Chicago Tribune | ‘Welcome to the Neighborhood’: Roll out the unwelcome wagon Another judge, speaking of the black family, discovers “what nice, pleasant and even well-versed people they are.” Not nice enough, however, to actually win the house. After rejecting the Koreans (too foreign), the witches (too scary), the stripper (too controversial), the tattoo aficionados (too weird-looking) and the Hispanics (too loud), the judging families are left with two finalists: the black family and the gay family. To help make the decision, the judges decide to visit the existing homes of the two finalists. The house where the black family…
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Teenager Takes Petition To Downing Street A British teen is taking 2,000 signed petition cards to Downing Street in London in an effort to keep attention focused on world poverty. It came out of an event sponsored by the Church of England, which has reasons of its own to keep the MakePovertyHistory movement going. What with all the terrorism news, it seems like MPH has gotten pushed off the international radar, but it’s still there, still pushing toward the goal.
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Minnesota Public Radio’s Fitzgerald Theater: A Prairie Home Companion Movie I thought David was kidding the other morning when he told me about this. It was on one of the NPR weekend news shows – I must have been completely unconscious, or perhaps I was downstairs indulging in Honey Nut Cheerios and fooling around with the iPod. IN any case, the thought of a movie about PHC, set backstage at the (fictitious) last broadcast, directed by (this is not fictitious) Robert Altman is just sixty-seven kinds of surreal. Woody Harrelson is in it. Why? Meryl Streep is in it. Why?…