Excerpt on Main Street ~New Author Spotlight~ Pajamas on a Sun Stained Beach (A story somewhat supposedly based upon a true tale…) Manuscript synopsis Paul Jones Palin is a deeply depressed, severely stressed, self-medicating dysphoric agoraphobic on the verge of suicide. He’s made and lost fortunes, married and divorced three times and is terminally...
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By James Lane Taye Diggs, Tina Fey, Dennis Haysbert, Susan Sarandon and Donald Sutherland will be presenters at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards®, Executive Producer Jeff Margolis announced yesterday. They join a growing roster of actors who will honor their colleagues at the 17th Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards that already includes...
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By James Lane Comic David Frye, whose impressions of Presidents Richard Nixon, Lyndon Johnson and other prominent political figures vaulted him to popularity in the 1960s and 1970s, has died in Las Vegas, his family confirmed Saturday. He was 77. The Associated Press reports that Frye died at his home Monday of cardiopulmonary arrest,...
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By Gabe Vigh RIYL: Lucero, Okkervil River, Queens of the Stone Age, Sparklehorse From the stark, gritty innovation of 2001′s So Pretty to the touching introspection of “10000 Lakes” from 2004′s The West is the Future, Kid Dakota front man Darren Jackson crafts alt-rock fitting of the bleak but endearing South Dakotan landscapes from...
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By Gabe Vigh RIYL: Hawthorne Heights, Jimmy Eat World, Blink 182, Taking Back Sunday Since the term “emo” has come to mean different things to different people (and spawned countless thread throwdowns online), it seems safer to slide Echo Screen into the much less loaded genre of pop-punk. Is Fall Out Boy “emo”? Dashboard...
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By James Lane The Ultimate All-You-Can-Eat-&-Drink Festival Brings Together the Best of Craft & Cask Ales & NYC’s Best Bites Get Real NY announced yesterday that it is bringing back its Craft Beer & Food Festival to the Altman Building in NYC’s Flatiron District on Saturday, March 19, 2011 and Sunday, March 20, 2011...
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By James Lane A coalition of some of the country’s leading environmental organizations and Green Giant are recognizing the people who are making a difference in their communities across the country, and making our world a better, more sustainable place through a new program called The Green Awards™. The Green Awards program seeks to...
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By James Lane The independent film, “Dreams Awake”, a mystical family drama set at Mt. Shasta, will be released on DVD today. It has the distinction of being the only feature film written, shot, and edited in the Mt. Shasta, CA area. The film stars Erin Gray, Gary Graham, and Tim O”Connor. Gray is...
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By James Lane Nominations for the 83rd Academy Awards were announced yesterday (Tuesday, January 25) by Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences President Tom Sherak and 2009 Oscar winner Mo’Nique. Sherak and Mo’Nique, who won an Academy Award for her supporting performance in “Precious: Based on the Novel ‘Push’ by Sapphire,” announced the...
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Excerpt on Main Street ~New Author Spotlight~ Pajamas on a Sun Stained Beach (A story somewhat supposedly based upon a true tale…) Manuscript synopsis Paul Jones Palin is a deeply depressed, severely stressed, self-medicating dysphoric agoraphobic on the verge of suicide. He’s made and lost fortunes, married and divorced three times and is terminally...
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