Topping today’s list of cheesy crime stories? The two dudes who robbed the owners of a pizza joint, but made off with the wrong kind of dough.
Burlesque Review: Dances with Divas
“The movie is frivolous fun, but not, as I had sort of hoped, as sinfully awful as Showgirls, Mariah Carey’s Glitter or Britney Spears’ Crossroads.“
-TIME’s MARY POLS in her review of Burlesque, starring Cher and Christina
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Ancient Harmonies: Scientists Resurrect 3,000-Year-Old Trumpet, Give the Old Girl a Whirl
…And discover that 3,000-year-old music kind of stinks. Then again, in their defense, the recently rediscovered conch shells can only play a couple notes.
KFC Will Pay You $20,000 To Give Them A Shout-Out Via Twitter
The folks over at ‘We Do Chicken Right’ are calling for submissions. Show your Twitter smarts and Colonel Sanders will reciprocate with cash for your college fund. (Via the Buffalo News).
The Top 10 Worse Alternatives to Plane Travel
If you’re thinking about axing ‘3-1-1’ from your travel preparations, we’ve got news for you. There are worse forms of transit than the airlines.
Put Some Intuition in Your Kitchen: Seven Great Thanksgiving Gadgets
Toys do have a place in the kitchen this holiday season.
National Opt-Out Day: Is Anyone Actually Opting Out of Pat-Downs?
Yesterday, NewsFeed was worried that an online movement, National Opt-Out Day would slow security lines at airports, even forcing people to miss flights as passengers turned down backscatter scans and pat-downs. Turns out, we had …
Police: ‘Ugly Betty’ Actor Killed Mom With Samurai Sword
First off, NewsFeed knows firsthand that the Brooklyn, N.Y., neighborhood of Prospect Heights is a growing, friendly community with people of all stripes and does not typically have samurai sword-wielding homicidal religious …
Beatles, Week 1: 2 Million Singles Sold. But Which Classics Endure?
450,000 albums and two million individual songs sold worldwide in the first week. You know what? The Beatles might have a future.
Did President Sarkozy Really Call a Journalist a Pedophile?
Sharp-tongued French President Nicolas Sarkozy has become (in)famous for his verbal pugilism—a big reason why he’s taken a battering over comments that were, naturellement, assumed to be more offensive than they were. So much …
Live From Sesame Street: It’s Saturday Night…With The Cookie Monster?
Munching on an endless supply of cookies all day just isn’t cutting it for the Cookie Monster anymore, so he decided to do what most unfulfilled monsters do – audition for Saturday Night Live.
Reading While Eating for November 24: Love, Laughs and Words
Wednesday’s links explain life through charts and bemoan the TSA.