Day: February 20, 2017

Alex Trebek Raps Clues to Students on Jeopardy

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Rubin: Why grow up when you can play with trains?

For the volunteer crew at mammoth Chi-Town Station in Commerce Township, adulthood is optional when the tracks are full. Rubin: Why grow up when you can play with trains? For the volunteer crew at mammoth Chi-Town Station in Commerce Township, adulthood is optional when the tracks are full.

See Young the Giant’s set list at The F Shed in Syracuse

Young the Giant brought its “Home of the Strange” tour to The F Shed at The Market on Monday, with opening guest Lewis Del Mar. It’s notoriously difficult to sell tickets for Monday night concerts, but hundreds of people packed into the front of the shed. Young the Giant formed in Irvine, California, in 2004.

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Students and community members at Wayne State College welcomed home two Nebraska broadcasting legends, Monday night, including an Emmy-award winning talk show host. The always fun-loving Dick Cavett joined long-time friend, Ron Hull, on the Wayne State campus for a conversation and plenty of storytelling.

John Akpata to perform at ‘Poetry In Motion 2017’

The Northern Griots Network , in association with Poetry in Motion, has announced Canadian poet, John Akpata, as a featured performer at this month’s staging. Akpata, who is of Nigerian and Guyanese heritage, is an exceptionally talented performer and spoken word poet based out of Ottawa, Canada.

Will Team Trump forget to fight the culture wars? 0:0

During the Cold War, peaceniks proposed unilateral disarmament: Let the Soviets keep their nukes, we’ll get rid of ours. The Cold War is over, but there’s another war going on, a culture war being fought over whether there’s anything honorable or decent in American and Western history and culture.

Camryn Manheim pushes buttons as steely chief on ‘Major Crimes’ 0:0

Camryn Manheim joins the cast in the recurring role of LAPD Deputy Chief of Operations Winnie Davis, a by-the-book cop who locks horns with Major Crimes Division Captain Sharon Raydor . It’s a table-turner for Raydor, the former internal affairs head who was originally an antagonist to Deputy Chief Brenda Leigh Johnson on “The Closer,” from which “Major Crimes” was spun off in 2012.

PSL 2017: Lahore Qalandars win thriller against Islamabad

And New Zealander Grant Elliott smoked a six over long on off experienced pacer Mohammad Sami, to nick a one-wicket victory, with five balls to spare for the Lahore Qalandars against defending champions Islamabad United , late on Monday night. They came together with the score 83-6 after a number of decisions went against Islamabad’s more senior players with Dwayne Smith, Misbah-ul-Haq and Shane Watson all displeased with their dismissals.

The Bachelor’: 9 Most Awkward Hometown Dates

From ex-boyfriends to fertility clinics, see which hometown dates have been the most uncomfortable on “The Bachelor” and “The Bachelorette” Take a look back at the most awkward hometown dates before Nick Viall meets the families of the last four women. When Sean Lowe visited Desiree Hartsock’s home in 2013, her brother didn’t shy away from telling him how he really felt.

The Set List: Sonoma live music, Feb. 21 – 23

The Electric Wattles, a splinter group of the Straw Wattles, above, will be in front of the musical eight ball this Thursday at the Sonoma Speakeasy. Tonight, Feb. 21: “New Orleans R&B and American Roots Night” with Lou A. Rodriguez, Tim Eschliman and Bruce Gordon.

Kung Fu Saloon coming to Fort Worth

Kung Fu Saloon , the Austin-based bar and arcade mini-chain that also has a location in Uptown Dallas, recently signed a lease to move in near the corner of Morton and Foch streets, not far from a roster other popular bar/restaurants including Reservoir , Varsity Tavern , Whiskey Garden , Landmark and many more . Kung Fu Saloon features vintage video games such as Pac-Man, Donkey Kong and Mortal Kombat, plus skeeball and foosball.

Hot sauce and hope for Conan O’Brien in Mexico

The towering U.S. television host Conan O’Brien is drawing stares in Mexico, where he’s taping an episode of his show in a bid to “do something positive” about the tensions in U.S.-Mexico relations. O’Brien, who is 6-feet-4, arrived late last week and has spent part of his time in Mexico City strolling the streets, greeting people and trying the food.

FOX’s Brenda Buttner Passes Away

Longtime friend and colleague Neil Cavuto, managing editor and anchor for both Fox News Channel and FOX Business Network, delivered a heartfelt tribute to Buttner, describing her as “incredibly brave.” Cavuto said “She took stock of life much more than any stock in life.

Publisher cancels Milo Yiannopoulos book ‘Dangerous’ new

Simon & Schuster and its Threshold Editions imprint announced Monday that “after careful consideration” they had pulled the book, which had been high on Amazon.com’s best-seller lists and was the subject of intense controversy. The announcement came hours after the Breitbart editor was disinvited to this year’s Conservative Political Action Conference because of past comments about relationships between boys and men.

Conservative group cancels speech by Yiannopoulos

In this Jan. 25, 2017, file photo, Milo Yiannopoulos speaks on campus in the Mathematics building at the University of Colorado in Boulder, Colo. Right-wing provocateur Yiannopoulos was trying to clarify past comments on relationships between boys and older men after a conservative site posted a collection of edited video clips that set social media abuzz.

Ticket Box: Ryan Adams, Jerry Seinfeld and more

Ticket Box: Ryan Adams, Jerry Seinfeld and more On-sale dates for upcoming events: Check out this story on northjersey.com: http://northjersy.news/2lnlFT4 At 10 a.m., Incubus , “Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show” , OneRepublic and Styx and REO Speedwagon at the PNC Bank Arts Center, Holmdel; and Incubus , “Chris Stapleton’s All-American Road Show,” , OneRepublic and and Styx and REO Speedwagon at Northwell Health at Jones Beach, Wantagh, N.Y. Live Nation. At noon, Jerry Seinfield, 7 and 9:30 p.m. Nov. 2 and Dec. 8 at the Beacon Theatre, Manhattan.

Mar-a-Lago: Trump’s Winter White House takes over Palm Beach

President Donald Trump, a newcomer to the White House, is still developing his relationship with the people of Washington. But that’s far from the case with the people of Palm Beach — now the location of his so-called Winter White House — the long spit of land off Florida’s East Coast that the real estate mogul has been frequenting for decades.

Vatican, Rome’s Jews putting on first-ever joint museum show

The museums of the Vatican and Rome’s ancient Jewish community have teamed up to host their first-ever joint exhibit, building on decades of improved Catholic-Jewish relations after centuries of mistrust. The exhibit’s focus is the menorah, the seven-armed candelabrum depicted in Jewish, Catholic and secular art over the centuries.

Trump wigs in big demand during Carnival season in Austria

So many people want to be Donald Trump this Carnival season in Austria that some costume shops have run out of wigs mimicking the U.S. president’s memorable hairstyle. Plank thought she was ready to meet demand with the 10 Trump wigs she had stocked for Austria’s pre-Lenten season of balls and other masked events.

3 men convicted in $110 million Paris modern art heist

An agile thief nicknamed “Spiderman,” an antiques dealer and an art expert were sentenced to prison Monday and ordered to pay Paris for stealing five masterpieces from the city’s Modern Art Museum worth 104 million euros The Paris court convicted “Spiderman” Vjeran Tomic of stealing the paintings and sentenced him to eight years in prison.

Shia LaBeouf relocates

The 30-year-old Transformers star joined forces with artistic collaborators Luke Turner and Nastja Sade Ronkko to launch the four-year art project HEWILLNOTDIVIDE.US on 20 January ” the day Trump was inaugurated into office as the 45th President of the United States. The interactive installation based outside the Museum of the Moving Image in Queens, New York featured a live-stream broadcast where people were encouraged to face the camera to state “he will not divide us.”

When Legislature curbs free speech for a worthya goals

Back before the internet made it so easy to find a celebrity’s age, a 29-year-old actress landed the role of a 17-year-old girl – and helped propel “Beverly Hills 90210” into a hit TV show in the 1990s. That was the story actress Gabrielle Carteris told state lawmakers last year as she lobbied for a bill to strip actors’ ages from commercial websites used in casting.

HBO Released “Veep” Season 6 Trailer

The previous season of the hit HBO comedy series, “Veep,” ended on an all-too-relevant note. Selina, played by actress Julia Louis-Dreyfus, lost her roles as President, and also had a great foreign policy achievement stolen from her.

TV Land’s Keith Cox Named President of Development at…

Keith Cox, who currently heads development at TV Land, will add oversight of the new Paramount Network, TheWrap has learned. The network’s current EVP of Original Programming, Sharon Levy, will step down from the network, which is currently called Spike and is expected to relaunch under its new name in 2018.

Josh Gad Enlists Chris Pratt, Penelope Cruz to Grill Daisy…

Josh Gad has stopped grilling “Murder on the Orient Express” costar Daisy Ridley about “Star Wars: The Last Jedi” – instead, he enlisted Chris Pratt, Penelope Cruz and Bryce Dallas Howard to do the questioning. “Please don’t say you’re setting me up this time,” Ridley says to Gad, who is filming the interaction for the Instagram video below.

John Glenn still inspires 55 years after his 1st orbit

Since Glenn’s death on Dec. 8 at the age of 95, untold numbers of devotees have stopped by an exhibit of his artifacts on the campus of Ohio State University, backers have begun fundraising for an observatory and astronomy park in Glenn’s name and work has begun on a 7-foot statue in his likeness. While he also spent time as a military test pilot and U.S. senator, it was the history-making Mercury mission that propelled Glenn and his spacecraft Friendship 7 into the history books.

Flood fears renewed as California is pounded by storm

Downpours swelled creeks and rivers Monday in Northern California, threatening to cause even more flooding in the already soggy region. In the San Joaquin Valley, residents were patrolling levees for signs of danger, reviewing evacuation plans and filling hundreds of sand bags after the San Joaquin River kept rising.

The big moral dilemma facing self-driving cars

This once-hypothetical question is now taking on greater urgency, particularly among policymakers in Washington. The promise of autonomous vehicles is that they will make our roads safer and more efficient, but no technology is without its shortcomings and unintended consequences – in this instance, potentially fatal consequences.

Trump’s promises hit Washington reality in first month

President Donald Trump is facing a humbling prospect: The same Washington buzzsaw that frustrated his 44 predecessors can pose significant hurdles for him as well. In his first month in office, Trump has found the vast government machine can’t be reset at a president’s whim with the same ease that an executive can manage a business.

Franchise Recap: The King Kong Movies Guide

Before we head back to monster inhabited lands in Legendary and Warner Bros. Pictures ‘ Kong: Skull Island , we’re taking a look back at nearly a century of King Kong movies! This year, King Kong gets a new adventure and origin story in a post-Vietnam world from director Jordan Vogt-Roberts .

Simon Cowell books dinosaur for Eric’s birthday party

Simon Cowell arranged for a dinosaur to entertain guests at his son Eric’s birthday party on Sunday . The ‘X Factor’ boss threw little Eric – his child with fiancee Lauren Silverman – a lavish bash in London to mark him turning three and guests were entertained by a life-life robotic reptile.

China goes Hollywood in ‘Great Wall’

… “You have to show a viability of these types of films that go from East to West rather West to East,” he said. entertainment firms amounted to nearly $9 billion, according to the Rhodium Group. Investment in 2016 more than doubled all investment in …

3 convicted in 100 million-euro Paris modern art heist

An agile thief nicknamed “spiderman,” an antiques dealer and an art expert have been sentenced to prison and ordered to pay the city of Paris for stealing five masterpieces from the city’s Modern Art Museum worth 104 million euros. The Paris court on Monday convicted “Spiderman” Vjeran Tomic of stealing the paintings and sentenced him to eight years in prison.

Bronx Mini-Mart Owner: Customer ‘Very Lucky’ After Car Plows Into Store

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‘The Bachelor’ Is Coming to Brooklyn

Perhaps Nick can start a new life as the unofficial bachelor of Brooklyn by growing his beard and become a mumblecore film star On this season of The Bachelor , the contestants have visited New Orleans to participate in a second line , Wisconsin and Bimini, which may or many not be a real place. Now, the remaining women are venturing to New York-Brooklyn, to be specific.

3 former USA gymnasts detail alleged abuse from team physician

Three former stars of the U.S. national women’s gymnastics team said Dr. Lawrence Nassar, the team physician now charged with child sex crimes, worked hard to win their trust – so they didn’t believe at first that his alleged abuse was wrong. “He was like my buddy,” Jamie Dantzscher – one of more than 60 women to come forward with abuse allegations against Nassar – told “60 Minutes” in an episode about the case.

Holly Willoughby apologises after Joey Essex swears on This Morning

This Morning presenter Holly Willoughby apologised to the programme’s viewers after reality TV star Joey Essex swore live on air during the broadcast. Willoughby said that Essex, who was off-screen at the time, had not realised his microphone was still on when he was heard saying the words “f****** shithole” over another segment of the daily ITV programme.

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr come together for studio session

Paul McCartney and Ringo Starr were in the studio together over the weekend working on the latter’s latest album. Screen grabbed image taken from the Twitter feed of Ringo Starr of the former Beatles drummer with Sir Paul McCartney Starr posted a photo on Twitter on Monday morning, writing: “Thanks for coming over man and playing.

Trump seeks national security adviser, health care strategy

President Donald Trump’s holiday weekend featured a raucous campaign rally, a health care strategy session, interviews for a new national security adviser – and even a few holes of golf. Trump brought four contenders to his private club Mar-a-Lago club in Florida on Sunday as he seeks a replacement for retired Gen.

You Won’t Believe Hollywood Let Jordan Peele Get Away With Get Out

Jordan Peele’s Get Out is the most trenchant studio release in years, a slow-building, often hilarious horror thriller built upon a dead-serious idea: that a black man walking alone through white suburbs is in as much danger as any slasher-flick teenager. Peele opens with that image, showing us, in a long and tense single take, a young man making his way down a sidewalk at night, studying the interchangeable homes for an address.

Madonna shares video of twins

The ‘Hung Up’ singer recently took on the care of four-year-old Estere and Stelle – who were living in an orphanage in Malawi – and it seems they are settling into their new life well. Madonna posted a clip of the youngsters, wearing matching blue and white striped pyjamas singing nursery rhyme ‘Twinkle, Twinkle Little Star’ while accompanied by 11-year-old Mercy on piano.

Fadi Fawaz insists he’ll be at George Michael’s funeral

The music icon’s 43-year-old lover was the one who found him dead at his home on Christmas Day but the ‘Careless Whisper’ hitmaker’s cousin Andros Georgiou recently insisted the hairdresser wouldn’t be welcome at his memorial service because their family “hate” him. However, Fadi has insisted that isn’t the case and when the coroner finally releases his lover’s body, he will be there at the service.

Colton Haynes finds love

The 28-year-old actor feels “so blessed” to have found love and his partner makes him want to be a “better man”. He shared a shirtless selfie of himself in bed with Jeff and wrote on Instagram: “It’s not every day that someone comes into your life & makes you want to be a better man.

Celebrity week in photos: Miles Teller’s star-studded birthday bash and more

February 18: Miles Teller celebrated his 30th birthday with a star-studded bash. Guests like Nina Dobrev, Chase Crawford, Jessica Szohr, Emile Hirsch and Miles’ longtime girlfriend, Keleigh Sperry , turned up at the private residence of Jonas Tahlin, CEO of Absolut Elyx, in L.A. February 18: Angelina Jolie attended the world premiere of her upcoming film First They Killed My Father with her six children, marking their first public appearance since she split from Brad Pitt .

2017 Writers Guild Awards Winners Announced

The Writers Guild of America , West and the Writers Guild of America, East tonight announced the 2017 Writers Guild Awards winners for outstanding achievement in writing for film, television, new media, videogames, news, radio, promotional, and graphic animation categories at concurrent ceremonies concurrent ceremonies in Los Angeles and New York City. You can view the full nominations list here .

Huntington’s E.J. Tackett wins second major title at P.B.A’s Tournament of Champions

EJ Tackett of Huntington, Ind., had four chances to throw doubles to take the lead, but in the end, he won his second Professional Bowlers Association major title in the 52nd FireLake PBA Tournament of Champions Sunday at FireLake Arena thanks in part to an unexpected error by his opponent. Tackett, at age 24, defeated 18-time PBA Tour champion Tommy Jones of Simpsonville, S.C., 208-203, when Jones left and failed to convert the 1-2-4-10 “washout” in the 10th frame.

Why Mummies?

Nowadays, when I tell prospective employers to consider mummies, the other undead temp option, I am met with blank stares. How is it that in just a few short years we’ve forgotten about our old reliable standbys, the mummies? Simple: We live in the golden age of zombies.

Inside Julie Andrews’s Puppet Show

Lisa Henson and Emma Walton Hamilton met only recently, but they have something rare in common: each has a parent who likely held a deep, enchanted place in your childhood. Henson, who is fifty-six, is the oldest daughter of Jim Henson, the creator of “Sesame Street” and the Muppets; she is now the C.E.O. of the Jim Henson Company.

New Zealand judge upholds Kim Dotcom extradition ruling

In this Nov. 27, 2014, file photo, Kim Dotcom arrives at Auckland District Court in Auckland, New Zealand. A New Zealand judge on Monday, Feb. 20, 2017, upheld an earlier court ruling that flamboyant internet entrepreneur Kim Dotcom and three of his colleagues can be extradited to the U.S. to face criminal charges.

Real places that inspired scenes in Oscar-nominated films

Part of ‘Moonlight’ were shot in Jimmy’s Eastside Diner in Miami, ‘La La Land’ had the Hermosa Beach Pier in Los Angeles Places that inspired scenes in Oscar-nominated films Part of ‘Moonlight’ were shot in Jimmy’s Eastside Diner in Miami, ‘La La Land’ had the Hermosa Beach Pier in Los Angeles Check out this story on detroitnews.com: http://detne.ws/2lxGtt8 A pedestrian walks past a street mural in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles that was featured in the musical “La La Land.” A diner in Miami, a house in Pittsburgh and a pier in Los Angeles: All of them are real places where Oscar-nominated movies were filmed.

Trump’s search for a national security adviser sums up his biggest challenges so far

President Donald Trump’s next national security adviser will serve as his eyes and ears to crises that pop up all over the globe – and be thrust into the center of the White House’s biggest firestorms too. Amid the fallout over the firing of the first person to hold the post, Michael Flynn, the president has escalated his war with the media, questions have mounted about Trump associates’ ties to Russia, and his top pick to replace Flynn backed away, making it known he was concerned about how much autonomy he would have.