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The Stacks: How Peter Bogdanovich Shot 'The Last Picture Show' - Daily Beast

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 02:49 PM PST

The Stacks: How Peter Bogdanovich Shot 'The Last Picture Show' Daily Beast Bogdanovich, a slight, grave-faced young man wearing horn rims and rust-colored leather bell bottoms, shakes hands in greeting, eyes my scruffy getup narrowly, and nods agreement; yes, he likes my ravaged face, too. “Just don't wander ... Oblivious to ...

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Posted: 25 Jan 2015 02:05 PM PST

Live Like Max: Heart screenings honor late Michigan college student - Grand Haven Tribune

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 09:10 AM PST

Grand Haven Tribune

Live Like Max: Heart screenings honor late Michigan college student Grand Haven Tribune As we talk on a frigid January night, the gentle ringing can be heard through the family room window. “If I'm out on the deck, and I'm filling the bird feeder or I'm grilling something, and that bell rings, I will say, 'Max, I hear you,'” his mother ...

Training simulator makes things clear as a bell for Orange Pealers - Central Western Daily

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 08:59 AM PST

Training simulator makes things clear as a bell for Orange Pealers Central Western Daily “The emphasis is training the ringer to actually listen for their own bell in a peal of seven or eight bells, rather than watch the movements of the other ringers. “When you're pulling on the rope it could take the bell half a second to ring out ...

Sojourner following a passion for bells gives world travel a ringing endorsement - Honolulu Star-Advertiser

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 03:31 AM PST

Sojourner following a passion for bells gives world travel a ringing endorsement Honolulu Star-Advertiser To try to meet new people, she signed up for watercolor painting classes at the Birmingham-Bloomfield Art Center and found she had a talent for it. In 1966 she married Peter Dawson, a race car driver and automobile engineer. He shared her travel bug ... and more »

Shepton Mallet Inner Wheel Club celebrates World Inner Wheel Day - Shepton Mallet Journal

Posted: 25 Jan 2015 02:14 AM PST

Shepton Mallet Journal

Shepton Mallet Inner Wheel Club celebrates World Inner Wheel Day Shepton Mallet Journal MEMBERS of Shepton Mallet Inner Wheel Club celebrated World Inner Wheel Day with residents of Pullen Court sheltered housing scheme at a coffee morning. Entertainment was provided by Shepton Mallet Hand Bell Ringers, and Rotary president Julian ...

Idaho History: Automobile was part of life by 1907 - The Idaho Statesman

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 11:08 PM PST

The Idaho Statesman

Idaho History: Automobile was part of life by 1907 The Idaho Statesman Down the road of life we'll fly, automobubbling you and I. To the church we'll swiftly steal, then our wedding bells will peal. You can go as far as you like with me, in my merry Oldsmobile." Although automobile drivers had been going to Idaho City ...

Organist retires after four decades of music service - Indiana Gazette

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 10:13 PM PST

Organist retires after four decades of music service Indiana Gazette His duties, in addition to organist, have included directing the Nazareth Choir, Carillon Ringers and Kids' Bell Choir, as well as special services. He was honored at Sunday services at Nazareth Lutheran Church. McGuire has ... It isn't as easy as all ... and more »

Winter Music Festival performing final shows of season - Winston-Salem Journal

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 09:38 PM PST

Winston-Salem Journal

Winter Music Festival performing final shows of season Winston-Salem Journal He is in charge of one of the two concerts — one today and one on Thursday — that will finish out the Carolina Chamber Symphony Players' Winter Music Festival. The fest started in December with the sold-out Swingle Bells concert at the Old Salem ...

H1Z1: The game we deserve? – Reader's Feature - Metro

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 05:01 PM PST

Metro

H1Z1: The game we deserve? – Reader's Feature Metro Charging £15 for early access to a supposedly free-to-play game should've set the alarm bells ringing. Sony Online Entertainment boss John Smedley's subsequent defiance over how ... His argument that supports this practice gets worse: due to the ...

Poet attuned to the daily miracles in life - National Catholic Reporter

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 04:38 PM PST

National Catholic Reporter

Poet attuned to the daily miracles in life National Catholic Reporter Even so, he and his wife, Catherine, have stopped attending Mass over the past three years due to discomfort and disagreement related to tradition and teachings that impact inclusivity, accountability and power structures within the Catholic church ...

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Posted: 24 Jan 2015 04:00 PM PST

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Thai oranges and lemons won't leave you sour - Phuket Gazette

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 02:12 PM PST

Thai oranges and lemons won't leave you sour Phuket Gazette PHUKET: “Oranges and lemons, say the bells of Saint Clement's”, so goes the opening couplet of the children's nursery rhyme about London's church bells dating from 1744. But though the nursery rhyme remains unchanged by time, the real oranges and ...

Reliving nostalgia of writing & receiving hand-written letters - Times of India

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 11:24 AM PST

Reliving nostalgia of writing & receiving hand-written letters Times of India "During holidays, if we heard the postman's cycle bell ringing or saw him anywhere near our house, we used to run all the way up to him. A letter from anyone dear to us would make our day," she tells her grand-children, who are more adept in typing ... and more »

Bill Maher Blasts American Sniper, Calls Chris Kyle A Psychopath Patriot - Daily Beast

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 08:40 AM PST

Daily Beast

Bill Maher Blasts American Sniper, Calls Chris Kyle A Psychopath Patriot Daily Beast Weighing the book in my hand, I try to weigh it in my mind as well—objectively, if possible. The narrative is sometimes crude, more often tasteless, and always bitter as distilled gall. But it is true—true to the bone-and-gristle life in this ...

Community mourns Stratford Boat Club stalwart Felix Badcock - Stratford Observer

Posted: 24 Jan 2015 12:48 AM PST

Stratford Observer

Community mourns Stratford Boat Club stalwart Felix Badcock Stratford Observer He rang the bells at St Peter's Church in his home village, and more recently was one of the volunteer team staffing Bidford library. As a teenager, Felix had spent many happy hours with his brother 'messing about with boats' on the River Thames, and ...

Business Spotlight - Church Bells or Castanets? - River Journal Staff

Posted: 23 Jan 2015 01:32 PM PST

Business Spotlight - Church Bells or Castanets? River Journal Staff There are some new sounds in town and they're echoing from the new Maronite Church recently featured in the Holiday issue. Under the same roof is the new home of Josie's International School of Dance, celebrating its 10-year anniversary. Josie LaRiccia ...