Yesterday morning, we heard the bands playing. This is not unusual in our town: A lot of funerals hire bands to march with the departed to the cemetery, and since the Palenke (open air market) burnt down last year, and many of the shops moved to the sidewalks of the main streets a block away, [...]

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If it were not for the severity of the situation, a poor defenseless two year old, Caylee Anthony being missing for 5 months, this story would make me laugh. The only suspect is Casey Anthony. The suspected tot killer sits in jail, and that seems like the best place for her. Everyone seems to be [...]

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I have been a long time fan of Genesis, in fact recently I had the great pleasure of reviewing a DVD of Genesis Live In Rome. These guys were highly professional, and had what in my opinion was the most awesome light show I have ever seen. That is Genesis now, but what about Genesis [...]

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A woman looking like and talking like Marge walks into the funeral parlor where the coffin is and looks around saying to the camera that that is her in that coffin. She says she doesn’t know who sprung for her coffin then says probably was old Murphy down at the bar. Then she wonders who [...]

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Jock Bartley is one of the founding members of the 70′s superstar group Firefall. The original band broke up in the 1980′s but Jock has been the loyal flag bearer of the name ever since. Actively gigging and recording, Firefall are still a force to be reckoned with. 2007 saw a reunion concert, where many [...]

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Could a tsunami hit Southern California? The answer to that question is a resounding yes. The whole area is geologically very active, so it is certainly a possibility.  This is the premise behind Gordon Gumpertz’s new book Tsunami. I enjoyed this novel a great deal, Gordon has done a very good job of building his [...]

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Wall-E will clean up at the DVD register Tuesday November 18th and I am giving a copy to one lucky BNN reader! And congrats to our past BNN DVD contest winners! You could be next! (See below) Pixar follows up their 2007 Oscar winning film Ratatouille with an animated film containing a lot less dialogue [...]

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“Bond is back.” I will be the first to admit that I was done with the Bond franchise. After seeing what Jason Bourne did for the genre I figured Bond was no longer needed. Blame it on Roger Moore or Pierce Brosnan, the fact remains that the character was getting to be old, greasy and [...]

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All eyes are on the U.S.President-elect Barack Obama, who will assume the charge of his office on January 20, 2009. He has also set an ambitious agenda for e-governance. Obama has already very successfully used information technology (IT) in his presidential campaign. For example, according to reports, on www.barackobama.com, more than 280,000 people created accounts, [...]

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It is said that every President of the United States has an idiot brother (think Roger Clinton) but with George W Bush he is the idiot brother. Oliver Stone, in his fine new biopic “W.”, has decided not to exaggerate the absurdities of America’s worst ever President – he doesn’t need to. The facts are [...]

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An asbestos campaign that has been launched by the UK’s Health and Safety Executive is being launched by Scottish minister Jim Murphy. Mr Murphy stated that he was shocked to hear that asbestos related deaths in the UK were rising year on year. Official figures show that there are now around four thousand deaths a [...]

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Blogging from Phoenix — In the week since police charged an eight year old St. Johns boy with premeditated murder in the killing of his father and a boarder. Authorities are still baffled over why or what would cause a child to commit so shocking a crime. But in a State where they put children [...]

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