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Bulk Delist For Traders Choice Vote 15th - 22nd August

Here is the proposed list of bulk delistees for the Traders Choice vote dating from the 15th to the 22nd of August. Vote to either keep these individuals on Celebdaq or get rid of them via the Traders Choice vote. Arnold...

A gentleman abroad

Photograph by David Newby I must confess to being mystified by the process behind male style iconolatry. There are a handful of indisputable classics, mostly from the Golden Age Of Hollywood - Steve McQueen, Cary Grant, Dean...

Hawaii's Constitutional Convention Debated on PBS and HPR

Though ConCon activity has been a little bit quiet lately, I'm happy to announce that there are two important media events focusing on Concon. Today, Thursday, August 14, we've got two events: At 5pm on Hawaii Public Radio's...

Historic pub open again

Aug 14 2008 by Neil Hodgson, Liverpool Echo ONE of Liverpool’s most historic pubs reopens tomorrow under a new team. The Slaughterhouse, in Fenwick Street, went into liquidation last month. Now Gary Hincks and Stephen McIntyre,...

Board favors playground over restroom facilities

The Kuli'ou'ou/Kalani Iki Neighborhood Board voted on Thursday in favor of installing playground equipment in a city park near Niu Valley Middle School, throwing out an old plan to build a comfort station at that location.

Tour spree for Paddy - and you?

IT was a lucky break from his pal Peter Kay that put Bolton comedian Paddy McGuinness on the road to fame and fortune - now he's hoping to do the same for a new group of showbiz unknowns. "There are lots of really talented...

British swimmers take gold and bronze in the same race as women's record is swept away after 48...

Great Britain won its first women's swimming gold medal for 48 years today with Rebecca Adlington. Adlington, whose winning margin was seven hundredths of a second, stepped from the pool at the aquatics centre the Water Cube...

Death of the working men's club

Working men's clubs have been a bastion of the British entertainment scene for 150 years, blooding young comedians and crooners before unforgiving audiences and setting them on the long hard road to stardom or the short cut to...

My Secret Life: Philippa Gregory, Author, age 54

The house I grew up in... was a tall Victorian town house in Bristol. I'd take them to Bristol Zoo for treatment, so often that the staff knew me by name. My house is... a very small and pokey farm worker's cottage in North...

Krankies sell-out shows prove variety's not dead

By Beth Neil In Skegness 9/08/2008 EXCLUSIVE A sell-out proves there's life in the old school yet Back in their variety heydays they would pull in TV audiences of millions. Paul Daniels, Cannon and Ball, The (fandabidozi)...