Car show, music, fireworks highlight holiday weekend

Source: Northwest Florida Daily News

A variety of activities will kick-start the summer season this Memorial Day holiday weekend. Here are some to get things rolling. Be sure to check elsewhere Showcase for more events.  The 2012 Memorial Day Weekend Car, Truck ...
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Daniel Radcliffe Relieved at Woman in Black Success

Source: National Ledger

Daniel Radcliffe felt very relieved when 'Woman in Black' did so well at the box office. The 22-year-old actor played the lead role in the movie but admits the pressure was on him for it to be a hit as he'd had ...
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Quidditch lessons take off at Ormiston Park Academy

Source: Thurrock Gazette

WHILE in his first year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, Harry Potter’s talent for Quidditch earned him the accolade of being the youngest seeker for a century. Now, 18 years since it was first introduced to readers, girls at Ormiston ...
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Rupert Grint Joins "CBGB", "Countryman"

Source: Original Signal: Movies

"Harry Potter" series star Rupert Grint is keeping busy in a post-Hogwarts world, lining up two new projects to become part of the cast of reports Variety. The first is Fredrik Bond’s "The Necessary Death of Charlie Countryman" in which ...
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Why Genre is Synonymous With Pop

Source: Tor: Science Fiction Blog

Of the top ten highest grossing films of all time, how many of them are straight up science fiction or fantasy? All of them except one. The only film on that list that isn’t some kind of fantasy is Titanic, directed by James Cameron, ...
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Messi leads African literacy bid

Source: CNN

A young Masai boy listens to his teacher as he follows the lesson in a Kenyan textbook on his e-reader. Students and their teacher at Humble School in Mukono, Uganda. E-readers are considered an effective approach to encouraging li ...
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'The Influencing Machine' Shows the Medium Isn't the (Entire) Message [Review]

Source: Comic Alliance

In last month's The Goon #39, writer/artist Eric Powell follows up a devastating satirical takedown of modern superhero comics --specifically DC's New 52 line -- with an essay titled "Where's Our Harry Potter?" Powell passionatel ...
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NATO threats were drunken bluster, lawyer says

Source: Chicago Tribune

A Chicago man accused of threatening to blow up a train overpass during the NATO summit may have been drunk and just running his mouth, his attorney said Wednesday. "We don't want people who maybe had a little bit too much to drink to be arrested in Chi ...
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Queen names puppy Gryffindor inspired by Harry Potter

Source: New Kerala

A Labrador was named Gryffindor, the house the boy wizard belongs to at the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. His name was chosen by the Queen who also personally names all of the puppies currently being bred at Sandringham Estate, the Que ...
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