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December 2008
Shooting, Banging, Streaking, Kissing? How will you ring in the New Year?
New Year’s Day will be banging, blasting and kissing its way into our lives in a mere matter of hours.
Cherryville Shooters fire shots annually and legally in Cherryville, N.C. 2005. AP photoWho can wait?
In these parts, many people fire bullets in the air to greet the new baby New Year. (Cops say that’s illegal and dangerous by the way. Breaking the law!)
How are you planning to ring in the New Year?
Will you bang pots and pans, run outside naked or actually ring something? Or maybe you’re one of those people who will be sleeping through all the hoopla? Tisk, tisk!
People run out of the Maumee River in Waterville New Year’s 2003. AP photo Comment below.
Watch how New Year’s 2008 was rung in at Time Square.
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Brits say disco is back. Thanks a lot stupid recession
Dust off your bell bottoms and comb out your Afro wig, the Sunday Times of London is touting the return of disco at clubs there.
That’s right, shinny balls and more sequin than you can shake a stick at.
The British club kids are apparently crunching up disco and a music genre called “disco nouveau.”
The article points to the growing popularity of bands like Glass Candy and Chromatics.
Jim Stanton, who founded Horse Meat Disco in London, says that when times get rough and tough, people look to be uplifted and shake a tail feather.
The climate is similar to the 1970s when there was recession, oil crisis and the birth of disco, he said.
Is it only a matter of time before American’s cool kids shake it down Studio 54-style? Well, we are pretty depressed again.
Are you afraid disco will cross the ocean and get us? Comment below.
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Glass Candy “Life Life After Sundown”
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Which male star should champion the man-girdle cause?
For years, Oprah, Tyra and other female celebrities have touted Spanx, Yummy Tummies and other shapewear brands for their ability to smooth out the lumps and bumps that appear on the adult female form.
Now girdles for men are hitting the market faster than you can say mirdle.
Love handles beware.
Guy in shapewear from the London’s Sun’s website (www.thesun.co.uk)Undoubtedly hearing the call of a thousands beer bellies flapping, Australia-based Equmen will sell a body-slimming Core Precision Undershirt starting next month. Read more about it here and here.
The new Core Precision Undershirt from Equmen Even Spanx, the Atlanta-based shapewear darling, plans to launch a line of flab smoothers for men.
This all leaves one burning question, which male star will be brave enough to lead the mirdle revolution?
Of all the options - Philip Seymour Hoffman, Daniel Baldwin, Forest Whitaker, Alec Baldwin, etc. - we think Jack Black could do it best.
Jack Black in superhero wear with Tenacious D partner Kyle GassWhy?
He’s a self-confident dude with maybe a few too many dips and rolls.
Which male star would you like to see in a mirdle? Would you ever wear one?
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A waist is a terrible thing to waste
According to a story on Forbes.com, a Beverly Hills doctor figured out a way of going green and saving green at the same time. Craig Alan Bittner converted the fat he liposuctioned out of his patients’ bodies into biodiesel fuel for his Ford SUV and his girlfriend’s Lincoln Navigator. Unfortunately for him, using medical waste to power vehicles is illegal in California and he’s now being investigated by the state’s public health department. — D.L. Stewart, Staff Writer
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Local restaurant offers “Hard Times” meal deal
Now here’s a deal for those looking for a break on down home ribs, liver and onions, Salisbury steak and other dinners.
Rut’s Soul Food eatery on James H. McGee. Staff photo by Amelia Robinson In response to the troubled economy, Rut’s Soul Food eatery on James H. McGee Boulevard in Dayton is offering a $6.99 “Hard Time Dinner Special” on all of its dinner, owner Calvin Rutledge said Monday, Dec. 29.
The normal Rut’s price for a dinner, including two sides and a roll, is about $9.50, Rutledge said.
The price of desserts, including sweet potato pie, cakes and cobblers, has been slashed from about $3 to $2.
Rut’s Soul Food eatery on James H. McGee. Staff photo by Amelia Robinson Rutledge said times are desperate for customers and many in the restaurant business.
“You’ve got to do what you have to do to get through the storm,” he said.
Have you seen deals like the one at Rut’s? Has the country’s economic woes changed your eating out habits. Comment below.
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Cigarette butt hut catches the holiday spirit
Cigarette smokers like fa-la-la-la as much as the next person. Need proof? Check out the Christmas lights on the cigarette-smoking tent outside of Boston’s Bistro and Pub, 7500 N Main St.
Photo of Boston’s smoking tent taken by Cathy MongCigarette butt huts have popped up outside of area bars every winter since the Ohio enacted its indoor smoking ban approved by voted in November 2006.
What do you think of smoking tents? Make a comment below.
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‘Ohio Players’ founder dies in Georgia
A blues man who founded the band that later changed its name to the Ohio Players died Thursday, Dec. 25, in his Georgia home, according The Macon Telegraph.
Robert Ward Sr. was 70.
photo of the Ohio Players from the early 1960sA Georgia native, Ward moved to Dayton and founded The Ohio Untouchables blues band in 1959. The band was known best for the song “Love Is Amazing.”
Ward left the band for a solo career only a few years after founding it, according to the Encyclopaedia Britannica’s Guide to Black History.
That Ohio Untouchables changed its name to the Ohio Players and became one of the premiere funk bands of the 1970s.
Ward, a singer and guitarist, performed during the 1996 Olympic Games in Atlanta. He suffered from various illnesses, the Telegraph reported.
He played with several Motown acts, including Wilson Pickett and The Temptations.
Ward’s solo albums included “New Role Soul,” “Fear No Evil,” “Rhythm of the People,” “Hot Stuff,” and “Black Bottom.”
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Dayton barber on “Deal or No Deal” with his granny and Kobe Bryant
A Dayton barber, his granny and NBA superstar Kobe Bryant will be the dream team on a special episode of NBC’s “Deal or No Deal” set to air Monday at 9 p.m. on WDTN.
Davon ClarkMargaret Rice and the Los Angeles Laker helped Davon Clark compete in the insanely popular game show.
Clark, a Bryant super fan, began his game with a sealed briefcase on the 26-case board worth a whooping two million smackeroos, according to the primetime schedule on a NBC website.
Deal or No Deal typically features 26 models with briefcases containing cash amounts ranging from a penny to a million dollars.
Contestants pick one case to keep and then select the other cases one by one not knowing the amount in each case. Based on the amounts eliminated, “The Banker” makes deals to “buy” the contestant’s case.
When the show was taped, Rice was tapped as one of her grandson’s “helpers.” She couldn’t attend the Los Angeles-based show’s taping in person. She communicated with Mandel and Clark via a live feed from DATV (Time Warner Cable channel 20).
Clark included his grandma in his goals. He wanted to win enough money so that his wife could stop working two jobs and a little bingo money for his granny, according to the NBC website.
Bryant is said to make a tempting offer to Clark during the show.
The episode was set to air in November, but was delayed.
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DQ: The video game
If blasting virtual monsters and hijacking virtual cars aren’t your idea of video game fun, here’s something entirely different: running a virtual Dairy Queen. DQ Tycoon lets you dip cones, make Peanut Buster Parfaits and do other low-paying tasks, all without getting your hands sticky. It’s available for download at BigFishGames.com for $19.99 and at Target Stores. It may not become the next Guitar Hero, but, enthuses one Dairy Queen executive, “Oh, come on, who hasn’t wanted to run and own a DQ?”— D.L. Stewart, Staff Writer
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Jackson gravely ill? His camp says that’s a lie
Reports that Michael Jackson is gravely ill are being denied by his camp.
Author Ian Halperin has reportedly finished a book on Michael Jackson and claimed the recluse has for years had Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, an occasionally fatal genetic condition, according to stories by Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper and In Touch magazine.
The story swarmed around the Internet this weekend.
Now comes reports that those claims are bogus.
According to www.washingtonpost.com, “a spokesman for Michael Jackson released a statement on Monday denying as a “total fabrication” a report claiming that the former King of Pop needs a lung transplant due to a rare respiratory disease.”
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Centerville grad shows off form on cover of fitness magazine
A Centerville High School graduate is the cover model for a national fitness magazine.
Jessica Paxson-Putnam, 25 and now of Knoxville, Tenn, is on the January/February cover of Muscle and Fitness Hers magazine.
The fitness pro offers tips and a leg program in the issue on stands now.
Putnam has been on the cover of several other fitness publications and was a trainer on the MTV reality show “MADE.”
She and her husband, Peter Putnam, were the first couple to have back to-back covers on “Flex” magazine.
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Can you say president hot bod?
The NRA needs to stop its worrying, apparently president-elect Barack Obama likes guns. Here he shows off his rock-hard abs and toned arms while on his holiday vacation in Hawaii.
You never saw William Howard Taft walking around without a shirt.
Read more about our future president’s tummy here.
The photo, if real, means that Michelle is one lucky lady. See what The Huffington Post and TMZ.com had to say.
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Memorial Service for “Mr. Downtown” Jim Nichols at Trolley Stop
Friends and family members will pay tribute to Jim Nichols, a longtime Dayton Daily News journalist and downtown Dayton’s biggest booster, during a memorial service 3 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 28, at The Trolley Stop, 530 E 5th St., Dayton.
Click here to read more about Nichols.
The 89-year-old died Tuesday, Dec. 16, at Elm Creek Nursing Center in West Carrollton after a lengthy illness.
The Trolley Stop was one of Nichols’ favorite hangouts.
Funeral services are still pending by Bradford-Connelly and Glickler Funeral Home, 1849 Salem Ave.
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Biographer: Michael Jackson needs lung transplant, gravely ill
The King of Pop has a rare and potentially fatal lung condition and needs an emergency transplant, his biographer told Britain’s Sunday Express newspaper and In Touch magazine.
Author Ian Halperin has reportedly finished a book on Michael Jackson and claims the recluse has for years had Alpha 1-antitrypsin deficiency, an occasionally fatal genetic condition.
According to the British newspaper, Halperin claims Jackson, 50, can barely speak and has lost 95 percent of the vision in his left eye.
Although he does not smoke, the international star has emphysema and chronic gastrointestinal bleeding, according to news reports.
“It’s the bleeding that’s the most problematic part,” Halperin told the Express. “It could kill him.”
Jackson’s spokeswoman has not confirmed Halperin’s claims. Jermaine Jackson, Jackson’s older brother and former band mate, told Fox TV news: “He’s not doing so well right now. This isn’t a good time,” The Houston Chronicle reported.
Jackson, who was acquitted of child molestation charges in 2005, was reportedly photographed recently in a wheelchair.
Jackson’s albums include “Thriller”, “Bad,” “Off the Wall” and HIStory.
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Dayton Air Show favorite fined for DUI on runway, calling officers pigs
Patty Wagstaff, a favorite aerobatic pilot at the Vectren Dayton Air Show, was fined Friday, Dec. 19, for driving drunk on an Wisconsin airport runway July 31 and resisting an officer, according to The Oshkosh Northwestern.
During the July incident, Official assert Wagstaff called officers “pigs” and repeatedly said they “did not know who they were dealing with,” the newspaper’s website reported.
A Winnebago County Circuit Court judge ordered Wagstaff, 57, to pay court cost and a $500 fine for the incident at Wittman Regional Airport during EAA’s AirVenture air convention in Oshkosh, the newspaper reported.
The aviator, who is scheduled to appear in the 2009 Vectren Dayton Air Show July 18 and 19, pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor charge of resisting an officer and her driver’s license was revoked for eight months, the newspaper’s website said.
Winnebago County Sheriff’s deputies confronted Wagstaff during the July air convention after security gaurds reported seeing her drive a sports utility vehicle down the runway, the newspaper’s website reported.
Wagstaff was “physically and verbally resistive to his commands,” officials said.
According to a criminal complaint, she was verbally profane and abusive to law enforcement, hospital and jail staff, at one point, calling the officers in the jail “pigs.”
Wagstaff did not comment on the outcome of the hearing Friday.
Her defense attorney Michael Lim admitted things got out of hand, but said the police reports were exaggerated, newspaper’s website said.
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‘Couture’ kid’s clothing boutique opens at the Greene.
A chocolate and mint colored children clothes boutique opened Friday, Dec. 19, at the Greene in Beavercreek. With the slogan “sweet clothes for those with little toes”, Cake and Ice Cream promises a concept of “couture” apparel and accessories for infants and toddlers, according to the Greene. The locally owned store is behind the Funny Bone Comedy Club at 4403 Juniper Road. The brands it carries include Ed Hardy, Pediped Shoes, Puddle Jumpers, Trumpette, Squeakers Sneakers, Knucklehead Clothing, Kingsley, Baby Lou Lou, and Wry Baby. For more information, visit http://thegreene.com or call 937-912-0215.
http://www.thegreene.com
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Drag Queens to scrap after Christmas
DAYTON - Some of Dayton’s favorite drag queens will put on boxing gloves and duke it out Friday, Dec. 26, at Club Masque, 34 N Jefferson St., Dayton.
Admission to the boxing show is $7 or $10.
For more information, visit www.clubmasque.com or call (937) 228-2582.
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Dayton parade is on the air
If you missed this year’s Dayton Children’s Parade, or want to see it again, DATV (Time Warner Cable Channel 20) will be showing it throughout the holiday season, with the next showing scheduled for Friday, Dec.12, at 2:30 p.m. And if you can’t wait that long to view Dayton’s first-ever nighttime parade — hosted by Ryan Phillips and Brian Michaels of Lite 99 FM — you can click here to see it now.
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Dayton’s David Poe in NBC Christmas special
A new animated Christmas special on NBC Wednesday evening, Dec. 10, will be extra special for David and Doris Ponitz of Dayton. Little Spirit: Christmas in New York, features the voice of their son, David Poe, singing on the sound track of the one-hour animated show (8 p.m., channels 2 and 5). Also heard are the voices of Danny DeVito, Lucy Liu and Brian Williams. Poe is a graduate of Miami University, not to mention an alumnus of the Dayton Rotary Boys Choir. — D.L. Stewart, Staff Writer
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Alex Nyerges on NPR
Alex Nyerges, former director of the Dayton Art Institute, has gone national. Nyerges, now director of the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond, was featured on NPR’s Dec. 1 edition of All Things Considered in a story called “Life is Rarely Still.” According to reporter Noah Adams, Nyerges works 16 hour days and, when not overseeing the museum’s $130 million renovation, works on a novel he is writing. The move from Dayton has evidently done wonders for Nyerges who sat for the interview at the home of billionaire art lovers Louise and Harwood Cochrane. The centerpiece of the museum’s new building will be the Cochrane Atrium. Nyerges said the atrium will be 300 feet long and four stories tall with skylights running the length on both sides. And, he is still zipping around town in his convertible Miata roadster. Just like he did when he lived here. — Khalid Moss, Staff Writer
Click here to hear Alex Nyerges interview
