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03/17/2008 03:34 PM

Celebrity baseball fever, catch it with Billy Crystal

So the commissioner’s office granting Billy Crystal permission to suit up as a New York Yankee for a spring game Thursday against the Pittsburgh Pirates—a charming experiment or a harmful pattern?I mean, for a major-league team to actually sign a comedian and actor to a one-day contract this way?”My only concern for Billy is that [...]

03/13/2008 01:35 PM

Stars, diamonds, ostrich- feather fans … this celebrity …

Sport Relief Does The Apprentice (BBC1) is the strident child of charity and celebrity. The sport is in putting five celebrities in a sack and waiting for them to start killing each other. You won’t wait long. Sir Alan Sugar ran through their claims to fame in case, as he said drily, “Some of the viewers [...]

03/13/2008 01:35 PM

Handbags clobbered by celebrity fatigue

It’s all over for the “it” bag - or so says consumer research specialist Mintel. Fashion shoppers - mostly female - are finally losing their passion for celebrity-endorsed handbags that can cost thousands of pounds each. The market for big-ticket, big-name bags, as sported by the likes of Kate Moss and Victoria Beckham, has been expanding [...]

03/13/2008 09:34 AM

How SXSW parties kick it VIP-style

When Kirsten Dunst was spotted last year during South by Southwest, the A-list star most certainly was not languishing in a long line or grooving with the festival masses. Rather she was, as one American-Statesman staffer blogged, ” … at the Spin Party, watching Kings of Leon and puffing cigarette after cigarette.” That’s right, like [...]

03/13/2008 09:34 AM

Claudia Thomas, MD: A Pioneer on Two Fronts

The American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons (AAOS) is honored to recognize a surgeon who heals, inspires and encourages others. Claudia Thomas, MD, the first black female orthopaedic surgeon in her field, was presented today with the Academy’s 2008 Diversity Award at the 75th Annual Meeting. Dr. Thomas has worked throughout her residency and practice to recruit and retain individuals who [...]

Impetigo Biography

Bloomington, IL's Impetigo is a generally unheralded pioneer of the early death/gore/grind metal movement, distinguished by their extreme sounds, intense musicianship, and disgusting subject matter. Formed in 1987 by Stevo Dobbins (bass, vocals) and Mark Sawickis (guitar), with Dan Malin (drums) joining a short time later, the group recorded a pair of demos (1987's live All We Need Is Cheez and 1989's Giallo) on their way to 1990's Ultimo Mondo Cannibale album. As legend has it, the latter originally featured artwork so graphic -- including depictions of cannibalism, castration, dismemberment, and full frontal nudity -- that its release was pushed back a few months until changes could be made. At last, Impetigo relented, approved a less offensive package, and the influential album slowly began festering into the marketplace, through the independent Wild Rags label, amazingly climbing to number 96 on college music trade CMJ's radio charts. Impetigo delivered another three EPs (Buio Omega, Faceless, and the split Antefatto) in 1991, before entering Pogo Studios, in Champaign, IL, to start working on their second album, eventually titled Horror of the Zombies. Once again, the record overflowed with musical and lyrical carnage, shocking and thrilling listeners in equal numbers with its horror-movie-fueled, deathly grind (along the same lines as Autopsy, Repulsion, and early Carcass) when it arrived in stores in June 1992. But, by the end of the following year, Impetigo had decided to call it quits, claiming increased disenchantment with the fractured state of a once close-knit underground scene. They played their final concert at the seventh annual Milwaukee Metalfest, and, since then, their musicians have kept busy with other musical projects, while occasional re-releases and compilations like 2000's Giallo/Antefatto set continue to foster Impetigo's cult legend among peers and fans of extreme heavy metal. ~ Eduardo Rivadavia, All Music Guide

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