BartCop Entertainment Archives - Friday, 13 July, 2012

Friday

13 July, 2012

(Updated Daily)

[290 days in a row]



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Forget Bain, Romney Claims He Left Massachusetts Before Elected Governor


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Recommended Reading

from Bruce

Poor Elijah (Peter Berger): Twenty-first Century Exceptionalism (Irascible Professor)
"American exceptionalism" is a notion that floats around at political rallies, especially in an election year when candidates are striving to outdo each other patriotically. Some electoral hopefuls may think they're harking back to Alexis de Tocqueville's nineteenth century praise of our democracy as "exceptional." Ironically, especially for conservative Republicans fond of the phrase, they're actually quoting Joseph Stalin, whose point back in 1929 was that the United States wasn't unique and would inevitably fall to Marxism.


"Australian Video Celebrating Good Samaritans Goes Viral (VIDEO)" (Huffington Post)
Filmed using hidden cameras, the clip follows the antics of regular people who decide to return a pair of sunglasses that they find near the entrance of a shopping center.


Scott Stump: Parents tell how they kept grad gift a secret for 13 years
"There's really no words," said Brenna Martin of book signed by every teacher and coach.


Froma Harrop: Where They Play, Rich Conservatives Like Zoning (Slate)
The brothers' family business, based far away in Wichita, Kan., is a notoriously careless emitter of toxic wastes. The Political Economy Research Institute at the University of Massachusetts ranks Koch Industries as America's 10th worst air polluter. Thus, not a few eyes roll as Bill continues to lead the long fight against a planned wind farm off Osterville's shore. You understand, it would mar the alleged environmental perfection of the waters in which he sails.


Priya Elan: Frank Ocean gets a boost from Jay-Z and Beyoncé Guardian)
The R&B star has had numerous messages of support from many of his fellow musicians, but some stars have remained silent.


Jim Pagels: Stop Binge-Watching TV (Slate)
While it's not surprising that America's unprincipled youth have flocked to the latest trend, some of our most venerable critics have also hopped on the binge-watching bandwagon. Emily Nussbaum, formerly of New York and now of The New Yorker, went on a Breaking Bad bender last summer. "Binge-watching a show like Breaking Bad is probably the purest way to watch a great series," she wrote. But if you ask me, she has ruined the entire batch.


David Haglund: "The Most Passionate Netflix-Envelope Plot Summary Ever Stolen (Updated)" (Slate)
Update: Commenter hoodoozephyr has uncovered the disappointing reality behind this seemingly inspired Netflix sleeve.


Christopher Hitchens: The Importance of Being Orwell (Vanity Fair)
George Orwell's best-known work ('Animal Farm,' 'Nineteen Eighty-Four') emerged from painstaking investigation. In the introduction to a groundbreaking volume of Orwell's diaries, V.F.'s late columnist dissects one of the 20th century's greatest political minds, a writer who was also his lifelong inspiration.



David Bruce has 42 Kindle books on Amazon.com with 250 anecdotes in each book. Each book is $1, so for $42 you can buy 10,500 anecdotes. Search for "Funniest People," "Coolest People, "Most Interesting People," "Kindest People," "Religious Anecdotes," "Maximum Cool," and "Resist Psychic Death."


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Trivia Question of the Day


The phrase "Klaatu barada nikto" stopped a robot from destroying earth in The Day The Earth Stood Still. What was the robot's name?

                                  



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Trivia Question from Yesterday


"Mermaids" carved out of dried skates (or rays) by sailors in Antwerp were widely known by what name?


   Jenny Haniver                                                      Source


A Jenny Haniver is the carcass of a ray or a skate which has been modified and subsequently dried, resulting in a grotesque preserved specimen.

For centuries, sailors sat on the Antwerp docks and carved these "mermaids" out of dried skates. They then preserved them further with a coat of varnish. They supported themselves by selling their artistic creations to working sailors as well as to tourists visiting the docks.

Jenny Hanivers have been created to look like devils, angels and dragons. Some writers have suggested the sea monk may have been a Jenny Haniver.        Source







Alan J was first, and correct, with:
   Jenny Haniver



Charlie replied:
   Jenny Hanivers




BttbBob wrote:
   Jenny Hanivers...


  Damn'd ugly, eh? Not my idea of a mermaid...
  This is...




ekimtod replied:
   devilfish



Sally said:
   British sailors "cockneyed" this description of "Mermaids," carved out of dried skates (or rays), into the personal name "Jenny Hanvers." (Or Hanivers.)

  You have to wonder what else those sailors were doing in 'down' time, LOL!
  PS: I had to chuckle when reading, "Shrek might find a home in the swamps of northern New Jersey." I am in my 10th year of living here, and for many a year preceding this, the State has been trying to sell off the Meadowlands! They have been offering mega tax breaks for all takers, to no avail. It is SWAMPLAND - and disgusting, filled with odious industrial waste - which the same state has never bothered to pursue and enforce the damn chemical and other foul-smelling companies and force them to clean up the gunk they have left behind for bloody YEARS! As soon as any investor gets an environmental impact study, they are out of there as fast as they can! Another problem is that as soon as you go after these companies they go, 'out-of-business' and just reopen under another name - and the state says they are 'powerless' to do anything about it...Yeah, sure...
  Being in our local garden club, we have had many a 'river-keeper' speak to our members, and have seen them at various garden shows. The impact of these dumping 'companies' is immeasurable, yet everyone in power turns their heads away, so the problem persists. (I think it's huge bribes myself...) This problem dates back to the mid 1800's when such dumping of waste into rivers was common - and, apparently never rectified! (Why I hate all things government-powered number 22!)




Adam answered:
   A Jenny Haniver.



Marian responded:
   Jenny Hanvers



Jim from CA, retired to ID, is vacationing.
  



Dale of a "sweltering" Diamond Springs replied:
   Jenny Hanivers are "Mermaids" carved out of dried skates (or rays) by sailors in Antwerp. A Real "Mermaid"


  PS - Sally I thought that I recognized you!!!!




MAM   wrote:
   Jenny Haniver

  PS Good to see that your butterflies have returned!




And, Joe S     answered:
   A Jenny Haniver is the carcass of a ray or a skate which has been modified and subsequently dried, resulting in a grotesque preserved specimen.
  One suggestion for the origin of the term was the French phrase jeune d'Anvers ('young [person] of Antwerp'). British sailors "cockneyed" this description into the personal name "Jenny Hanvers." They are also widely known as "Jenny Haviers".


  Real mermaids look like this, and they'll kill ya.



  


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Reader Suggestion

Michelle in AZ


A Thousand Cuts: Austerity Measures Devastate Communities Around The World



Robert Reich: The Real Battle in 2012 and Beyond (Video)



Health Care Law Repeal Efforts By House GOP Cost Nearly $50 Million: CBS Report



Romney Invested Millions in Chinese Firm That Profited on US Outsourcing | Mother Jones



"Pastor" Michael Salman Not Going to Jail for Preaching but for Failing to Obey the Law « N4TM



Daily Kos: Romney Camp Demands a Retraction from Boston Globe. Updated with Globe Response



Daily Kos: Why the right wing MUST repeal Obamacare



Freeh Report: Sandusky wanted a youth football camp as part of retirement | SI Tracking Blog - Tracking MLB, NBA,



Freeh Report: Joe Paterno exposed as Penn State's Cowardly Lion - NCAA Football - Sporting News



Thanks, Michelle!


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From The Creator of 'Avery Ant'


"The Problem With Young People Today"

(Crabby Old Fart)



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Day 4

Gulf Fritillary

Came across some of Gulf Fritillary larva on the back fence, so it looks like we'll have a third year of raising butterflies.  : )

Click on any picture for a larger version.




Here is last year's "crop" - Gulf Fritillary Butterflies

Eventually, this link will take you to this year's crop (the page doesn't exist - yet).




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Reader Comment

Caterpillars

Marty;

You are midwifing butterflies ... what you are raising are caterpillars.

DanD


Thanks, Dan.
They live on the back fence, and require absolutely no care.
Don't have to feed 'em, don't have to clean up after 'em.
And then they turn into something pretty that will fly away.
This is the 3rd year we've had butterflies, and I'm starting to feel about them the way Bart feels about Bixby corn.
You may consider it midwifing butterflies, but I prefer to think of it as butterfly wrangling.  : )


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Reader Suggestion

Literary Quotes

literary quotes in posters


Sharon in Tejas


Thanks, Sharon!



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Selected Readings

from that Mad Cat, JD


THE DRUG DEALERS ARE RIPPING US OFF!

I LOVE "SMALL" MORE THAN YOU LOVE "SMALL."

NO MORE "NON-GREEN" APPLES

"CONGRESS SHALL MAKE NO LAW RESPECTING AN ESTABLISHMENT OF RELIGION..."

WHEN WILL THE "BANKSTERS" GO TO JAIL?

PIMP MY RICKSHAW!

"AS CORNY AS KANSAS IN AUGUST."

PICTURE THE "MIDDLE CLASS."

"SPEEDY GONZALEZ"

THE CRIMINAL!

THE REAL BATTLE!

THE 50 MILLION DOLLAR HAND JOB!

MANHATTANHENGE






Visit JD's site - Kitty Litter Music



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Ark Of Darkness

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In The Chaos Household

Last Night

Overcast morning, scattered showers in the afternoon, and a steady rain (with a bit of thunder) most of the night. Downright peculiar weather for these parts.



Tonight, Friday:

CBS begins the night with a RERUN 'Undercover Boss', followed by a RERUN 'CSI: The 3rd One', then a RERUN 'Blue Bloods'.
On a RERUN Dave (from 6/11/12) are Mark Wahlberg, Sebastian Vettel, and Black Box Revelation.
On a RERUN Craig (from 6/20/12) is Morgan Freeman.



NBC starts the night with a RERUN 'Whitney', followed by a RERUN 'Community', then 'Dateline'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Leno are Dana Carvey and Nicki Minaj.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jimmy Fallon are Anne Hathaway, Yoko Ono, Sean Lennon, and Joe Jackson.
On a RERUN Carson 'The Scab' Daly (from 2/16/12) are Jodi Kantor, Oren Peli, and Dr. Dog.



ABC opens the night with a RERUN 'Shark Tank', followed by '20/20'.
On a RERUN Jimmy Kimmel (from 7/10/12) are Gary Oldman, Rob Riggle, and the Dirty Heads.



The CW offers a RERUN 'Nikita', followed by a RERUN 'Supernatural'.



Faux has a RERUN 'House', followed by a RERUN 'Bones'.



MY has an old 'Monk', followed by another old 'Monk'.



A&E has 'Barter Kings', another 'Barter Kings', 'I Killed My BFF', another 'I Killed My BFF', and still another 'I Killed My BFF'.



AMC offers the movie 'O Brother, Where Art Thou?', followed by the movie 'Napoleon Dynamite', then the movie 'Scary Movie'.



BBC  -   
 [6:00AM]   BBC WORLD NEWS
 [7:00AM]   BBC WORLD NEWS
 [8:00AM]   THE GRAHAM NORTON SHOW - SEASON 7-Ep 7 Janet Jackson, Tyler Perry, Marcus Brigstocke, Eric Idle
 [9:00AM]   JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 3 - Roast Beef
 [9:30AM]   JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 4 - Spinach & Feta
 [10:00AM]   DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 3 (2007)-Ep 1 - Smith and Jones
 [11:00AM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 2-Ep 1 - Lanterna
 [12:00PM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 2U-Ep 9 - Fiesta Sunrise
 [1:00PM]   JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 5 - Jool's Pasta
 [1:30PM]   JAMIE OLIVER'S MEALS IN MINUTES-Ep 6 - Rogan Josh Curry
 [2:00PM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES - SEASON 3U-Ep 2 - PJ's
 [3:00PM]   RAMSAY'S KITCHEN NIGHTMARES REVISITED - SEASON 1-Ep 1 - Glasshouse
 [4:00PM]   DOCTOR WHO - SEASON 3 (2007)-Ep 2 - The Shakespeare Code
 [5:00PM]   BATTLESTAR GALACTICA - SEASON 3-Ep 10 - The Passage
 [6:00PM]   STAR TREK: THE NEXT GENERATION - SEASON 4-Ep 11 - Data's Day
 [7:00PM]   TOP GEAR - SEASON 12-Episode 1
 [8:00PM]   TOP GEAR - SEASON 3-Episode 3
 [9:00PM]   ALEXANDER
 [12:00AM]   ALEXANDER
 [3:00AM]   TOP GEAR - SEASON 4-Episode 4
 [4:00AM]   TOP GEAR - SEASON 4-Episode 5
 [5:00AM]   TOP GEAR - SEASON 4-Episode 6     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Bravo has all 'Real Housewives Of NJ' all night.



Comedy Central has 'Workaholics', another 'Workaholics', 'Tosh.0', another 'Tosh.0', 'Futurama', 'Tosh.0', and 'Dane Cook: Vicious Circle'.



FX has the movie 'Aliens In The Attic', followed by the movie 'Ice Age: The Meltdown', then the movie 'Ice Age: Dawn Of The Dinosaurs'.



History has 'Picked Off', 'American Pickers', another 'American Pickers', and still another 'American Pickers'.



IFC  -   
 [6:00AM]    Delirious
 [8:15AM]    Buffalo Soldiers
 [10:15AM]    Brown Sugar
 [12:30PM]    Delirious
 [2:45PM]    Buffalo Soldiers
 [4:45PM]    The Three Stooges-Micro-Phonies
 [5:10PM]    The Three Stooges-Movie Maniacs
 [5:35PM]    The Three Stooges-Mutts to You
 [6:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Ida's Dance
 [6:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Motivational Speaker
 [7:00PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Stilts
 [7:30PM]    Malcolm in the Middle-Buseys Take a Hostage
 [8:00PM]    Arrested Development-Good Grief!
 [8:30PM]    Arrested Development-Sad Sack
 [9:00PM]    Comedy Bang! Bang!-Seth Rogen Wears a Plaid Shirt & Brown Pants
 [9:30PM]    Bunk
 [10:00PM]    Comedy Bang! Bang!-Paul Rudd Wears a Red Lumberjack Flannel Shirt
 [10:30PM]    Bunk
 [11:00PM]    Buffy the Vampire Slayer
 [1:00AM]    Comedy Bang! Bang!-Paul Rudd Wears a Red Lumberjack Flannel Shirt
 [1:30AM]    Bunk
 [2:00AM]    Dark Ride
 [4:00AM]    Buffy the Vampire Slayer    (ALL TIMES EDT)



Sundance  -   
 [6:00A]    Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
 [7:50A]    French Roast
 [8:00A]    Somebody Told Me about Carla Bruni
 [9:25A]    Fermat's Room
 [11:00A]    Standing In The Shadows Of Motown
 [12:50P]    Rains
 [1:00P]    Somebody Told Me about Carla Bruni
 [2:25P]    Fermat's Room
 [5:45P]    Always Crashing In The Same Car
 [6:00P]    Love Lust & Comfort Food
 [7:00P]    FREAKS AND GEEKS - Dead Dogs and Gym Teachers (Episode 14, Season 1)
 [8:00P]    Toe to Toe
 [9:55P]    Oktapodi
 [12:00A]    How to Be
 [1:25A]    Toe to Toe
 [3:15A]    The Secret Of The Grain
 [5:50A]    The Lady and the Reaper     (ALL TIMES EDT)



SyFy has the movie 'The Chronicles Of Narnia: Prince Caspian', followed by a FRESH 'WWE Steroid SmackDown!', and 'Haunted Highway'.



TCM:
 [6:00 AM]      Seance on a Wet Afternoon (1964)
 [8:00 AM]      The Lion In Winter (1968)
 [10:15 AM]      The Appointment (1969)
 [12:15 PM]      Bachelor In Paradise (1961)
 [2:15 PM]      Soldier in the Rain (1963)
 [4:00 PM]      Dear Heart (1964)
 [6:00 PM]      Wait Until Dark (1967)
 [8:00 PM]      I Shot Jesse James (1949)
 [9:30 PM]      Park Row (1952)
 [11:00 PM]      Shock Corridor (1963)
 [12:45 AM]      The Naked Kiss (1964)
 [2:30 AM]      Fright (1971)
 [4:00 AM]      What's The Matter With Helen? (1971)
 [5:45 AM]      Voltaire (1933)     (ALL TIMES EDT)



Saturday   -  07/14/12

TCM spends the night with Fred MacMurray.
 [7:00 AM]      The Black Book (1949)     [AKA: 'Reign of Terror ']
 [8:30 AM]      A Tale Of Two Cities (1935)
 [10:45 AM]      My Dog Rusty (1948)
 [12:00 PM]      The Green Hornet: Time Bomb, The (1940)
 [12:00 PM]      The Green Hornet: Pillar of Flame (1940)
 [12:00 PM]      The Green Hornet: Highways of Peril (1940)
 [1:15 PM]      The Law And Jake Wade (1958)
 [2:45 PM]      The Big Land (1957)
 [4:30 PM]      Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
 [6:15 PM]      Calamity Jane (1953)
 [8:00 PM]      Alice Adams (1935)
 [9:45 PM]      The Princess Comes Across (1936)
 [11:15 PM]      No Time For Love (1943)
 [12:45 AM]      A Millionaire For Christy (1951)
 [2:30 AM]      Kisses for My President (1964)
 [4:30 AM]      Too Many Husbands (1940)
    (ALL TIMES EDT)



USA has a FRESH 'Common Law'.




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RTV - The Retro Television Network

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Sarah Silverman and John C. Reilly attend Disney's "Wreck-It Ralph" panel at Comic-Con on Thursday, July 12, 2012 in San Diego, Calif.
Photo by John Shearer

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Vidiot Speak

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Celebrate 50 Years

Rolling Stones

Mick Jagger may need to rethink the words he sang more than 45 years ago - "What a drag it is getting old."

Thursday marks 50 years since Jagger played his first gig with a band called the Rolling Stones, and the group is marking its half-century with no letup in its productivity or rock 'n ' roll style. Jagger himself is still the cool, rich frontman of the world's most successful rock band.

Now in their late 60s and early 70s, the band members celebrated the anniversary by attending a retrospective photo exhibition at London's Somerset House - and looking to the future by rehearsing for new gigs.

Jagger, Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts mingled with celebrities from Mick Hucknall to Tom Stoppard at a launch party for the exhibition, which charts the band's career from their first official photo shoot - young mop tops lined up against a row of red phone boxes - to their monster stadium tours.

Rolling Stones

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Figures on the set of of the Disney Tim Burton movie " Frankenweenie" on display at Comic-Con preview night held at the San Diego Convention Center on Wednesday July 11, 2012, in San Diego.
Photo by Denis Poroy

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Exiting 'American Idol'

Steven Tyler

Steven Tyler says he's exiting "American Idol" to put rock 'n' roll first.

Tyler said he's leaving the hit show after two seasons to rededicate himself to Aerosmith, the band he fronts. The rock star said he loved every minute on the hit Fox singing contest but added, "it's time to bring rock back."

"After some long ... hard ... thoughts ... I've decided it's time for me to let go of my mistress 'American Idol' before she boils my rabbit,"Tyler said in a statement, making a joking reference to the 1987 Michael Douglas-Glenn Close thriller "Fatal Attraction."

Tyler's "Idol" departure leaves original judge Randy Jackson and Jennifer Lopez, but the singer-actress' future with the show is cloudy.

Steven Tyler

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Wake-up Call


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The First Image Ever Uploaded

Les Horribles Cernettes

Every day millions of photos are uploaded to the Internet on countless blogs, Facebook, Flickr, Twitter, etc. But have you ever wondered what the very first image upload looked like? Well look no further, because the tech site Motherboard has done the digging for you.

In 1992, a picture of the parody band Les Horribles Cernettes, that was digitally altered in Photoshop, earned the distinction of becoming the first Web photo upload. So who are these ladies pictured in the image? The group of ladies were lab employees who worked for CERN, a research laboratory in Geneva where major discoveries have been made, including the project that started the World Wide Web, created by British computer scientist Tim Berners-Lee.

Berners-Lee was looking to test a Web system that could support photos and asked IT developer Silvano de Gennaro to provide an image. De Gennaro chose an edited image of the ladies of Les Horribles Cernettes, whose nerdy song lyrics included the words "you say you love me but you never beep me." Part of the reason the upload was so revolutionary was because the Internet was previously seen as a place for conducting serious business, not having fun.

De Gennaro, who snapped the picture of the ladies for their next CD cover, never could have imagined the place it would have in history. "I didn't know what the Web was," he said later. "When history happens, you don't know that you're in it."

July 18 marks the photo upload's 20th anniversary.

Les Horribles Cernettes

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Fashion designer Diane von Furstenberg attends the Allen & Co Media Conference in Sun Valley, Idaho July 12, 2012.
Photo by Jim Urquhart

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Reopens In Philly

Rodin Museum

The Rodin Museum, a little jewel box of a building surrounded by formal gardens and showcasing the French artist's monumental sculptures, had by most accounts lost a certain je ne sais quoi in the 83 years since it was built.

Now, for the first time since the museum opened in 1929, the public will get to see it as its architects intended. The Rodin Museum reopens Friday after a more than three-year, $9 million renovation that returned all its sculptures to their original locations inside and out, refurbished almost all of them - only "The Burghers of Calais" has yet to be cleaned up - and restored the grounds' formal French garden, fountain and reflecting pool.

The inside galleries were rearranged to emphasize the way many figures in "The Gates of Hell" - Rodin's colossal masterwork that dominates the museum entrance - inspired his later iconic sculptures from "The Kiss" to "The Thinker." Behind the scenes, a new air-conditioning system will mean a swelter-free visit for summer tourists for the first time in decades.

Located between the Philadelphia Museum of Art and the new Barnes Foundation on the Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the classical Beaux-Arts building contains the largest collection of Auguste Rodin's sculptures outside of the Musee Rodin's collections in Paris and Meudon. It was a gift to the city from movie theater magnate Jules Mastbaum, who was introduced to Rodin's work during a 1923 trip to Paris.

Mastbaum hired two France-born architects living in Philadelphia, architect Paul Cret and landscape designer Jacques Greber, to create the limestone museum. Its holdings include more than 140 bronze, marble and plaster sculptures, plus drawings, prints, letters and books.

Rodin Museum

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The Sideshow - by Avedon Carol


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Feds Crack Down

Harborside Health Center

Federal prosecutors have filed civil forfeiture actions against an Oakland medical marijuana dispensary that bills itself as the world's largest, as part of a crackdown by U.S. authorities on California's massive cannabis trade.

The lawsuits, filed on Monday in U.S. District Court in San Francisco, seek forfeiture of two properties where Harborside Health Center operates, said Melinda Haag, U.S. attorney for the Northern District of California.

Harborside says it is the largest medical marijuana dispensary in the world, serving more than 100,000 patients in a "beautiful waterfront location," and is subject of the Discovery Channel reality TV show "Weed Wars."

"The filing of the civil forfeiture complaints against the two Harborside properties is part of our measured effort to address the proliferation of illegal marijuana businesses in the Northern District of California," Haag said.

In a statement on its website, the clinic said, "Harborside has nothing to be ashamed of, and will contest the Federal actions openly and publicly, with every legal means at our disposal."

Harborside Health Center

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An Occupy Wall Street protestor is arrested in Zuccotti Park Wednesday, July 11, 2012, in New York. Occupy marchers with guitars are marking the 100th birthday of the late folk singer-songwriter Woody Guthrie with a Manhattan rally. It's called Occupy Guitarmy. They ended a six-day march from the Liberty Bell in Philadelphia on Wednesday afternoon in Zuccotti Park. The lower Manhattan park was the center of the Occupy movement until police broke up the encampment last November.
Photo by Frank Franklin II

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Extortionists Ordered To Trial

Stevie Wonder

A judge ordered Stevie Wonder's cousin to stand trial on an extortion charge after hearing testimony that the man and his girlfriend attempted to sell a film ranting against the singer's treatment of his family for millions of dollars.

Superior Court Judge Ray Jurado ruled Thursday that prosecutors had presented enough evidence for a jury to decide whether Alpha L. Walker and his girlfriend Tamara E. Diaz extorted Wonder by threatening to sell it to various media outlets if they weren't paid by the Grammy-winning musician.

The pair has been jailed since May 2, when they were arrested during a sting organized by Wonder's attorney and Los Angeles police. The pair was given a $10,000 down payment on a $500,000 agreement to hand over the film footage and keep its contents confidential.

Attorneys for Walker, who is Wonder's cousin, and Tamara argued that prosecutors hadn't presented enough evidence to support the case. Walker's attorney, Ian Wallach, said his client had made a movie about his own life, was marketing it for sale and his actions were protected by the First Amendment.

A police detective described the film as an 80-minute rant against Wonder. Portions of it were filmed in the former home of the singer's late mother, which is now dilapidated, and it also shows Wonder's son, who the musician is protective of. Walker, 38, accused the musician of being "a slumlord" and made derogatory comments about the singer's mother, two witnesses said.

Stevie Wonder

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Rejects Claim Over First Electric Guitar

Bob Dylan

Bob Dylan dismissed Thursday a claim that a woman in New Jerseyhas the guitar he played at the Newport Folk Festival in 1965, when he was infamously booed for going electric.

A lawyer for the music icon said Dylan still has the Fender Stratocaster guitar which he played on July 25, 1965, prompting boos which forced him off stage after only three songs.

The musician had until then played solely on acoustic guitar, making his name as a protest singer with early hits including "Blowin' in the Wind" and "The Times They are a-Changin'."

An upcoming television documentary reportedly claims that the guitar was left on board a plane which Dylan used after the show, and that the pilot took it with him, and left it in an attic.

Bob Dylan

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Musicians from "Budapest Gypsy Symphony Orchestra", also known as 100 Violins, perform in the Roman Theatre of Carthage during the Carthage Festival in Tunis July 11, 2012. Dozens of local and international artists perform during the annual Carthage Festival.
Photo by Zoubeir Souissi

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Another Breach

Yahoo

More than 400,000 Yahoo Inc user names and passwords were stolen and published on the Web, putting other websites at risk as well, after hackers exploited a vulnerability inYahoo's computer systems.

Some logins for Google Inc, AOL Inc and Microsoft Corp services were among those compromised. The three companies said they required affected users to reset passwords for sites including Gmail, AOL, Hotmail, MSN and Live.com.

The breach prompted criticism from security experts who said that a major Internet firm like Yahooshould do a better job at protecting user data.

The five most popular passwords in the group were "123456", "password", "welcome" and "ninja", according to an analysis by anti-virus software maker ESET.

Yahoo

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Ends Royalties For Music Downloads

Canada Supreme Court

Delivering a blow to artists and a benefit to telecoms companies, Canada'sSupreme Court ruled on Thursday that no performance royalties need be paid to songwriters and song publishers for downloaded music.

The court also said that previews of songs in online stores such as Apple Inc's iTunes are not an infringement of copyright laws and do not merit the payment of royalties, but it kept the royalties on streaming music from the Internet.

The rulings are "definitely good for Internet service providers and bad for songwriters and owners of copyright," said David Donahue, a copyright lawyer at Fross Zelnick Lehrman & Zissu in New York, who was not involved in the case.

The court's distinction between downloads and streaming is similar to the difference between buying a compact disc -- in which case the recording company collects -- and listening to a song on the radio, where the station typically pays the artist via the music publisher or a copyright collective.

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People walk past the building where television station KCET used to be housed in Los Angeles, California July 10, 2012. The Church of Scientology, the religion whose followers include actors Tom Cruise and John Travolta, plans to start a religious broadcasting center to promote its teachings over TV, radio and the Internet. The center, located near the church's West Coast headquarters in Hollywood, would occupy the nearly five-acre studio property the church bought last year from Los Angeles public TV station KCET for $42 million.
Photo by Mario Anzuoni

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Gets 2 Years

Beanie Sigel

Rapper Beanie Sigel has been sentenced in Philadelphia to two years in prison for failing to file federal income tax returns.

The 38-year-old's real name is Dwight Grant, and he's from the Philadelphia suburb of Lansdale. He was sentenced in federal court Thursday and ordered to report to prison Sept. 12. He pleaded guilty in August.

Prosecutors say Sigel owes more than $700,000 for the tax years 1999 through 2005.

A U.S. District Court judge ordered him to pay all taxes, penalties and interest as determined by theInternal Revenue Service. The rapper told the judge he accepted "total responsibility" for not paying his taxes.

Beanie Sigel

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U.S. Returns Stolen Artifacts

Peru

U.S. authorities returned 14 stolen and looted paintings and artifacts to Peru on Thursday, including four archaeological items more than 2,000 years old.

Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials turned over the items at a ceremony at the Peruvian Embassy, the agency said in a statement.

The items were recovered in five investigations in New York; West Virginia; Wilmington, Delaware; and Houston and Austin, Texas.

The objects had been removed in violation of a 1997 U.S. - Peru agreement. The accord restricts the importation of pre-Columbian artifacts and colonial-era religious objects to the United States without proper documents.

Peru

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Baskets of Khalas dates are displayed during the eighth round of the Liwa Date Festival, in the western region of Liwa in the United Arab Emirates July 12, 2012. The annual date festival runs until July 18, with prizes totalling AED 4.2 million ($1.15 million) during the date competition, which will be judged based on the weight and quality of the farmers' dates as well as the overall hygiene of their farms.
Photo by Jumana ElHeloueh

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Mystery Buyer Named

"The Scream"

U.S. billionaire Leon Black is the mystery buyer who paid a record $120 million for Edvard Munch's masterpiece "The Scream" at Sotheby's in May, the most expensive work of art ever sold at auction, the Wall Street Journal said on Wednesday.

Citing several sources close to Black, a New York businessman and avid art collector, the newspaper said his intentions for the iconic painting and whether it would be loaned to a museum were unclear.

Black, the lead partner of Apollo Global Management and No. 330 on Forbes list of billionaires, sits on the boards of both the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Museum of Modern Art.

"The Scream," Munch's masterpiece from 1895 depicting a bald figure with hands pressed to the head and swirling colors in the background, is one of the world's most famous paintings. Three other versions, including two that were stolen and later recovered, are in museums in Norway.

"The Scream"

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Top 20

Concert Tours

The Top 20 Concert Tours ranks artists by average box office gross per city and includes the average ticket price for shows in North America. The previous week's ranking is in parentheses. The list is based on data provided to the trade publication Pollstar by concert promoters and venue managers.

    1. (New) Kenny Chesney; $4,272,326; $89.80.
    2. (2) Roger Waters; $2,086,906; $107.32.
    3. (New) Coldplay; $1,969,465; $81.57.
    4. (New) Dave Matthews Band; $1,354,667; $54.40.
    5. (3) Cirque du Soleil - "Michael Jackson: The Immortal"; $1,300,503; $109.52.
    6. (New) Radiohead; $1,243,495; $56.44.
    7. (New) Van Halen; $1,168,797; $100.32.
    8. (4) Red Hot Chili Peppers; $794,979; $58.31.
    9. (New) Drake; $783,513; $56.96.
   10. (5) Nickelback; $680,296; $67.58.
   11. (New) The Beach Boys; $518,841; $72.48.
   12. (New) Blue Man Group; $516,492; $54.74.
   13. (7) One Direction; $499,246; $43.06.
   14. (6) Lady Antebellum; $490,447; $40.61.
   15. (8) The Black Keys; $475,306; $46.90.
   16. (9) Miranda Lambert; $432,714; $36.24.
   17. (New) Scorpions; $339,848; $54.84.
   18. (10) Il Divo; $338,147; $93.66.
   19. (New) LMFAO / "Sorry For Party Rocking Tour"; $325,468; $42.12.
   20. (11) Eric Church; $320,774; $36.31.

Concert Tours

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Three-month-old ring tailed coatis play at an enclosure at the zoo in Zurich July 11, 2012.
Photo by Arnd Wiegmann

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