Entries from Austinist tagged with 'thewhitehouse'
September 24, 2007
Swedish pirates turn the tables on Big Media! Arrr! Iranian Prez Ahmadinejad speaking at Columbia University today. Myanmar: Buddhist monks stage largest anti-government demonstrations in 20 years. $100 laptop to hit market in North America this fall. The White House switches its strategy on having peace talks with "evil" countries. The Governator is calling for a boycott of firms who do business with Iran. Study: Less sleep = more dreams......
Continue Reading "News Bits"June 28, 2007
You can check iPhone availability at local Apple stores before heading out to buy one. Both the Domain and Barton Creek locations in Austin are stocked up--for now--so it's about time to get in line. Bring your sleeping bag--or, better yet, pay someone to wait for you. In case anyone still cares about the iPod, researchers broke down the parts and labor costs by country. Can't go more than 3 hours without checking your......
Continue Reading "News Bits: iPhone, You Phone, We All Phone... on iPhones?"March 20, 2007
You may not know it, but you've loved Fred MacMurray since childhood. Like the early careers of Kurt Russell and Jodie Foster, MacMurray was perhaps best known as a Disney contract player for his work in films like "The Absent-Minded Professor" and "The Shaggy Dog." But there's an impressive darker side to MacMurray's acting that can only be seen in his films with auteur Billy Wilder. Last year, Fred's daughter Kate MacMurray presented the noir......
Continue Reading "Wine And Food Festival Preview: Food + Film At Alamo Drafthouse"April 26, 2005
Even though Time magazine went crazy and put up Ann Coulter on the cover, proving you can reside on the far, far left of the genetic bell curve and still make it big, they still, sometimes, resemble a news magazine. Such is the case with a recent article which reports that 4 of the 24 U.S. delegates to the Inter-American Telecommunication Commission meeting in Guatemala City were barred due to their support of John Kerry.......
Continue Reading "Political Retribution from the White House? The Hell You Say!"