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Roberts, Ruffalo set for 'Normal Heart': Thesps to star in HBO film based on Larry Kramer play
VarietyJulia Roberts and Mark Ruffalo are set to star in the HBO film "The Normal Heart," based on the Tony Award-winning play from Larry Kramer. Ryan Murphy will direct and Kramer will write the telepic. The play centers on the AIDS epidemic in New York in...Tags: Vice (movie), Literature, Bill Maher, Arts and Culture, Entertainment Events
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Treat Chicago's homicide surge as an epidemic
For once, Chicago has beaten New York in a competition that the Windy City had no desire to win. Chicago ended 2012 with more homicides than New York. No one cheers for that. Chicago, with only a third of New York's population, ended 2012 with 506...
Tags: Michael Bloomberg, Tony Soprano (fictional character), Garry McCarthy, Personal Weapon Control, National Rifle Association of America
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Tonight: ‘Dancing With the Stars’ ejects 2; ‘Frontline’ profiles Obama, Romney
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelThe TV highlights tonight: 1. “Dancing With the Stars” will send two celebrities packing. Those two, based on performances so far this season, should be Kirstie Alley and Bristol Palin. But I'm predicting that two former champs, Drew Lachey... -
What Al Jazeera thinks of Baltimore
Baltimore-area viewers won't see it in their TV listings, but this week a program will premiere on the Al Jazeera English channel that could do more to shape the world's image of their city than any other media coverage or civic promotion done all year....
Tags: Journalism, Hillary Clinton, Crime, Law and Justice, MSNBC (tv network), Juvenile Delinquency
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Orlando TV history: WMFE TV becomes WUCF TV
The TV Guy - Orlando SentinelWednesday was a history-making day in Orlando television. WMFE TV, long the main PBS station in Central Florida, became WUCF TV. The deal closed to sell Channel 24 to the University of Central Florida. “It's a great day for the community,”... -
Faces, some masked, of Anonymous
Two years ago in December, Visa, MasterCard and PayPal cut off all financial services to WikiLeaks. This left the controversial website blocked off from accepting online donations — a state of affairs that did not sit well with members of the...
Tags: Justice System, Anonymous (internet groups), Religious Festivals, Crime, Law and Justice, Katharine Hepburn
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Datebook
Sunday, Dec. 2 Choral music Columbia Pro Cantare Chorus will sing the Christmas portion and selections from parts II and III of Handel's "Messiah" at 7:30 p.m. at the Jim Rouse Theatre, Wilde Lake High School, 5460 Trumpeter Road in Columbia. Tickets are...Tags: Music, Wars and Interventions, Israel, Religious Festivals, Clarksville
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Levinson's latest is no Valentine to his hometown
Three decades and more than 25 films into his directing career, and Barry Levinson is still mining his hometown for movie ideas. But his latest film, a horror-mystery about a murderous parasite let loose in the Chesapeake Bay, is about as far removed...
Tags: Broadway Theater, Maryland Film Festival, Science Fiction (genre), Apple iPhone, Horror (genre)
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The Great Omission of Climate from the 2012 Election
I just got done endorsing PBS’s “Frontline” a few weeks ago, and what do you know: they become basically the only media outlet to shed light on the connection between well-financed right-wing groups and the veritable disappearance of...
Tags: Ecosystems, Conservation, 2012 U.S. Presidential Election, Alexandria (Alexandria, Virginia), Environmental Issues
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5 things to watch in tonight's debate
CNNPresident Barack Obama and Republican challenger Mitt Romney meet Monday night in the last of their three debates, this one focused on foreign policy. Unlike last week's contentious town hall-style debate in which the candidates ambled around the stage...Tags: Paul Ryan, Bob Schieffer, Joe Biden, Pakistan, National Security
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What's Behind the War on Big Bird?
It was such a weird, seemingly off-the-cuff remark by Mitt Romney in the first debate: that of all the items in the budget an axe-wielding privatizing plutocratic president could hack away at, he pointed to a children’s television show and the...
Tags: Rachel Maddow, Iraq War (2003-2011), Noam Chomsky, Fox News Channel (tv network), Comedy Central (tv network)
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Salem business first in Virginia to have high-performance electric motorcycle for sale
A Roanoke Valley business is the first in the state to offer a high-performance electric motorcycle. Frontline Eurosports of Salem is now selling battery-charged bikes from Zero Motorcycles. The bikes reach speeds of 88 miles per hour and plug into any...
Tags: Salem (Salem, Virginia), Roanoke (Roanoke, Virginia)
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