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Del's irked by Va. company's lookalike lemon logo
CRANSTON, R.I. (AP) - Del's Lemonade is accusing a Virginia lemonade company of copying its lemon logo. According to reports, an attorney for the Cranston-based company sent a letter to Deb's Lemonade company of Roanoke alleging trademark infringement. The logo for Deb's Lemonade features green cursive writing...
providencejournal.com (9 minutes ago)
Fifty Shades of Grey Gets a Director: Sam Taylor-Johnson "Will Honor" E.L. James' Book
Fifty Shades of Grey officially has a director ready to dictate how things go down in that Red Room of Pain. E.L. James tweeted the news Wednesday, writing that she was "delighted...
eonline.com (47 minutes ago)
Dear Politicians: We Don't Always Want to Read Your Boring Books
Just about a week ago, New York City mayoral candidate Christine Quinn released her memoir. If you didn't know this, you're not alone. As of this writing, the book has no reviews on Amazon. It doesn't actually have any ratings on Amazon. So far, it looks like the City Council speaker isn't going to be joining the...
yahoo.com (1 hour ago)
Brazil finance minister: Government unable to cut taxes for public transport
BRASILIA (Reuters) - Brazil's federal government is unable to lower taxes for public transportation any further, Finance Minister Guido Mantega said on Wednesday as protests against a recent increase in bus fares and shoddy public services spread nationwide. The minister's remarks poured cold water on speculation...
yahoo.com (1 hour ago)
Pat Jollota, Vancouver's First Citizen for 2012, loves the city's history and has chronicled it...
Pat Jollota became Vancouver's 2012 First Citizen by serving the community for 30 years while also writing five Clark County history books. She's about to publish her sixth.
oregonlive.com (2 hours ago)
Thursday, June 20, 2013: Maine’s workforce, health care and wind power
Live and retire I am writing in response to the June 14 BDN article, “Is Maine’s population too old and white to be sustainable?” While it is important to prepare for the possibility of labor shortages due to baby boomers retiring and decreased numbers of younger workers, there are workforce ...
bangordailynews.com (3 hours ago)
Students from Searsport District and Lewiston high schools named Governor’s Young Writers of the...
AUGUSTA, Maine - Three high school students have been chosen as the winners of the Maine Community College System’s A Journey Into Writing contest and named 2013 Governor’s Young Writers of the Year. They are Emily Evans of Searsport and Arianna Tang of Frankfort, both juniors at Searsport District High ...
bangordailynews.com (3 hours ago)
Chet Flippo, Former Rolling Stone Editor, Dead at 69
Chet Flippo a former Rolling Stone editor who was the editorial director of CMT died this morning He was 69 No cause of death was available Flippo started writing for Rolling Stone when he was studying at the University of Texas in Austin where he earned a master's degree in journalism...
rollingstone.com (3 hours ago)
Russian official says statement on railway chief dismissal a hoax
MOSCOW (Reuters) - A statement announcing that Prime Minister Dmitry Medvedev had dismissed Russian Railways chief Vladimir Yakunin was a hoax, Medvedev's spokeswoman Natalya Timakova said on Wednesday. Timakova said that the statement, which was distributed to media outlets by email, was made to look as if it had...
yahoo.com (3 hours ago)
PHOTO: Watermelon Oreos Are Real
The folks at Oreo must be going flavor-happy, because they've been cranking out new varieties like crazy. The latest: Watermelon Oreos, which feature a bright green-and-pink filling sandwiched between two vanilla wafers. “We chose Watermelon because it is a fun, summer flavor that goes great with the Golden OREO...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
Peter Clothier: Art Thoughts
First, please note: I don't usually write about work without having seen it at first hand, but I'm making an exception in the case of Gwynn Murrill's major installation on Avenue of the Stars in Century City. I have been a fan of Gwynn's work since the early 1970s, when she was creating life-size animal forms...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
Liz Fichera: The Importance Of Diversity In Young Adult Fiction
Galley Cat posted an interesting article yesterday regarding the diversity in kid's books, or lack thereof. I was struck by one statistic: in a survey of 3600 titles by the Cooperative Children's Book Center (2012), only .6% of the titles featured American Indians. This statistic should be bothersome to us for a...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
Rob Taub: James Rollins: Renaissance Man
I was first introduced to Michael Crichton in 1971, when I read The Andromeda Strain as a high school freshman. Shortly thereafter I saw the movie Westworld and I was hooked. Crichton invented his own genre -- a unique combination of historical fact, thriller and science fiction. After Crichton passed away in 2008...
huffingtonpost.com (3 hours ago)
Fox Acquires 'Outliers' Pitch for Peter Chernin to Produce (Exclusive)
"Saw" scribes Patrick Melton and Marcus Dunstan are writing the supernatural action pic, with David Karlak attached to direct.
hollywoodreporter.com (4 hours ago)
Curlew River – review
As well as bringing Britten's best known opera to the town in which it is set for the first time, the Aldeburgh festival is also returning three of his most singular music-theatre works to the Suffolk church for which they were conceived. The church parables – Curlew River, The Burning Fiery Furnace and The Prodigal...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
James Murphy to Compose for Broadway Play That Inspired 'Seinfeld' Episode
James Murphy will be playing on Broadway. The former LCD Soundsystem leader is writing original music for the revival of Betrayal, according to Playbill...
spin.com (4 hours ago)
Michael Hastings: my friend and his enemies | Spencer Ackerman
My friend Michael Hastings died in Los Angeles on Tuesday. His death leaves a journalistic void, and not just the one created by the loss of a fearless reporter. Michael's untimely death at 33 deprives Washington journalists and national security professionals of one of their favorite people to sneer at, condescend...
guardian.co.uk (4 hours ago)
Talib Kweli on the Burdens of Being Hip-Hop’s Outspoken Conscience
Whether he likes it or not, Talib Kweli has become the Jiminy Cricket of hip-hop. The musician – who has been writing and performing for almost 20 years, both as a solo artist and as half of Black Star, the well-respected duo he formed with Mos Def - is known for being poetic and profound, as well as his commitment...
time.com (5 hours ago)
Michael Hastings: award-winning journalist leaves behind rich scrapbook
"Michael Hastings was really only interested in writing stories someone didn't want him to write: often his subjects, occasionally his editor," wrote Buzzfeed editor-in-chief Ben Smith in a tribute to the reporter, who died in a car crash on Tuesday. Hastings leaves behind a writing portfolio that includes two...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Couple saves home by writing steamy novels
Jack and Jasinda Wilder (their noms de plume), who head a family of seven, were once just weeks from losing their home. Then they got in the business of writing 'Fifty Shades'-style erotic e-novels, including the bestselling ‘Falling Into You.’
nydailynews.com (5 hours ago)
50 best apps for kids from 2013 that parents can trust
Oh SpongeBob. The memory of seeing my sons' favourite square-panted cartoon character putting his name to a mobile game selling Jellyfish Jelly in-app purchases for up to £69.99 still makes me sad. Nickelodeon is far from the only big brand pushing the upper limits of IAP in its children's apps though, as that 10...
guardian.co.uk (5 hours ago)
Michael Hastings and Who Journalists Really Work For
I’m not the person to write a personal appreciation of Michael Hastings, the 33-year-old investigative journalist who died in a car crash in Los Angeles yesterday. I never met him; I don’t know if he was a good guy, or a bad guy, or both in what ratio. I knew him only as a reader. Ben Smith, who most recently edited...
time.com (6 hours ago)
Trial date set for Cleveland man accused of imprisoning 3 women
A tentative Aug. 4 trial date has been set for an Ohio man accused of kidnapping three women and holding them in his home for about a decade. Ariel Castro, with his wrists and ankles shackled, appeared in court in Cleveland for a brief hearing Wednesday. As in previous court appearances, he kept his chin tucked in...
foxnews.com (7 hours ago)
Taliban confirms talks with U.S. in Qatar on Thursday
DUBAI (Reuters) - The Taliban's spokesman in Qatar said representatives of the Afghan insurgency would meet U.S. officials for preliminary peace talks on Thursday but no time had been set. The spokesman, Mohammed Naeem, told Reuters by telephone that no Afghan government officials would be at the meeting. A team of...
yahoo.com (7 hours ago)
One Year Of Columns, And Counting
How many good ideas do you have in a year? Does something interesting attract your attention at least every week? I began this column a year ago, and people asked me if I really intended to stick with the discipline of a weekly posting. Their concern was not so much the rigor of writing as it was of the generation...
forbes.com (8 hours ago)
Our favourite things this week: the best sports journalism from around the web
Welcome to the first of our weekly compilation articles, which will pick out our favourite writing, galleries and features from around the web. This page is an opportunity to celebrate the best online journalism from around the globe and we want to hear what you think of our choices. We would love you to contribute...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
'SYTYCD' Top 20: Dancer Cut Returns To Show
An unexpected turn of events took one dancer from the pits of despair to the surprise of inclusion on Season 10 of "So You Think You Can Dance." Tap dancer Aaron Tayler had tried out once before, in Season 4, and got cut during "the green mile." As he faced that long walk a second time, he felt a growing sense of...
huffingtonpost.com (8 hours ago)
Sally Gardner's Maggot Moon wins the Carnegie medal
Congratulations to Sally Gardner and Maggot Moon! As if winning the Costa children's book award and being longlisted for the Guardian children's fiction prize was not enough, she's now picked up the UK's most prestigious award for children's writing (since it was established in 1936 the CILIP Carnegie medal has been...
guardian.co.uk (8 hours ago)
Dean Norris Says Nothing About 'Breaking Bad,' For Fear Of Bodily Harm
Dean Norris dropped by "Jimmy Kimmel Live," but he didn't offer up any juicy details about the new season of "Breaking Bad." As he explained it, though, he had a pretty good reason for keeping his mouth shut. “One or both of my balls would be literally cut off," Norris explained. "That’s actually what they would...
huffingtonpost.com (8 hours ago)
Primal Scream’s More Light is the Feel-Good Album of the Summer
With new albums from the likes of David Bowie, Daft Punk, Kanye West and Nine Inch Nails, 2013 might be called the year of the musical comeback. For whatever reason - luck? happenstance? a carefully-constructed plot of a previously-unknown cabal of musicians who schedule new releases? - several well-loved bands have...
time.com (9 hours ago)
