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Quoted: Delonte West tweets his resume Oct 31st 2012, 22:13 "High [quality] player/person. . . low cost. . . can be whatever a team needs. . . let's win some games and have fun while we doin it!" — Delonte West in a wistful series of tweets on Wednesday serving as his open resume to any NBA team that might want to hire him. The unpredictable D.C. native was dumped by the Dallas Mavericks this week over some unspecified conduct issues. He'll work something out: Last year, he famously killed time during the lockout by getting a job at a Prince George's furniture store. Read full article >> New funding program brings avant-garde 'Amarillo' to U.S. Oct 31st 2012, 21:58 Sand spills from a jug held by a whirling woman. Sand sluices over the still, prone body of a man. Sand cascades from dozens of plastic bags that dangle in the air like broken hourglasses. About 800 pounds of sand figures in "Amarillo," a multimedia production by the highly regarded Mexican company Teatro Linea de Sombra — not that sediments will hog the spotlight when GALA Hispanic Theatre presents the piece Friday and Saturday. Read full article >> Miley Cyrus, Nathan Filion and more celebrities tweeting their Halloween costumes Oct 31st 2012, 21:34 It's Halloween, that wonderful day when we get to consume large amounts of candy while flicking through Twitpics of people in Halloween costumes. And not just any people: famous people. Or, if we're especially lucky, famous people attempting to look like other famous people. Read full article >> Love, etc.: Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones engaged to a relatively age-appropriate lady Oct 31st 2012, 18:00 Engaged: Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, 65, to theatrical producer Sally Humphreys, 34, his rep told Reuters. It will be his third marriage, which is slightly above average for a Stone, though not a remarkable age difference: Wood's last marriage broke up bitterly four years ago over his liaison with an 18-year-old Kazakhstani model/waitress. So, you know — progress. Read full article >> Essay: On the new 'Star Wars' and coming to terms with passing the Wookiee torch Oct 31st 2012, 15:37 Almost a day has passed since Walt Disney announced its plans to purchase Lucasfilm and make three new "Star Wars" movies, starting with a seventh chapter in 2015 once the transaction is complete. But longtime worshippers of the George Lucas saga — the ones who collected the original Kenner action figures, and wore R2D2 Underoos, and remember watching the "Star Wars Holiday Special" unironically when it originally aired on CBS — are likely still struggling to process this new chapter in the Skywalker narrative. Read full article >> "One Night with Janis Joplin" — a lesson in channeling dead pop stars Oct 31st 2012, 14:49 Pop music's most horrific lowlight of 2012 arrived in April when a computer generated rendering of the slain rapper Tupac Shakur "performed" at the the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival in Indio, Calif. Read full article >> Reliable Source live discussion, today at noon: Horse mask guy, Huntsman girls, Kris Allen, Justin Timberlake, Philippe Cousteau, Levi Johnston Oct 31st 2012, 14:00 Please join the Reliable Source weekly online discussion today. It was the week a jogger in a horse mask became a star, and Wendy Rieger's storm coverage ruled. (Why doesn't she have her own hour of "Today"?) Harvey Weinstein made the best of a washed-out "SEAL Team Six" premiere, and Kris Allen weathered the storm in a "Ghostbusters" costume (yes, there's video). Check out Jackie Kennedy's weird costume, too. The Huntsman girls happily washed their hands of Election 2012. We inadvertantly set up Carl Reiner's punchline. Justin Timberlake was sorry if you were offended. Hillary and Bill celebrated her 65th. Philippe Cousteau took himself off the market, and sorry, ladies, so did Levi Johnston. Read full article >> Brad Pitt makes major contribution to support gay marriage; Gene Hackman reportedly hits homeless man in self-defense Oct 31st 2012, 13:17 A morning mix of entertainment headlines... Brad Pitt says he will donate $100,000 to the Human Rights Campaign's National Marriage Fund in an effort to give the group the bump needed to pass same-sex marriage initiatives in multiple states, including Maryland. The actor and Chanel commercial star has offered to double any contributions made to the fund in the next 24 hours, up to that $100,000 max. "It's unbelievable to me that people's lives and relationships are literally being voted on in a matter of days," Pitt writes in an e-mail sent to HRC supporters and shared on the HRC Web site. "In Maine, Maryland, Minnesota and Washington, voters will go to the polls to decide if gay and lesbian couples — our friends and neighbors — are worthy of the same protections as everyone else. But that's the system we have and I'm not going to back down from the fight for loving and committed couples to have the ability to marry." Pitt and Angelina Jolie have both been longtime, vocal supporters of marriage equality. They also both appeared on a recent list of the most charitable stars. (L.A. Times; HRC.org) Read full article >> Twitter rumor of flooded stock-exchange among a surge of fake storm reports Oct 31st 2012, 02:36 In the Twitter age, bad news travels fast. Even when the bad news isn't really news at all. Such was the case at the peak of the storm's wrath Monday night as rumor and fallacy swirled like autumn leaves. Around 8 p.m., as Sandy was belting New Jersey and New York City, a tweet appeared: "BREAKING: Confirmed flooding on NYSE. The trading floor is flooded under more than 3 feet of water." Read full article >> Folger's 'Conference of the Birds' is poetry in motion Oct 30th 2012, 18:54 The magic that director Aaron Posner creates onstage in "The Conference of the Birds" began not in rehearsal but in auditions. That's where the director, who gained fame locally with his 2008 magic-show-style "Macbeth," must have posed questions like, "Can you do a split?" "How are your flatulent noises?" and "Any chance you can strum the ukulele and sing like Ingrid Michaelson?" Read full article >>

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