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Playbill – Fat Bitch! , the new solo show written and performed by Erica Watson, will make its New York City premiere after workshops in New York City and Chicago, Feb. 11-25 at The Laurie Beechman Theater on West 42nd Street.
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Erica Watson Exposes Stereotypes in ‘Fat Bitch!’, Starting in NYC
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Playbill – Chanhassen Dinner Theatres owner Thomas K. Scallen, who has sought a buyer for his popular Minnesota complex for more than a year, has now found one – and he’s a member of the family.
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Chanhassen Artistic Director and Partners Will Take Over Popular MN Dinner Theatre
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AP – Natural gas prices tumbled Thursday after a government report showed that even after a frigid two-week winter blast, U.S. stockpiles are still well above average for this time of year.
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Natural gas dips after supply report
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Saucy vixen Chelsea Handler will be taking her biting comedy routine on the road in March in support of her forthcoming coming book “Chelsea Chelsea Bang Bang.” The comedy tour will touch down in 21 cities kicking off in Chicago March 10 and closing out in New York’s Radio City Music Hall on May 15. In addition to her standup shtick, Chelsea will be making the rounds to local area bookstores to sign books and meet fans in promotion her third book. Source: Chelsea Handler Tour
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Chelsea Lately Takes Comedy on Road
Reuters – Agribusiness and trading company Cargill Inc posted a 59 percent drop in quarterly profit on Thursday, dragged down by plunging earnings at fertilizer maker Mosaic Co , in which Cargill is the majority shareholder.
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Cargill profit tumbles in second quarter
(Reuters)
Thu, Jan 14 2010 05:38 PST
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AP – Kraft Foods Inc., engaged in a hostile takeover bid for candy maker Cadbury PLC, boosted its full-year profit outlook for the second time in two months after logging strong operating gains, as it spent more on marketing its core brands.
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Kraft Foods lifts full-year earnings outlook again
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AFP – European stocks held steady on Wednesday, with investors pausing after steep falls in Asia, as China moved to curb its credit boom and the US earnings season began on a weak note.
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European stocks stable after steep losses in Asia
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AFP – Fears that the global recovery may lose steam weighed on Asian shares Wednesday as China moved to curb its credit boom and Wall Street’s earnings season got off to a weak start.
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Asia markets fall as China moves to curb credit
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A funny thing has happened imperceptibly yet unmistakably to the British theater of late: an entire generation of stage actor has pretty well passed from view.
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On the London Stage: New Varnish for the Boards: British Theater Undergoing a Renewal
The Wells Fargo ATMs at McMurdo Station in Antarctica I was fascinated when I learned that there was an ATM on Antarctica, specifically at McMurdo Station. Just because, you know, it’s not like your local ATM that they can zip a service tech out to.
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The World’s Most Southerly ATM: An Interview With Wells Fargo’s David Parker
AP – KB Home capped its fiscal year with the first quarterly profit since 2007, thanks to a change in federal tax laws, and said it expects to turn a profit by the end of the year.
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KB Home posts $100.7M profit for Q4
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Investor’s Business Daily – Some financial services and other firms looking to cut costs in the downturn have turned to Indian outsourcer Infosys Technologies, which on Tuesday reported better-than-expected quarterly results and raised its outlook.
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Infosys Gets December-Quarter Tech Earnings Off To Nice Start
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The truism that theater is a place for collective make-believe has never seemed more true than at David Greenspan’s madcap, mind-bending odyssey into the poetics of the stage.
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Theater Review | ‘The Myopia’: A Fantastical Epic Seen Through Gertrude Stein’s Rose-Colored Glasses
Reuters – Chile inaugurated a museum on Monday to thousands murdered, “disappeared” and tortured during General Augusto Pinochet’s dictatorship, stirring up bitter memories just days before a presidential vote that is expected to pave the way for a new rightist government.
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Chilean museum raises Pinochet’s ghost before vote
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book now Event Dates: 21 May 2010 “You can’t carry on storming gigs like this. I can’t do what you can; you need to be out there and on tour.” Eddie Izzard Perrier Award nominee and Royal Variety performer, Terry Alderton holds the record for the most consecutive encores at the world famous Comedy Store. He’s first call for all the comedy club bookers in the country, but following a little chat with a certain Eddie Izzard he’s been persuaded to take to the road.
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Terry Alderton
The joyous and miserable chaos of adolescence is distilled into a remarkable hour of theater in this production from the Belgian Ontroerend Goed company.
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Theater Review | ‘Once and for All We’re Gonna Tell You Who We Are So Shut Up and Listen’: In a Playpen of Adolescence, Angst Not Included
Hocus in Focus team goes the extra mile The Hocus in Focus team over at The Linking Ring covered a tremendous amount of ground in 2009 reviewing the latest books, videos/DVDs, tricks, ebooks, pamphlets and other magical offerings to give you an independent and unbiased review so that you can make a fully informed buying decision. It is staggering to see everything that has come under their watchful eyes. Due to space limitations, not every review can appear in The Linking Ring .
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A Year in Reviews, Literally
Just a note to let both my readers know that one of my children’s poems has been included in Meet Me at My House: A Collection of Classic and Contemporary Childhood Poems for the Young and Young at Heart by Pam McLaughlin. I’m honored even though I can’t remember which poem Pam picked. Funny, things that happened a lifetime ago are clear as a bell, but recent memories quickly fade.
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Billy Jones, Writer Of Classics?
Photo © amrjoe with permission to About.com, Inc. Each Saturday, an image will be posted here that was originally posted somewhere in our forum roughly one year prior. Be sure to check back each Saturday for our blasts from the past! Forum Flashback Series – 9 January 2010 originally appeared on About.com Photography on Saturday, January 9th, 2010 at 08:45:53.
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Forum Flashback Series – 9 January 2010
PC World – The group developing a standard for wireless charging expects to complete its first specification within six months, opening the door for makers of cell phones, digital cameras and other devices to bring compatible products to market.
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Wireless Power Group Sees Standard Within 6 Months
(PC World)
Fri, Jan 08 2010 07:55 PST
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Young Elvis Presley: A Look Back at the King at 21 on His 75th Birthday: Exclusive photos from the Grammy Museum’s 2010 Presley show