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...years before they became best-known for being on BATMAN and being JR Ewing's mommy, respectively, right?

You'd have just the outfit to wear, right?

The other day, two men were killed in Manhattan when a driver going the wrong way on a highway slammed into their car. They were a man scheduled to be married later that day and his cousin, who was up from North Carolina for the wedding. Both had kids. Yesterday, an NHL player and his brother were killed in New Jersey (near Philadelphia) by a drunk driver when they were out riding their bikes; both were scheduled to be groomsmen in their sister's wedding today. I don't know about the brother, but the hockey player was a dad. The deaths would have been tragedies under any circumstances, obviously, but the timing is just horrific. The bride in the first case had to switch to planning a funeral, and the sister in the second one will now always associate her wedding (whenever it winds up taking place) with her brothers' deaths. RIP to all.

You misinterpreted me in your rush to be judgmental and dismissive. Jarren Duran, one of the best players in the league this year, got suspended for 2 games because his response to a heckler was a casually-tossed gay slur, and from the reporting I've read on this incident, casual bigotry about gays is still quite common in US male professional team sports.

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Have you ever noticed a great, old sign in your neighborhood, perhaps above a bodega, laundromat or other local business? It’s possible you only noticed it after it was gone — after the business closed and became a Popeye’s or maybe a Cricket Wireless, and the vibe of the neighborhood shifted just so. David Barnett hates this vibe shift — so much so, that he’s devoted his life to halting it. Barnett is the force behind Noble Signs, a signmaking studio he cofounded in 2013 out of “an appreciation for the vanishing classic signage of New York City.” He’s also the founder of the New York Sign Museum on Atlantic Avenue in Brooklyn. The museum was established in 2019, with a mission of preserving the great old signs that come down every year and would otherwise go to scrapyards. “I’m lucky I’m alive,” Barnett said during a tour of the museum, which doubles as his fabrication shop. “I’ve craned my neck around to look at a sign and almost crashed my car more times than I can remember.” He’s rescued classic signs from Essex Card Shop, which replaced its sign after a fire in 2022, and from Queen, the red-sauce Italian restaurant that reigned in Brooklyn Heights for 62 years before shuttering in 2020. He has dozens of signs from bodegas, pharmacies, auto repairs and Jewish delis. Some are small. Others are taller than him, or stick far out the back of his box truck. “Signage that was handmade with so much personality really defined the aesthetic experience of living in a New York City neighborhood, maybe even more than the architecture,” Barnett said. “The tide we’re trying to push against was to find that character, the thing that makes interacting with your environment fun — that personality and playfulness that is just not the norm anymore.” The museum’s and studio’s parallel missions of preservation and creation feed into each other, he said. Every old sign they rescue teaches them something about how to make their own. “You can design something that looks classic, but if you don’t make it the classic way, it might have an ersatz feeling,” said Barnett. Barnett keeps a mental map of great old signs to check in on regularly. When he learns that a well-signed business is nearing the end, he makes his approach. “The first thing I usually say is, ‘Hey, I love your old sign. Do you have any plans for it?’” he said. “Often people go, ‘Oh, that old thing?’” Barnett pulls out his card and explains that he represents a real business, has insurance and will come de-install the sign for free. He estimates his success rate is less than 50%. “The irony is that often people would rather pay literally thousands of dollars to have someone come throw the sign out,” he said. “I don’t know why.” Barnett speculates that one reason is very simple — and very New York. As soon as you tell someone you want something, they wonder if they can get a better offer somewhere else. Unfortunately, he said, they usually can’t. “A lot of these signs, if they were 50% smaller, they’d be worth a lot of money,” said Barnett. “But who’s going to take a 30-foot sign?” Barnett said that before the Instagram age, signmaking was even more of a dead art form. Popular brush lettering and neon appreciation accounts have helped to revive interest and spread knowledge. Before that, he recalls mining libraries and eBay for old books on the craft. He learned about 20th-century signage and the mid-century giants of the industry, like Silverescent Neon, which made signs across Coney Island and Brooklyn, and Artkraft Strauss, which designed iconic signs in Times Square. “Before neon there were bulbs, and before bulbs the original lighted marquees in Times Square were made by cutting letters out of tin and filling them with candles,” Barnett said. One of his favorites is the Canal Rubber Supply Co. sign in Lower Manhattan. Barnett was honored to work with the business on a restoration of its classic sign last year. The owner of J & R Television and Air Conditioning said knowing his sign would be preserved in the New York Sign Museum made it just a little bit easier to retire after decades in the business. The museum’s crew was in Park Slope last month, de-installing a sign from J & R Television and Air Conditioning. Owner Ralph DiCerbo had worked behind the counter since he was 12 years old. His father opened the business in 1953. “I’m happy to be able to retire, but it’s very bittersweet,” DiCerbo said. “I grew up here, I know all the customers. We have a lot of old people who rely on us to change their batteries and tell them what vacuum bag they need, the small stuff.” He said knowing his sign would go to a museum helped to take the edge off. Some film production companies were interested in taking it. The sign has been featured in movies, TV, graphic novels and even the video game “Grand Theft Auto,” Di Cerbo said — but the family voted and decided it should go with Barnett instead. “If we want to see it, I could bring my grandchildren one day, if I ever have any,” he said. “And say, ‘Hey, that’s where your great-grandfather started.’”

imagine the male who left THOSE footprints... Matching dinosaur footprints found more than 3,700 miles apart, on different continents A team of paleontologists found matching dinosaur footprints on what are now two different continents, separated by thousands of miles of ocean. The footprints, dating back to the Early Cretaceous period, were found in Brazil and in Cameroon, researchers wrote in a study published Monday by the New Mexico Museum of Natural History & Science. The discovery shows where land-dwelling dinosaurs were able to cross freely between South America and Africa before the two continents split apart millions of years ago. The more than 260 footprints researchers studied were found impressed into mud and silt along ancient rivers and lakes, with more than 3,700 miles separating the ones in South America and Africa, according to the study. Paleontologists determined they were similar in age, shape and in geological and plate tectonic contexts. Dinosaurs made the tracks 120 million years ago on a single supercontinent known as Gondwana, which had broken off from the larger landmass of Pangea — once the world's only continent, Southern Methodist University paleontologist Louis Jacobs said. "One of the youngest and narrowest geological connections between Africa and South America was the elbow of northeastern Brazil nestled against what is now the coast of Cameroon along the Gulf of Guinea," Jacobs, the lead study author, said. "The two continents were continuous along that narrow stretch, so that animals on either side of that connection could potentially move across it." The continents now known as Africa and South America started to split around 140 million years ago, researchers said. The south Atlantic Ocean eventually filled the void. Basins formed as the continents pulled apart; rivers flowed and lakes formed in those basins, Jacobs said. The basins where the footprints were discovered can be found on both sides of the split. Most of the footprints were made by three-toed theropods, a group of carnivorous dinosaurs, researchers said. There were also prints left behind by sauropods or ornithischians. "Plants fed the herbivores and supported a food chain," Jacobs said. "Muddy sediments left by the rivers and lakes contain dinosaur footprints, including those of meat-eaters, documenting that these river valleys could provide specific avenues for life to travel across the continents 120 million years ago." https://www.cbsnews.com/news/dinosaur-footprint-discovery-different-continents-brazil-cameroon/?ftag=CNM-00-10aac3a

Absolutely... and it's only been within the last 5 years or so we've gotten Dennys, Dairy Queen, Chik-fil-A, & (just last month) Raising Canes.

I felt the same way about a show called SINGLE DRUNK FEMALE that only lasted two.

He'd been mentioned in an earlier part of the article about a couple of other things.

The upcoming third season, which begins in late October, will be the last one. There will be no season four. This is sad, but not surprising. It's not like there was ever any buzz about the show.

Queens Tourism Council highlights diverse dining options along the 7 line for US Open Fans

since I only make a third of the devils Food mix at a time and I eyeball the mix and the oil, it never comes out exactly the same, but last night's was the best yet, which is a good thing except for the fact that the way that I've been eating lately if it tasted like cardboard, I would probably devour it and then go find something else to eat. Actually, at this point I've had one half of what I made with 1/3 of a mix which is supposed to equate to 24 cupcakes so YAY MATH! I am giving you this math problem to figure out… How many cupcakes have I eaten?

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The doctor's office called with the results of the Holter monitor I wore for a week; there were a couple of extra beats during the week, but nothing my doctor was concerned about. My primary care physician happens to be a cardiologist so that works out well.

Roughly two dozen more Red Lobster locations are scheduled to close within the coming days as part of the seafood restaurant chain’s ongoing bankruptcy proceedings. A recent court filing shows that the company is rejecting the leases of an additional 23 locations by Saturday, August 31, joining the more than 100 restaurants that Red Lobster closed earlier this summer. Once complete, the chain will have around 500 outlets left — a sharp decline from the 650 it had just last year. Red Lobster is in the process of selling itself to Fortress Credit Corp., a lender experienced in restaurant management that also owns Krystal, Logan’s Roadhouse and J. Alexander’s. The firm recently gave the seafood chain a $100 million loan to allow it stay afloat. On Monday, Fortress announced that it will install the former chief executive of P.F. Chang’s, Damola Adamolekun, as Red Lobster’s new CEO once the chain exits bankruptcy proceedings. Adamolekun left the Chinese food restaurant chain in August 2023 following a four-year stint. Mismanagement, competition, inflation and other factors brought down Red Lobster, which has been a pioneer in the restaurant industry. Thai Union, a global seafood supplier, became Red Lobster’s leading shareholder in 2020 and filed for bankruptcy four years later in May. Under Thai Union’s leadership, Red Lobster’s culture turned toxic, former leaders told CNN. Red Lobster cut costs, removed longtime suppliers and implemented strategies that backfired, such as making $20 endless shrimp a permanent menu item. The chain lost $11 million on the endless shrimp deal. The new list of restaurants leases identified to be closed “are likely to continue to drive losses” and the company does “not anticipate needing in order to operate their business going forward and can be rejected,” the filing said. Here are the locations Red Lobster plans to close: Arizona -1521 S. Yuma Palms Pkwy., Yuma Arkansas -8407 W. Markham St., Little Rock California -8703 Murray Drive, La Mesa Colorado -4925 N. Academy Blvd., Colorado Springs Florida -326 Miracle Strip Pkwy., Fort Walton Beach -5110 N. 9th Ave., Pensacola -8909 U.S. Highway 19, Port Richey Georgia -6550 Tara Blvd., Jonesboro Illinois -1604 N. State Road 50, Bourbonnais -902 Commons Drive, Geneva -4625 N. Sterling Ave., Peoria Indiana -4353 Franklin St., Michigan City Minnesota -8900 Golden Valley Road, Golden Valley -12515 Elm Creek Blvd. North, Maple Grove Missouri -2381 Maplewood Commons Drive, Maplewood New York -925 Hunts Point Ave., Bronx -750 Upper Glen St., Queensbury North Carolina -304 A Western Blvd., Jacksonville Ohio -17227 Southpark Center, Strongsville South Carolina -1270 Knox Abbott Drive, Cayce Virginia -555 S. Van Dorn St., Alexandria -4415 S. Laburnum Ave., Richmond -709 Independence Blvd., Virginia Beach

Gunman kills mourner at friend’s grave after victim threatens to puke in cemetery

Repots Claim Ben Affleck Has Been "Hanging Out With" RFK Jr's Daughter https://www.aol.com/lifestyle/repots-claim-ben-affleck-hanging-144800602.html what, or who, is a repot?

They had to add two extra matinees a week and just over two years after opening they are still selling at 97% capacity for all shows, which Ticketmaster considers a sellout, so maybe not the Hollywood bowl because they were never particularly big in America but selling out a 3000 seat arena for over two years qualifies it as a success, I would think. KISS sold their song catalog to a company partly owned by Bjorn for $300 million so they are going to be the next group presented in this manner. I would think the reasons you're not gonna get that many groups to do it are that some people are dead, some bad blood can't be overcome even for money, and there would be a lack of venues available that could accommodate the technology, since the arena in London was built specifically for this purpose and retrofitting a regular arena for it would probably be expensive and in the United States I don't think it would wind up being a big enough draw to be worth it. The only place that would work would be at the sphere in Las Vegas because that would accommodate the technology and also with tourists coming in from all over the world and new people visiting every week you could have a constant stream of people who would want to see it. Alas, I feel I never shall get to see it, though I'm one of the few people in the United States who can say I actually did see them live in 1979 at Radio City Music Hall and I still have the yellow T-shirt that I haven't been able to wear since probably , two years after I saw them live at Radio City Music Hall.

White collar crime: NY conman cleric used $650K in phony charity donations to fund lavish lifestyle, plastic surgery There was a whole lot of monk-y business going on.

Kentucky State Fair removes ribbon-winning miniature after realizing it depicted a porn set