From Half Moon Bay To High School Musical
- June
- 9
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OMG! The live stage version of Disney’s “High School Musical” is finally bopping into San Jose. The chipper “tween” juggernaut hits the Center for the Performing Arts on Tuesday through Sunday as part of the American Musical Theatre season.
A It’s been so great to see my family and friends and my boyfriend. What’s really cool [...]
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 [...]
Obama calls elitism attack ‘political silly season’
- April
- 20
The Democratic senator, campaigning in Pennsylvania, dismissed the charges of being elitist and out of touch by fellow Democrat Hillary Clinton and by Republican John McCain as unfounded, given his background.
I am amused about this notion of elitist, given that when youre raised by a single mom, when you were on food stamps for a [...]
Obama camp in damagecontrol mode after remarks
- April
- 18
MUNCIE, Ind. - Hillary Rodham Clinton’s flagging
campaign has been given new life in Pennsylvania and beyond after Barack Obama was forced into a second day of damage control yesterday for calling small-town Americans “bitter.” Clearly sensing the opening, Clinton pounced on Obama’s comments in some of the harshest language of the campaign [...]
On the scene as Olympic torch relay heats up
- April
- 16
SAN FRANCISCO — - On the day the Olympic torch was scheduled to move through San Francisco, people of all political views cheered, booed and waved flags. Tempers sometimes flared. Here are some scenes from the chaotic day in which officials changed up the relay route, leaving most of the crowd far away from the [...]
EU moots Olympics ceremony boycott
- April
- 16
The European Parliament calls on the EU presidency … to strive to find a common EU position with regard to attendance at the Olympic Games opening ceremony with the option of non-attendance in the event if there is no resumption of dialogue between the Chinese authorities and His Holiness the Dalai Lama, said a non-binding [...]
Thousands of Posts Flood Starbucks Site
- April
- 16
SEATTLE - Hundreds of coffee-obsessed consumers chimed in moments after Starbucks Corp. launched a Web site asking customers to pitch changes the company should make to revive its struggling U.S. business.And they’ve kept those thoughts coming, by the thousands: Create a punch-card system with a free drink after so many purchases. Give people a free [...]
TECH BLOGLive From RSA: Getting Ready for the Security Smackdown
- April
- 11
Traffic on the streets is light, so either the cops are doing a good job redirecting the crazy San Francisco traffic, which in this area can almost rival that of New York, or the gloomy economic news has trickled down to the streets.
In Moscone Center North, however (yes, there is a Moscone Center South, and [...]
OMG! Denver girl’s Txt It! game is winner
- April
- 8
Like a lot of teens, Molly Casey sends and receives hundreds of text messages on her cellphone each week. Unlike most of her peers, she came up with a way to turn texting into a game that could help kids get fit. And she won $25,000 in the process.
Casey, a seventh-grader at Montclair Academy, [...]
Reliever Lincecum Lifts Giants Over LA
- April
- 8
LOS ANGELES - Tim Lincecum made his season debut in relief and scored the go-ahead run on Randy Winn’s sacrifice fly to help the San Francisco Giants beat the Los Angeles Dodgers 2-1 Wednesday night and avoid their first 0-3 start since 1984.The Dodgers announced less than 20 minutes before game time that Hong-Chih Kuo [...]
