| Smoke causes evacuation at Clinton headquarters
A malfunctioning air conditioning unit on the roof of Sen. Hillary Clinton's campaign headquarters caused an evacuation tonight before firefighters arrived and found no fire. Firefighters were called just before 8:20 p.m. after the malfunction sent smoke into the building at 701 E. Ben White Blvd., Austin Fire Department Capt. Rob Bredahl said. "There was never actually any fire or any real danger," he said. Bredahl said such malfunctions are common with air conditions on roofs. Between 50 to 60 volunteers and staff were in the building when they smelled smoke and someone called the fire department, campaign spokeswoman Adrienne Elrod said. After firefighters cleared the building, everyone went back inside and got back to work. "The only thing we're suffering from is a bad stench," Elrod said.
Under the Hood With Knight Rider 2.0: Trans Am vs. Ford Mustang ...
The goal was to make it look more aggressive without being hokey or garish," Belker says. "Maintaining as much of the original beauty of the Shelby as possible was important—and not just because of the Ford connection. It had to be simple yet believable as a superhero." Once his vision was set, Belker turned to Ted Moser from Picture Car Warehouse to make his drawings come to life. But there was one big hurdle: The GT500KR doesn't technically exist quite yet. "So we had to finish their design first," Moser says. "Then we brought in a prop maker to create side skirts and spoilers out of wood, smooth them out, and sent them to a fiberglass shop to make molds. Once the parts are formed from those molds, we finish them and attach them to the car." One of the cooler features of the Mustang KITT is air-ride suspension, which allows its driver to lower the car's ride height when the vehicle morphs from Hero to Attack mode.
Kidd now officially a Maverick, Cuban says
As a player, you just want to come to work and play hard and give your team a chance to win, Kidd said during over the weekend. Hopefully you put yourself in position to win a championship. Theres no guarantee. The Mavs resume play Wednesday against the Western Conference-leading Hornets in New Orleans. If Kidd can play it will kick things off with Kidd going up against the Hornets rising point guard, Chris Paul. An indication of just how tough the West is with most teams having 30 or fewer games to play is that the Mavs (35-18) are two games out of the conference lead, but also two games out of the lottery. Kidd said hes looking forward to returning to the West, where the style of play is faster and more wide open than in the laboring East. I love to run, Kidd said.
Theater Reviews
Krausen's Desdemona seems modern somehow, not nearly so willing to kowtow to the Moor as we may recall from early readings. This is good. The biggest misstep of the otherwise ravishing production is the way Desdemona and Othello get so ridiculously high-strung in their final moments. I mean, you expect anyone who is about to be strangled to go a little dingy, but Krausen plays it in the style of a '30s Hollywood movie star —- rolling around on the bed and kind of begging for it. The scene has "erotic potential" written all over it, but in the end, it's not that hot. Though the Klimchak score is a little too "Exorcist"-like —- paranoid whisperings and bat-crazy blips —- Murphy's idea of putting all the action upfront on those three big beds is to die for. As dramaturg Sister Smith says so astutely in her notes, "Once a person is trapped in a downspiral of jealousy, voyeurism makes him an outsider, an audience, to his own marriage and desires." And Dirden's radical adaptation makes good sense and ought to be explored further, produced elsewhere.
Xbox is crack for kids
Others set egg-timers or print out ration coupons entitling the bearer to 30 minutes of Club Penguin, the virtual world. Like Madonna, some ban telly but permit movies. Not her own I hope. I don't have the resolve for all this. Just every so often, when I'm sick of their sallow, supine bodies and the way the smaller one clutches the backless remote controls like holy amulets - even taking them with him to the loo in case his brother seizes power - I switch off their favoured doom-porn, Air Crash Investigation or Anatomy of a Grizzly Attack, and try to boot them outside. Only to see them graze idly at the computer instead. It is no small challenge being the in-house Ofcom, diligently monitoring screen minutes: adding a half hour of MSN to Doctor Who and 20 minutes on SuperMario Galaxy.
From Heavy Metal to the Hajj
It seems you have entered a particularly productive phase in your career.Paul DiAnno: I just had a month off and it was the first month off from work in four years. After the second week of it I wanted to kill everybody, so it was back to work for me! [laughs] We are going back to Russia at the end of the month and that is going to be pretty nuts. Since we last spoke there has been a biography out with your life storyNo, Im not quite dead yet! I have a few more bits to get on with yet, but I have changed my lifestyle so much now that it is nowhere near as bad as it was in the book. I only agreed to do [the book] because all of the proceeds go to a cancer charity that I sponsor. Have you lost someone to cancer?Yes, several actually. My Nana died of cancer, then my keyboard player in Battlezone, Attila, we lost him three years ago, and that is what made me decide to have a go at doing something about it.
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