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The New Mission theater, a landmark San Francisco movie palace that shut its doors in 1993 amid a trend toward multiplexes, may get a new lease on life as a five-screen cinema.Tim League, founder and chief executive of Alamo Drafthouse Cinema of Austin, Texas, says he has agreed to terms in a deal to buy and restore the New Mission theater from Mission District businessman Gus Murad, pending the receipt of city approvals for the at least $10 million project.Read More...
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A woman who bought a $7 box lot at a flea market may have unwittingly scored an original painting by Pierre-August Renoir. An auction house believes the landscape to be Renoir’s “Paysage Bords de Seine,” which it values between $75,000 and $150,000.The Shenandoah Valley resident, who wishes to remain anonymous, was drawn to the box for the Paul Bunyan doll and plastic cow included with the painting. “I’d never seen a Paul Bunyan doll before,” she told The Huffington Post in a phone
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- A police officer who fatally shot a 15-year-old Arkansas boy was charged with felony manslaughter Friday after investigators determined his account of the incident didn't match up with evidence at the scene, Little Rock police said.Officer Josh Hastings, who has a history of disciplinary issues with his department, shot Bobby Moore Jr. while responding to a suspicious persons call at an apartment complex on Aug. 12. Hastings claimed the car Moore was driving was heading
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The best relationships are founded on mutual trust and honesty, but is it ever okay to lie to a spouse? We asked our Twitter followers to divulge the fibs they told their exes, from harmless white lies to downright dirty deceptions. Click through the slideshow below to see their confessions, then weigh in: What lies did you tell your ex?Read More...
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NEW YORK — The latest woman to absorb a lopsided loss against Serena Williams thinks the 14-time Grand Slam champion should take on a new challenge."Given that men are always quick to say women are a lot worse ... I'd love to see her play in a (lower-level) men's tournament and see how they deal with her. It's easy to talk. On the court, it would be different," the 10th-seeded Sara Errani said.Read More...
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This article comes to us courtesy of California Watch.By Will EvansThe Oakland Unified School District is cutting off federal funds benefiting a private school accused of abuse after determining that the church school inflated its enrollment numbers.Read More...
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On Aug. 28, the Republican Party announced it had included language about Internet freedom and intellectual property protection in its 2012 platform, becoming the first major party to do so. Former Sen. Chris Dodd, now head of the Motion Picture Association of America (MPAA), swiftly came out in support. A week later, the Democratic Party became the second party to do so when it revealed it had included even more strident language about the value of IP in the digital age. Dodd endorsed the
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If you think sinking a half-court basketball shot is tough, try doing it without arms.Ryan Leonard, a North Carolina teen who WGHP-Fox 8 reports was born without arms, did just that, and the whole thing was captured on video.WATCH THE VIDEO ABOVERead More...
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Lava and water: When the two meet, they make for some beautiful pictures that undoubtedly call to mind the amazing power of nature and the majestic beauty of Hawaii. But for two daredevil photographers, Nick Selway and C. J. Kale, taking these awesome photos is anything but a day at the beach. SCROLL FOR PHOTOSRead More...
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At the very end of August, Slate posted an essay by Daniel Lametti taking up, yet again, what the value of a science Ph.D. is in a world where the pool of careers for science Ph.D.s in academia and industry is (maybe) shrinking. Lametti, who is finishing up a Ph.D. in neuroscience, expresses optimism that [...]
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For the first time, a group of twin researchers has made a stab at untangling the roles of heredity and environment in our relationships with companion animals. The research team found that the identical twins pairs were more similar than the fraternal twins in whether they had played with pets.
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A D.C. police officer will not be prosecuted for allegedly telling colleagues that he wanted to shoot first lady Michelle Obama, although he could be disciplined for violating the police department’s code of conduct, authorities said Thursday.Read More...
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A fast-paced hour of "Big Brother" as the season's second live double-elimination got under way. Poor Joe found himself on the block two times, after Frank was inevitably eliminated in the first eviction. Hard feelings or no, Frank will come to realize that he was a huge threat to win the game, so of course they were going to pounce on an opportunity to get rid of him.Of course, doing so may have cost Dan his vote. Speaking of Dan, he turned around and won the HOH competition, positioning him
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The Obama administration has decided to blacklist as a terrorist organization the Haqqani network, the militant organization responsible for some of the deadliest attacks against American troops in Afghanistan, several American officials said late Thursday. Read More...
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. -- Journalists here are honing in on Vice President Joe Biden's criticism of the GOP for not supporting any of the deficit-reduction proposals over the past year, noting that President Barack Obama did not embrace a report put out by the co-chairs of the Simpson-Bowles panel. ABC's Jake Tapper, for instance, called the following, from Biden, an "incredible line." "In Tampa, they talked with great urgency about the nation’s debt. And the need to act, to act now. But not once,
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Gloria Estefan decided to go undercover to surprise her next contestant on "The Next: Fame Is at Your Doorstep." In this instance, fame was at Iliana's latest gig posing a a waitress. Estefan slipped in unnoticed by Iliana, but the crowd quickly recognized her. Iliana just kept singing.Estefan stayed in character, even taking drink orders, until Iliana finally realized she was there, and ultimately what that meant. It meant a chance for her to achieve her dreams by joining the performance show
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Sen. John Kerry (D-Mass.) stepped up to the Democratic National Convention podium on Thursday prepared to attack GOP presidential candidate Mitt Romney with an unexpected weapon: humor.In a speech focused on Romney's inexperience in the foreign policy arena, Kerry, who was lambasted in his 2004 presidential campaign for being drab and uninspiring at times, showed off a sharp tongue that drew laughs from the audience.Read more on Kerry's speech here.Read More...
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Tom Brokaw has been released from a North Carolina hospital after being admitted Thursday morning for lightheadedness, according to news reports. The 72-year-old former host of "NBC Nightly News" tweeted that the reason for his health scare was that he had mistakenly taken the sleeping pill Ambien. All is well Early AM I mistakenly took a half dose of Ambien and made less sense than usual. Made a better comeback than Giants...— Tom Brokaw (@tombrokaw) September 6, 2012
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In Joe Biden's Democratic convention speech Thursday night, the vice president used the word "literally" incorrectly, a lot. Literally. The Twittersphere swiftly mocked Biden's misuse of the word, which means "exactly." To be fair, "literally" is frequently confused as meaning "virtually," or "nearly." RT @rickklein: Joe Biden literally thinks "literally" means "figuratively." #DNC2012— Amanda Steen (@Asteenphoto) September 7, 2012
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NEW YORK — Locked in a taut, thrill-a-minute second set, Novak Djokovic and Juan Martin del Potro headed to a tiebreaker and promptly produced a 20-stroke masterpiece of a point befitting a pair of past U.S. Open champions.More than a dozen shots in, defending champion Djokovic tossed up a lob. Del Potro, the 2009 champion, sprinted with his back to the court, got to the ball and lofted a lob the other way. Djokovic slammed an overhead. Del Potro somehow kept the ball in play. Djokovic
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FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla. -- Federal investigators say Florida officials are violating federal law by unnecessarily warehousing hundreds of children with disabilities in nursing homes.The Department of Justice sent a letter to Attorney General Pam Bondi this week, saying that in visits to six nursing homes around the state investigators identified numerous children who didn't need to be there and "would benefit from moving home with their families or other community settings."Read More...
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By Elizabeth Gardner, for U.S. NewsYou discover a weird rash on the weekend, which prompts the inevitable question. Should you go to the emergency room to get it checked, or wait for the doctor to squeeze you in on Monday? HealthPartners, an integrated health delivery system in Minneapolis, has a better idea: E-visits. Its service, called virtuwell, has interactive diagnostic questionnaires online (depending on initial answers, subsequent questions may change) for about 40 different conditions
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