College Media Network

Sports Page PDF

Front Page PDF

Opinions Page PDF

Striking writers picket with life-size photos of legendary actors, Marlon Brando, left, and James Dean. The protest took place Monday in Los Angeles.

Strikers use Internet for gain

11:01 PM 11/26/2007 — LOS ANGELES - Striking TV and movie writers kept up the pressure on studios by picketing and intensifying an Internet campaign that uses the very medium at issue in the contentious negotiations. Both sides were set to resume contract talks Monday. The Writers Guild of America went on strike Nov. 0

This undated photo provided by NBC shows the cast of "Tin Man," which will be premiering on the Sci Fi Channel. The six hour miniseries is based on L. Frank Baum's book "The Wonderful Wizard of Oz."

Sci Fi Channel's "Tin Man" miniseries provides "postmodern" take on "Wonderful Wizard of Oz"

11:27 PM 11/26/2007 — LOS ANGELES - No dancing down the yellow brick road for Zooey Deschanel, star of Sci Fi Channel's new Emerald City adaptation, "Tin Man." And no warbling "Over the Rainbow" a la Judy Garland, either. "It's postmodern, more like Indiana Jones than a fairy tale," said Deschanel, whose Dorothy - the role immortalized by Garland in "The Wizard of Oz" - is a disaffected, motorcycle-riding waitress called DG. 0

An undated photo provided by the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies shows the institute's new home overlooking Chicago's Grant Park.

Spertus Institute to open new $55 million building

11:17 PM 11/26/2007 — CHICAGO - The buildings are located next door to each other on Michigan Avenue, and both have housed the Spertus Institute of Jewish Studies, but that's where the similarities end. The institute's old home was a drab, clunky, nearly 100-year-old office building with small rectangular windows. 0

Discovering Diversions

Kick back for a classical concert

Who: Enescu Ensemble
Where: Krannert Center for the Performing Arts
When: 7:30 p.m.
Cost: $4 for students

Check the217.com for more to do

Italian opera singer Luciano Pavarotti and his bride Nicoletta Mantovani smile after their wedding at Modena's Teatro Comunale, northern Italy in this Dec. 13, 2003 file photo.

Pavarotti's widow sues over comments

11:13 PM 11/26/2007 — ROME - Luciano Pavarotti's widow has sued two friends of the late tenor for $44 million, claiming their comments about her marriage were defamatory. Nicoletta Mantovani filed the lawsuit last month after warning that speculation about the state of her marriage to Pavarotti would not be tolerated, her lawyer said Monday. 0

"Crazy cat" couple controls Cairo's chaotic cat community

10:52 PM 12/6/2007 — CAIRO, Ill. - Years after the factories, restaurants and businesses moved away from downtown Cairo, the felines have moved in. One couple has taken it upon themselves to not only keep the kitties healthy and fed but also get them spayed, neutered and vaccinated. 0

Actress Cameron Diaz poses for photographers during a media event before a premier of "Shrek the Third," in this June 7 file photo in Paris. Diaz has signed on for "Shrek Goes Fourth," slated for release in 2010, and reprises her voice role as Princess Fiona in "Shrek the Halls," debuting Wednesday on ABC. She hopes the small-screen special - about Shrek's very first Christmas with his motley crew - will become holiday tradition.

Cameron Diaz hopes "Shrek the Halls," debuting Wednesday on ABC, will become holiday tradition

11:23 PM 11/26/2007 — NEW YORK - Shrek, star of three animated blockbusters, now has his own Christmas special, "Shrek the Halls," which debuts Wednesday on ABC-TV. Cameron Diaz, who reprises her voice role as Princess Fiona, hopes the story of the grumpy-yet-lovable green ogre's first Christmas with family and friends will become a holiday tradition. 0

Michael "Flea" Balzary of the U.S. band Red Hot Chilli Peppers performed on stage during the British leg of the Live Earth concerts at London's Wembley Stadium, in this July 7 file photo. Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist Flea hasn't soured on living on Malibu, even though his house was one of dozens destroyed in the weekend wildfires, a spokeswoman said.

House owned by Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist "Flea" is among those destroyed by Malibu fire

11:25 PM 11/26/2007 — MALIBU, Calif. - Flea isn't soured on living on Malibu, even though another house the Red Hot Chili Peppers bassist owns in the coastal enclave was among those destroyed in the weekend's wildfires, a spokeswoman said. "Obviously he's very upset," said Gayle Fine, a spokeswoman for band manager Q Prime Inc. 0