Cindy McCain’s hair is a mess.
An icy wind whips through it as she tromps across hillsides still slick from snow on the Albanian border, wearing well-worn hiking boots and carrying her Prada purse. She’s looking out at mine fields and visiting schools where children must thread their way around left-over munitions.
One headmaster [...]
Taking green to the altar
- April
- 8
LIVING GREEN
This occasional series features the people, institutions and businesses making changes to create a more sustainable American lifestyle.
Gordon T. Geballe drives a gas-sipping hybrid Prius to reduce his carbon emissions and minimize his impact on global warming.
Big deal. Lots of people drive a Prius, right?
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Pitched Contest for Pa. Youth Vote
- April
- 6
PHILADELPHIA - Barack Obama and Hillary Rodham Clinton are hustling for the youth vote in Pennsylvania as if they’ve never heard this is a state where the old hold sway.Campuses in the cities and mountainsides are alive with political activism, stirred most notably by Obama in student registration drives aimed at replicating his success with [...]
West Palm Beach to open foreclosure help center
- April
- 4
WEST PALM BEACH, Fla. (AP) — In a state where foreclosures are up nearly 70% from a year ago, this South Florida city is doing what it can to help keep people in their homes.
The city on Tuesday will open a foreclosure assistance center in partnership with the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development [...]
Wikipedia in the Newsroom, Part 1: Slowly Gaining Acceptance
- March
- 18
Common Source
What all three had in common was one of the sources they cited: Wikipedia , the popular, reader-written and -edited online encyclopedia. Dismissed by traditional journalism as a gimmicky source of faux information almost since it debuted in 2001, Wikipedia may be gaining some cautious converts as it works its way into the mainstream, [...]
Red Hat Buys IT Services Firm Amentra
- March
- 18
Business as Usual
Amentra founder and CEO Matthew Ernst said the company will continue to operate independently of Red Hat, and its headquarters will remain in Richmond. The company has roughly 145 employees and offices in Washington, Philadelphia, Charlotte, N.C., and Tampa, Fla.
No layoffs are planned and Amentra will stay under the same management, Ernst [...]
Court Will Examine Profanity Rules
- March
- 18
Fox Broadcasting Co. and others appealed the decision, saying that the agency had changed its enforcement policy without warning and that the new ban was unconstitutional.A federal appeals court in New York agreed, 2-1, throwing out the ban and sending the case back to the agency, which appealed to the Supreme Court.FCC Chairman Kevin Martin [...]
Obama wins Mississippi sets sights on Pennsylvania
- March
- 14
PHILADELPHIA - Barack Obama put a Mississippi victory in his back pocket Tuesday night, taking a state where he was heavily favored, as he prepared to launch a six-week sprint to the Pennsylvania primary.
Hillary Rodham Clinton Tuesday wasted no time pummeling his record on energy and Iraq.
Obama rode a wave of African-American support to win [...]
ACL tears toughest on kids
- March
- 6
Last year, when Collin Link was 11 years old, he was tackled as he went in for a touchdown in Pee Wee Football.
“He didn’t get up,” said his mother, Crystal Link. “He kept saying his knee hurt real bad.”
Collin had an injury that doctors used to think almost never occurred in children. [...]
