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Louis Ferrara: My Mom And Zelda
2008-05-17 15:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Technology confuses my mom.Watch the Video:
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New Band Dead by Sunrise, Next Linkin Park Album
2008-05-17 05:41:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Linkin Park frontman Chester Bennington debuted his new band, Dead by Sunrise, during an anniversary party for his tattoo parlor chain, Club Tattoo, at the Marquee Theatre in Tempe, Arizona, on Saturday. “I wouldn’t call it a side project,” Bennington said before the show. “We’re a full, ready-to-go band and so this is something we take very seriously.” The band, which includes Bennington and members of the group Julien-K (which contains several members of Orgy), is a traditional rock outfit that is more straight-ahead and melodic than Linkin Park.
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The Cure Deliver A Devilish Good Time at Tour Opener
2008-05-17 05:33:00
Share on StumbleUpon: While pale, expressionless Robert Smith look-alikes skulked around Fairfax, Virginia’s Patriot Center at Friday night’s Cure show, the man himself appeared almost jovial as the band kicked off its North American tour.Smith flashed the crowd a demonic schoolgirl grin often, did a bit of goofy dancing and even poked fun at his own stamina, mock-panting after pulling off high and long-held notes on both “From the Edge of the Deep Green Sea” and “The End of the World.” Although he wasn’t feeling festive enough to accept a peck from guitarist Porl Thompson (back for his third time around with the group) as they played the intro to “A Forest,” the frontman expressed the maximum level of giddiness appropriate for a career malcontent.The keyboard-less line-up of Smith, Thompson, bass player Simon Gallup and drummer Jason Cooper plowed through desolate material, such as “Prayers for Rain,” “A Strange Day” and “One Hundred Years” with the right amount of glum force, but ...
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Beck Conjures 1960s Brit-Rock Vibe on Danger Mouse-Produced “Modern Guilt”
2008-05-17 05:26:00
Share on StumbleUpon: " target="_blank">“It was the most intensive work I’ve ever done on anything,” Beck says the day after finishing his new record, sounding slightly dazed. For his 10th studio disc, Beck worked with Brian Burton, better known as Danger Mouse — who’s overcommitted as both a producer and a member of Gnarls Barkley, which just released a record of their own. “It was like trying to fit two years of songwriting into two and a half months,” Beck says. “I know I did at least 10 weeks with no days off, until four or five in the morning every night.” Burton remembers Beck’s stamina during their late-night sessions: “He’s like a machine. I always got tired before he did. I stayed pretty late, but I’d usually hear the next day how late it went.” The resulting album, tentatively titled Modern Guilt, is full of off-kilter rhythms and left-field breakdowns, with an overall 1960s British vibe. Beck’s vocals float over the music as if he’s singing along to some mystical radio st...
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B-52’s Prep for True Colors Tour
2008-05-17 05:19:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Every time they take a stage, the B-52’s prove that there never has been another band remotely like them — even without their old thrift-store costumes and beehive wigs. At the Independent, a no-nonsense, 450-person-capacity San Francisco club, the veteran New Wave act road-tested a high-energy set that combined its all-purpose party anthems like “Love Shack” with jaunty new songs from Funplex, its first album in 16 years. Whether this stop on a short club trek was a dress rehearsal for Cyndi Lauper’s much larger True Colors summer tour or a way for the quartet to recharge its batteries at the kind of small joints it abandoned soon after unleashing its 1979 debut, the Athens, Georgia-originated band proved its singularly kitschy fusion of surf, garage and sci-fi dance-rock has aged as well as its members.Opening their show with the locomotive rhythms of Funplex’s “Pump,” the four surviving B-52’s faced their enthusiastic fans in a line formation at the front of...
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Metallica Launch “Mission: Metallica”
2008-05-17 05:11:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Nearly a decade after lashing out at Napster because their music was getting out there too early, Metallica will put material from their forthcoming album online on their own terms today with the launch of “Mission : Metallica." The site currently features a trailer for what’s to come and the option to sign up for e-mail alerts, but the band promises that users will be able to watch footage of the band in the studio, hear riffs as they are written and enter to win backstage passes for concerts this summer. The band is also advertising something called “Mission: Metallica Platinum,” which will provide downloads of live shows and delivery of the physical album the day it comes out, though there is no indication of how much this service will cost. The band promises even more content concepts will premiere on the site in the coming weeks, all of which will lead up to the release of Metallica’s still-untitled new studio album, expected in September.
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Historic Blockbuster Store Offers Glimpse Of How Movies Were Rented In The
2008-05-17 04:58:00
Share on StumbleUpon: The Blockbuster Video Living Museum offers tourists a glimpse of how Americans rented movies before the advent of services like Netflix and iTunes.Watch the Video Report:
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Aussie Fined For Buckling Beer, Not Kid
2008-05-17 04:53:00
Share on StumbleUpon: An Australian man has been fined after buckling in a case of beer with a seat belt but leaving a 5-year-old child to sit on the car's floor, police said Tuesday.Constable Wayne Burnett said he was "shocked and appalled" when he pulled over the unregistered car Friday in the central Australian town of Alice Springs.The 30-can beer case was strapped in between two adults sitting in the back seat of the car. The child was also in back, but on the car's floor.
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Oklahoma Town Elects 19-Year-Old Mayor
2008-05-17 04:49:00
Share on StumbleUpon: A 19-year-old freshman at the University of Oklahoma was elected mayor Tuesday of Muskogee, a city of 38,000 in the northeastern part of the state.With all precincts reporting, John Tyler Hammons won with 70% of the vote over former Mayor Hershel Ray McBride, said Muskogee County Election Board Secretary Bill Bull."The public placing their trust in me is the greatest, humbling and most awesome experience I've ever had in my life," said Hammons, who is from Muskogee but attends the university in Norman.
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Church Uses $500 Gas Raffle To Lure Worshippers
2008-05-17 04:43:00
Share on StumbleUpon: So much for spaghetti suppers: The First Baptist Church of Snellville is fueling its membership drive with a sign in front of its sprawling campus proclaiming "Free Gasoline."There's a catch, of course. The offer is a not a giveaway. Instead, each time newcomers or members attend a church event during a Sunday-to-Wednesday revival they get a pink raffle ticket for a chance to win one of two $500 gas cards."We don't know how far it will go with these soaring prices," said Rusty Newman, the church's senior pastor. "But it may make someone's night."Newman's congregation boasts roughly 9,000 members, but only about 2,500 regularly attend Sunday services.The church, like others, has long relied on special dinners and giveaways to draw in members, but elders wanted something a little more timely for this latest pitch.
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Lisa Alvedado: Becoming My Mother
2008-05-15 16:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: My ex-boyfriend was such a quitter.Watch the Video:
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Why? Tell Me Why! :: Alaska Oil
2008-05-15 15:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: After spending a week in Alaska , Discovery News' Kasey-Dee Gardner wanted to find out why the state is so abundant in that resource.Watch the Video:

Down to the Finish
2008-05-14 16:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: The Kentucky Derby, the election and the Bush administration are all wrapping up and in no case is it pretty.Watch the Video:
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Iditarod Vlog: Reindeer Games
2008-05-14 15:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Anchorage's annual Fur Rendezvous festival started a new tradition this year - the Running of the Reindeer. Kasey-Dee Gardner and Jorge Ribas find out if man outran beast.Watch the Video:
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Mike Kosta: Disappointing Mom
2008-05-13 16:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: When Grown up Children Disappoint Mom.Watch the Video:
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Why? Tell Me Why! :: Dog Itching and Twitching
2008-05-13 15:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Have you ever noticed when you scratch a dog their leg starts twitching like crazy? This week Kasey-Dee Gardner talks to a veterinarian to find out why that happens.Watch the Video:

Momo Rodriguez: Dressing as Batman
2008-05-12 16:30:00
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The Skinny On Mushing Terminology
2008-05-12 15:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Haw! Gee! Do those words make you feel like a sled deg? They should. Kasey Dee finds out why.Watch the Video:
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Richard Villa: No Escaping
2008-05-11 20:00:00
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Maria Menozzi: Mom and E-mail
2008-05-11 17:00:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Trying to teach mom about how to use e-mail.Watch the Video:
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Cool Jobs: Iditarod Musher
2008-05-11 15:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Cold sleds, freezing temps and warm dog breath... an Iditarod musher's dream. Kasey-Dee Gardner jumps on a sled to find out what the big deal is.Watch the Video:
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Reef Near Miami: a Cemetery Underwater
2008-05-11 11:00:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Associated Press • May. 10, 2008. 08:24 PM ESTAbout forty-five feet beneath the ocean's surface lies a cemetery with gates, pathways, plaques and even benches. It's called the Neptune Memorial Reef .Watch the Video Report:
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ShowBiz Minute: DMX, Bollea, More
2008-05-11 09:30:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Associated Press • May. 09, 2008. 08:03 PM ESTThe Hulk's son gets eight months in jail, DMX is arrested on drug and animal-cruelty charges, Foxy Brown pleads guilty to threatening a neighbor, R. Kelly's child pornography trial is underway and the 'Idol's get some hometown love.Watch the Video Report:
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Ancient Torture Devices You Would Not Want To Find Yourself In
2008-05-11 09:00:00
Share on StumbleUpon: For all you wannabe dictators, a list of ancient torture and execution devices that you would not want to find yourself in.Brazen Bull - Designed in Ancient Greece, this device was a hollow bull made entirely of brass. Criminals were sealed inside. The bull was then heated up over a fire. The conductive metal would literally roast the victim alive. As if that weren't enough, a series of valves in the bull's snout would muffle the screams of the victim, creating a sound like an angry bull.Crocodile Shears - A medieval torture device that consisted of two blades. When clamped together, the blades formed a tube. Inside the tube were several sharp spikes. The crocodile shears were clamped down on an an erect penis and after enough force was exerted, the penis was torn from the body. Reserved for those who attempted to assasinate members of the royal family.
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Man Crashes Car; Watches Home Burn; Gets Ticket
2008-05-11 06:54:00
Share on StumbleUpon: One moment, Justin Hill was turning into his driveway. Minutes later he was being flown to a hospital as his home went up in flames. Then he got a traffic ticket.Hill, 42, got into a crash after turning into the path of an oncoming car Tuesday evening, said Tennessee Highway Patrol Officer Monte Terry. Hill's wife heard the crash and ran outside, leaving the kitchen stove, where she had been cooking, unattended.Within minutes, their Rock Island trailer was on fire, and firefighters who had responded to the accident found themselves fighting the blaze.The rural central Tennessee home had extensive damage. Hill was treated at the hospital and released, but he was cited in the accident for failure to yield.
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Legally Blind Man, 78, Bowls Perfect Game
2008-05-11 06:51:00
Share on StumbleUpon: A 78-year-old legally blind man nicknamed "The Hammer" has bowled a perfect game. Dale Davis of Alta, Iowa, nailed 12 consecutive strikes and reached 300 on Saturday night during league play."It's a great sport. It's something the young, the old and the handicapped can do," Davis said Thursday. "I guess I count as the old and handicapped."Davis has suffered from macular degeneration, a chronic eye disease, for the past decade. He can't see out of his left eye and has limited peripheral vision in his right eye.
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Omaha Man Says This Was His Second Self-Tracheotomy
2008-05-11 06:48:00
Share on StumbleUpon: The 55-year-old Omaha man who performed a tracheotomy on himself with a steak knife says he did the same thing to himself two years ago.Steve Wilder said Friday that his throat is shrunken because of radiation treatments for cancer. Those treatments ended four years ago, but scar tissue remains. He said seasonal allergies may have caused his struggle to breathe overnight April 30."I didn't feel no pain. I was just trying to survive," Wilder said in his high-pitched, gravelly voice. "I got relief right away. There was a big gush of blood, and I was able to start sucking in air."

Man Finds Ill. Woman's Wallet That Had Been Stolen in 1973
2008-05-11 06:45:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Sandy Baumberger says she never expected to see her wallet again when it was stolen 35 years ago.But it has been found by a 30-year-old dental student who tracked her down and returned it.Eric Wherley says he found the wallet in a bathroom stall at school after a water pipe broke and loosened some ceiling tiles. The thief who stole the wallet apparently had hidden it in the drop ceiling.The dark-blue patent leather wallet contained Baumberger's driver's license, library cards and Social Security card. It also had her student ID, a grocery list, and cloth swatches from her bridesmaids' dresses.Baumberger says she and her husband are planning to give Wherley a gift for his efforts.
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Tina Turner To Rock Anew
2008-05-10 21:56:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Tina Turner says for years, wherever she went -- restaurants, shops, on the street -- fans would pass her little notes asking her to go back on tour.Now, "The Queen of Rock 'n Roll," is hitting the road -- in October -- after an eight-year hiatus.With her sexy, smoky voice, and thigh-high hemlines, Turner has rocked the house for more than half a century -- becoming one of the most successful rock stars of all time, with more than 170 million albums sold.She sat down with Early Show co-anchor Julie Chen to the keys to her powerful concerts."My blessing," she told Chen, "is that most of my audiences are right there with me. They know what to expect. ... They're so ready. It's just like -- even when they're in their chairs, they don't stay in their chairs very long!"
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Chicago Man Plans His Beer-Can Burial
2008-05-08 19:33:00
Share on StumbleUpon: Bill Bramanti will love Pabst Blue Ribbon eternally, and he's got the custom-made beer-can casket to prove it. The 67-year-old suburban Chicago man ordered a casket that looks just like a can of Pabst Blue Ribbon beer.
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