BLACK FRIDAY

Here's a pretty good article about some Black Friday Sales.

BLACK FRIDAY - APPLE

Click here for the latest info on Apple's one-day Black Friday sale.

Update: Here's some leaked info. Click me.

WIN $100,000.00

Who wouldn't like a cool $100,000.00? I sure could use it. So I'm getting my butt down to the Amalgamated Bank at 426 86th Street, between Fourth and Fifth Avenues on Saturday for the "Break the Bank" contest.

And if $100,000.00 isn't enough to get you down there, John Starks will be there. He won't be signing autographs. He just has nothing to do. (okay, maybe he'll sign some autographs)

Here's the skinny:

Saturday, October 24 from 11:00 AM to 1:00 PM
Amalgamated Bank, Bay Ridge, 426 86th Street, between 4th & 5th Avenues

Other prizes include:

Four basketballs autographed by John Starks.
Ipod Touch
Two tickets to the New York Knicks versus Boston Celtics game
Two tickets to Broadway’s Bye Bye Birdie
A case of popchips offered by the event’s sponsor, all-natural popchips
Special gifts to anyone who opens a CD account at Amalgamated’s Bay Ridge branch.

MOST PRODUCED PLAYS

Time for me to dust off the old horn and do a little tooting. One of my plays made the Top Ten most produced plays this year.

Most-Produced Plays

American Theatre magazine published Theatre Communications Group’s annual Top Ten list of the most-produced titles of the current fall-to-spring regional theatre season.

The most-produced plays in TCG member theatres nationwide follow. Because of several ties, there are actually 14 plays in the Top Ten List of 2009-10, which does not include Shakespearean works or holiday-themed shows.

boom (9)
 by Peter Sinn Nachtrieb

The Seafarer (8) 
by Conor McPherson

Speech & Debate (8) 
by Stephen Karam

Dead Man’s Cell Phone (8)
 by Sarah Ruhl

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee (7) 
by Rachel Sheinkin (book) and William Finn (music and lyrics)

Around the World in 80 Days (7)
 adapted by Mark Brown from Jules Verne

The Glass Menagerie (7)
 by Tennessee Williams

Opus (7) 
by Michael Hollinger

Our Town (6)
 by Thornton Wilder

Shipwrecked! An Entertainment (6)
 by Donald Margulies

Souvenir (6)
 by Stephen Temperley

Yankee Tavern (6) 
by Steven Dietz

Black Pearl Sings! (6) 
by Frank Higgins

Boeing-Boeing (6) 
translated by Beverly Cross from Marc Camoletti (6)

PATRICK SWAYZE - IN LOVING MEMORY

STARBUCKS LETTING ME DOWN

Here's my Friday Starbucks roundup. And it ain't pretty:

Starbucks Raising Prices on Some Drinks

As if a $4.00 coffee wasn't high enough, Starbucks is raising the prices on some of its drinks, with the price changes are already taking effect in some markets.

Starbucks Workers Protest Rise in Health Premiums

And since Starbucks is raising prices on drinks, they decided to increase the amount that eligible employees need to contribute to keep their health care coverage.

And finally...

NYC Coffee Shops Pull Plug on Laptops

Kiss the marriage of Starbucks and working on the internet goodbye. Several New York coffee shops are plugging up their electrical outlets and asking laptop users to check their Facebook pages elsewhere. Café Grumpy in Brooklyn and Chelsea have outlawed laptops completely.

Hey, Cafe Grumpy, I am so not being your friend on Facebook.


Posted from my computer at Starbucks.

WOMAN TO MARRY FAIRGROUND RIDE

Every now and then a love story comes along that warms my heart. Here's a beautiful "girl meets fairground ride, girl falls in love with fairground ride, girl marries fairground ride" story.

Amy Wolfe, a US church organist who claims to have objectum sexuality, a condition that makes sufferers attracted to inanimate objects, plans to marry a magic carpet fairground ride.

And it's wonderful that she "does not get jealous when other people ride it."

Now where will they go on their honeymoon?

4-ALARM FIRE IN THE RIDGE

There was a 4-alarm fire last night in The Ridge. More info can be found here.

 

AMERICAN IDO CONTESTANT KILLED

Police arrested a 23-year-old Toms River man in connection with the death of "American Idol" contestant Alexis Cohen.

Daniel Bark was arrested at 6 p.m. Sunday in Atlantic Highlands on charges of causing Cohen's death by reckless driving and then leaving the scene of the collision.

Alexis Cohen, 25, who appeared in the audition rounds in two seasons of Idol, was struck by a car and killed.

Cohen was found by a driver and a passenger laying on the side of the road early Saturday morning, police officials told ET. Cohen was transported to Community Medical Center, where she was pronounced dead at 6:30 a.m.

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