A Walk in the Woods
A Walk in the Woods An aging travel writer sets out to hike the 2,100 mile Appalachian Trail with his long-estranged high school buddy. In this new comedy adventure, celebrated travel writer, Bill Bryson (Academy Award winner Robert Redford), instead of retiring to enjoy his loving and beautiful wife (Academy…
ALL THINGS MUST PASS
ALL THINGS MUST PASS Established in 1960, Tower Records was once a retail powerhouse with close to two hundred stores, in more than a dozen countries, on four continents. From humble beginnings in a small-town drugstore, Tower Records eventually became the heart and soul of the music world, and a…
Lakers drop Bryant future hint
Los Angeles Lakers president Jim Buss hinted the club would be ready to hold discussions about possibly extending Kobe Bryant’s NBA career when the star’s current contract expires at the end of the 2015-2016 season. Buss told the Los Angeles Times in an interview published on Friday that Bryant’s history…
Taylor Swift invites Lisa Kudrow onstage for ‘Smelly Cat’
Continuing her run of inviting surprise guests to join her onstage during her current tour, Taylor Swift performed duets Wednesday night with Selena Gomez and Justin Timberlake. But it was her ode to an odoriferous cat that had everybody talking. Midway through her set at Los Angeles’ Staples Center, Swift…
Marco Rubio on world leaders: Vladimir Putin a ‘gangster,’ Kim Jong Un a ‘lunatic’
Photo CNN When it comes to his assessment of world leaders, Sen. Marco Rubio isn’t pulling any punches: Russia’s run by a “gangster” and North Korea a “lunatic.” The 2016 Republican presidential candidate made a foreign policy speech Friday morning in South Carolina, in which he riffed on his unvarnished…
Secret NATO Taliban report revives Pakistan fears
The Taliban in Afghanistan depend on Pakistan for support, even though they do not necessarily welcome it, a secret NATO report says, according to a journalist who has read it. “It is a marriage of convenience,” Times of London reporter Jerome Starkey said Wednesday, citing the report. The Taliban see…