'Brave' not the best, but worth a 3-D theater visit
Duluth News
Pixar's latest stars an intrepid young Scottish princess who's full of empowerment. Two Spirits is about the brutal murder ("I bug-smashed a fag") of Fred Martinez, an intersex Native American who in another time would have been honored. Looks very interesting just from this short trailer. THE WEATHER at Royal Portrush golf club yesterday was [...]
Read MoreKaren Klein Meets Man That Raised More Than…
Hollywood Li
Earlier this week a video depicting Greece, N.Y. school bus monitor Karen Klein being maliciously verbally abused by the students she was watching over went viral, sparking national outrage and leading to a campaign on The Karen Klein story is ending, as it should. The real work however is just beginning, also as it should. [...]
Read MoreTropical Storm Debby makes landfall on Florida coast
Chicago Sun-
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) and its federal partners continue to monitor and work closely with states potentially affected by Tropical Storm Debby, including Florida where the —Tropical Storm Debby finally made landfall Tuesday afternoon on the northwest coast of Florida. The National Hurricane Center said Debby blew ashore near Steinhatchee [...]
Read MoreNexus 7 vs. Kindle Fire vs. Nook Tablet: Battle of the $199 tablets
CNET
The 8 GB version of Google's Nexus 7 will be arriving at UK shores mid-July, while the 16 GB variant will become available July 27. By Verge Staff | TheVerge.com, TheVerge.com. The Asus Nexus 7, Google's first tablet in the Nexus family, is here. You're looking at it right now. We just got our first [...]
Read MoreNBA Draft 2012
Washington P
Washington selects the player it had targeted all along on Thursday in Florida shooting guard Bradley Beal. With the 2012 NBA Draft just a few hours away, I figure it's time we get all of our predictions out on the table. I emailed the writers at Fear The Sword for their predictions with varying levels [...]
Read MoreSavannah Guthrie to Take Ann Curry's Chair TOMORROW
TMZ.com
Ann Curry said goodbye to "Today" today — hours after her lawyer negotiated her exit from the show — sobbing as she told viewers, "I'm sorry I couldn't… But I do think Ann is a great reporter and loves covering those important international stories, as she said this morning – what's going on in Syria [...]
Read MoreLack of Features Could Hamper Nexus 7's Market Entry, Analysts and Users Say
PCWorld
The surprise demonstration of Google Glass, a wearable computing technology expected to be released next year, marked one of three hardware demonstrations the Mountain View search giant presented at its annual developer conference, Google I/O. Google's new Nexus 7 tablet includes a quad-core Tegra 3 processor, the latest version of the Android OS, and costs [...]
Read MoreLeBron James almost lost his Finals MVP trophy
Yahoo! Sport
From the blog Ball Don't Lie: After maintaining a pretty low profile during the postseason — well, as low a profile as a 6-foot-9, 270-pound, most-scrutinized-player-in-the-world can, anyway — LeBron James has re-emerged since his Miami Heat won the From the blog Ball Don't Lie: After maintaining a pretty low profile during the postseason — [...]
Read MoreLeBron James almost lost his Finals MVP trophy
Yahoo! Sport
Magic Johnson talked to “The Yolanda Adams Morning Show” about his new family friendly television network Aspire, and also gave his thoughts on LeBron James and his game on the court. Find out why what Magic The LeBron James story is finally over. After seven agonizing seasons in Cleveland and two media-crazy seasons in South [...]
Read MoreYoukilis returns to second spot vs. Yankees
Chicago Trib
I am pretty sure Kevin Youkilis never really appears in the film "Moneyball" but he is definitely present. He is referred to by the Paul DePodesta/Peter Brand charater as "The Greek God of Walks". I don't know if this was ever a The Red Sox have dealt Kevin Youkilis, and brought two players back from [...]
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