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  • Belgian illustrators to present books of Chinese version in

    Belgian children's book illustrators Ingrid Godon, Kaatje Vermeire and Pieter Gaudesaboos will present Chinese translations of their books at the Beijing International Book Fair (BIBF) at the end of August.Els Aerts, Grants Manager of Children's and youth literature, graphic novels of the Flemish Literary Fund (VFL) has said, adding that Gaudesaboos will present his Mannetje Koek ...

  • Stone Temple Pilots sue its former singer

    LOS ANGELES The Stone Temple Pilots accuse former frontman Scott Weiland of misusing the band's name to further his solo career and want a judge to strip the rocker of his ability to use the group's name or songs. A lawsuit filed Friday in Los Angeles accuses Weiland of being chronically late to concerts while the group was together and having his lawyer attempt to interfere with the ...

  • POWs reunited four decades later at Nixon Library

    hundreds of Vietnam-era Prisoners of War were saluted at the biggest White House dinner ever following their release in a prisoner exchange. Richard Nixon was president then, and on Friday at the Nixon Library in Yorba Linda, Calif., nearly 200 of those P.O.W.'s came together once ...

  • Construction of Mill Woods library and cultural centre underway

    The City of Edmonton kicked off construction of a new Mill Woods Library, Seniors and Multicultural Centre on Friday. The $33.8 million project — shown in the illustration — is expected to be completed and open to the public in ...

  • Jersey Shore shop owners reopen for Memorial Day

    (CBS News) SEA BRIGHT, N.J. - Seven months after an epic storm, the Jersey Shore is open for business. In Seaside Heights Friday, Governor Chris Christie cut a symbolic 5-1/2-mile-long ribbon to open the beach season following the damage done by superstorm ...


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I Bury the Living [DVD]

I Bury the Living [DVD]

I Bury the Living is a corker of a horror-thriller that draws you in, but ultimately lets you down with an explanatory ending that just doesnt fit. Made quickly on a shoestring budget, it was one of an onslaught of small-scale drive-in flicks that poured out of scrappy independent studios in the 1950s and early 1960s, most of which were immediately forgettable. I Bury the Living< ... ...

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  • The forecaster who sounded the alarm for Moore Okla.

    CBS News (CBS News) The massive tornado in Oklahoma on Monday killed a total of 24 people. The toll would likely have been much greater, were it not for the early warning put out by the National Weather Service. We meet the man who sounded the alarm. A video shows Monday's twister charging into Moore, Oklahoma. The funnel cloud morphed within moments into a historic EF-5 tornado, with ...

  • Survivor of KKK Baptist Church bombing I had to forgive

    (CBS News) BIRMINGHAM, Ala.- A turning point in the Civil Rights movement came 50 years ago when members of the Ku Klux Klan bombed a black church in Birmingham, Alabama. Four young girls were killed. And nationwide outrage led to the passage of the Civil Rights Act one year later. Today, President Obama signed a law to honor the victims-; Denise McNair, Addie Mae Collins, Cynthia Wesley and ...

  • Space date with Leo DiCaprio auctions for $1.5 million

    Actor Leonardo DiCaprio attends the "The Great Gatsby" world premiere at Avery Fisher Hall at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts on May 1, 2013, in New ...

  • Judge Ariz. sheriffs office profiles Latinos

    A federal judge must now decide whether the nation's largest police force has been unjustly stopping black and Hispanic men under a polarizing tactic known as stop, question and frisk, and whether changes are needed to department policy, training and ...

  • San Franciscos City Lights the bookshop that brought us the Beats

    City Lights, the San Francisco bookshop that published Allen Ginsberg's Howl, is 60 this year but there's still no better place to encounter American ...

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