- The soror-stitutes at the University of
Virginia have a choice to make. Are they going to live up to their name and
stay true to the reason they came to college in the first place, or are they
going to get an early start on their post-college life of bowing to the conservative
whims of The Man? Of course, the university recently lifted a suspension of
Greek social activities after fraternities and sororities agreed to stricter
regulations in the wake of a November Rolling Stone article that detailed an apparent
gang rape at a U.Va. fraternity. Even though much of that article has since
been thoroughly discredited, the resulting stink that engulfed the university’s
Greek system has sadly remained. So with the ban officially lifted and the
spring semester underway, the fine, upstanding and service-minded ladies of the
many sororities that surround the Charlottesville campus have been ordered to stay
away from fraternity recruitment events scheduled Saturday. That’s an obvious
problem because the way many fraternities pull the best recruits is by
partnering with sister sororities and having their, um, talent on hand at their
parties. Sure, Kip and the rest of the Lambda Sigs can simply convince
attractive chicks from other parts of campus life to take the place of their
normal sorority party partners, but that’s a lot of work in between hauling
kegs and setting up beer pong tables. The National Panhellenic Conference
oversees the sororities and conference spokeswoman Michelle Bower explained
that the mandate came from the sororities' national presidents. Inter-Fraternity
Council President Ben Gorman confirmed the sad news that sororities were told
to avoid any social gathering with fraternity members on Boys' Bid Night.
Dammit all, where has the free-spirited binge drinking evening of fun gone on
college campuses……….
- HBO has more than a few hit dramas in recent years and
therefore some credibility in producing original television fodder, but it’s
taking a bit of a leap here. The premium cable network has ordered a pilot episode of “Virtuoso,” a musical drama from Elton
John and “True Blood” creator
Alan Ball. With John involved, you know the project will be toned-down and
über-tasteful, in no way involving comically oversized sunglasses or brightly
colored feather boas. It will be Ball who writes and directs the 60-minute
drama, which follows a class of musical prodigies at an Academy of Musical
Excellence in 18th century Vienna. Meanwhile. Actually, the entire project is
well on its way and has a cast and everything. Its star will be Peter Macdissi,
who played recurring character Olivier Castro-Staal on Ball's earlier HBO drama
“Six Feet Under.” Macdissi will
also serve as yet another executive producer and will also play Salieri, a
composer and conductor is who is hired by Austria's dying Emperor to found the
Academy in his honor. A period piece about classical music seems risky, but
then again, the odds of this one being all about the music are about as high as
the same being true of any single episode of “Glee.” The cast will also include
Alex Lawther, recently seen playing the young Alan Turing in “The Imitation Game,” and former “Skins” star Nico Mirallegro. Despite
the show being set in Austria, filming is scheduled to begin this spring in
Budapest, which as European geography aficionados know, is technically not
located anywhere within the beautiful borders of Austria……….
- Italy man be a nation on the brink of perpetual financial
crisis, but its fiscal inefficacy doesn’t mean it can’t step up and take
control in other areas of its existence. For example Italian authorities
have executed about 170 arrest warrants in a major crackdown on the 'ndrangheta,
dealing a significant blow to the grammatically stunted organized crime
syndicate in southern Italy which officials say has become deeply rooted in the
business world in the north. Italy's chief anti-mafia prosecutor, Franco
Roberti, moved quickly to get out in front of this one and trumpeted it as an
"historic" step in the fight against the mob during a news conference
Wednesday in Bologna. Holding major events in cities named after popular lunch
meats is a bold move, even if you have to explain to the world that only some
of those named in the warrants were arrested, while others are already
incarcerated on other charges or in the process of being detained. Maybe you
want to wait until you have all of them in custody before puffing out the chest
holding up your finely tailored Italian shirt and suit coat, Franco. One of his
prosecutorial peers, Roberto Alfonso, said the operation showed a new side of
the 'ndrangheta, which has already shown itself to have infiltrated northern
Italy's economic and political fiber. Combined with Pope Francis’ stated
mission of scrubbing the mafia’s ties to the Catholic Church and its influence
in the church’s business, it’s safe to say that it’s a hard knocks life for
Italy’s most notorious crime figures……….
- Los Angeles
Clippers forward Matt Barnes is a combustible dude. He’s beefed with teammates,
opponents, referees and even fans at various points and while he’s not quite
the badass gangsta that his near-full-body tattoos would suggest, his rage
issues remain late into his career. Just ask whoever was the intended target of
his violent verbal outburst with 4:28 remaining in the second quarter of the
Clippers' 120-100 win over the Phoenix Suns on Sunday at US Airways Center. The
Clippers were b*tch-slapping the homestanding Suns when Barnes went off on
someone seated courtside. It appeared that he was dropping four-letter bombs on
a fan and when the league dinged him $25,000 for his tirade, it would have been
easy to chalk the incident up to another case of one of the Association’s most
outspoken players losing his cool. But Barnes insists that he wasn’t cursing
out a fan at all, but rather riffing on the junk that Suns owner Robert Sarver
had been talking to him. “Another 25k! The part of the story the
nba hasn't told you was my language wasnt directed at a fan, I was talkn to the
owner of the Suns....,” Barnes tweeted. “Who was sitting on the baseline &
I only said something to him AFTER he cussed at me, BUT because I didn't SNITCH
I get fined!! #thecode.” Barnes added that he has now been “fined 50k in the
last mnth for kicking a "PAPER"Gatorade cup that had alil bit of
water in it that didn't even hit anyone &....Responding to an OWNER who
cussed at me first.. 50,000 dollars for that?? Come on now!” The league
disagreed, saying that the interaction in question did not involve Sarver and
therefore, its $25,000 fine stood………..
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