{"id":5871,"date":"2012-06-08T11:30:55","date_gmt":"2012-06-08T18:30:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5871"},"modified":"2012-06-08T14:03:20","modified_gmt":"2012-06-08T21:03:20","slug":"friday-miscellany-entertainment-news-history-news-and-udder-stuff","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5871","title":{"rendered":"Friday Miscellany: Entertainment News, History News, and udder stuff."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-5009\" title=\"userpic=observations\" src=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/12\/userpicobservations.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"100\" height=\"72\" align=\"right\" hspace=\"10\" vspace=\"10\" \/>It&#8217;s Friday at lunchtime, and you know what that means &#8212; time to clear out the bookmarked links&#8230;<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>Entertainment News<\/strong>. I have a number of music, entertainment, and such items that I couldn&#8217;t really tie together in a theme. First, if you have ever driven the Harbor Freeway (Route 110) through downtown LA, you see a mural of a number of musicians. <a href=\"http:\/\/la.curbed.com\/archives\/2012\/06\/explainer_whats_up_with_the_giant_orchestra_mural_on_the_110.php\" target=\"_blank\">Curbed LA has a nice story on that mural, including where those musicians are now<\/a>. Second, for those into <em>Psych<\/em>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/arts\/culture\/la-et-cm-psych-star-james-roday-buys-historic-el-centro-theatre-20120603,0,3108052.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+CultureMonster+%28Culture+Monster%29\" target=\"_blank\">one of the stars, James Roday, has just bought the historic El Centro Theatre in Hollywood, with plans to turn it into a legit stage venue<\/a>. Thirdly, one of the things that fascinated me growing up were TV stations that &#8220;shared&#8221; networks; you often saw these on TV station listing on 1960s era maps. One has gone away, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/entertainment\/envelope\/cotown\/la-et-ct-abc-miss-20120607,0,774926.story?track=rss&amp;utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed%3A+latimes%2Fmostviewed+%28L.A.+Times+-+Most+Viewed+Stories%29\" target=\"_blank\">ABC finally has a permanent home on a digital subchannel in Hattiesburg MS<\/a>. Lastly, in the false good news department, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.laobserved.com\/archive\/2012\/06\/click_and_clack_the_tappe.php\" target=\"_blank\">the Car Talk duo of Tom and Ray Magliozzi\u00a0 will stop recording new shows in September<\/a>, as <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cartalk.com\/content\/time-get-even-lazier\" target=\"_blank\">they announce on their website<\/a>. Alas, the airwaves won&#8217;t be completely safe, as they will continue to broadcast a &#8220;best of&#8221; show drawn from 25 years of recordings.<\/li>\n<li><strong>History Resurfacing and Disappearing.<\/strong> This first item could have been with the entertainment news, and is sad indeed. <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2012\/06\/07\/for_sale_bob_bakers_marionette_thea.php\" target=\"_blank\">Bob Baker is putting his Marionette Theatre up for sale<\/a>. The income just isn&#8217;t there to keep up the theatre; he still plans to keep the puppets and do travelling shows. Most people that grew up in LA have been to one of Mr. Baker&#8217;s Marionette shows sometime in their life. Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/laist.com\/2012\/06\/07\/hide_sweet_hidden_dtla_batchelder_s.php#photo-1\" target=\"_blank\">a renovation in downtown LA uncovered a hidden 1914 hot chocolate shop<\/a>; more details are <a href=\"http:\/\/countdowntobatchelder.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>. It is unclear the next use of the refurbished space.\u00a0 Lastly, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.sfgate.com\/cgi-bin\/article.cgi?f=\/c\/a\/2012\/06\/08\/MNTO1OUK8J.DTL\" target=\"_blank\">tombstones are being exposed on San Francisco Beaches &#8212; these are remants of the cemetaries that used to be in the city but were moved to Colima<\/a>. Here&#8217;s the neat part: bodies were moved for free, but you had to pay to move markers and such&#8230; so most were abandoned.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Miscellaneous Other Stuff<\/strong>. Three miscellaneous items. First, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/national\/health-science\/nasa-gets-military-spy-telescopes-for-astronomy\/2012\/06\/04\/gJQAsT6UDV_story.html\" target=\"_blank\">the NRO is offering two unfinished satellites to NASA to be repurposed for astronomical purposes &#8212; they have mirrors as good as the Hubble<\/a>. NASA still needs to finish, launch, and support them. Second, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vcstar.com\/news\/2012\/jun\/06\/umami-brings-its-sublime-gourmet-burgers-to-oaks\/\" target=\"_blank\">the Umami Burger in Thousand Oaks has opened<\/a>; we&#8217;ll have to try it when we go to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cabrillomusictheatre.com\/shows.php?p=nowplaying&amp;prod=meet-me-in-st-louis\" target=\"_blank\">Cabrillo&#8217;s &#8220;Meet Me In St. Louis&#8221;<\/a> in July. Lastly, have you ever wondered how long a razor cartridge lasts. <a href=\"http:\/\/management.fortune.cnn.com\/2012\/06\/07\/gillette-razor-lifespan\/\" target=\"_blank\">In these value-focused times, Gillette has decided that people should know<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>P.S.: Two good net comics today. College-bound and college-attending folks (such as my daughter) should appreciate <a href=\"http:\/\/xkcd.com\/1066\/\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s XKCD on college laundry<\/a>\u00a0 (I remember those days). Secondly, those into art and art history would appreciate <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dorktower.com\/2012\/06\/08\/drawn-together-dork-tower-08-06-12\/\" target=\"_blank\">today&#8217;s Dork Tower<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Music:<\/strong> <em>Nunsensations<\/em> (Off-Broadway Cast): Sin City Sue<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s Friday at lunchtime, and you know what that means &#8212; time to clear out the bookmarked links&#8230; Entertainment News. I have a number of music, entertainment, and such items that I couldn&#8217;t really tie together in a theme. First, if you have ever driven the Harbor Freeway (Route 110) through downtown LA, you see <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/?p=5871\">Read More &#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[117,56],"tags":[140,141],"class_list":["post-5871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","category-news-chum","tag-los-angeles","tag-radio"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5871"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5873,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5871\/revisions\/5873"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cahighways.org\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}