The Daily Show's Lewis Black Goes Off On Whitney Houston Death Coverage
Mediaite
World News Updated Hourly The last time Lewis Black performed at the Taft Theatre, he offended a paying customer. Sure, it's hard to imagine anything like that happening in Cincinnati involving the expressive and opinionated standup comic, but we will take his word for it. Tufts' Lecture and Entertainment Board has booked Lewis Black for [...]
Read MoreBrady Quinn apologizes for unflattering comments about Tim Tebow in GQ article
Washington P
World News Updated Hourly Judging from his comments in this GQ article that covers Tebow's wild ride, Broncos quarterback Brady Quinn is part of that crowd. "If you look at it as a whole, there's a lot of things that just don't seem very humble to me," Quinn said. That's the case with Michael Silver's [...]
Read MoreKing cake is just the ticket for Mardi Gras
Long Beach P
World News Updated Hourly King Cakes are striped with purple, green and gold icing, to represent Justice, Faith and Power, respectively. The dough is fried like a doughnut and can sometimes have a delicious filling inside, like cream cheese or jelly. The person who gets the slice with the baby is King or Queen of [...]
Read MoreKing cake is just the ticket for Mardi Gras
Long Beach P
World News Updated Hourly King cakes. They're unusual-looking creations, bedazzled in beads, candies and, strangely, a little baby Jesus. King cakes are drawn from the Catholic tradition, Mardi Gras, which is the culmination of the Carnival season. By Marie Elizabeth Oliver So far this year, I've sampled at least 10 different king cakes, attended a [...]
Read MoreBrady Quinn slams Tim Tebow experience
ESPN (blog)
World News Updated Hourly [The New York Times] Brady Quinn Has Some Thoughts About Tim Tebow And really, why shouldn't he? Quinn, who five years ago this spring was selected in the first of the NFL draft by the Cleveland Browns and then weirdly traded to the Denver Broncos Yet another name is being added [...]
Read MoreLent a time for positive deeds
Batesville H
World News Updated Hourly Adding something good to your life during Lent — say, reading the gospels — may mean giving up stuff that you need to give up anyway. By Brian McLaren, February 21, 2012 "Like" the Patheos Progressive Christian Page on Facebook to receive today's Adding something good to your life during Lent [...]
Read MoreChurches plan Ash Wednesday services
Aiken Standa
World News Updated Hourly Yes, that smudge had been applied by a priest at an Ash Wednesday service. As I remember the story, the lady was nice enough about the misunderstanding but then hurried back to church to get more ashes applied to her face. With days in the schedule such as Fat Tuesday, only [...]
Read MoreLent's loopholes
Boston Globe
World News Updated Hourly Each year, when we start talking about Lent and Easter, we hear a familiar question from some Bible Gateway visitors: What is Lent? Is it an official Christian holiday? Was it instituted in the Bible? What does it mean to observe Each year, when we start talking about Lent and Easter, [...]
Read MoreDeron Williams gets major revenge for Linsanity
The Seattle
World News Updated Hourly "I don't really watch too many games, but I do see Twitter, people tweet me and every, you know, three lines it was 'Jeremy Lin destroyed Deron Williams,' " Williams said. "So I definitely took offense to that in the first game and definitely, SB Nation is a collection of over [...]
Read MoreGas prices could soar past $4 this spring, experts say
Atlanta Jour
World News Updated Hourly SEATTLE — The AAA auto club reports the average price of a gallon of gasoline in Washington is $3.64. That's up 11 cents in a week, 17 cents in a month and 29 cents in a year. It's 7 cents higher than the national average. "And I see another 20 or [...]
Read More