Dad sells son’s 90-dollar video game online for more than 9000

December 17, 2007 · Filed Under Features, Offbeat News · 2 Comments 

After catching his 15-year-old smoking pot, a father sold the hard-to-get “Guitar Hero III” video game he bought his son for 90 dollars for Christmas at an online auction, fetching 9,000 dollars.

The sale took place after the father spent two weeks searching for the video game for the Nintendo Wii gameboard.

“So I was so relieved in that I had finally got the Holy Grail of Christmas presents pretty much just in the nick of time. I couldn’t wait to spread the jubilance to my son,” the father wrote on the eBay website.

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Andrew Hill, jazz pianist and composer, dies at 75

April 21, 2007 · Filed Under Features, Music News · Comment 

Pianist and composer Andrew Hill, one of the most vital and groundbreaking artists in jazz’s post-bop movement during a career that spanned a half-century, died early Friday after a three-year struggle with lung cancer, his record label announced. He was 69.

Hill died at his Jersey City, New Jersey, home just 14 months after releasing his final album, “Time Lines,” a farewell that earned him album of the year honors from Down Beat magazine and jazz artist of the year from Playboy. He was still performing just three weeks ago, when Hill appeared with his trio at Manhattan’s Trinity Church.

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Baldwin demands TMZ reveal sources

April 21, 2007 · Filed Under Entertainment, Features · Comment 

Alec Baldwin has posted an apology and statement to his fans on his website, and his attorney has filed court papers demanding website TMZ reveal their source of the audio evidence in the ongoing custody battle over Ireland Baldwin.

Baldwin filed an order in Los Angeles County Court on Friday. He wants to know who leaked the voicemail message he left his eleven year old daughter to celebrity watchdogs TMZ.

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