‘Chicken Little’ lays golden egg at box office
The News Review:
- ‘Chicken Little’ lays golden egg at box office
- FLASH FROM PAST COMES BACK TO HONOR BLUESMAN
- HOME FRONT; Strength in Numbers on the Internet
- What the papers aren’t telling us
- Man of the moment
- TRANSFORMATION OF NEW ZEALAND MUSIC CHARTED IN NEW BOOK.
- Mobile home park became death trap in tornado
‘Chicken Little’ lays golden egg at box office
Washington Post - Nov 13, 2005
’s first home-grown computer-animated cartoon sold about $32 million worth of tickets in the three days beginning Friday, followed by the sci-fi adventure “Zathura” with $14 million, the thriller “Derailed” with $12. 8 million, and rapper 50 Cent’s gritty urban drama “Get Rich or Die Tryin”‘ with $12.
FLASH FROM PAST COMES BACK TO HONOR BLUESMAN
San Francisco Chronicle - Nov 13, 2005
They’re all dead now, all the people who stole from me,” former Muddy Waters drummer Francis Clay says with a chuckle, looking back on his long career in the music business. So are many of those who shone in the spotlight while Clay kept the band on its toes behind them: John Lee Hooker, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Gypsy Rose Lee, Jimi Hendrix and Charlie Parker, to name a few. There are some in the music world who assumed that Clay, the man Big City Blues magazine refers to as the “gentleman of the blues,” had died as well. Among them had been a former bandmate, southpaw bass player Mac Arnold. On Tuesday, Arnold instead will be the headlining act at Biscuits and Blues as Clay celebrates his 82nd birthday. Arnold and Clay are the only surviving members of their incarnation of the Waters band… He keeps it close at hand when he’s home. “Too bad we have to travel so far,” he says. Were the gig closer to his farm, he’d be doing his usual routine of bringing along home-grown vegetables and melons to give away. Arnold will be backed by his five-piece band, the same South Carolina neighbors who finally, after more than a decade of trying, persuaded him to give musicianship another shot and who have stuck behind him ever since. “We’re gonna definitely do something different,” Arnold promises. Francis Clay’s Birthday Party features Mac Arnold in shows at 8:30 and 10:30 p.
HOME FRONT; Strength in Numbers on the Internet
New York Times - Nov 13, 2005
I knew there was something out there, she said recently, but I didnt think it would involve technology. Certainly not computer technology. Hermann, who turned 50 yesterday, had never even used a computer until she bought one for herself in 1999.
What the papers aren’t telling us
The Age - Nov 13, 2005
The superbly publicised arrests of 18 alleged home-grownterrorists in Sydney and Melbourne last week allowed the FederalGovernment to neatly sidestep the negative response from most ofthe press and the legal profession to the severity of theGovernment’s proposed anti-terrorist laws. It now seems a safe bet that the laws will be enacted, largelyunamended, though a parliamentary committee hearing and thecontinuing efforts of Liberal MPs, including Petro Georgiou,Malcolm Turnbull and Senator George Brandis, may achieve somefurther changes. Yet when the laws are finally passed, even themost diligent citizen will have found it difficult to discover whatis actually in them or why they have been framed in this severeform. We have heard and read plenty of commentary, but the press hasbeen less than diligent - careless, I would say - in telling usexactly what the laws provide. The media, consumed by the excitement of the politics of terrorand by last week’s raids in Sydney and Melbourne, have scarcelyrelieved this public ignorance, which is odd because the industryhas grave misgivings about the erosion of press freedoms in thebill and its sedition laws.
Man of the moment
The Age - Nov 13, 2005
He speaks to Lily Bragge. LOOKING forward to bottling his first crop of home-grown honeyfor the year, author, broadcaster and journalist Simon Winchesterhas been meticulously hunting for the perfect typeface to grace thelabels on his jars. Dividing his time between an apartment in New York’s Chelsea anda small farm in the Berkshires of Massachusetts, the 61-year-oldEnglish-born and Oxford-educated geologist is a man of varied andobscure interests. Aside from being a keen apiarist, one of Winchester’s otherhobbies is letterpress printing. Having named his farm Barnhill inhonour of the house where George Orwell wrote his best work,Winchester says that, once he finds that elusive typeface, thelabels will bear the title Barnhill Honey. The plan is to then giveit away as gifts.
TRANSFORMATION OF NEW ZEALAND MUSIC CHARTED IN NEW BOOK.
Free with registration - Asia Africa Intelligence Wire - AccessMyLibrary.com - Nov 13, 2005
HEATHER TYLER of NZPA talks to author John Dix about the changes. Wellington, Nov 13 NZPA - It is half a century since Kiwi rock ‘n’ roll was born and the music industry has never looked more buoyant. Radio plays about 20 percent local content, the New Zealand Music Commission pumps out incentives, record labels treat artists with the respect previously dished out for overseas acts and the listening public is buying up local music in spades. But it was not always like this. When veteran music writer John Dix launched the first edition of his encyclopaedic Stranded in Paradise in 1988, it was the first definitive history of New Zealand rock ‘n’ roll and Chris Knox said “You people will never.
Mobile home park became death trap in tornado
USA Today - Nov 13, 2005
tornado deaths, Brooks estimated that mobile home residents are between 15 to 20 times more likely to die in a tornado than those who live in wood-frame houses. Also, the percentage of Americans living in mobile homes has grown from about 5% in 1980 to about 8% today, Brooks said. Since the late 1970s, the annual percentage of tornado fatalities involving mobile home residents has doubled — from about 25% in the late 1970s to about 50% in recent years, Brooks said. Department of Housing and Urban Development sets the standards mobile-home construction and what anchors them to the ground.