| Questions and Answers with Jim Cowan
The Bricktown board voted to endorse the sales tax because of the huge economic role the Ford Center plays in the district year-around. From concerts to conventions, sporting events to Sesame Street, the Ford Center helps make Bricktown a destination. Q: The new and improved Ford Center would include restaurants, clubs and family recreational areas. Won't these improvements be in competition with Bricktown merchants? A: When you have in excess of 12,000 people attending an event at the Ford Center, it's hard for everyone to get into Bricktown. Not to mention that many people will go to Bricktown before or after an event, because they want the complete entertainment experience, not just a two-hour event. Q: How much of an impact did the Hornets have on Bricktown during their two years in Oklahoma City? A: The Hornets played a huge role in Bricktown.
GM Exec Stands by Calling Global Warming a “Total Crock of Shit”
The reason why I know this is because I'm an artist, and artists know a lot more about global warming than do climate scientists, as do automobile manufacturing executives. As a matter of fact, almost everyone, including George Bush, knows more about global warming than climate scientists do. Everyone knows this. .
Jazz: Trane, Blue Eyes, Lady Day
Endless uncivil wars waged among jazz lovers about what's "in" and what's "out" are absolutely no help when you're selecting a suitable jazz gift for the holidays, whether you're shopping for a novice, fan or expert.
And shoppers certainly get no help from the music's rigidly ideological critics, those self-appointed ayatollahs of taste who denounce one jazz genre or another as heretical and totally unfit for purchase.
Ignore them.
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His grandfather's death imprinted on young Lincoln
The search for the 1780s Louisville gravesite of Abraham Lincoln's grandfather began in a brightly lit McDonald's in Middletown. The tour guide was Connie Guthrie, 78. She was dressed in the early 1800s period clothing of a grieving widow; long dark calico dress with buttoned sleeves; pale yellow shawl; black mobcap. As we spoke, Guthrie would drop in and out of the role of an original Louisville settler, Peggy Chenoweth, who along with her children and husband, Capt. Richard Chenoweth, landed in 1778 with George Rogers Clark on Corn Island -- where Louisville began. Six years later, the family moved to the complete wilderness, near what is now Eastwood. They got to know a man named Abraham Lincoln -- the former president's grandfather -- who had settled a few miles away near Long Run Creek with his wife and five children, one of them a young boy named Thomas.
Doug Moe: Nominate your favorite restroom
WHILE IT is true that Wisconsin's presidential primaries are Tuesday, it is also true that more people that day will go into a rest room than a voting booth. Which makes today as good a day as any to invite readers to join me in choosing the Madison area's best restroom. Once we have a consensus pick, I will do the follow through and enter it in a highly prestigious nationwide contest that began accepting entries this week. I'm speaking of the seventh annual America's Best Restroom Award, presented by Cintas Corporation's Facility Services Division. They are accepting entries through April 7 and 10 finalists will be chosen in May. Quoting from the press release: "The winner will be announced in August of 2008 and receive the coveted 'America's Best Restroom' plaque of recognition from Cintas.
Man Marries Dog To Lift Curse
We have all heard the 'man bites dog' stories, but how about a real-life 'man marries dog' tale!This one takes the biscuit, and it could only happen in India, the land of the Kama Sutra. But you won't find this kind of love story between man and beast in the ancient Indian sex manual.
It took place for real during a traditional hindu ceremony at a temple in the southern state of Tamil Nadu. The groom in question was a 33-year-old Indian farmer named Selvakumar, and he was wed to a female dog named Selvi. He married his four legged bitch to atone for stoning two other dogs to death and stringing them up in a tree 15 years ago.
He believed the act cursed him and he had been suffering ever since, he told the Hindustan Times. After he stoned the dogs he said his legs and hands got paralysed, he lost hearing in one ear, and his speech was impaired.
Exhausted family brings Heath Ledger home
HEATH Ledger's family have begun their final journey back to Australia to bury the actor in his hometown of Perth. Ledger's father Kim, mother Sally and older sister Kate were among a family group of about 15 people who flew out of Los Angeles last night on a plane bound for Melbourne. Their departure was conducted in a military-style operation overseen by the Australian consulate, with police and private security staff jostling with a small group of waiting media. A consulate representative oversaw the delivery and check-in of the group's luggage, two hours before the family arrived at LAX in luxury four-wheel-drive vehicles. Ledger's parents appeared exhausted and sombre as the family was quickly ushered straight through a security check-point.
Ice Storm Strands Many Unable to get to Shelters
We heard many stories like that today; people just pitching in to help their friends and neighbors and in some cases even strangers. As for those volunteers, their work doesn't stop, but will continue Tuesday night at shelters that stay open to take people in out of the cold. .
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