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A Scandal for Our Time: Rachel Corrie Ignites Uproar

For me, the most disturbing aspect of the craven postponement of the production of My Name Is Rachel Corrie isn’t that it happened, but that it was the adventurous downtown New York Theatre Workshop that did the postponing. We have reached the unacceptable face of the New York arts scene when the theater that produced the original Rent—and, more to the point, the conscience plays of Tony Kushner and Caryl Churchill—should cave in like this to peculiar, unspecific pressure. We’ve heard about unnamed Zionist pressure groups and anonymous theater donors who object to the telling of a humane story about a utopian 23-year-old American girl who was killed by an Israeli bulldozer in the Gaza Strip as she protested the destruction of a Palestinian’s home. We’ve heard the theater’s cornered artistic director, James Nicola, talk darkly about realizing suddenly that there existed “a very edgy situation” that had taken root in the city “after Ariel Sharon’s illness and the election of Hamas.” We’ve heard it all—including the whirring sound of the New York Theatre Workshop backpedaling all it can to rationalize its weird decisions.. » read more

Laguna Beach greeter left indelible mark

Shouting hello to motorists and tourists, Eiler Larsen spent 33 years as the town's ambassador of goodwill. He had wandered the world, selling butter in czarist Siberia, fighting in France during World War I, walking the Appalachian Trail with his dog -- and strolling down Colorado Boulevard, unofficially bringing up the rear of the Rose Parade one year. But when he got to Laguna Beach, Eiler Larsen was so captivated by it that he stayed and welcomed the rest of the world there. Laguna Beach returned the salute, naming him its official greeter. In good weather and bad, Larsen would stand on South Coast Highway waving to drivers and pedestrians and booming out a big hello.. » read more

King Arthur Documentary

VIEW DOCUMENTARY http://lightwizzard.com/watch /king-arthur/documentary.html. » read more

VIDEO: The Fake Sun That Lit Up a Canadian Town

Before Thomas Edison invented the light bulb, we had candles, torches and wall sconces to light up our lives. Now, we have something more impressive -- Tropicanada. Today, it's Tropicana that's providing artificial sunlight when the outside world won't provide the sunlight needed. Tropicana recently installed this 100,000 lumen artificial sun in Inuvik, Canada. Cream Global reports that the 3,500 residents of Inuvik in the Northwest Territories live without a sunrise for several weeks every winter.. » read more

Are Women Born Like This? (with video)

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California Beauty Queen Shocked by Firing (with video)

Carrie Prejean: 'They wanted me out and they got what they wanted' June 11, 2009 Ousted Miss California Carrie Prejean says she's "shocked" by her firing yesterday by the officials of the Miss California USA Pageant. "They don't like me," Prejean told the entertainment website TMZ. "From day one they wanted me out and they got what they wanted." K2 Productions, the producers of the pageant under license from Miss Universe, cited continued breach of contract issues as the reason for Prejean's dismissal. Former Miss Caliornia Carrie Prejean "This was a decision based solely on contract violations," said Keith Lewis, executive director of K2.. » read more

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