Waves went down, and the winners went Down Under at the Banzai Pipeline yesterday. On a day of diminished waves, Australia's Taj Burrow rose to the occasion by winning the Billabong Pipeline Masters for the first time in his career. Full Article at The Honolulu Advertiser
Shopping malls were cropping up everywhere, and the biggest one in the world, Dubai Mall, was then under construction. Full Article at Ludwig von Mises Institute
Federico Fellini was the undisputed king of Italian cinema during the post-war era of the 1950s and '60s when foreign filmmakers began to reach worldwide audiences. Full Article at Comingsoon.net
Greetings and welcome back to the Weekend Warrior, your weekly guide to the weekend's new movies. Full Article at Comingsoon.net
I argued that I was a journalist, not a cartoonist, and she produced an eight-pound sledgehammer from behind her back and chased me around the room with it. CHEAP EATS Weirdo the Cat, in an act of life-defying cantankerousness, has died. Full Article at San Francisco Bay Guardian
And his little sockpuppets, too. reply to this Uh, if markets shaped people into more "moral" beings, whatever that means, wouldn't famous atheletes stop behaving like this? Full Article at Hit and Run
THE Red Sea resort of Sharm el Sheikh has been thrown into the spotlight this year as the demise of the pound against the euro has meant that holiday destinations outside of the Eurozone have come into favour and are suddenly top of the to-do list for... Full Article at The Birmingham Mail
Justin Timberlake In the year 2000, if someone said to you that Justin Timberlake -- who at the time was the blond-dyed, curly-haired, Britney-dating, falsettoed leader of boy band *NSYNC -- would be perhaps the top male pop artist in both sales and... Full Article at AOL News
ONLY last Thursday in a one-on-one interview with the Evening Post, Hans Backe spoke passionately about his ambition as Notts County manager. He revealed too, one of the Magpies' greatest-ever players, Don Masson, was his idol when he was a kid. Full Article at This Is Nottingham
Incontinent horndogs and vibrating panties. Sociopaths passed off as delightfully quirky. Third and fourth sequels to horror films nobody liked in the first place. Full Article at The A.V. Club