Ash at Madame Tussauds!
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A wax replica of the actress is unveiled at London's Madame Tussauds.
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A plant whose bloom produces an incredible smell has finally flowered in Sydney.
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Gabe:  We had this shirt at PAX and next to the actual PAX 2007 design I think it was our best seller. Like the majority of our stuff this probably won't make any sense to some of you. I'll just say it's Pokemon related and leave it at that. For you trainers out there who couldn't make it to PAX the shirt is now available in our store. The Target by our office had the new PSP slim with Daxter pack today so I went and picked one up. They unfortunately did not have the AV cables so I can't test the video out stuff yet. In fact all I've done so far is open it up and plug it in to charge. I don't know how "slim" it is but it's crazy light. I thought I was holding some kind of fake display PSP and the real one was still in the box somewhere.-Gabe out
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Iâm at Moro, waiting for my friend Bob Crowley and Nicholas Hytner to come from Christopher Wheeldonâs ballet at Saddler Wells. Narciso Rodriguez did the costumes for the ballet. Heâs in town but I havenât seen him. Too many shows, I guess. Just left Giles Deaconâs show. One of Giles Deaconâs looks.(Jonathan Player for The New [...].
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Tycho:   The foe revealed, Armadeaddon is now almost complete.  Monday will see the promised epilogue, so at this point you have very nearly survived the ordeal.  We have endeavored these past weeks to reward the true "enthusiast," that man or woman who, brow heavy, has faced such cruel abuse at our hand for the last seven years.  It is apparently our policy to honor such dedication one every decade.    Since it was announced a couple days ago, the revelation that MS would be actively courting the hardcore boardgame player is something I've thought about almost constantly.  It may be that you weren't aware there was such a thing as a hardcore player of boardgames if your last experience with the context was playing Sorry! with your sister when you were eight.  Things have progressed.   There's a million experiences in this space I could use to lure you in, but one company in particular - Days of Wonder has already decided to make electronic variants of their tabletop crack, so they occupy a twilight space between the worlds.  I hope they see an opportunity to take their (already completed!) games over to the 360, or that Microsoft offers them a locked case containing an unspecified amount of untraceable U.S. Currency, because I'd love to see this prescient move by MS turn into a new era.   Days of Wonder makes a game called Shadows Over Camelot that could quickly become a dangerous obsession, obscuring biological realities with a single-minded focus on grails.  Well, grail I guess.  There's just the one.    But it's a completely cooperative boardgame, so every player is working toward the same goals - fighting back invasions, questing, all of it.  Except there might be a traitor in the group, determined by a hidden draw, who tries to derail the effort.  He's not always there, but the potentiality of that nefarious force can create unbelievable social tension.    The gaming table's fixed coordinate in space is its asset and its obstacle - managing space and time is actually the primary challenge of any gaming group, as opposed to banishing necromancers, though that also ranks up there.  Boardgames are so rich in design that, when one of these gets dropped in front of them on Live, I think many gamers will be shocked at their sophistication.    My thumbs hurt.  (CW)TB out.
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Arts & entertainment: Â· Consecutive nominations a first for Sheffield band  Â· Amy Winehouse is joint favourite on 12-strong list
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Tycho: Some of you have probably already heard it, since I put it up yesterday - but we're trying new hosting for the podcast, and I wanted to make sure everything made sense before I dropped it on the front page. The podcast is for Wednesday's strip, "The Ungift, Part Two." You can download it here, or subscribe to the feed here. The levels are a little crazy in a couple spots, for which I apologize. I think we've got those ironed out, now. (CW)TB
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How do you cap an evening of pure magic? With more magic. Perhaps a quick coup de theatre.
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Look out Nigella (Lawson). Move over Jamie (Oliver). Young Frenchwoman Clotilde Dusoulier is on the verge of culinary diva-dom.
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The French really seem to have taken a fancy for our Bollywood Baadshah, Shah Rukh Khan.
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The Belgians must be proud. The reinstated [and, looking at the new Bus Stop chicane, one might say reincarnated] Spa proved its worth on Sunday with an enthralling, magnificently dramatic race - certainly the best of the year so far.
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Live audio, reviews and news from one of the most exotic festivals on Earth
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(Los Angeles- WABC, August 18, 2004 )  Some good new for Paris Hilton. Today she was reunited with &quot;tinkerbell, &quot; her lost chihuahua.
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Arts & entertainment: Frankenstein gets an update, theatre gets filthy and Sibelius gets everywhere - our critics pick the 50 hottest acts to catch this autumn.
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By Anonymous  The announcement in Septem
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Yesterday's piece, lightly edited, on the Huffington Post. http://x98.us/jz  I think it looks pretty good over there!
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On her blog, Elizabeth Naramore has posted some thanks to the sponsores out there that are helping out with this year's PHP Appalachia event and some last minute details for those attending.   I wanted to give a quick acknowledgement to our sponsors for the event, as posted by Ben on our PHP Appalachia site. We have so many sponsors, and so many door prizes to give away, a good time will definitely be had by all. Their donations are really helping our grass roots gathering come together, and we all greatly appreciate their efforts. I also want to give a quick thanks to Cal Evans who also personally donated numerous t-shirts and goodies as well.   She gives a rough schedule for things, including how the talks will run and links to some info on the area to let you prepare for your trip.