| Holiday bazaars, craft fairs and benefit listings | | Posted Thursday, October 26, 2006 3:02:52 AM by Blog57 Team | | The following is a list of area holiday bazaars and craft fairs submitted to the Statesman Journal. The events are listed alphabetically by month in which they take place. For more listings, or to search for a specific holiday bazaar, check out our online calendar database. October American Legion Post 136: Looking for vendors. Proceeds benefit Post veterans, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Friday, 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 4774 Lilac Lane NE, Salem. Contact: (503) 363-1996 or Patt, (503) 362-0317. Craft by Phyllis and Rose: Call for times, Oct. 28, 820 Clarmount St. NW, Salem. Contact: Phyllis Osterlund, (503) 363-1996. Craf-Tea East: Tea and cookies served, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday, 542 Fanny Way NE, Salem. Contact: (503) 588-7896.... | |
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| | | HERD OF THE HAPLESS: Nerds date back to prehistoric days | | Posted Wednesday, October 04, 2006 3:04:54 AM by Blog57 Team | | We don't have reliable information about the first nerd -- the ur-geek from the early Pleistocene era from whom all the Jerry Lewises, Pee-wee Hermans and Jon Heders (the "Napoleon Dynamite" star appears in "School for Scoundrels," which opened Friday) trace their ancestry. But we can make an educated guess. The time: 1.8 million years ago. The place: The land mass that is now Long Island, N.Y. Blonk, Gorp and the rest of the cave men had gone to hunt bison. Not Dexter (even in the Pleistocene era, nerds were named Dexter). Dexter is too nearsighted and uncoordinated to hunt. Plus he has bad teeth. While the others are out, Dexter is trying to interest a Neanderthal woman in his cave painting collection. "Two more and I'll have the entire series," he says.... | |
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| | | Whatever you do in your home theater, don't do any of this | | Posted Saturday, September 09, 2006 1:18:59 PM by Blog57 Team | | Do not play your system too loudly. Your ears won't like it; your equipment won't like it; your neighbors won't like it. If the sound is distorted, your speakers are being pushed too hard. Keep it up, and you'll fry the speakers' voice coils or blow out the amplifier. - Do not let two speaker wires touch while the receiver is on, or you'll risk damage to the receiver. Best-case scenario: It will shut down if it has a protective circuit built in. - Do not turn off your receiver unless the volume has been turned down all the way. - Do not, if you've connected an audio-video receiver directly to a cable-ready TV, turn off the TV before you've turned off the receiver. (You'll hear an ugly, potentially damaging thump.) General rule: Turn off equipment in reverse order of turn-on.... | |
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| | | S.J. Rep subscribers a loyal, but still-shrinking bunch | | Posted Sunday, September 03, 2006 3:11:34 AM by Blog57 Team | | The ranks of San Jose Rep subscribers have fallen from an all-time high of 15,200 in 2001-02, when both Holly Hunter and Lynn Redgrave performed with the company, to 11,347 in 2005-06. According to a recent study by the Theatre Communications Group, a national industry service organization, the national renewal rate is 63 percent, so the Rep -- at 75 percent -- is ahead of the curve. Still, the troupe has lost one out of four patrons in the past four years. Former Rep board president Greg Avis noted that with ``declining subscriptions, you have less money. Then you can wind up putting an inferior product on stage. And then you have even lower subscriptions.'' He was quick to assert that the Rep's subscription slide hasn't affected its productions ``yet.'' Steve Ourso, a 54-year-old high-tech executive from Sunnyvale, started out as a full-season Rep ticket holder, but has cut back to a few shows a year.... | |
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| | | RICCI: 'I'M TOO SHORT TO BE A SUPERSTAR' | | Posted Wednesday, August 16, 2006 9:05:23 PM by Blog57 Team | | Actress CHRISTINA RICCI is convinced she'll never make it onto Hollywood's A-list, because she's too short. The former child star fears her tiny stature rules her out of too many roles. She says, "I don't think that's ever going to happen for me. "I'm five-one first thing in the morning, and I tend to look really small on camera. I can probably go as far as HOLLY HUNTER went, then I think that's going to be it. I have a feeling I am way too small." 16/08/2006 12:36 .... | |
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| | | Kendra Meinert column: Blues in the Park celebrates 25 years | | Posted Friday, August 11, 2006 11:07:16 PM by Blog57 Team | | Somewhere along the way in the last 25 years, Blues in the Park has become more than just a nice Sunday afternoon of free music for families. For Green Bay blues guitarist Billy Flynn and his wife, Mary, who founded it in 1981, it has morphed into a musical scrapbook of sorts. "Billy was 25 at the first one. On Friday, he turns 50. He's been doing it half his life," Mary Flynn said. The Flynn's daughters, Margaret and Libbi, were just little kids on stage in those early years. Today Margaret is 21 and still an annual performer at the event, and 25-year-old Libbi is one of its organizers. "It has really been a part of our family," Mary Flynn said. "We've watched a lot of other families grow as well. People have become grandparents over the years." As Blues in the Park prepares to celebrate its 25-year milestone on Sunday, Mary Flynn shared some of her favorite memories and observations: The event, always held at St.... | |
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| | | Trump gets his gold star | | Posted Wednesday, July 26, 2006 5:02:00 AM by Blog57 Team | | America's favorite businessman is getting his own star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. According to the New York Post's Page Six, Donald Trump's name will be the next to adorn the star-studded sidewalk, where celebrity contributions have been immortalized since 1960. The Walk of Fame lists actors Annette Bening, Matthew Broderick, Holly Hunter, William Hurt, Nathan Lane and Steve Martin among those who will get stars this year. Trump is eligible for the honor following the success of his reality show, "The Apprentice," which will debut its sixth season in January. THIS IS HER, THEN: The New York City Police Department detective who handled the shootout that landed Jennifer Lopez and Sean Combs in jail in 1999 has come clean on the details of that night in a new book, an excerpt of which was in the New York Daily News on Sunday.... | |
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| | | Hunter in series talks with TNT | | Posted Friday, July 21, 2006 11:04:07 AM by Blog57 Team | | LOS ANGELES, July 17 (UPI) -- Oscar-winning actress Holly Hunter is in talks with TNT to play a jaded Oklahoma City police detective tapped by an angel for redemption in "Grace." Hunter's first foray into series TV follows TNT's successful formula of bringing big screen talent to the cable channel. Kyra Sedgewick's "The Closer" has become TV's most popular cable series, The Hollywood Reporter said Monday. Hunter has been nominated for Academy Awards four times and took home the statuette in 1994 for "The Piano." Her most recent film was Rodrigo Garcia's indie, "Nine Lives." .... | |
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| | | Swim program starts season with 3 straight wins | | Posted Tuesday, July 04, 2006 5:01:28 AM by Blog57 Team | | The Decatur Aquatics Club swim team has started the year 3-0 with wins over Boaz, Albertville and Boaz. The DAC team is a combined team of the Hartselle and Decatur swim clubs led by coach Mark Sorrells. DAC defeated Boaz 407-179 in the opening meet on June 6, defeated Albertville 357-288 on June 10 and knocked off Guntersville 419-232 on June 13. Detailed results of the Guntersville meet are as follows:DAC 419 .... | |
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| | | Christi Wilhelm | | Posted Friday, June 30, 2006 7:05:45 AM by Blog57 Team | | Post Falls High School's Ryan Florek, who recently attended Idaho's HOBY, Hugh O'Brian Youth Leadership Seminar, is one of two Idaho students chosen to attend the World Leadership Congress in Washington, D.C., in late July. HOBY seminars introduce high school sophomores to leaders in business, government, education and other professions. The WLC's objective is to introduce students to renowned leaders and to broaden their leadership understanding and quest for self-development.Ryan, while at the state seminar, said he met a judge who taught him how to be more objective."We learned not to judge each other and began to see how everybody's situation is similar to your own," Ryan said. .... | |
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