Shotgun's 'The Great Divide': social drama punches hard and leaves you thinking
POLITE APPLAUSE The Great Divide: Drama. By Adam Chanzit. Directed by Mina Morita. Through June 24. Shotgun Players, Ashby Stage, 1901 Ashby Ave., Berkeley. One hour, 50 minutes. $20-$30. (510) 841-6500. www.shotgunplayers.org. In a society in which inequality is widening, fairness is not just about wages and income, or wealth. It's a far more generalized [...]
Read MoreA's Brandon Inge pounds former Tigers team again
Fox News
Brandon Inge of the Oakland Athletics slaps hands with third base coach Mike Gallego while rounding the bases on a three-run home run in the six inning against the Detroit Tigers on May 11, 2012. / Thearon W. Henderson / Getty Images By Shawn Windsor Brandon Inge of the Oakland Athletics slaps hands with third [...]
Read MoreMo Claiborne: I'd love to be 2-way player
ESPN (blog)
“I'll start with Morris Claiborne. We talked about him before. We felt like he was a player worth moving up the draft board for. He was our number one defensive player on our board and number two player on our board and we feel like he has a chance to Dallas Cowboys are all excited, [...]
Read MoreDid the Cowboys give up too much for Morris Claiborne?
WFAA
They didn't do that with LSU CB Morris Claiborne, yet still pulled off a stunning draft on the first day of the 2012 NFL Draft. The Cowboys sent their second round pick and the No. 14 overall pick to St. Louis for the Rams' No. 6 overall pick. Dallas Cowboys are all excited, one way [...]
Read MoreDenver Broncos Trade Out of First Round: Fan's Take
Yahoo! Sport
BroncoTalk is determined to be your Denver Broncos draft day source. In addition to this round-by-round draft preview, there will be draft day predictions, FORT COLLINS, Colo., Apr 26, 2012 (BUSINESS WIRE) — Apple(R) technology is literally changing the game for the National Football League and the Denver Broncos. The new iPad(R) allows for digital [...]
Read MoreMorris Claiborne move is big, bold
ESPN
By Jean-Jacques Taylor | ESPNDallas.com ESPNDallas' Calvin Watkins and Todd Archer look at the Cowboys 1st pick of Morris Claiborne but know they still have a lot of work to do. No one, except for those folks in the Dallas Cowboys' draft room, By Jean-Jacques Taylor | ESPNDallas.com ESPNDallas' Calvin Watkins and Todd Archer look [...]
Read More'Mad Men' return sets show ratings record
USA TODAY
By David Horsey As a new season of Mad Men begins, it is interesting and a bit unsettling to realize that the era of Don Draper is equidistant in time between the era of Downton Abbey and the present day. Looked at another way, Franklin Roosevelt's This is a Spoiled Bastard. It contains spoilers. That's [...]
Read More'Mad Men' Watch: After a Long Layoff, a Party
New York Tim
Director Jennifer Getzinger makes many inspired choices in “A Little Kiss”—episode 501/502 of Matthew Weiner's Mad Men—and at least one involves actual inspiration, breathing in. With Don Draper's new femme having plotted a surprise party for him The two-hour, ultra-hush-hush Mad Men fifth-season premiere has finally aired, and a thousand television critics and their editors [...]
Read MoreThe Westminster Dog Show has many 'winners'
Chicago Trib
After his win, Malachy chilled out back stage on a cool pack as handler David Fitzpatrick spritzed him with water from a spray bottle. NEW YORK — Wobbling the whole way, a people-pleasing Pekingese made quite a walk down the green carpet at Madison Square Garden. A Dalmatian and a German shepherd were in more [...]
Read MoreElizabeth Smart planning for July wedding
CBS News
Twenty-four-year-old Elizabeth Smart, who was kidnapped and raped at age 14, works to empower children and to teach them they have options if they are being abused. / JIM URQUHART/Associated Press By Cassandra Spratling Elizabeth Smart talks to the By Sandy Hingston 1/23/2012 Comments 0 News broke over the weekend that Elizabeth Smart, who was [...]
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