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    May 8, 2013 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  1. TV review: Amazon for kids safe but restrained

    Amazon is smart to aim almost half of its pilot slate — six of the 14 shows it's put up for public perusal — at kids. Today's toddlers are tomorrow's Amazon Wish List sharers at holiday time. And busy parents looking for relief don't care about the medium: They would let their charges watch video projected out of a beer bottle if it was respectable stuff and it bought the parents some peace. 
    Amazon is smart to aim almost half of its pilot slate — six of the 14 shows it's put up for public perusal — at kids. Today's toddlers are tomorrow's Amazon Wish List sharers at holiday time. And busy parents looking for relief don't care...

    Tags: Early Learning, Preschools, Science and Technology, Education, Entertainment

    2. May 2, 2013 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  2. Pennridge boys track coach Bob Hosier pushing all right buttons

    Colby Trauger recalls leading off a relay race at an invitational meet his freshman season.
    Colby Trauger recalls leading off a relay race at an invitational meet his freshman season. He stretched out the baton in search of his teammate's hand. His teammate reached back to find it. The baton found the foot of Trauger's teammate and then...

    Tags: Track and Field, Christianity, Whitehall, Bangor, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania)

    3. Aug 20, 2011 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  3. Chicago camp teaches kids Blues 101

    If you didn’t know better, you’d think Lady Gaga was in the house and the kids were piling in to catch a glance.
    If you didn’t know better, you’d think Lady Gaga was in the house and the kids were piling in to catch a glance.     But these kids are different. Sure, they’ve got guitars strapped over their shoulders and anticipation in their eyes....

    Tags: Music Theater, Etta James, Social Media, Common, Fruteland Jackson

    4. Dec 14, 2012 |Column| Chicago Tribune

  4. Cedar Walton's low-key, less-is-more brand of pianism

    Pianist Cedar Walton always plays it straight – no flash, lots of substance.
    Pianist Cedar Walton always plays it straight – no flash, lots of substance. So depending on one's listening needs, he's either a bit too restrained to generate sufficient excitement or so profound in his understatement that he satisfies on a deep...

    Tags: Music Industry, Music, Entertainment

    5. Nov 9, 2012 |Column| Allentown Morning Call

  5. Parkland-Easton rematch features changed football teams

    The Parkland High football team has produced eight weeks of game film since Easton dropped the Trojans to 0-2 in early September. Red Rovers coach Steve Shiffert has seen enough footage of Parkland since their Week 2 meeting to know that little of what...

    Tags: Christianity, Sports, Religion and Belief, Basketball, Sprained Ankle

    6. May 9, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  6. Easton's Farrar, Abert trying to get healthy for postseason run

    Kiana Farrar still has a bandage on her injured right knee that kept her out of a few regular-season meets to start the spring.
    Kiana Farrar still has a bandage on her injured right knee that kept her out of a few regular-season meets to start the spring. Easton teammate Colin Abert still needs ice, rest and monitoring of the right shin that has bothered him most of this...

    Tags: Track and Field, Whitehall, Christianity, Easton (Easton, Pennsylvania), Religion and Belief

    7. Apr 25, 2013 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  7. The Amazon pilots (Part 2): Children's shows

    Amazon's TV &quot;pilots" (see my <a href="http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/tv/showtracker/la-et-st-critics-notebook-amazon-tv-pilots-20130423,0,2585137.story">previous post</a> and this <a href="https://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html?docId=1001155581&amp;ref=lpc_1">relevant website</a>) come in two flavors: grown up comedies, most of which betray basic-cable (and even premium-cable) values in terms of content and language, and children's shows, which, conversely, are largely aimed at the youngest of the young and contain a mandated educational component.
    Los Angeles Times Television Critic
    Amazon's TV "pilots" (see my previous post and this relevant website) come in two flavors: grown up comedies, most of which betray basic-cable (and even premium-cable) values in terms of content and language, and children's shows, which, conversely, are...

    Tags: Science and Technology, Arts, Television, Entertainment, June Foray

    8. May 8, 2013 |Story| Allentown Morning Call

  8. Bangor's Pearson, Northampton's DeCesaris, Saucon's Chikotas, Bethlehem Catholic's Horton set records

    Bangor's Bryan Pearson took a break from warmups for the Colonial League discus competition Tuesday afternoon to watch Northampton's Kory DeCesaris in the Lehigh Valley Conference shot put.
    Bangor's Bryan Pearson took a break from warmups for the Colonial League discus competition Tuesday afternoon to watch Northampton's Kory DeCesaris in the Lehigh Valley Conference shot put. Pearson saw DeCesaris' third heave. "I was like, 'That's a...

    Tags: Awards and Prizes, Track and Field, Christianity, Whitehall, Bangor

    9. Jan 4, 2001 |Story| Los Angeles Times

  9. Test drive: 'Net encyclopedias as good as CD-ROMs

    Times Staff Writer
    Thinking of getting a CD-ROM encyclopedia for your computer? Don't do it. Not if you already have an Internet connection. The two most popular encyclopedia CD-ROMs -- Encarta Encyclopedia Deluxe 2001, which sells for about $45, and the venerable...

    Tags: Miles Davis, New York, Computer Networking and Internet, Entertainment, Microsoft Corporation

    10. Jan 18, 2013 |Story| Winchester Sun

  10. Clark Middle takes two of three games from Conkwright

    Clark Middle took two of three games from Conkwright in a tripleheader Thursday night at Clark Middle.
    ktaylor@winchestersun.com
    Clark Middle took two of three games from Conkwright in a tripleheader Thursday night at Clark Middle. In the sixth-grade game, Jansen Preston scored 13 points and Jacob Smith added 12 to lead the Cougars to a 44-31 win over the Eagles. Chase Gabbard...
    11. Jan 4, 2013 |Story| South Florida Sun-Sentinel

  11. Michel, Likely named to Class 5A All-State first team

    Junior running back Sony Michel led five players from American Heritage selected to the Class 5A All-State football team released Friday.
    Junior running back Sony Michel led five players from American Heritage selected to the Class 5A All-State football team released Friday. Michel, who was a first-team selection, returned from a knee injury to rush for 1,262 yards and 18 touchdowns on...

    Tags: Sony Corp., Mike Harris, New Smyrna Beach, Sports, Joshua Moore

    12. Jan 9, 2013 |Story| Winchester Sun

  12. Local Sports Briefs

    <strong>Basketball: Cougars wins two of three games</strong>
    ktaylor@winchestersun.com
    Basketball: Cougars wins two of three games The Conkwright Middle School boys basketball teams took two of three games against Nicholas County recently. The Cougars won the sixth-grade game 35-19, followed by a 44-33 victory in the seventh-grade...

    Tags: Sports, High School Sports, Football, George Rogers

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