Cirque du Freak: The Vampire's Assistant'
Kansas City Star
Salma Hayek, inhumanly voluptuous and whiskered like a desert prophet, plays the Cirque's bearded lady; Ken Watanabe is somehow 9 feet tall as the colossal owner, and gaunt Willem Dafoe sports a gigolo's mustache as an elder vampire. Weitz ...
Ford driver is going after cities' keys
Detroit Free Press
Among those in the car trunk so far are a 5-foot-tall key from Hampton, Va., and a chocolate one from Palantine, Ill., he said Thursday. To earn a key to the city, the 33-year-old New York comedian offers to do community service. His volunt...
North Dakota
Chicago Tribune
Victims' advocates protested Wednesday outside the South Side home of a Christian Brother accused by a former student of molesting him during a field trip in 1977. In a lawsuit filed Tuesday in North Dakota, David Gaffaney, 47, of Minnesota...
Gadley’s effort stands tall for Griffs
Buffalo News
The first thing you notice is his size. Any way you slice it, Chris Gadley is big. Listed at 6-foot-9, 320 pounds, the junior center is, well, a classic big, wide body in the low post. But Gadley does more than just take up space and push p...
Closing the door on Russell 317
Politico.com
The placard out front that once bore his name is gone; the only sign that he was there is the seal of the commonwealth of Massachusetts that still hangs on the tall wooden door. Room 317 in the Russell Senate Office Building — the office Te...
Neighbors search for answers in Fla. girl’s death
MSNBC
In front of a small church and in front of well-kept homes framed by tall trees with Spanish moss hanging from the branches, handmade signs implored anyone with information about the 7-year-old's disappearance on her walk home from school t...
Fair time
Baton Rouge Advocate
Admission to the fair is: general admission, $5; children under 48 inches tall admitted free (but everyone must have a wristband or ride coupons to ride); ride-all-the-rides wristband, $15 per person, any age. Admission also includes The Fa...
Pats set for U.K. voyage
FOXSports.com
"The grass was tall and wet," Ninkovich said, "kind of different." There has been some question about the field at Wembley, which ended up being a mess during that Dolphins-Giants game two years ago during a pouring rain. "The field was rea...
Handyman takes on Dunedin's code regulations in civil rights lawsuit
St. Petersburg Times
Tall enough for all his tools. Tall enough that he can walk in, grab a nailer and get back to work. Too tall, in fact. The city said it has to go. In a residential neighborhood like Conley's, says Sec. 134-239 of the Dunedin code of ordinan...
Abortion divides House Dems in health care debate
MSN Money
Stupak, who's on the tall side, made a joking reference to Waxman's diminutive stature when asked whether their conversation had yielded a meeting of minds. "I'm a little taller. Our minds don't meet," Stupak said. The main point of content...
Werth powers Phillies back to World Series
Rotoworld.com
Hiller stands tall in Ducks SO win ... Souray was smashed into the boards two weeks ago by the Flames Jarome Iginla and has not done anything physical since. But ...
Test flight of new NASA rocket will carry upper stage mockup built at ...
Cleveland Plain Dealer
The vehicle is nearly as tall as the Saturn V moon rocket, the largest NASA has ever launched, but its width is much narrower. Ares I-X's first stage is a single, reusable solid rocket booster. View full size NASA The 327-foot-tall Ares I-X...
