‘Captain America: The First Avenger’ will open at Comic-ConMonday, July 18, 2011 @ 11:42AMParamount Pictures has announced that Captain America: The First Avenger will open at Comic-Con (or rather, across the street from Comic-Con) this Thursday, July 21, one day before its Friday opening. The film’s first screening will be at noon at the UA Horton Plaza theater, although there will be a 10 a.m. screening for fans,
Zimbabwe: Who Said Country Has No Winter?Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:59AMThis week the usual place has seen a dearth of clients but I would wager that it has not resulted in any significant reduction of sales.
KING OF AIRLINE FEESSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 11:00PMSpirit Airlines is the frat boy of the airline industry, known for provocative ads and a no-apologies attitude. But its CEO is more like the captain of a marching band.
Jimmy Buffett remembers time he hung with Chicago’s folk heroesSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:48PMLike fireflies in a jar, the characters on the cover of Steve Goodman’s “Somebody Else’s Troubles” record were captured in the summer of 1972.It was always summer when Jimmy Buffett and Goodman got together.Buffett popularized the Goodman ballads “Banana Republics” and “California Promises,” and the late Chicago singer-songwriter and Buffett co-wrote the Pensacola, Fla.-based “Frank and Lola ...
Join Julia’s jauntSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:53PMI CAN’T believe it’s been two years since Anthony Browne was appointed Britain’s Children’s Laureate. A month ago, Julia Donaldson took over from Browne and she will spend the next two years championing libraries, and promoting music and drama.
Enter stage right: Meet Britain's most promising young playwrightsSaturday, July 16, 2011 @ 6:21PMPenelope Skinner won this year's George Devine Award for Most Promising Playwright. She says: 'Gender and sexual politics are things I'm interested in - it's just that's what happens to be in my life.
Steve Jobs Lays It Down For Playboy [Apple]Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:17PM# apple In 1987, a young, brash Steve Jobs sat down with the world's preeminent gentleman's magazine. With yesterday's launch of the Playboy Commission , an editorialized guide to Heff's archives, we can take a look inside the mind of Mr. Apple. More »
Steve Jobs Lays It Down For Playboy [Apple]Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 3:17PM# apple In 1987, a young, brash Steve Jobs sat down with the world's preeminent gentleman's magazine. With yesterday's launch of the Playboy Commission , an editorialized guide to Heff's archives, we can take a look inside the mind of Mr. Apple. More »
New lightkeeper is NSA's eyes and earsFriday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:26AMGreg Goomrigian, the new Sheffield Island Lighthouse lightkeeper, comes down the steps of the lighthouse tower Monday. Photo: Contributed Photo / CT Visitors can come to Sheffield Island Lighthouse this weekend and enjoy a pirate adventure.