Booger!Emmis Communications announced this week that it was switching New York's 101.9 FM station from smooth jazz to WRXP, the "rock experience." The news release added a charmingly retro statement, that it would feature "a playlist not determined by era, but rather by the acoustic quality of each song, as determined directly by on-air personalities and staff."
Five bucks says this case ends up as part of an episode of CSI next Fall.
The previously mentioned spazzaturaRoberto Saviano, the author of a griping and brutal account of how the Camorra works, has carefully studied the nuts and bolts of the group's waste-management business. It allows northern regions, like Tuscany and Umbria, to remain bucolic, while illegally dumping their waste at low costs in the south.
The Camorra has disposed of all kinds of dangerous toxic wastes from northern companies — printer toners, residues from leather tanneries, harmful dusts from pharmaceutical companies. That gets mixed with cement, non-metal car parts and even the remains of the dead from paupers' graves (which have to be disposed of every 50 years).
Saviano believes the Camorra is bigger, more powerful and more dangerous than the better known Sicilian Cosa Nostra.
HBO's upcoming mini-series, John Adams, is already a hit on three levels for me: I love history, Paul Giamatti & Laura Linney. And, since it's got the HBO pedigree, it's not likely to suck. The program premieres between March 16 - 27.
John Adams taps into the uncertainty and intensity surrounding the birth of the American republic and its first 50 years. With the fervent support of his wife Abigail(Linney), and through a lifelong political rivalry and friendship with Thomas Jefferson (Stephen Dillane), Adams rose to be the leader of the American independence movement, the nation's first ambassador to Holland and England, the first American Vice President, the second American President, and father of the sixth American President.
Drawn from an extensive collection of letters, diaries and family papers, David McCullough's biography of John Adams was a New York Times best seller, and proclaimed by Time magazine as a "masterwork of storytelling...a rollicking ensemble drama featuring a collection of giants." The New Yorker hailed it as a "stirring history. [McCullough's] vivid storytelling will surely persuade a generation to look again at this obstinate, brave, and most deeply philosophical of American patriarchs."
I can haz ridez?A curious cat from Camden County was discovered a long way from his New Jersey home.
Heathcliff vanished from his Sicklerville home three weeks ago only to turn up in suburban Atlanta, a distance of about 800 miles.
The curious cat apparently hitched a ride in the back of a U-Haul van and the driver had no idea.
A lot of things can change once you hit 40. For Rolling Stone magazine, it is the launch of it's first ever full issue in digital form. File under: Cool!
Gotta have a scary video for Halloween. How about some spooooky music. Black Sabbath performing their eponymous tune.
