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...Corporate owners have suffered too, with bankruptcy restructuring becoming a serious topic of conversation among media owners in 2008. Hearst warned that it might have to shutter its Seattle and San Francisco newspapers, while E. W. Scripps closed the 150-year-old Rocky Mountain News in February. The owners of the Minneapolis Star-Tribune went into bankruptcy, and one of the last African American dailies, the Chicago Defender, converted to a weekly publishing cycle. Two of satellite radio's pioneers - Sirius and XM - merged to avoid mutual failure, along with 42 mergers and acquisitions among consumer magazines. Stock for General...
Only marriage gets that treatment, and it's a tradition that some legal scholars have been arguing should be abandoned. In a paper published March 2 in the San Francisco Chronicle, two law professors from Pepperdine University issued a call to re-examine the role the government plays in marriage. The authors - one of whom voted for and one against Proposition 8, which ended gay marriage in California - say the best way out of the intractable legal wars over gay marriage is to take marriage out of the hands of the government altogether. (See pictures of the busiest wedding...
Twin Cities Connection. Southwest Airlines has extended service to Minneapolis-St. Paul, with eight daily flights to Chicago's Midway, where you can pick up connecting service to other destinations, including San Francisco, Denver and Philadelphia...
That’s not exactly on Flyby’s list of things to do, but we were intrigued by the description of Jen, who was advertised as “a San Francisco born Taiwanese-American [who] has traveled all over the world from Australia to Hong Kong, talked his way into backstage concerts, mingled with celebrities, bungee-jumped in the jungle, and dived among sharks.” Naturally we had to check this out. Were you too shy to show up? No problem—Flyby’s got some of the highlights from Jen?...
...very classical. Of course I knew [Balanchine’s, a famous choreographer’s] work, like Tchaikovsky Pas de Deux, Theme and Variations, the big stuff, but I had no idea how it should look, since I had never seen NYCB. I went first to San Francisco as an apprentice, and I got to learn “Rubies” and the “Emeralds corps” from Jewels, but I didn’t know how to be big, I didn’t know how to be dynamic, in the Balanchine...