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The Good News: Nancy Grace will no longer be on Court TV, at least not until she finally gets to sit in the defendant's seat herself. The Bad News: The diminutive Southern blond rabble-rouser will continue her work as a nightly nuisance on the one-time news channel known as CNN Headline News. In her career as a talking head taking on all kinds of imagined and otherwise biased and inaccurately portrayed wrongdoers, Nancy Grace has...

No worries for all you out of work, over-the-hill actors out there -- there is hope. Consider Jackie Earle Haley, former child star and recent pizza delivery man. Haley is a surprise Oscar nomination for Best Supporting Actor for his role as Ronnie McGorvey in the drama Little Children.

Fatal Mack, Born Leaders, Bad News, Parview Rec, Big Fats @ The Knitting Factory

Bad News - Campus Muslims and Jews are sensing a bit of tension, which the Jewish Collegiate News says stems from the Muslims: “I hate that things like this happen,” [UCI Chancellor Michael] Drake responded, acknowledging that there has been speech on campus promoted by the Muslim Student Union (MSU) that is largely hateful. Drake called hate-speech “vile,” “awful,” and “stupid,” and said it is “weak” human beings who engage in such speech. The...

Born in Northridge on this day in 1961, Haley was best known as the cigarette-smoking teen baseball hero Kelly Leak, in "The Bad News Bears", which was released 30 years ago this summer. A '70s classic that was a kid favorite despite/because of its adult dialogue:

Amanda Whurlitzer: We could use a good outfielder on our team

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Here it is again... the weekend. Will it cool down? It's all relative, we suppose. Just remember, whatever you do, keep your cool! There are plenty of things to do around town that are indoors, or outdoors, to suit your mood and temperment, in addition to the other events we're talking about.