tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6871939847658006562024-02-07T01:32:45.271-07:00Flynn's InnWe're All Out HERE. Some more than others.
Not the meaning of life. Not even close. What, you were expecting the answer?flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.comBlogger713125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-64524898576634022422012-03-31T20:40:00.002-06:002012-03-31T20:42:21.544-06:00Bally launches Beach Boys-inspired slotsBally Technologies is to unveil its new Beach Boys-themed video slots at the NIGA trade show next month.by Simon LiddleTaking centre stage at the event, which is being held at the San Diego Convention Center on April 1-4, these five-reel, 1,024-way games are presented on Bally’s Alpha 2 Pro Series V22/22 upright wheel cabinet.The games feature Beach Boys songs and video clips, five progressive flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-46396374084481538502011-12-24T08:15:00.002-07:002011-12-24T08:16:48.420-07:00Beach Boys announce a reunion tour, with Brian Wilson, to mark 50th anniversaryBy Associated PressNEW YORK — It’s almost winter, but get ready for some surf and sun: The Beach Boys are reuniting.The founding members of the classic rock group — Brian Wilson, Mike Love and Al Jardine — announced Friday they are getting back together to celebrate their 50th anniversary. They’re working on a new album and also plan a 50-date tour that will take them around the world.“This flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-23447337014918876282011-12-03T10:51:00.002-07:002011-12-03T10:53:21.258-07:00Beach Boys restaurant to open in VegasBy Delen Goldberg The Beach Boys are joining a growing wave of musicians opening restaurants in Las Vegas.The iconic California band is pairing with Caesars Entertainment and the Monsoon Group to open the Beach Boys Good Vibration Restaurant at Bally’s. The establishment is expected to debut in summer 2012, the year of the Beach Boys’ 50th anniversary.Operations Manager Nick Raymond said Las flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-1859884886022318692011-10-27T21:29:00.003-06:002011-10-27T21:32:48.802-06:00Me and the man with the iPadBy Barry MaloneI never know how to behave when I go to write about hungry people.I usually bring just a notebook and a pen because it seems somehow more subtle than a recorder. I drain bottled water or hide it before I get out of the car or the plane. In Ethiopia a few years ago I was telling a funny story to some other journalists as our car pulled up near a church where we had been told people flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-1771550788670058502011-10-15T16:39:00.001-06:002011-10-15T16:41:16.186-06:00R.I.P., the movie camera: 1888-2011By Matt Zoller SeitzWe might as well call it: Cinema as we knew it is dead.An article at the moviemaking technology website Creative Cow reports that the three major manufacturers of motion picture film cameras — Aaton, ARRI and Panavision — have all ceased production of new cameras within the last year, and will only make digital movie cameras from now on. As the article’s author, Debra Kaufmanflynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-1891391300795373762011-10-13T20:39:00.000-06:002011-10-13T20:42:43.100-06:00The coming Canada-U.S. tax warArthur Cockfield On Dec. 16, 1773, Samuel Adams and his group of patriots, the Sons of Liberty, swept aboard a cargo ship filled with 45 tons of East India Company tea, which they promptly dumped into Boston Harbor. The Americans were rebelling against a three-pence tea tax imposed by the then-ruling British government. Like a Canuck version of Sam Adams, federal Finance Minister Jim Flaherty flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-43182030669773067942011-10-01T06:30:00.002-06:002011-10-01T06:32:29.668-06:00Beach Boys Plan Anniversary Blowout With Likely Reunion TourBy Patrick DoyleSeptember 28, 2011 11:25 AM ETIn Capitol Records' giant Studio A in Los Angeles this summer, the surviving Beach Boys – Brian Wilson, Mike Love, Al Jardine and Bruce Johnston – gathered around a microphone and, for the first time in two decades, harmonized on a track. The song was, appropriately enough, a rerecording of their stomping 1968 hit "Do It Again." "Even the veteran flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-13084507200809298732011-08-23T21:43:00.000-06:002011-08-23T21:44:24.752-06:00Record industry faces liability over 'infringement'By Michael Geist
Chet Baker was a leading jazz musician in the 1950s, playing trumpet and providing vocals. Baker died in 1988, yet he is about to add a new claim to fame as the lead plaintiff in possibly the largest copyright infringement case in Canadian history. His estate, which still owns the copyright in more than 50 of his works, is part of a massive class-action lawsuit that has been flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-33933218173685973932011-08-21T10:58:00.003-06:002011-08-21T11:00:27.955-06:00Why Do Studios Think There’s So Much Value in Old Titles?
By: Claude Brodesser-Akner
This weekend sees the opening of two remakes of eighties cult hits that play off of name recognition: Conan the Barbarian and Fright Night. The first has been kept culturally relevant mostly from Arnold Schwarzenegger's constant references to it as governor, while at this point the second title strikes a chord mostly with those who spent insomniac evenings flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-46947126446293164742011-08-20T08:25:00.002-06:002011-08-20T08:29:23.118-06:00The convenience trap: What the changes at Netflix reveal about an insidious trend
by Sam Adams
Lars Von Trier said that “a film should be like a stone in your shoe,” but it increasingly seems like we’re moving toward a world in which the success of a given work of art is determined primarily by its ease of access. “Convenience” and “choice” are the watchwords of the digital era, in which content must be instantly accessible and as quickly digested, lest consumers flit off flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-16333513511659748772011-08-06T09:44:00.002-06:002011-08-06T09:47:26.850-06:00The Beach Boys Prove Summer Is Foreverby Mitch AlbomIt was 50 years ago this summer that a couple of guys named Mike and Brian were sitting in a California garage, noodling with a song. As Mike recalls, the song "didn't take that long. Just a few minutes." When you read the lyrics you believe him:Surfin' is the only lifeThe only way for me.Now surf, surf with meBom Bom Dit Di Dit DipBom Bom Dit Di Dit Dip...Mike and Brian, along withflynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-67610215031978126932011-07-10T12:08:00.001-06:002011-07-10T12:10:18.980-06:00Illegal immigrant has no right to government health care, court rulesby Adrian Morrow The Federal Court of Appeal has denied an illegal immigrant coverage under Canada's universal health care system, a precedent-setting decision that could discourage others from travelling to the country to obtain free treatments.The case relates to Nell Toussaint, a Grenadan national who entered Canada in 1999 as a visitor and has lived in Toronto since then. Suffering from a flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-47790593510925804992011-07-10T11:40:00.002-06:002011-07-10T11:44:57.697-06:00Groundhog Day : Hollywood is about to repeat the catastrophic mistakes of the music industryBy Bill WymanWhat happened to the music industry over the last 10 years or so was a lot like the plot of The Hangover. Bad judgment and self-indulgence producing chaos, pain, blinding sun, dim but lacerating memories … and you wake up to find there's a tiger in your hotel suite. It's been more than 10 years since compression technologies and ever-faster online speeds started making it easy to flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-28766641513162261582011-06-04T09:27:00.003-06:002011-06-04T09:35:31.514-06:00Why the courts must decriminalize prostitutionby Kirk Makin Want some action? In most of Canada, sexual services are just a click, a phone call or a short stroll away. Some are overtly marketed as nude massage parlours or body rubs. Other hide behind coy euphemisms: holistic centre; shiatsu; gentlemen's spa.After choosing from a small selection of attendants at one such establishment, Toronto's Studio 409, one is led into a room with soft flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-6049647002438507712011-06-04T08:45:00.003-06:002011-06-04T08:49:27.453-06:0010 Ways You Waste Money on Your CarBy Jerry Edgerton With gas bills putting a crimp in your budget, you don’t want to be wasting money on other car expenses. But many car owners do just that — either spending more than needed on maintenance or putting off work that will cost more later.To be smart about your car, you need to do the right amount of on-time maintenance — while resisting mechanics’ pitches for unnecessary work. “flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-34073490555794350482011-06-04T07:24:00.001-06:002011-06-04T07:30:02.540-06:00A long-buried release, possible Beach Boys reunion give reasons to SmileBy Ryan SnyderThere`s a 1971 Beach Boys recording from a Fillmore East show with the Grateful Dead where Carl Wilson, having just concluded “Good Vibrations” to uproarious applause, sends his gratitude to the song’s authors. “It sure was nice of Mike and Brian to write that song,” he said. The Mike in question was lead vocalist Mike Love and the Brian, of course, was the band’s mercurial flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-40471821966739037802010-09-01T10:00:00.002-06:002010-09-01T10:03:24.879-06:00Charles Darwin's ecological experiment on Ascension isleBy Howard Falcon-LangA lonely island in the middle of the South Atlantic conceals Charles Darwin's best-kept secret.Two hundred years ago, Ascension Island was a barren volcanic edifice.Today, its peaks are covered by lush tropical "cloud forest".What happened in the interim is the amazing story of how the architect of evolution, Kew Gardens and the Royal Navy conspired to build a fully flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-41728960189227203642010-09-01T08:08:00.001-06:002010-09-01T08:19:47.834-06:00Inside a toxic hellhole, Iron Mountain Mineby Peter FimriteA strange chemical smell lingered in the stifling heat as a group of environmental scientists groped in the darkness through one of the most polluted places on Earth.The Iron Mountain Mine, outside of Redding, is a hellish pit where acid water sloshes against your boots, greenish bacterial slime gurgles out of the walls, and stalactites and stalagmites of acid salt, copper and flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-28577164638992745562010-09-01T08:04:00.002-06:002010-09-01T08:08:08.365-06:00Westerners vs. the World: We are the WEIRD onesby Adam McDowellThe Ultimatum Game works like this: You are given $100 and asked to share it with someone else. You can offer that person any amount and if he accepts the offer, you each get to keep your share. If he rejects your offer, you both walk away empty-handed.How much would you offer? If it's close to half the loot, you're a typical North American. Studies show educated Americans will flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-19991139349601434732010-09-01T08:01:00.001-06:002010-09-01T08:03:33.068-06:00Dancing at the MoviesA montage of movie dance scenes set perfectly to "Footloose" - A collection of dance clips from almost 40 movies from dance movies to comedies, from Fred Astaire to Micheal Jackson.flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-59986904810846257312010-09-01T07:54:00.000-06:002010-09-01T07:55:27.333-06:00Google's EarthBy William Gibson“I ACTUALLY think most people don’t want Google to answer their questions,” said the search giant’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, in a recent and controversial interview. “They want Google to tell them what they should be doing next.” Do we really desire Google to tell us what we should be doing next? I believe that we do, though with some rather complicated qualifiers.Science flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-9217051586135725752010-08-06T21:43:00.000-06:002010-08-06T21:44:29.250-06:00After all these years, Beach Boys still sending out good vibrationsBy KEITH LORIAIt's hard to think about summer music without conjuring up images of America's top pop band of all time, The Beach Boys. Songs such as "Surfin' USA," "Kokomo," "California Girls" and "Good Vibrations" have been part of the pop culture landscape for decades and it doesn't matter if you're 8 or 80, the songs seem to resonate with everyone.Mike Love, along with his cousins Dennis, Carlflynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-52850755163552524062010-07-26T18:57:00.005-06:002010-07-26T19:11:46.823-06:0050 years of The Beach Boys - But Reunion or NOT? It seems like no one knows for sure whether or not The Beach Boys will reunite for their 50th anniversary. The group, which started in 1961, hasn't confirmed one way or the other for 100%, and different stories contradict each other.This story suggest a reunion :The Beach Boys Plan 100-Date Anniversary Tourby World Entertainment News NetworkAl Jardine has confirmed the original The Beach Boys flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-58513793361538644422010-05-24T11:06:00.000-06:002010-05-24T11:08:06.890-06:00The Price of Innocenceby Erin MulvaneyChristopher Scott and Claude Simmons were released from prison on October 23, 2009, after serving 13 years for a murder they didn’t commit.But the euphoria of freedom quickly gave way to panic: How would they make their way as free men with little but jail time on their resumés? A state law designed to help exonerees readjust would help, but only after they untangled reels of red flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-687193984765800656.post-21827265447455652492010-05-24T10:49:00.001-06:002010-05-24T10:50:45.762-06:00Food Stylists Put The Sizzle On Your BurgerTry to get through the day without seeing a photograph of food. You can't. Those images are everywhere, from the McDonald's billboard on the side of the bus to the box of cereal you grab off the grocery shelf.But of course, the actual cereal you pour never looks as delicious as the picture on the box. That's because a food stylist has probably spent hours selecting the best-looking flakes and flynnfxhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17018736114265414126noreply@blogger.com0