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Amazon deal sealed Borders' doomWednesday, July 20, 2011 @ 12:02AMNEW YORK - Borders Groups almost certain liquidation may have begun with a toast a decade ago celebrating its decision to pay Amazon.com to run its website.At an August, 2001 party near Borders headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich., then-Chief Executive Officer...

Gaga's Born This Way an anthem at Pride cabaretTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 7:23PMListen to the music and dress like Lady Gaga — just some of what is in store for Halifax Pride today.For the party, head to Reflections Cabaret for Lady Gaga night Born This Way, with guest drag performances and Gaga tunes playing all night long. The event begins at 11 p.m.Also tonight, songwriter Ryan MacGrath is holding an event at the Alderney Landing Library at 6 p.m., while Youth Project ...

Sandra Bernhard's 'I Love Being Me, Don't You?' Graces L.A. For Four Nights In AugustTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 6:03PMBacked by a four-piece band, Bernhard presents a "no-holds-barred evening of outrageous humor, cutting satire and fiercely energetic live performance." Her comedy album of the same title released in June. No virgin to the limelight, Bernhard first stepped on stage at The Comedy Store in L.A. in the 1970s and has since toured the U.S. and Europe, delighting audiences with her edgy stage shows ...

Warren William: As Titan of Industry, King of Pre-CodeTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:21PMThe talkies came, the stock market crashed, and Hollywood ran a race against hysteria. For those who like their movies short, snappy, and sensational, not to mention brazenly unencumbered by the Production Code straitjacket, the early 1930s glitter like gold. Every other year or so, Film Forum ...

Turning Comedy out of ErrorsTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 4:15PMStripped down Shakespeare tickles SC’s funny bone This is Danny Scheie's seventh time directing “The Comedy of Errors,” but his second for Shakespeare Santa Cruz, which debuts on July 9 and runs until Aug. 28 at the Mainstage Theater.

Borders' demise may have begun with decision to hire AmazonTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:37PMMatt Townsend (Bloomberg) - Borders Group Inc. 's almost certain liquidation may have begun with a toast a decade ago celebrating its decision to pay Amazon.com Inc. to run its website.

Champagne toast marked start of Borders’ demiseTuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:20PMChampagne toast marked start of Borders’ demise By Matt Townsend Bloomberg News Published Jul 19, 2011 01:15PM MDT New York • Borders Group’s almost certain liquidation may have begun with a toast a decade ago celebrating its decision to pay Amazon.com to run its website. At an August, 2001 party near Borders’ headquarters in Ann Arbor, Mich., then-CEO Gregory Josefowicz brandished a bottle of ...

New on DVD - Limitless and Take Me Home Tonight - July 19, 2011Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:05PMSuper-fantastic designer drugs and totally awesome flashbacks: in the sci-fi-esque drama Limitless a grungy would-be author (Bradley Cooper) finds that a new pill changes his failed life for the better (he thinks), while in the 1980s-set comedy Take Me Home...

Time for ‘Three’Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 2:01PMAll for one, one for Shakespeare Santa Cruz This year's Shakespeare Santa Cruz production of Alexander Dumas' epic masterpiece, “The Three Musketeers,” is set against a redwood forest backdrop—that sublime Sinsheimer-Stanley Festival Glen we have all come to appreciate.