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Get Beautiful Skin for Summer: AntiAgingWrinkleCreamExperience.com Offers 30-day Trial of LifeCell

July 3, 2013, 3:14 am
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Men and women all over are giving their skin a summer renewal with Lifecell, the best anti-aging cream on the market. http://www.AntiAgingWrinkleCreamExperience.com will be offering a 30-day trial of Lifecell.

(PRWEB) July 03, 2013

After the exhausting task of researching and testing an overwhelming number of anti-aging wrinkle creams, Olivia Maguire of beauty blog AntiAgingWrinkleCreamExperience.com was relieved to find LifeCell. According to the blog, Lifecell is the best anti-aging wrinkle cream on the market. The instant results of healthier, younger-looking skin was exactly what she was on the search for.

Now, AntiAgingWrinkleCreamExperience.com is sharing the joy by offering a free 30-day trial of LifeCell.

"We are confident that anyone interested in healthier, younger looking skin would be happy with the results of Lifecell. That is why we are offering a 30-day trial. We want everyone to experience the satisfaction of feeling confident in their own skin," says Maguire.

One of Maguire’s criteria when testing products is health. She looks not only for something that makes skin appear healthy, but that actually is healthy for the skin. Unlike many skin-care products, LifeCell is all natural, paraben-free, and hypoallergenic.

Its results compare with expensive procedures like cosmetic injections and facelifts. LifeCell has even been nicknamed by beauty experts and dermatologists as "Botox in a Tube." AntiAgingWrinkleCreamExperience.com would argue, however, that it is much better than botox because it is painless and toxin-free.

The product’s results are not only real, but they are instant. LifeCell claims that one can see improvement in their skin in as little as 17 seconds. Maguire, as well as others on AntiAgingWrinkleCreamExperience.com, have tested the short time frame and have confirmed the results. Maguire recommends that consumers test it for themselves with the 30-day trial.

"We know that it’s not just about wrinkles. It is about feeling good in your skin. Everyone deserves that feeling." says Maguire.

AntiAgingWrinkleCreamExperience.com was created by Olivia Maguire with the purpose of helping others find the best anti-aging wrinkle cream for their skin. The website provides various tips and tricks for choosing the best anti-aging skin care products, people’s anti-aging wrinkle cream experiences, and honest reviews of the most commonly used and recommended wrinkle creams. Reported by PRWeb 1 day ago.
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Olivia Palermo has no style regrets

July 3, 2013, 6:40 am
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Olivia Palermo never feels regret when it comes to past outfits, but does wish certain items had been tailored properly. Reported by Belfast Telegraph 21 hours ago.
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Kerry Washington “White Woman Want to be Olivia Pope”

July 3, 2013, 9:47 am
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The only thing more scandalous than Kerry Washington’s hit show is her new cover for Vanity Fair. The actress opens up about playing Olivia Pope, and how she feels she has inspired ... MORE

The post Kerry Washington “White Woman Want to be Olivia Pope” appeared first on Celebrity News | Style | Red Carpets | Movies | Couples | CelebTV. Reported by CelebTV.com 18 hours ago.
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Kerry Washington Gets Married in Secret to NFL's Asomugha

July 3, 2013, 8:39 pm
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Kerry Washington Gets Married in Secret to NFL's Asomugha Watch Video


(Image source: Flickr / David Shankbone)

 

 

*BY STEVEN SPARKMAN*
 

 

Olivia Pope is good at keeping secrets, and it turns out — so is Kerry Washington. The star of the hit ABC show “Scandal” got married last month and no one even knew it.


The lucky groom? Nnamdi Asomugha of the San Francisco 49ers. (Via Entertainment Tonight)

 

*“The pair wed on June 24 in Blaine County, Idaho, and we have the marriage license to prove it. According to reports, the couple has been dating since last summer.” *(Via E! Online)

 


Washington is notoriously tight-lipped about her private life — so much so that the media didn’t even know the pair were dating.


That prompted a flurry of articles trying to get readers up to speed on Asomugha — all with a “here’s what you don’t know” theme. (Via Rolling Out, Us Weekly)

 

But they all generally seem to approve of the marriage. (Via PopSugar)

 

A writer for the pop culture blog NewNowNext says the secret wedding just makes him love Washington even more.


*“While every celeb with a pulse seems to sell the photos, or desperately try, of their nuptials, claiming they have no choice with all those paps and gossip mags, Miss Washington proved you can be an A-list star with a private life...”*

 

Asomugha is also a bit of an actor: he’s scored roles on “The Game,” “Leverage” and “Friday Night Lights.” Reported by Newsy 7 hours ago.
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7 things you didn't know about... Grease

July 3, 2013, 11:51 pm
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This is South Wales --

1. Trousers too tight? Spare a thought for Olivia Newton-John, who had to be sewn into hers for the carnival scene at the end of the film after the zip broke.

2. Happy Days star Henry Winkler turned down the role of Danny Zuko to avoid being typecast as a slick wisecracker. But it doesn't appear to have worked...35 years on he's still known as Fonzie!

3. Look closely during the drag race. Despite being set in the 50s, vehicles from the 70s can be seen driving around in the background while Greased Lightning fights it out in the foreground.

4. The official launch party for the film was at trendiest place on the planet in 1978, the legendary New York nightclub Studio 54.

5. Grease was the highest grossing film in 1978, and continues to rank highly in top 100 lists.

6. The actors are supposed to be high school age, which is between 14 to 18. But they were all clearly older, with Olivia Newton John being 30 at the time!

7. The name of the school, Rydell High, is a tip of the hat to the song "Swingin' School" from 60s icon Bobby Rydell. Reported by This is 3 hours ago.
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TV highlights 04/07/2013

July 3, 2013, 11:15 pm
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Summer's Supermarket Secrets | Cowboy Traders | Who Were The Greeks? | Happy Families | 21 And 3ft Tall: Extraordinary People | Scandal | Live At The Electric | Athletics: The Athletissima

**Summer's Supermarket Secrets*
9pm, BBC1*

Excitable MasterChef judge Gregg Wallace has spent a year with British supermarkets – 18,000 stores in which we buy 90% of all our food – and is looking at how they source, make and shelve it all. In this episode, we explore the secrets of breeding new varieties of strawberries, how shops use historical weather data to plot our buying habits, and the all-important taste tests, where 20% of new products fail. We also look at "sleeping bananas" in their ripening chambers and barbecue taste teams. Bim Adewunmi

**Cowboy Traders*
8pm, Channel 5*

What a comfy niche Dom Littlewood has carved himself. As a leathery pursuer of consumer rights, his dyed-in-the-wool estuary geezerness is infinitely more likable than Matt Allwright's clammy, desperate mugging on Watchdog. This week, Dom and his incongruous sidekick Melinda Messenger are north of the border, exposing a trail of dodgy, unroadworthy motors all sold from the same dealer. Melinda does the touchy-feely bit with the wronged families; Dom gets stuck in exposing the cowboys. Bish, bosh, wallop. Ben Arnold

**Who Were The Greeks?*
9pm, BBC2*

The second part of Dr Michael Scott's investigation of the ancient Greek world has one of those intros that seem to blight every documentary around: an overly long pitch to keep watching set to stirring music. Once we get going we learn what the Olympic Games were like back then and some secrets of the Parthenon, but Scott's insistence on speaking to camera as if performing a Shakespearean monologue – all gestures, heaving shoulders and inflection – is distracting and, finally, wearying. Martin Skegg

**Happy Families*
9pm, ITV*

It is a common observation that reality television is a misnomer, reality being the last thing most of it depicts. This series, concluding tonight, has been a creditable attempt at old-school observational documentary. Each episode addresses a different aspect of the lives of the four families filmed for a week at a time. Tonight, the subject is marriage. The reflections of the four couples who've allowed the cameras into their homes confirm that every human relationship is as baffling to the people in it as it is to outsiders. Andrew Mueller

*21 And 3ft Tall: Extraordinary People
9pm, Channel 5*

Nick suffers with primordial dwarfism and, at 21, has outlived many others with the condition. He will always remain the size of a three-year-old but now he faces an operation – his ninth major surgery – to remove an aneurysm from his brain. Over three months, this documentary follows his progress as doctors try to save his life. Dr Michael Bober is leading US research into the condition and monitors dozens of children in the hope of prolonging their lives past young adulthood. Julia Raeside

**Scandal*
9pm, More4*

Kerry Washington returns as Washington fixer Olivia Carolyn Pope for a second season of the soapy political thriller. All that's missing, at times, is a laugh track. In the opener, pregnant first lady Mellie is flexing her talons, lecturing her husband on foreign policy and suggesting "primary colours" for the nursery ("This baby is our patriotic duty; this is America's baby"). Meanwhile, a senator needs Olivia's help to get him out of a sticky situation: "I had relations earlier tonight.""In this office?""On this desk." Ali Catterall

*Live At The Electric
9.30pm, BBC3*

Russell Kane is rushing about BBC schedules with the same camp mania as he does his standup stage. Not only did he do Britain Unzipped and How To Win Eurovision, he's now the self-styled "fluffer" for a series of new-school sketch comics on Live At The Electric. There's "France's premier misanthropist and lover" Marcel Lucont, sharing his sex advice (drinking wine in a turtleneck, natch), slightly stale faux review show Film Fizz, and Joe Wilkinson and Diane Morgan doing their shambolic savant thing as Two Episodes Of Mash. Ben Beaumont-Thomas

*Athletics: The Athletissima
7pm, BBC3*

BBC3's coverage of Diamond League athletics has been some succour to those who wished last year's glorious Olympic summer could have lasted a bit longer. It's good news for the athletes as well, a talented and determined bunch who deserve better than a month's attention from the rest of us every four years. Several Olympic stars will be among those competing in Lausanne, the likely highlight being a men's 100m featuring Yohan Blake, Justin Gatlin, Tyson Gay and Asafa Powell. Andrew Mueller Reported by guardian.co.uk 4 hours ago.
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Olympic legend applauds two of our academies

July 4, 2013, 12:15 am
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Olympic legend applauds two of our academies This is Grimsby --

LORD Coe applauded two local schools for "excelling in sports" in a nationwide competition which was won by Humberston Academy.

Havelock Academy and Humberston Academy battled it out against four other secondary schools for the David Ross Academy Trust Summer Cup in Grantham.

Lord Sebastian Coe, chairman of the Olympic Committee, spent the day meeting the athletes and watching the competition, in which Humberston Academy emerged as the winning school.

Assistant principal Steve Kemshall said: "The students just exploded when they announced the winners – there was that feeling of 'my gosh, we've done it'.

"In ten years of teaching, this is the best extra-curricular activity I have been a part of.

"I would like to thank all the athletes, including Lord Coe, who really took the time to talk to the pupils and inspire them."

Lord Coe even tweeted a picture of Humberston Academy pupils, along with the message: "Having a great time watching the kids excelling in lots of sports in Grantham".

Also in the crowd were 100m runners Mark Lewis Francis and Christian Malcolm, 110m hurdler Andy Turner, table-tennis star Hannah Hicks and javelin thrower Goldie Sayers.

Middle distance runner Ellie Stevens spent the day with Humberston pupils after holding coaching sessions at the school.

Long-jumper Jazmin Sawyers, who coached at Havelock, was cheering its students on and they finished fifth overall.

Jessica Thompson, sports enrichment co-ordinator for the trust, said: "We did quite well in the athletics but it a fantastic experience for the pupils who really enjoyed it.

"Well done to Humberston – if any other than Havelock was going to win, I'd rather it be them."

Olivia Sutton, 12, of Humberston Academy, said: "I came second in the 100m and relay race and third in the 200m.

"I really like sports and I would definitely be up for getting involved again."

Jacob Johnson, 13, also of Humberston Academy, came first in the javelin event with a distance of 23.01 metres.

He said: "I have done this sport before and I really enjoy it and I am really pleased our school won the cup."

Katie Brentnall, 14, of Humberston Academy, said: "I came first in the 800m race. I enjoy the sport and believe I'm good at it."

Demi-Lea Gilbertson, 11, of Havelock Academy, said: "I like competing against others – I always feel nervous at the starting line but it is good."

Jake Wren, 15, of Havelock Academy, said: "I came first in all my events, the 200m, hurdles and relay.

"I enjoy running it is something that I am good at."

ON THE WEB: See articles about Jazmin Sawyers and Ellie Stevens visiting the schools at www.grimsbytelegraph.co.uk Reported by This is 3 hours ago.
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Jason Sudeikis Opens Up About SNL and Possibly Leaving

July 4, 2013, 12:25 am
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Jason Sudeikis Opens Up About SNL and Possibly Leaving Jason Sudeikis has opened up to Modern Luxury Magazine about SNL, but did not confirm whether he really is leaving after this season.

He said, "You'll never really leave that place, and it never leaves you. It's an emotional journey getting through a season, much less the final one."

While it was thought he would leave last summer, he stayed on for another season.

"Last year felt like just the right amount of thought went into it [the decision to stay on for another season], and there were things that I was hoping to accomplish. I don't know if I have the same checklist of things I need to cross off now."

He also commented on Olivia Wilde, saying she was "the sweetest woman I've ever known."

Sources: ICYDK Reported by Opposing Views 3 hours ago.
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Olivia Palermo and Nicky Hilton don ruffles for Paris Fashion Week

July 4, 2013, 2:53 am
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We smell a mini trend! When not one but TWO celebs wear ruffled frocks to the same event it's difficult to ignore. At Paris Fashion Week the style elite have been out in force to watch some fashion shows and...

 
 
 
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Lifestyle Network Celebrates Launch Party Hollywood-Style

June 28, 2013, 2:21 pm
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Star-studded event and show greet new Filipino destination channel in the U.S. for programs on self, home, food and travel.

Redwood City, CA (PRWEB) June 28, 2013

The Legendary Park Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles – host to Hollywood’s elite in the 1920’s – became alive anew last weekend, turning into a dazzling modern tableau of high fashion, gourmet menu, fine wines, elegantly attired celebrities and VIP guests, and the flashing cameras of Hollywood media.

The reason? ABS-CBN International, the largest Filipino entertainment, news and broadcast company in the U.S., held its launch party for Lifestyle Network, carried by Time Warner Cable in Los Angeles, San Diego and Hawaii.

As trays of marinated filet mignon satay, bottom mushroom adobo, ancho pork tenderloin, smoked salmon pastrami rolls and the like were served by the dynamic teams of Chef Rudy Janeo Jr. of Zagat-rated Ventano Italian Grill in Las Vegas and restaurateur Lem Balagot of the very famous food landmark L.A. Rose Café Hollywood, a panoramic scan of the courtyard and red carpet revealed many familiar faces from the 500 invited guests. Social media was inundated with real time image uploads of on-goings and lots of kudos.

Among the celebrities spotted were Apl.de.ap of Black-Eyed Peas, vintage intelligence extraordinaire Doris Raymond, exciting designers Alan del Rosario, Carlyn Calloway, and Alexis Phifer, Fritz Friedman of Sony Pictures, Kaya Jones of the Pussycat Dolls, TV host and model Vanessa Minnillo, celebrity stylist Kyle Blackmon, Chef Cecilia de Castro, head of the Academy of Culinary Education in Los Angeles who has worked with Chef Wolfgang Puck and restaurateur Patrick Terrail, beloved Filipino local stars like actor-director Bernardo Bernardo, legendary pop-jazz singers Louie Reyes and Joannie Feliciano of ABS-CBN Foundation International, former Adobo Nation co-host and commercial model Jaja Bolivar, news anchors Maria Quiban and Bob de Castro of Fox11 and Cher Calvin of KTLA5 who hosted the fashion show that featured the designs of celebrated Filipino designers Jay Nicolas Sario of Project Runway and Alexis Monsanto, founder of West Hollywood-based fashion design studio, Alexis Monsanto Atelier. Providing stellar entertainment on the runway were Cheesa of The Voice Season 2 and youtube violinist sensation CryWolffs! Directing the show was ABS-CBN North America’s Head of Production & Global Head of Theatricals John-D Lazatin.

Leading the numerous Filipino community leaders who were present at the event were Philippine Consul General in Los Angeles Maria Hellen Barber De La Vega and husband Joveno "Bing" De La Vega.

With the unprecedented success of its flagship product, The Filipino Channel (TFC) and Filipino On Demand, its video on demand service on cable, ABS-CBN International expanded its content coverage to Filipinos in the U.S. by offering Lifestyle Network back in April.

In an on-site interview with TFC’s Balitang Showbiz host Yong Chavez, ABS-CBN North America Managing Director & Global Content Head Olivia De Jesus said: “The programs that you will find in Lifestyle Network are very much aligned to the passions of Filipinos living in America. We're out to fulfill your passions and make you realize your dreams. This is a major milestone in our 20 years of service to the Filipinos here in the U.S.”

“We are very pleased to have Time Warner Cable as our partner in bringing Lifestyle Network to the Filipino community in Southern California and Hawaii,” said ABS-CBN North America Regional Marketing Head & Senior Director Jun Del Rosario. “We hope to see Lifestyle Network as a true destination channel to as many viewers as possible who are interested in its four pillars of Self, Food, Home and Travel.”

Lifestyle Network’s launch party was sponsored by Peroni, VuQo, Standing Sun Wines, LA Colors, Lierac Paris, Phyto Paris, MUD: Make-Up Designory and Sweet 9.

Lifestyle Network is available on Channel 683 in Los Angeles, Channel 691 in San Diego and Channel 683 in Hawaii for no additional charge to Time Warner Cable digital customers with a subscription to The Filipino Channel on the Los Angeles, San Diego and Hawaii systems. For more information, please visit http://www.twc.com.

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About Lifestyle Network
Lifestyle Network is the newest channel launched by ABS-CBN International which was created almost 20 years ago to be of service to all Filipinos. With the launch of its flagship product, The Filipino Channel (TFC), the company became the first and most successful Filipino content distribution company in the U.S. The company offers telecommunication, retail, theatricals, money remittance and cargo services, online audio and video streaming, IPTV, On Demand, along with philanthropic support for Filipinos and the communities they now call home. Based in Redwood City, CA, ABS-CBN International is a subsidiary of ABS-CBN Corporation, the Philippines’ largest entertainment and broadcasting company, through ABS-CBN Corporation's wholly-owned subsidiary, ABS-CBN Global Hungary Kft. For more information, visit http://www.tfc-usa.com Reported by PRWeb 1 week ago.
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Publisher Drops Paula's Bestselling New Cookbook

June 28, 2013, 4:18 pm
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Late on Friday afternoon, Ballantine Books, the publisher of "Paula Deen's New Testament," announced that it was dropping the cookbook from its fall release lineup. Even after so many other companies abandoned Paula, this came as a major shock.

Why? Over the past week and a half, as the furor surrounding Deen's racism scandal mounted, the Queen of Southern Cuisine has maintained one crucial bulwark of support: her cookbooks.

Nielsen BookScan data provided to the Huffington Post showed that Deen's last six books have sold over a million copies combined -- generating many millions of dollars in revenue. And devout fans of Deen's seemed to respond to the scandal by buying even more books. By June 27, pre-orders for "Paula Deen's New Testament," which doesn't come out til October, had pushed the book to the number-one bestselling spot -- of all books -- on Amazon.com.

The book was (is?) co-authored by New York Times food writer Melissa Clark; a request for comment from her by The Huffington Post was not immediately returned.

The departure of Ballantine, a subsidiary of Random House, leaves very few corporations remaining on Paula's side. That either means that she's headed toward absolute ruin -- or she's hit rock bottom, and is due for a comeback. At this point, the fact that she hired the inspiration for Olivia Pope of "Scandal" to manage the crisis is the main reason to suspect the latter is still a possibility. Reported by Huffington Post 6 days ago.
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Hilary Duff, Justin Theroux and Olivia Munn Lead Today’s Star Sightings

June 28, 2013, 6:55 pm
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Hilary Duff, Justin Theroux and Olivia Munn Lead Today’s Star Sightings Celebuzz is ending the workweek with some of the biggest celebrity sightings from the past 24 hours. In Hollywood, Hilary Duff was spotted all dolled up as she grabbed some grub at Aventine restaurant. The 25-year-old, who flashed a smile at photographers outside the eatery, rocked a mean shade of red lipstick for her outing....Read more» Reported by Celebuzz 6 days ago.
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So You've Failed -- Masterclash and Asylum Say Goodbye

June 28, 2013, 7:31 pm
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Filed under: Humor, Entertainment, Video, Masterclash


The time has come to say goodbye. There were robots and nerdy burlesques and everything Star Wars. We gave you A Woman's Perspective and had Drinks With Writers. Olivia Munn pranked our intern. We banned Megan Fox and encouraged women to have Sex ... Read more

 

Permalink | Email this | Linking Blogs | Comments Reported by Asylum 6 days ago.
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TJ and Olivia are selling strawberry lemonade on summer street before the parade in hopes of earning enough to go to the penny candy store.

July 4, 2013, 9:33 am
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TJ and Olivia are selling strawberry lemonade on summer street before the parade in hopes of earning enough to go to the penny candy store. Patch Plymouth, MA --

TJ and Olivia are selling strawberry lemonade on summer street before the parade in hopes of earning enough to go to the penny candy store. Reported by Patch 18 hours ago.
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'Scandal' - Must-See TV: Five reasons to get to know Olivia Pope

July 4, 2013, 4:15 pm
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We explain why you need to get to know Olivia Pope and Associates.

 
 
 
  Reported by Digital Spy 11 hours ago.
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Variety's the spice of life at Frome's fabulous festival

July 5, 2013, 12:17 am
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Variety's the spice of life at Frome's fabulous festival This is Somerset --

This year's Frome Festival has a wide-ranging mix of music taking place every night, starting tonight with the amazing Zen Hussies, New Groove Formation and Oscillator – featuring artists from the Levellers tour, the Kooks, Elastica and Los Albertos.

There's an after party thrown in at the Griffin with DJ Jivefish, to take you into the early hours.

Alternatively, tonight, you could choose Benjamin Britten opera Turn Of The Screw, complete with 14-piece orchestra in the intimate setting of Cooper Hall. It's a ghostly tale of lost innocence and dark deeds with a sublime score, incredible musicians and young professional singers. Or by way of a contrast, Rook Lane Chapel is featuring Passamezzo, in full Elizabethan costume, performing on period instruments.

And last, but in no way least, enjoy the wonderful local band The Critters playing their hearts out at the Cornerhouse from 9pm.

Tomorrow, the wonderful Frome Festival Feast will feature live music, Turn Of The Screw is on for its final night and Rick's Café will be up and running at the Cornerhouse, complete with Sam on piano.

There'll also be a chance to catch the award-winning Labyrinth Choir, who have come all the way from Prague to perform a candlelit concert at St John's Church.

Ease your way into an lazy Sunday morning with John Plaxton's Jazz Brunch at the Cornerhouse, featuring his resident Honk Masters, from 10.30am until noon.

There'll be jazz at the Blue House in the afternoon for free, with some audience participation thrown in for free.

On Sunday evening, choose from the Frome Symphony Orchestra playing Ravel, Debussy and Sibelius at the Cheese and Grain, or immerse yourself in Northern Indian Rag and Taal played by Ricky Romain and Jon Sterckx.

Catch these virtuoso players at the Jhalmuri restaurant and enjoy an authentic Indian banquet to go with it. Jazzmin is on at the Granary, too, supporting the work of the wonderfully named Mama Upendo Children's Orphanage in Kenya.

Local jazz musicians will be out in force.

Monday offers you a Jazz Lunch at the Old Bath Arms, followed by an evening performance at the same venue, both featuring pianist Bob Brace.

Eddie Martin will be adding some blues to the mix with his gig at the Granary.

Tuesday has an eclectic mix on offer. Immerse yourself in the English classical tradition as Christ Church presents Oh Fair to See, for tenor and piano, from 1pm onwards.

Then choose in the evening between salty sea dogs, The Bristol Shantymen, at the Tin Church, Brokerswood, or fall for the smooth, Gallic charm of Clayson singing the 'chanson' of Jacques Brel at the Granary.

By Wednesday, the choice is pretty overwhelming, with more than seven live acts to decide between and the music including jazz, rebel music, rootsy blues, solo guitarists and electronica.

Pick of the day promises to be the charismatic John Power, who takes to the stage at the Cheese and Grain for an intimate acoustic gig, unplugged and pared down to just a trio. Catch him before heads off to Liverpool, where he'll be playing Lennon in the musical of the same name – a role that Frome's Mark McGann played the first time round.

Thursday sees Olivia Chaney visit Cooper Hall – surely one of the festival highlights this year.

She has all the hallmarks of a young woman set for worldwide acclaim. She combines a wonderful folk sensibility with the charm of a latter day Joni Mitchell. The gig is pretty much sold out, so get in quick with ticket requests.

Other gigs that night that should by no means be overlooked include the wonderful Frukes at the Cornerhouse, The Branco Stoysin Trio at the Silk Mill and the Demoniacs at the Griffin.

The final festival weekend keeps the music coming.

Don't miss the incredible Afrobeat Messengers at ECOS. Percussionist Lekan Babalola and his clarinettist wife Kate Luxmoore are new arrivals in Frome and they bring a world of musical experience with them.

Dance to music handed down by the late, great Fela Kuti, get into the afrobeat groove and experience first hand the joy of their combined musical vision. Femi Sofela joins them on bass, while Ebenezer Oke plays guitar.

At Rook Lane Chapel, Gary Fletcher and his band will be playing rootsy, contemporary folk and My Social Orbit will be churning out the hits at the Griffin for free.

There will be a lunchtime performance of Schubert, Chopin and Rachmaninov on Saturday, July 13, by pianist Stephen Marquiss at Cooper Hall.

July 13 also sees a local 16-piece choir, the Christ Church Singers, perform Gibbons, Purcell, Stanford and Britten at Christ Church.

The evening fun kicks off with Frome's self-billed slackest funk band, the wonderful Fat Stanley, getting their groove on at Rook Lane Chapel.

Over at the Silk Mill, Sensonic are bringing together a host of DJs, VJs and artists in an audio-visual club night from 8pm until the wee small hours.

There will be gypsy jazz at the Cornerhouse for all Django Reinhardt and Stephane Grappelli fans, while over at the Griffin the Edsel Furys will be tearing up the floor for free.

Hank Wangford will be hosting the Frome Ole Oprey at the Cheese and Grain – together with local favourites, The Shackduster, the Frukes and Back Before Breakfast.

And last, but surely not least, world class classical pianist, Ashley Wass, will be taking to the Steinway at Cooper Hall for an evening of Beethoven, Barber and Liszt.

The final day of the festival kicks off with another Jazz Brunch at the Cornerhouse and eases its way into a concert by the Jackdaws Songbirds at Christ Church from 2pm until 4pm.

Meanwhile, over at St Katherine's Church in East Woodlands, Duo Domenico are two cellists who will play anything stringed between three and five, with a break for tea in the village hall.

And that just leaves the fabulous Pete Gage Blues Band to see the festival out in style at the Cornerhouse.

Swaying, dancing or stomping – what's the difference? It's the taking part that counts! And they'll all be there from four in the afternoon onwards.

For sheer musical diversity, the organisers reckon that the Frome Festival really can't be beaten. Get your grooves on, leap to the beat, suspend your musical parameters and treat your ears to ten days of wonderment…

FESTIVAL TICKETS Reported by This is 3 hours ago.
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TV highlights 05/07/2013

July 4, 2013, 11:24 pm
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Paul McCartney & Wings: Rockshow | Harbour Lives | Wild Shepherdess With Kate Humble | Britain's Secret Homes | The Graham Norton Show | In Conversation | Cake Boss: Next Great Baker | Live T20 Cricket: Yorkshire v Lancashire

**Paul McCartney & Wings: Rockshow*
9pm, BBC4*

It was Macca's mission in the last days of the Beatles to get them to return to their roots and recapture the energy of being a live band. Wings was the enormously successful – if extremely average – outlet for this idea, captured here in this mercifully brutal edit of the band's 1976 US tour film. This 60-minute cut keeps it to the hits, before the mulleted Macca gets to some Fabs numbers. Hard to argue with solo versions of Blackbird and Yesterday, as delivered to 67,000 people. John Robinson

**Harbour Lives*
8pm, ITV*

Ben Fogle hangs around Dorset, talking to rugged fishermen and builders finishing off one of Sandbanks' priciest properties like a lost royal trying to get in touch with his people. Then it's a bit of wildlife-spotting before heading on to Poole to hang out with some jolly folk who think they're pirates. He's returning to the scene of childhood holidays, where he probably paid a tinker's son thruppence to carry his rod and act as a footstool during those idyllic days fishing off the harbour wall. Julia Raeside

**Wild Shepherdess With Kate Humble*
9pm, BBC2*

The final third of Kate Humble's agricultural trek takes her deep into the bushland of western Australia for a look at the changing face of sheep herding. The blighters are these days raised on an epic scale, the billion-dollar industry rapidly converting entrepreneurs into farmers. Humble also explores the less cuddly side of sheep farming, such as controversial live animal exports, and the process of embryo transfer, which is eerily similar to an ovine reboot in A Clockwork Orange. Mark Jones

**Britain's Secret Homes*
9pm, ITV*

Last episode of a series that has purported to tell the stories of Britain's 50 most startling historical buildings. If one can see past the irrelevant countdown conceit, and resign oneself to the celebrity presenters, this is mildly diverting popular history. Tonight's conclusion unveils the alleged top 10, including the house where John Logie Baird invented TV, the birthplace of Isaac Newton, a second world war interrogation unit and what might be Britain's oldest known homes, the limestone caves of Creswell Crags. Andrew Mueller

*The Graham Norton Show
10.35pm, BBC1*

Graham Norton may have been made more family-friendly of late, but the dildo-brandisher of the past still capers somewhere at the back of his consciousness; his chat show remains peppered with arch humour, and sycophancy is earned by guests rather than doled out to all, as with Jonathan Ross. Tonight's instalment is a best-bits clip show, in case you missed his sparring with Hollywood heavyweights Tom Cruise, Michael Douglas, Amy Adams and Will Smith, plus UK talent such as Olivia Colman and Benedict Cumberbatch. Ben Beaumont-Thomas

*In Conversation
8.30pm, Sky Arts 1*

Joss Whedon is a third-generation screenwriter, and his CV is a place where impressive achievements in cinema (script punch-up on Toy Story) vie with his popular originations on television (Buffy). This perfunctory career interview isn't devastating stuff, but it does reveal that under the serious auteur there does lie a rather more amiable movie and comics nerd. A versatile nerd, at that: not only did Whedon direct Avengers Assemble, at the same time he was working on an adaptation of Much Ado About Nothing, filmed in his own home. John Robinson

*Cake Boss: Next Great Baker
8pm, TLC*

Buddy Valastro, star of the long-running Cake Boss reality series, returns for a new series of the bake-off contest. He takes 13 pastry chefs and puts them through their paces for the chance to win $100,000 and the opportunity to work in his bakery. First off he has the contestants each make a dessert and then travel across New York by waterway and on foot to deliver it, and then they are challenged to create a Mexican fiesta-themed cake for actor and US X Factor host Mario Lopez's wedding. Martin Skegg

*Live T20 Cricket: Yorkshire v Lancashire
5.30pm, Sky Sports Ashes*

In anticipation of the titanic five-Test series between England and Australia, Sky have renamed their second sports channel Sky Sports Ashes, with wall-to-wall cricket, in its many variants, on offer until the end of August. Today then, a Twenty20 encounter between roses rivals Yorkshire Vikings and Lancashire Lightning. The hosts were victorious in this clash last year, while the visitors boast the talents of veteran Aussie batsman Simon Katich. Gwilym Mumford Reported by guardian.co.uk 4 hours ago.
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Scandal; Summer's Supermarket Secrets – TV review

July 5, 2013, 2:36 am
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Scandal is the first series of its kind to have a black woman – Kerry Washington – in the lead role. The second season is shaping up to be as addictive as the first

The opening episode of the second season of *Scandal* (More4) brought all those viewers who blinked and missed the first series of just seven episodes rapidly up to speed. Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington) is still a former White House communications director who has slept with the married president and left to run her own crisis management firm so that she could fulfil her professional potential and stop sleeping with the married president so much. The married president's wife is still pregnant-to-save-their-marriage-and-more-importantly-keep-them-in-the-White-House and colder than a Narnian winter. Oh, and Olivia's first-season recruit Quinn Perkins is still really Lyndsey Dwyer, though she has now spent six months in federal detention awaiting her trial for the murder of her unfaithful boyfriend and six others via the bomb she supposedly sent to his office before someone grabbed her, drugged her and provided her with a new identity when she woke up two days later in a Washington hotel. Olivia still knows something about how that all went down, and is still refusing to say anything about it. Occasionally, people remonstrate with her about this, but as Kerry Washington can do unbridled fury like no one else on network television, they don't do it for long.

I hope we're all clear. Amid all the swift but thorough recapping and exposition, two minor subplots played out. Olivia advises a young, handsome congressman how to spin the revelation of a sextape (mainly by saying: "I'm a young, handsome congressman and what I'd really like to talk about once you've had a good look at my sex tape is My Pet Important Social Issue That Shows I'm Really A Good Guy"). That all goes superbly, if not entirely realistically, well because Olivia is so superbly, if not entirely realistically, good at her job. She also advises the president on how to react when the first lady tries to use a big TV interview they are doing together to force him to declare war on East Sudan (in the wings, Lady MacBeth curtseys graciously and retires for ever). This also goes s. if not e. r. well, because by now it is clear that La Pope is as infallible as her namesake.

Then there is a big reveal at the end which, because I gather that people still do not like to wait and read reviews after they have watched the programme, I am not going to spoil. But if you don't learn soon to watch first and read later, I am going to send Kerry Washington to shout at you all.

Scandal is better by miles than Law & Order and all its progeny and not as good as Damages. But it is still so addictive that I had to watch the second episode the kind preview folk had provided as soon as it was finished. Kind preview folk often do this, but it is not often that I avail myself of the opportunity. But it has that elusive, alchemical magic that those in the industry spend their lives chasing and the more it supplies, the greater the craving for it becomes.

It is a surprise and groundbreaking hit in the US as the first series of its kind to have a black woman in not just a but the leading role. It was created and written, moreover, by another black woman – Shona Rimes, who also created Gray's Anatomy. It boggles the mind that it has taken until 2013 for this to be the case, but there you go and here we are, at last.

Let us turn now to less momentous but no less mindboggling facts – namely, the continued career of Gregg Wallace. Why people keep employing this man to shout at viewers and various unfortunates on screen remains a mystery but his latest outing is presenting *Summer's Supermarket Secrets* (BBC1). This looks at the alternately terror- and awe-inspiring ways in which western civilisation bends nature to its will to ensure that it has perfect bananas (ripened in their millions in ethylene-impregnated chambers after their voyage from South America) and strawberries (mechanically tested for durability, texture and sweetness) on its supermarket shelves all year round. Everything, Gregg informs us – when he's not yelling at strawberry tasters about how they "MUST POO A BUCKET OF PIPS EVERY NIGHT!!" ("No," replied the taster, quietly. "You adapt to it") – is "ON AN EPIC SCALE!"

It is always amazing to watch anything being produced ON AN EPIC SCALE – and if you were so minded you could take what was shown and spin off into a world of worry about the equally EPIC SCALE on which nemesis will surely one day arrive as a result of our massive consumption and self-indulgence, but on its own, Summer's Supermarket Secrets was essentially one of those filmed-in-a-factory Sesame Street segments extended and presented by Animal. Next week – AUTUMN!!! Reported by guardian.co.uk 1 hour ago.
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Doug Holyday: byelection win could be Rob Ford’s loss

July 5, 2013, 7:21 pm
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Doug Holyday: byelection win could be Rob Ford’s loss Five journalists simultaneously shouted questions at him about somebody else’s drug scandal, and Doug Holyday ducked — physically, as if avoiding an incoming grenade only he could see. And then, with Mayor Rob Ford nowhere to be found, he straightened up and answered all of them.

A week before the 2010 election, on the day Holyday gave Ford a belated public blessing, he said the council candidacy of Ford’s polished older brother, Doug, should make queasy voters “feel better” about casting their lot with the incendiary Rob.

Doug Ford proved more adept at starting fires than putting them out. Holyday himself, it turned out, would be the administration’s reassurer-in-chief.

Holyday, the deputy mayor, is now running as a Progressive Conservative in the provincial byelection in Etobicoke-Lakeshore. Rob Ford will campaign for him. If Holyday wins, Ford will be deprived of his point man on labour relations, his only consistently effective spokesperson, and the counsel of one of the few politicians he listens to.

“A steadying influence over the mayor,” says Councillor Denzil Minnan-Wong. “A steady-as-she-goes senior statesman,” says Doug Ford.

Holyday’s influence can be overstated. Ford’s term has been anything but steady. He has regularly ignored Holyday’s advice and regularly declined to seek his advice at all. But Holyday was indeed central to two of Ford’s most significant policy accomplishments.

Holyday’s success in outsourcing garbage collection in Etobicoke, where he was a one-term mayor before amalgamation, helped Ford convince council to use private collectors in another section of the city. As the Ford-appointed chair of the labour relations committee, Holyday was more involved than Ford in the negotiations that resulted in landmark collective agreements with the municipal unions.

Holyday has now spent nearly three years as an insider. A byelection victory would at least temporarily return him to the role in which he has spent most of his 31-year political career: conservative agitator in opposition.

Holyday, a high-school dropout who made himself into a highly successful insurance broker, was a vocal critic of left-leaning David Miller. Before that, he was a vocal critic of right-leaning Mel Lastman.

Holyday believed Lastman was insufficiently principled. Where others applauded Lastman’s attempts to work across party lines, Holyday saw craven betrayals of the cause of fiscal prudence.

“I think Mel’s main agenda was to make whatever deals he had to make to stay at the top of the pack and win as many votes as he could. He took it to the point of ridiculousness. Put Howard Moscoe in charge of the TTC, Jack Layton in charge of (an advisory committee on) homelessness, Olivia Chow in charge of (advocating for) children,” Holyday said in January over his regular soup-and-tuna-sandwich lunch. “All of these things started as nothing, but today have ended up costing millions. And not to say that those programs are bad — but who pays for them?”

Holyday built his formidable political brand on his preoccupation with dollars and cents. His unrelenting focus on the budget has also prompted accusations of hard-right radicalism. Vintage Holyday: In 1998, council voted 51-1 to apologize to Jane Doe, the rape victim police had failed to warn about a serial offender, without allowing officials to study the possible financial implications of the precedent. Holyday, as per usual, was the one.

“The liability to the taxpayer could be enormous. We don’t know,” he said then. He said in January: “If I think I’m right, why would I change myself just because everybody else has a different opinion?”

Even his opponents admire his commitment to the job. Long the councillor with the best attendance record, he is so unwilling to miss votes that he hardly ever leaves the room during even the dreariest of meetings. A “great listener,” according to Councillor Jaye Robinson, he exudes a courteous charm when he is not steaming about some boneheaded proposal — and now that he is 70 or 71 (he won’t say), even his formidable flashes of fury no longer do much damage to his relationships with colleagues.

“Get out of my garden,” Councillor Adam Vaughan, a frequent target, semi-affectionately mock-scolds in the voice of anyone’s prickly neighbour.

Holyday has enjoyed the same diversions for more than 30 years: golf at a tony country club, thrice-weekly hockey. He and his wife live in the modest house they bought in 1973. Perhaps his chief asset as the second-in-command to the most unpredictable mayor in modern Toronto history: he is impressively boring.

“He bought one house and he’s lived in that one house. He’s not what you’d call a speculator, that guy. His son lives across the road. I don’t know what all that means — stability, I guess,” says former Progressive Conservative MPP and now Holyday aide Morley Kells, who has known him for more than 50 years. “He’s the kind of guy who never surprised you. Whatever you saw, that’s what you were going to get. And you got it in spades.” Reported by Toronto Star 9 hours ago.
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3rd man in Hernandez case to be extradited

July 2, 2013, 3:22 am
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A third suspect in the slaying of a friend of former NFL player Aaron Hernandez waived his right to extradition to Massachusetts Monday, according to a district attorney there.

Ernest Wallace, 41, faces a charge of accessory to murder after the fact in the June 17 slaying of Odin Lloyd, 27. Hernandez, a former New England Patriot, has pleaded not guilty to premeditated murder and other charges in Massachusetts.

Wallace, who authorities believe was in the car with Hernandez and Lloyd the night that Lloyd was killed, appeared in a Broward County, Florida, courtroom on Saturday after he turned himself in on Friday. It is unclear when he will be transported to Massachusetts for an arraignment.

Another man also was taken into custody Friday.

It was around 2:30 a.m. on June 17 when Lloyd climbed into a silver Nissan Altima. Hours later, Lloyd was dead, shot with a .45-caliber firearm and later found lying in a gravel pit in the southeastern Massachusetts town of North Attleborough.

"It is a circumstantial case. It is not a strong case," Hernandez's attorney, Michael Fee, said in court.

The cloud over Hernandez, 23, doesn't end there. A law enforcement source told CNN that Boston police are "very active" -- and making progress -- in trying to connect the dots that could link Hernandez to an unsolved drive-by shooting that left two people dead last summer in Boston's South End.

In a related development, a silver sport utility vehicle owned by Hernandez that police believe is linked to that double homicide was impounded, a law enforcement source told CNN.

The Boston Globe reports that the unsolved shooting deaths of two men might have played a role in the motive for Lloyd's death. The newspaper quoted two law enforcement officials as saying Lloyd may have had information linking Hernandez to the shooting.

"The motive might have been that the victim knew (Hernandez) might have been involved," the paper said, quoting one of the officials, who asked for anonymity due to the sensitive nature of the investigation.

For now, prosecutors have alleged Lloyd's killing had something to do with a run-in between him and Hernandez. Prosecutors allege that Hernandez rounded up some friends and orchestrated the hit to settle the score.

The two met up at the popular Boston dance club, Rumor, according to Lloyd's sister, Olivia Thibou.

Then, in the predawn hours of June 17, Hernandez swung by in the rented Altima to pick up Lloyd -- a semipro football player who also worked as a landscaper and was dating the sister of Hernandez's fiancee -- at the latter's Boston home, prosecutors say.

They stopped at a gas station and bought some items. One purchase may be a potentially key piece of evidence: a pack of blue bubblegum.

Prosecutors said that cell phone towers nearby tracked the men's movements. Lloyd had his phone on and texted his sister at 3:23 a.m., likely minutes before his death.

"NFL. Just so you know," he texted his sister to let her know who he was with.

About 3:25 a.m. -- two minutes after the message -- gunshots shattered the quiet night, according to witnesses. Reported by Click Orlando 5 days ago.
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