| Dengue Fever: the most infectious band
Dengue fever is a Los Angeles band featuring a Cambodian-born singer and five American alt-rockers who regularly embarrass her onstage. On the cover of its new album, Venus on Earth, the guitarist Zac Holtzman, with a long beard and goggles, drives a scooter with the vocalist Chhom Nimol sitting demurely behind him sidesaddle, the way a good Cambodian girl would ride through the streets of Phnom Penh. Dengue Fever, which specializes in an unlikely mix of 1960s Cambodian pop, rock and other genres, is a lot like that image. Propriety and smart aleck indie rock race by, blurring together. It is a band of rollicking lightness that keeps coming up deep. At a recent show in the Echo Park neighborhood here, the male members were downright goofy, but Chhom, singing mostly in Khmer and dressed in shimmering Cambodian silk garments she designs herself, looked like old-school royalty, a queen before the hipoisie.
Thinking About Tomorrow
People will be able to do anything on a hand-held that they can now do on a desktop computer. In fact, they'll be able to do even more, as mobile gadgets increasingly come equipped with global-positioning-system gear that can track your every move. As you drive around, for instance, you might get reviews of nearby restaurants automatically delivered to a screen in your car -- maybe even projected onto the windshield. The spread of GPS hints at another big change on the horizon. We're going to be under a lot more pressure to make our personal information public -- everything from where we surf online to where we're standing at a particular moment. Companies will offer us special deals and other incentives so that we'll let them track our activity. That information, in turn, will let the companies present us with a steady stream of intensely focused marketing whenever we go online, turn on our cellphone or even walk into a store.
Pretend IRS scammers call Iowans
According to a news release from the IRS, there is an e-mail scam that claims the recipient is eligible for a tax refund, then provides a link to a fake IRS Web site. The IRS recommends that recipients do not click on links in, or open attachments on these e-mails. "Most of these are abroad," Brammer said. Canada is a particular concern. Brammer said a common scam is people receive a notice that they have won a prize in Canada for $500,000. To get the prize, people are asked to cash a counterfeit check for a few thousand dollars and wire the money to an address in Canada. "That is extremely common," Brammer said. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police, the Ontario Provincial Police and the Canadian Competition Bureau have teamed up to fight scams by creating the Canadian Anti-fraud Call Centre.
Columbia teen sentenced in beating death
Brazell died after a fight involving nearly two dozen teenagers at the football stadium of Mount Hebron High School in Ellicott City in February. Prosecutors said that around 12:30 a.m. on Feb. 24, 2007, police found Brazell unconscious and lying in a pool of blood on the running track behind Mount Hebron High. He died the next day at the Maryland Shock Trauma Center.
Police later recovered Brazell's DNA and two of Klink's fingerprints from an aluminum bat they found at the high school.
According to a statement of facts in the case that accompanied yesterday's announcement from Howard County prosecutors, Klink said Brazell had just assaulted his friend, then stood up over the friend and slightly backed up, but still in a "fighting stance."
Klink, a 2006 graduate of Oakland Mills High School, "used an amount of force which was objectively unreasonable in his defense of another.
Blue Raiders go west for Sun Belt battle
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Governor Backs Trestles Toll Road
SANTA ANA, Calif. -- Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger is endorsing an Orange County toll road that would cut through one of the state's most popular beach areas. Images: Surfers At Trestles | Images: Council Wrestles Over Toll Road In a letter to the head of the Coastal Commission, Schwarzenegger on Tuesday described the six-lane Foothill South tollway as "essential to protect our environment and the quality of life for everyone in California." .
Enchanted by Haida Gwaii
Haida Gwaii is a magical land of power and peace, a group of islands some have called Canada's Galapagos, on the edge of the continental shelf, ranging 50 to130 kilometres out in the Pacific Ocean from British Columbia's mainland. Haida Gwaii is the name the First Nations originally called the Queen Charlotte Islands, and most people on the islands continue to call them Haida Gwaii. The Haida have lived in harmony with the land for 10,000 years. The majority of the Haida First Nation, one-third of the population of Haida Gwaii, live on the northernmost Graham Island in the villages of Old Masset and Skidegate. Old Masset is ghostly, haunted, but rebirthing on the wings of legend and great art. Skidegate's revival is more obvious. .
Since you asked ...
I felt like shit, but I got up the courage to fight my way into college. I had a good SAT score and the admissions director at a large, local state university was impressed by a letter I wrote him arguing for admission. Alas, my high school refused to release my transcripts due to their Catholic grudge against me as their scorned rebel, and the admissions officer couldn't let me matriculate. .
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