Jesse Rosemond, a guitar student at New York's Julliard School of Music, recently discovered the music of a little-known folk singer-songwriter named Bob Dylan from Duluth, Minnesota.
Jesse explained that although Julliard's musical focus tends...
George Zimmerman, who admitted shooting and killing unarmed African-American teen Trayvon Martin and now faces second-degree murder charges, has joined Facebook.
Zimmerman stated that in 2005, he had a less than positive experience with Facebook's...
HOLLYWOOD - After months of speculation as to who X-Factor mogul Simon "The Sultan of Sarcasm" Cowell was going to name as the new judge he has finally revealed that it will be teen singing sensation Demi Lovato.
Cowell stated that Demi will be jo...
The presidential election is fundamentally over and Barack Obama has won the White House and Air Force One. Much like '88 presidential contender Michael Dukakis, wearing the inverted soup-bowl hat while sitting in a M1 Abrams tank, Mitt Romney bids g...
Mitt Romney called a press conference on the anniversary of the death of Osama Bin Laden and declared in his opening statement, "I would have killed Bin Laden myself with my famous Karaoke Kick!"
A New York Times reporter, not known for his fondn...
Israel - A spooky emanation of Edvard Munch's 1895 pastel drawing has sprung up overnight on Jerusalem's foremost prayer shrine The Wailing Wall.
The apparition 'just popped out of the brickwork' according to one eyewitness whose long distance cam...
The latest nuclear missile attempt by North Korea has inexplicably exploded while being studied on a modeling program on a Macintosh personal computer, sources inside North Korea have reported.
A spokesman for the source said he had "really nev...
David Lindersnout, of Cedar Falls, Idaho, woke up yesterday from a 30 year coma.
Lindersnout had some friends and family in the area. Doctors were more baffled by the man's attitude after only a few hours of being awake.
Lindersnout was visited b...
New York City, NY-- The legendary Maggie May was arrested today for having underage sex with teen boys, along with a host of other offenses. The elderly spinster was led out of her tony West Side townhouse in handcuffs. Bail was set at $1 million.
First up, the remaining quarter-final results.
Matthew Stevens beat Ryan Day 13-5
After trailing in the first session, Stevens reeled off 11 frames in a row to progress to the semi-finals, the sixth of his Crucible career, but first since a final defeat to Shaun Murphy in 2005.
Ronnie O'Sullivan beat Neil Robertson 13-10
O'Sullivan overturned a 5-3 first session deficit to win by three fr...
Day two of the Quarter-Finals.
Stephen Maguire beat Stephen Hendry 13-2
After a great start, Maguire finished off Hendry in two sessions, giving him an afternoon session off - but Hendry has plans for even more time off - by announcing his retirement after the match!
After an incredible career, including 27 years at the Crucible, winning seven world titles, 36 ranking tournaments in total,...
As a result of stage one of a five-year consultation programme designed to evaluate the value of public consultation, the South West Regional Consultation Agency (SWRCA) now seeks independent consultants to take this work forward.
The main task of the new consultants will be to advise the Board on how to make progress on issues already identified through constructive evaluation of key parts of...
London - A flotilla of search and rescue vessels moored on the Thames has done little to rescue the marooned Mayoral re-election wannabe.
Supporters of Red Ken Livingstone say Boris Johnson's prospects are up the proverbial sh*t creek without a pa...
Two of the English Premier League's best known managers have been recruited to front a new advertising drive designed to encourage Brits to holiday at home.
Liverpool boss Kenny Dalglish and his Arsenal counterpart Arsene Wenger joined forces to f...
The syllogism goes something like this: you cannot put a price on great art. Munch's 'Scream' is great art. Carl Crawford has caused many to scream.
If you feel like the price of great art is on the downswing, you need only consider what the aucti...
"I'm Arthur Godley - Godley by name and Godly by nature. Take a seat, mate. I won't be long."
From behind his expansive desk, Arthur Godley glanced at his visitor.
"Not the sofa, mate. The chair is for ordinary visitors. "
Arthur Godley, proprietor of Godley's Garden Gnomes of Krupton straightened his red tie and pulled on the gold cuff links. The penchant for bright ties and driving wi...
London - Just one small fracking-related tremor could push the UK's volatile flood waters into tsunami mode No 10 Drowning Street warned today.
Sunday's powerful Scorpio fool moon reacting badly with underground methane deposits is all it would ta...
California - Angelina Jolie is advising parents to leave their children in hospitals, fire stations, police stations and emergency medical facilities as required by law instead of killing their babies.
Police officials argue that a parent's worst...
A diary of one man's (Using the term man loosely) utter failure, depression, frustration, cock-ups, and impecuniousness, that had started in August 1947
Chapter 99:: A Pleasant Walk to the QMC for my blood-tests
The rain from the day before had relented, so off I set on my marathon hobble to the Queens Medical Centre, from my humble wreck of a two-up-two-down crumbling holed roofed hovel of...
BILLINGSGATE POST - George Clooney, without a date for the White House Correspondent's Dinner because Stacy Keibler had stiffed him at the last minute, was genuinely tickled when the President offered him an opportunity to share the Lincoln bedroom w...
BEVERLY HILLS - Mel Gibson was getting his hair cut at FuFi Fondue's Haven of Hair Salon when he was asked about the rumor regarding him and Susan Boyle who allegedly had been seen camping together at Yellowstone National Park in Wyoming.
Gibson t...
LOS ANGELES - The California chapter of POOPA, People for the Overbearing and Obnoxious pushing of Pampering Animals, has announced that they will be traveling down to Cabo San Lucas, Mexico on Cinco de Mayo (May 5) to protest the centuries old pract...
It's a whodunnit like no other.
Most agree that the two likeliest suspects are the first couple. No, not Barack and Michelle. The real first couple -- Adam and Eve, first residents of the Garden of Eden. But neither one will own up to the deed.
Today Newt Gingrich dismissed his run for the US presidency as "trivial" and "not befitting my vast talents and expertise." In a long, sparsely attended press conference, the former Speaker of the House vowed "to move on to more important things, na...
Washington DC: The US Department of Agriculture (USDA) has been funding renewable energy electric power generation utilizing the burning of chicken, pig and cow/steer manure in several farming states. Chicken, pig, cow/steer and other livestock manur...