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By Eric Deggans , Times TV/Media Critic Eric Deggans Tampa Bay Times In Print: Wednesday, February 15, 2012 She's not sure what kind of omen it was. But when Monica Culpepper flew out to Los Angeles last year for meetings with producers of CBS' hit reali
He is Dan Kaufman, Dan Kay, Dan Katze. He is a celebrity chef, an internet entrepreneur, a television producer. He has worked for Apple, Google, AOL, the Rainbow Room. He hangs out with Steve Case, Gordon Ramsey, Tim Armstrong. He's a world-class surfer,
The mayors of five Idaho cities, as well as Lori Otter, wife of Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, appear at a press conference on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 in Boise, Idaho announcing the host cities for the upcoming Exergy Tour, a women's professional cycling event... View Photo »
Prices in Houston could get dangerously close to four dollars here, or slightly higher than four dollars, come Memorial Day weekend or some point in May. That's typically when gas prices peak, early in the summer months.
2011 was a year of change for UFC heavyweight contender Alistair Overeem. A contract dispute between Zuffa and Golden Glory led to the K-1 champion's departure from his long time trainers and management team. To further murk the issue, Golden Glory filed
KANNAPOLIS, N.C. , (Feb. 14, 2012) – On March 6, 2005, Danica Patrick made her IZOD IndyCar Series debut driving for three-time IndyCar Series champion Bobby Rahal in a 300-mile event at Homestead-Miami Speedway. Slightly less than seven years later, Patr
A photograph provided by David Starbuck and made in 1993 shows human skeletons uncovered during a 1950s archaeological excavation prior to the reconstruction of Fort William Henry in Lake George, N.Y. They were among the 10 skeletons of French and... View Photo »
FanimeCon, in partnership with the Steam Federation, is proud to announce Clockwork Alchemy. This new venue for Steampunk will be held concurrently with FanimeCon during Memorial Day weekend.
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Memorial Day is a United States Federal holiday observed on the last Monday of May (in 2008 on May 26). Formerly known as Decoration Day, it commemorates U.S. men and women who died while in military service to their country. First enacted to honor Union soldiers of the American Civil War, it was expanded after World War I to include American... Full Article
Russian Jews attend a service marking Holocaust Memorial Day in a synagogue in Moscow, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.
View Photo »BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 26: A young man leaps across stellae at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, on January 26, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Germany will observe Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews and...
View Photo »BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 26: Visitors walk among stellae at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, on January 26, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Germany will observe Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews and other...
View Photo »Member of German left wing party Die Linke attend a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day at the Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag, in Berlin, January 27, 2012.
View Photo »Parliamentary floor leader Volker Kauder (L) of Germany's conservative Christian Democratic Union (CDU) chats with leader of German Social Democratic Party SPD Sigmar Gabriel before a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day at the...
View Photo »An EU flag is set at half-mast atop of the Reichstag, seat of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag, for a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day, in Berlin, January 27, 2012.
View Photo »Holocaust-survivor and Germany's famous literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki is reflected in a glass barrier during his speech at a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day at the Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house...
View Photo »Holocaust-survivor and Germany's famous literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki delivers speech during a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day at the Reichstag building, seat of the German lower house of Parliament Bundestag, in...
View Photo »German President Christian Wulff (L-R) President of the Bundesstag Norbert Lammert, Holocaust-survivor and Germany's famous literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki, Chancellor Angela Merkel and President of the German Constitutional Court Andreas Vosskuhle leave a commemoration service for...
View Photo »Holocaust-survivor and Germany's famous literature critic Marcel Reich-Ranicki (L) President of the Bundesstag Norbert Lammert and President Christian Wulff arrive for a commemoration service for the victims of national socialism on International Holocaust Memorial Day at the Reichstag,...
View Photo »The mayors of five Idaho cities, as well as Lori Otter, wife of Gov. C.L. "Butch" Otter, appear at a press conference on Monday, Feb. 13, 2012 in Boise, Idaho announcing the host cities for the upcoming Exergy Tour, a women's professional cycling event planned for May 24-28. From left...
View Photo »BERLIN, GERMANY - JANUARY 26: A man on a bicycle rides past stellae at the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe, also called the Holocaust Memorial, on January 26, 2012 in Berlin, Germany. Germany will observe Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews...
View Photo »A photograph provided by David Starbuck and made in 1993 shows human skeletons uncovered during a 1950s archaeological excavation prior to the reconstruction of Fort William Henry in Lake George, N.Y. They were among the 10 skeletons of French and Indian War soldiers unearthed in what...
View Photo »Hungarians watch a railway carriage what was used during the World War II Holocaust in Hungary in front of the Holocaust Museum in Budapest on January 27, 2012. The United Nations declared in 2005 the Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews and other...
View Photo »Hungarians search for their relatives names on the wall of victims in the Holocaust Museum in Budapest on January 27, 2012. The United Nations declared in 2005 the Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews and other victims murdered by the Nazis.
View Photo »A Hungarian holocaust survivor and an activist light a candle in front of the Holocaust Museum in Budapest on January 27, 2012, next to a railway carriage what was used the Holocaust in Hungary during the World War II. The United Nations declared in 2005 that January 27 should be marked...
View Photo »People listen to a man talking in front of the Holocaust Museum in Budapest on January 27, 2012, next to a railway carriage which was used in Hungary during the World War II. The United Nations declared in 2005 the Holocaust Memorial Day on January 27 to commemorate the 6 million Jews...
View Photo »Tourists take photos of iron shoes on the bank of the Danube on January 27, 2012 in Budapest, marking the Holocaust in Hungary. Hundreds of Hungarian Jews had to leave their shoes on the bank before they were shot into the river by Hungarian militaimen during the World War II. The...
View Photo »Iron shoes are pictured on the bank of the Danube on January 27, 2012, marking the Holocaust in Hungary. Hundreds of Hungarian Jews had to leave their shoes on the bank before they were shot into the river by Hungarian militaimen during the World War II. The United Nations declared in...
View Photo »NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 21: Candles are lit for three homeless men who died over the past year during a service at Judson Memorial Church on National Homeless Persons Memorial Day on December 21, 2011 in New York City. The annual interfaith service is organized by the homeless advocacy...
View Photo »NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 21: Bernard Anderson speaks about his friend Ron Santos, a homeless man who died in 2011, during a service at Judson Memorial Church on National Homeless Persons Memorial Day on December 21, 2011 in New York City. The annual interfaith service is organized by...
View Photo »NEW YORK, NY - DECEMBER 21: Rabbi Michael Fienberg lights a Hanukkah candle at a service at Judson Memorial Church on National Homeless Persons Memorial Day on December 21, 2011 in New York City. The annual interfaith service is organized by the homeless advocacy group Picture the...
View Photo »JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JANUARY 24: Portraits by artist David Friedman are displayed at a new exhibition, 'Last Portrait: Painting for Posterity' in the Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, on January 24, 2012. in Jerusalem, Israel. Yad Vashem opened the new exhibition to mark International...
View Photo »LONDON, ENGLAND - JANUARY 24: British Prime Minister David Cameron and Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg greet representatives from the Holocaust Educational Trust including Holocaust survivor Ben Helfgott (c) before signing a Book of Commitment pledging their support and commitment to...
View Photo »JERUSALEM, ISRAEL - JANUARY 24: A man and his child look at a new exhibition, 'Last Portrait: Painting for Posterity,' in Yad Vashem Holocaust memorial, on January 24, 2012. in Jerusalem, Israel. Yad Vashem opened the new exhibition to mark International Holocaust Day, whcih falls on...
View Photo »Russian Jews attend a service marking Holocaust Memorial Day in a synagogue in Moscow, Friday, Jan. 27, 2012.
View Photo »Prices in Houston could get dangerously close to four dollars here, or slightly higher than four dollars, come Memorial Day weekend or some point in May. That's typically when gas prices peak, early in the summer months.
FanimeCon, in partnership with the Steam Federation, is proud to announce Clockwork Alchemy. This new venue for Steampunk will be held concurrently with FanimeCon during Memorial Day weekend.
It is important to have the 2012 Memorial Day parade in order to honor our veterans, especially at this time when so many veterans have been able to return home after having been deployed for so long
The town has enlisted one of Hollywood’s most famous leading men to serve as grand marshal for this year’s Memorial Day callithump.
Back in the day you had the dance floor there with the juke box. On the Fourth of July you could hardly find a spot to park. Same on Memorial Day. Over the years there has been some disrepair ... Now it’s back up again, and there’s a lot of picnics out there, but we need to keep going.
I’ve seen this as I visited our Mississippi troops in Afghanistan on Memorial Day ... and those 18 to 24 year-olds on their second, third and fourth tours of duty in Iraq and Afghanistan have the same selfless commitment to serve their nation as any other generation.
If this trend continues, Thanksgiving is going to become another Memorial Day or Fourth of July, where it's all about sales ... You won't have time to have dinner with the family. You will have to be camping out to get the deals.
We often remember our veterans on Memorial Day, but around the holidays, a lot of families are without their loved ones
For us, it's just like a service on Veterans Day or Memorial Day
They had not had anything mentioned in 40 years ... To have their sons' names called at the Memorial Day parade was such a huge, huge honor.
I was there for the Memorial Day Parade, where they tossed ticker tape from tall windows. I saw people leaving food on their plates in restaurants. I had flashbacks of how not too long ago we were searching under the snow for grass to eat. When I saw all of the waste, I just cried.
A little. But in 6th grade I read my ‘Ode to Veterans’ during Wixon’s Memorial Day celebration, so I was a little used to doing it ... That’s what inspired me to write the last paragraph about veterans.
It's not going to be like our Memorial Day or Labor Day weekends. The Hampton Bays Chamber of Commerce is confident that this will be a wonderful local holiday season
The uptick in the number of Thanksgiving travelers this year represents the first significant increase in any major holiday travel this year ... Memorial Day travel was statistically flat, while Independence Day and Labor Day travel experienced decreases of 2.5 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively.
On this Memorial Day as our nation honors its unbroken line of fallen heroes, and I see many of them in the audience here today ...
Over the summertime, demand for travel remained relatively flat from Memorial Day to Fourth of July to Labor Day, with even some minor decreases compared from 2010 ... We’re thinking that for those individuals who may be financially strapped or don’t have the means to take more than one vacation, they’r...
Memorial Day travel was statistically flat while Independence Day and Labor Day travel experienced decreases of 2.5 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively.
They got engaged over Memorial Day weekend, so after his recovery we're going to have a wedding ... He was listed in June, and he's at a Level 2, which is critical but functioning.
If we don’t reach a deal by Memorial Day the players will cancel the season.
On the last Memorial Day, some of the girls did not sing in the ceremony because 'it is not modest,' and they have already begun talking about the fact that at the end of the year event the fathers won't be able to see the girls perform and that there will even be separate events for boys and girls.
In the United States, Costco is closed on seven holidays: New Year's Day, Easter, Memorial Day, Independence Day, Labor Day, Thanksgiving, and Christmas.
This is the first significant increase in any holiday travel this year ... Memorial Day travel was statistically flat while Independence Day and Labor Day travel experienced decreases of 2.5 percent and 2.4 percent, respectively.
