April 05, 2014

The Who: 'Tommy' documentary reviewed
http://www.nj.com/entertainment/index.ssf/2014/04/the_who_tommy.html
Who guitarist Pete Townshend is a genius who channeled his tortured childhood into a fabulous rock opera. Those are the findings of "Sensation: The Story of Tommy," a glowing ? albeit, enlightening ? documentary about the making of the Who's 1969 ...


Journalists pay tribute to their AP colleagues who were shot in Afghanistan
http://www.washingtonpost.com/world/journalists-remember-their-ap-colleagues-who-were-shot-in-afghanistan/2014/04/04/9da233a1-b033-467c-a8da-c0cbb76dc8c6_story.html
During their long and decorated service in the world's war zones, the AP's Kathy Gannon and Anja Niedringhaus won many admirers among their colleagues. The two journalists were shot Friday by an Afghan policeman while they sat in a car on an ...


Boston's Deadly Fire Caused By Welders Who Fled, Officials Say
http://abcnews.go.com/US/bostons-deadly-fire-caused-welders-fled-officials/story?id=23195799
The blaze that killed two Boston firefighters last week was started by sparks from a welder's torch and the welders allegedly fled without alerting anyone, Boston officials said today. One Boston politician wants to change the state law to allow the ...


Heroin overdose antidote: Who gets to carry it?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/heroin-overdose-antidote-who-gets-to-carry-it/2014/04/04/9ac06382-bc22-11e3-80de-2ff8801f27af_story.html
CAMDEN, N.J. ? As deaths from heroin and powerful painkillers skyrocket nationwide, governments and clinics are working to put a drug that can reverse an opiate overdose into the hands of more paramedics, police officers and the people advocates say ...


George W. Bush unveils his paintings of world leaders. Who looks best?
http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/DC-Decoder/Decoder-Buzz/2014/0404/George-W.-Bush-unveils-his-paintings-of-world-leaders.-Who-looks-best
George W. Bush unveiled his paintings of world leaders on Friday during an interview on NBC's ?Today? show with daughter Jenna Bush Hager. The occasion for their display was the opening of a new exhibit called ?The Art of Leadership: A President's ...


Who's Boosting Box Office Numbers? Report Says Latinos
http://www.npr.org/blogs/codeswitch/2014/04/04/297285349/whos-boosting-box-office-numbers-report-says-latinos
Last year, Latinos made up 17 percent of the population but accounted for 32 percent of frequent moviegoers (that is, folks who went to more than one movie a month). Blacks represent 12 percent of the population and were 12 percent of frequent ...


Two Britons who pleaded guilty to US terror charges seek access to secret files
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/apr/04/britons-terror-charges-secret-file-trial-bomb
Two British men who pleaded guilty to raising money for al-Qaida and the Taliban go to a US court on Friday, seeking access to secret documents about a witness whose testimony could influence how long they spend in prison. Thirty-nine-year-old Babar ...


Leland Yee and Shrimpgate. San Francisco asks: Who are these people?
http://blog.sfgate.com/cwnevius/2014/04/04/shrimpgate-san-francisco-asks-who-are-these-people/
I happened to be out of town when Shrimpgate broke, so I am a little late to the party. Since then, like you, I've been following the narrative of Leland Yee, Raymond (Shrimp Boy) Chow and Keith Jackson avidly. And, as a trained journalist and well ...