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Saturday & Sunday Night
Erin Hart
710 KIRO - 9pm to 1am (pdt) Weekend Nights
Uncertainty principle prevails--will Cindy Sheehan's movement continue?
Will President Bush escape protestors in Tamarack, Idaho?
Will the Gaza pullout, wrenching and painful, lead to better days in Israel
and the Palestinian Territories?
And the monorail is back in the news--will a consultant team and the people
who support prevail? Will Cindi Law's controversial and anti-Jewish comments
hurt the cause? Does monorail still ignite the public's imagination?
Talk to Peter Sherwin who helps us understand on Saturday at 9 pm.
All other guests are pending--so you'll just have to tune in to find out who
helps us shed light on ongoing issues, which include:
John Roberts, John Bolton and WHO WHO WHO will be punished for outing
Valerie Plame and trying to stick it to Joe Wilson????
Recommended Reading
from Bruce
Bill Berkowitz: Michael Moore Gets Ready to Roll (AlterNet)
Will it continue to be open season on the 'scruffy guy in a baseball cap' as he prepares a new film on America's ailing health care industry?
Paul Krugman: What They Did Last Fall
(Click on "Columns," then on "What They Did Last Fall")
By running for the U.S. Senate, Katherine Harris, Florida's former secretary of state, has stirred up some ugly memories. And that's a good thing, because those memories remain relevant. There was at least as much electoral malfeasance in 2004 as there was in 2000, even if it didn't change the outcome. And the next election may be worse.
Juliet B. Schor and Gary Ruskin: Our Junk Food Nation (The Nation. Posted on Alternet)
The recent conflict over what America eats is an example of how in Bush's America, corporate interests trump public health.
Bernie Sheahan: Confessions of a Substitute Teacher (nashvillescene.com)
What you never knew about who is teaching your children
Santorum Knows Best: Cartoon
Keyboard Kommando Komix: Cartoon
Reader Find
Re: Peach Sticks
Reader Comment
Re: David Bruce: Alcohol
I used to like the cartoon character of Bert and Harry Piel's, but
their beer? Ewwww!
My late dad was a Schmidt's drinker. That swill made Piel's taste
wonderful by comparison.
I called it "the Headache Beer."
Terry C
NJ
Thanks, Terry!
My brother still refers to Pabst's as 'fart beer'.
Another Rant
Avery Ant
For Preventing The Army Of Canada
From Being A Burden To Taxpayers…
(With Apologies to Jonathan Swift)
Selected Readings
from that Mad Cat, JD
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Still unseasonably cool, but very nice.
Refused to Host Show on Holloway
Bob Costas
While some cable TV hosts are making their living off the Natalee Holloway case this summer, Bob Costas is having none of it.
Costas, hired by CNN as an occasional fill-in on "Larry King Live," refused to anchor Thursday's show because it was primarily about the Alabama teenager who went missing in Aruba. Chris Pixley filled in at the last minute.
"I didn't think the subject matter of Thursday's show was the kind of broadcast I should be doing," Costas said in a statement. "I suggested some alternatives but the producers preferred the topics they had chosen. I was fine with that, and respectfully declined to participate."
Bob Costas
Hospital News
Studs Terkel
Writer, radio host and oral historian Studs Terkel, a 93-year-old Chicago icon, has been released from the hospital after undergoing risky open-heart surgery - with doctors calling the Pulitzer Prize winner's recovery "spectacular."
Terkel, who walked out of Rush University Medical Center Wednesday, underwent six hours of surgery on Aug. 9 to replace a narrowed aortic valve and redo one of five coronary bypasses he had done nine years ago, doctors said.
"To my knowledge, Studs is the oldest patient to undergo this complex redo," said Dr. Marshall Goldin, the surgeon who operated on Terkel. "His progress is spectacular. He is recovering physically and mentally as well as someone half his age."
Studs Terkel
More Drugs, More Rehab
Courtney Love
Courtney Love tearfully admitted using drugs in violation of her probation terms Friday. The rocker-actress was ordered into a 28-day drug treatment program by a judge who said he had wanted to put her in jail.
"I think that you need to hit rock bottom before you make a decision about what you're going to do in the future," Superior Court Judge Rand Rubin told the sobbing Love.
The 41-year-old Love was told to enter a drug treatment facility by the end of the day. Her attorney, Howard Weitzman, wouldn't disclose the name of the facility or whether it was a lock-down program.
Courtney Love
Engagement News
Cross - Mahoney
Actress Marcia Cross, a star of the ABC hit show "Desperate Housewives," is headed for real-life matrimony with her stockbroker boyfriend, Tom Mahoney, Us Weekly magazine reported on Friday.
The performer's publicist, Heidi Slan, was quoted on the magazine's Web site as saying Cross, 43, and Mahoney, 47, became engaged during the past weekend, but she added, "the happy couple have not set a date for the wedding yet."
Neither has been married before.
Cross - Mahoney
Churches Set For Sequel Debut
'Left Behind 3'
Hoping to appeal to the same faith-based audience that played a key role in the success of Mel Gibson's "The Passion of the Christ," the apocalyptic film "Left Behind: World at War" will screen in hundreds of U.S. churches the weekend of October 21-23, ahead of its October 25 release on DVD.
Churches will charge admission for the screenings and will get to keep a portion of the proceeds, said Peter Lalonde, co-president of Cloud Ten Pictures.
The churches will screen DVDs of "Left Behind" rather than film, but "it will be a quality theatrical release -- the new technologies in DVD projection are phenomenal," said Lalonde.
"Left Behind" stars Lou Gossett Jr. and Kirk Cameron along with Brad Johnson and Chelsea Noble in their continuing roles as Capt. Rayford Steele and Hattie Durham.
'Left Behind 3'
Tinkerbell's History
Paris
In a shocking scandal that would not be news any other month but August - when frankly nothing else is going on - Paris Hilton has split with her teacup Chihuahua, Tinkerbell.
The miniature mutt has been callously replaced with a smaller version called Bambi.
"[Paris] only likes them when they're very small, and Tinkerbell got too big," a pal told New York magazine.
The former A-list animal companion has been sent to live with Hilton's mother, Kathy.
Paris
Thin Lizzy Star Honored
Phil Lynott
Thin Lizzy frontman Phil Lynott was being honoured as one of the fathers of Irish rock music with a statue in the heart of Dublin.
The life-size bronze statue of Lynott, who died aged 36 in 1986 after years of drug addiction, was to be unveiled by Lord Mayor Catherine Byrne near the corner of Harry Street and Grafton Street, the capital's top shopping area.
Thin Lizzy was formed by Lynott -- its main songwriter, lead singer and bassist -- in 1969 and broke into the charts with a rock version of a traditional Irish folk tune called "Whiskey in the Jar".
Phil Lynott
Deal With Wal-Mart
Garth Brooks
Retired country star Garth Brooks has signed a multi-year, exclusive pact with Wal-Mart, making the world's biggest retailer and its Sam's Clubs and Walmart.com outlets the only places where his music will be commercially available.
The deal with Brooks marks the first time an artist -- and certainly a superstar -- has aligned himself and his entire catalog with one chain. (A number of other retailers have started labels, but they were never exclusive to the retailer and most have shut down).
The initial deal is believed to cover only catalog since Brooks had vowed to remain retired from performing and recording new material until his youngest daughter graduates from high school in 2015, by which stage he will be 53.
Garth Brooks
Biopic
The Germs
The persistently absorbing legend of Darby Crash, the late vocalist for the founding Los Angeles punk rock band the Germs, is finally making it to the silver screen -- with a little help from the group's ex-members.
"What We Do Is Secret," written and directed by Rodger Grossman, recently wrapped principal photography here. According to music supervisor Howard Paar of Emotomusic, Grossman was shopping the project as long as seven years ago; others, including director Allison Anders, had tried and failed to put a Crash feature together. Rhino Films finally took on the film; after a financing hiccup that shut down production, shooting recommenced this spring.
Crash, who killed himself at 22 with an intentional heroin overdose on December 7, 1980 (an event overshadowed by John Lennon's murder the same day), has long been an alluring subject for a picture. Born Jan Paul Beahm and schooled in a free-wheeling educational environment at University High in West Los Angeles, he rechristened himself Bobby Pyn and then Darby Crash and became one of the first local punk rockers.
For more - The Germs
Rematch For Ratings
'Dancing With The Stars'
It's time for a good old-fashioned dance-off. Kelly Monaco and John O'Hurley will return for a rematch of the "Dancing with the Stars" finale, ABC announced Thursday. The encore performance, dubbed a "dance-off," will air Sept. 20 (8:30 p.m. ET) with a results show set for Sept. 22.
For the rematch, each pairing will perform Latin, ballroom and freestyle dances. Unlike the original 6-week series, though, they will be judged by only viewer votes, rather than a combination of votes and judge scoring.
'Dancing With The Stars'
Investigates Alleged Labor Abuses, Takes Notes
Disney
The Walt Disney Co. said Friday it has hired an auditor to investigate claims that its Chinese contractors pay workers below minimum wage, demand excessive overtime and cheat labor monitors by faking pay slips.
Disney said it has asked the nonprofit firm Verite to probe allegations by the Hong Kong-based Students and Scholars Against Corporate Misbehavior, a new group aimed at protecting Chinese workers' rights, in its report titled "Recovering Mickey's Conscience."
The operator of one of the factories named in the report, Hong Kong-based Nord Race Paper International Ltd., denied some of the accusations, saying it fully complies with Chinese labor laws.
Disney
Local Folk Hero
Fugitive Alligator
More than a week after a man-sized alligator stunned authorities by surfacing in a murky Los Angeles lake, the fugitive reptile has already become a folk hero in the gritty neighborhood where he continues to outwit wranglers and elude capture.
Dozens of residents gathered on the shore of Lake Machado on Thursday, sitting in lawn chairs or scanning the water with binoculars as park rangers with nets waited for the 7-foot (2 meter) alligator to rise out of the muck.
The alligator -- who was chased around the 53-acre (21-hectare) lake for much of the week by a professional "gator wrangler" from Colorado -- did not make an appearance, having last been spotted on Wednesday night.
Fugitive Alligator
In Memory
Herta Ware
Herta Ware, who appeared in plays, films and TV shows and helped found the popular outdoor Southern California theater Will Geer Theatricum Botanicum, has died at 88.
The actress played Capt. Jean Luc Picard's mother in an episode of "Star Trek: The Next Generation" and appeared in such films as "Cocoon," "Practical Magic" and "Soapdish." She also appeared on television in episodes of "ER," "The Golden Girls," "Cagney & Lacey," "Knots Landing" and other shows and, until recent years, was often in plays at the Will Geer theater. The theater is named for her late ex-husband.
She had begun acting in plays in New York City in the 1930s, appearing on Broadway in "Let Freedom Ring" in 1935.
She divorced Geer in the 1950s but remained close to him until his death in 1978. She titled her 2000 memoir, "Fantastic Journey, My Life With Will Geer."
Ware moved with her family to then-rural Topanga Canyon in the early 1950s after Geer was blacklisted from films and television for refusing to testify before Congress' House UnAmerican Activities Committee. Unable to support his family, he had lost his home in Santa Monica.
The couple soon founded the Theatricum Botanicum to pursue Geer's interests of live theater and botany. They survived financially by putting on plays and concerts featuring blacklisted actors and friends like folk singers Woody Guthrie and Pete Seeger.
Herta Ware
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