HotTopic: iPad,

Apple is accepting pre-orders for the iPad, its new touch-screen gadget for reading books, watching video and surfing the Web. ● More from: FeedFeedFeed

Jimi Hendrix statue will stay on Capitol Hill

When Janie Hendrix and The Friends of Jimi Hendrix Park began developing plans for the project at 2400 S. Massachusetts St., there was a lot of debate about whether or not the iconic statue on the corner Broadway Ave. should be relocated.

The debate is over. Jimi isn’t leaving Broadway. ● More from: CHS Capitol Hill Seattle Blog

Finger put in Wendy’s chili was cooked first

Say what you will about the half-baked scam perpetrated by Anna Ayala at a Wendy’s restaurant five years ago, the finger she supposedly discovered in her chili was medium-well done.

“I cooked it,” Ayala said, making a clean breast of her crime for the first time in a televised interview Wednesday. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper

Web will be ‘critical’ revenue source for Times: publisher

Charging online readers will give The New York Times a critical second revenue stream but the print newspaper will be important for “many years to come,” publisher Arthur Sulzberger said Thursday. ● More from: breitbart.com

How lesbians “ruined” prom

A school district preserves its bigotry by canceling the dance rather than letting a same-sex couple attend ● More from: Broadsheet – Salon.com

Reuters to Journalists: Don’t Break News on Twitter

Reuters released their social media policy, which includes instructing journalists to avoid exposing bias online and tells them specifically not to “scoop the wire” by breaking stories on Twitter. ● More from: mashable.com

Speculation mounts over Tiger Woods comeback

Speculation is growing that Tiger Woods will make his return to competitive golf within the next month. ● More from: BBC Sport

It’s ‘Roe & Roeper’: WLS adds new afternoon star

Richard Roeper, star columnist for the Chicago Sun-Times, author and nationally known movie critic, is about to add another title to his credits: Chicago radio talk host. He’s joining news/talk WLS-AM (890) as Roe Conn’s afternoon show partner. ● More from: Feder | blogs.vocalo.org

U.S. Navy rescues Tanzanian ship, nabs 8 pirates

A U.S. Navy warship prevented an attack on a Tanzanian ship and apprehended eight suspected pirates in the process, the U.S. Embassy in Tanzania said on Tuesday. ● More from: Reuters

Alcohol sold to children through Facebook

Richard Wright, 28, had been trading under the name Booze Monkeys on the social networking site.

His Facebook page was set up in 2008 and officers believe he has sold alcohol to a number of under-age drinkers through the website. ● More from: Telegraph

The old Red Robin and the young millennials

The original Red Robin will fly away, leaving memories for millennial generation members who grew up with the chain as an established part of life in and around Seattle. ● More from: crosscut.com

Clint Eastwood eyes J. Edgar Hoover project

Clint Eastwood is lining up his next directing project, a biopic of FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, the nation’s No. 1 crimefighter for almost 50 years. ● More from: Yahoo! News

Making a whale into a killer

In the wake of the SeaWorld attack, an expert explains how captivity drives orcas crazy — and can turn them deadly ● More from: Salon.com

Santa Monica sushi restaurant charged with illegally selling whale meat

The eatery admits the wrongdoing, its attorney says. Federal agents and animal activists cooperated in a video sting orchestrated by a producer of the Oscar-winning documentary ‘The Cove.’ ● More from: latimes.com

Pink Floyd wins battle with EMI over online sales

In a victory for the concept album, Britain’s High Court on Thursday ordered record company EMI Group Ltd. to stop selling downloads of Pink Floyd tracks individually rather than as part of the band’s original records. ● More from: Yahoo! News

Betty White to host ‘SNL’ in May

“Golden Girls” actress Betty White will host NBC’s “Saturday Night Live” for the first time in her seven-decade career during May sweeps. ● More from: THR

ABBA’s Andersson Ready For Hall Of Fame

Rock ‘n’ roll may not be the term most commonly associated with ABBA’s music, but the group’s Benny Andersson thinks it’s appropriate for the Swedish group, which broke up in 1983, to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame next week. ● More from: Billboard.com

8 Amazing Dental facts your Dentist didn’t tell you

Dental health is quite intriguing. There are plenty of myths around that we blindly believe and follow. Dental health is a whole science in itself and there is a lot more to it than appears so. Here are some interesting facts that an average person does not know about dental health. ● More from: Sane Dentist Blog

Farrah Fawcett missing from ‘In Memoriam’ at Oscars

Though Farrah Fawcett’s main claim to fame was television, the decision to leave her out of the “In Memoriam” segment of the Oscars has caused quite a stir. Fawcett appeared in 14 feature films in her lifetime. Although she was first featured as eye candy in box-office bombs like “Myra Breckinridge” (1970), she went on to earn a Golden Globe nom for her starring role in “Extremities” (1986) and reap an Indie Spirit bid for her performance opposite Oscar nominee Robert Duvall in “The Apostle” (1997). One of her final film roles was as the estranged wife of Richard Gere in Robert Altman’s “Dr. T and the Women” (2000). ● More from: Gold Derby | Los Angeles Times

Corey Haim dead at 38

Corey Haim, a 1980s teen heartthrob for his roles in “Lucas” and “The Lost Boys” whose career was blighted by drug abuse, has died. He was 38. ● More from: HitFix.com

‘Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps’ Release Bumped From April 23rd To September 24th

Fox has bumped the upcoming Oliver Stone film “Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps” from April 23rd all the way to September 24th. ● More from: :: The Playlist :::

Lindsey Graham denounces Liz Cheney advertisement

South Carolina Republican Sen. Lindsey Graham denounced a recent ad questioning the loyalty of Obama administration lawyers who had previously represented suspected terrorists. ● More from: POLITICO.com

CBS’s ‘Late Show’ pulls ahead in late night

After one week, Jay Leno has fallen behind David Letterman in the demo NBC most cares about.

On Monday night, a week after Leno returned to “The Tonight Show,” CBS’s Letterman notched his first nightly victory over his old rival among adults 18-49, though he remained behind in total viewers. ● More from: Media Life Magazine

HotTopic: Bing, Microsoft

Microsoft Bing traffic increased and Yahoo search traffic decreased in February ● More from: FeedFeedFeed

MPAA Cites 3D For Fueling Box Office Spike

Worldwide Box Office Continues To Soar; U.S. Admissions On The Rise 3D gives a boost to box office growth Los Angeles – The Motion Picture Association of America, Inc. (MPAA) today released its annual Theatrical Market Statistics Report for 2009. The report shows that global box office receipts reached an all time high of $29.9 billion, an increase of 7.6% over 2008 and almost 30% from 2005. The U.S./Canada market reached $10.6 billion, an increase of more than 10%, and International receipts increased 6.3% to $19.3 billion in 2009. ● More from: Deadline.com

Pink Floyd, EMI Brawl Over iTunes Royalties

Pink Floyd and its label, EMI, are battling over online royalties stemming from a contested clause in their decade-old contract.

The developer of The Dark Side of the Moon and other top-selling albums claims its contract with EMI requires its music to be sold as an entire album, not the single tracks that EMI has permitted iTunes to distribute. ● More from: Wired.com

What’s an Oscar Worth? It Depends on Your Contract

Win yourself a Nobel Prize, and you know you just scored roughly 1.4 million U.S. dollars. Get a Pulitzer Prize, and you can count on $10,000. But win an Oscar? Your cash prize is more of a crapshoot. When signing on for films that are possible Oscar contenders, actors often have award-triggered bonuses built into their contracts that vary depending on the size of the film. A modest indie production like Crazy Heart — for which Jeff Bridges just won Best Actor — likely came with a $125,000 bump for the nomination and another $125,000 for a win, while a larger studio production, like Avatar, would see those nomination and win figures double or triple. ● More from: Vulture

Moviegoer is stabbed after complaining about cellphone user

A meat thermometer was plunged into the victim’s neck during a screening of ‘Shutter Island.’ An L.A. County sheriff’s spokesman called it a ‘vicious and cowardly attack.’ ● More from: latimes.com

Andy Richter Has Ill Will Toward NBC and Jay Leno

Andy Richter had plenty to say today about NBC’s late-night talk show debacle on ‘Live With Regis and Kelly’ (weekdays, syndicated). The former ‘Tonight Show’ announcer pulled no punches and blamed NBC execs for not honoring their commitment to Conan O’Brien and ‘The Jay Leno Show’ for failing to command ratings and provide a strong lead-in. ● More from: Inside TV

Tatum O’Neal ‘deeply saddened’ by Farrah Fawcett snub at the Oscars

Though the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences previously explained that the exclusion of Farrah Fawcett in the Oscars’ In Memoriam montage was intentional, Tatum O’Neal seems to think the decision was an outright snub. ● More from: nydailynews.com

Panasonic, Best Buy double down on 3D TV

Panasonic has announced its first 3D TV bundle available exclusively at Best Buy stores, featuring a plasma TV and 3D-compatible Blu-ray player. The bundle will cost $2,900 for a 50-inch TC-P50VT20 TV (a $2,500 value by itself) and 3D-compatible DMP-BDT300 Blu-ray player ($400), and also include one pair of 3D glasses (model TY-EW3D10U, $149). The Panasonic bundle and TVs will be “sold exclusively at select Best Buy stores via Magnolia Home Theater,” according to Panasonic. The 50-inch model will be followed by 54-, 58-, and 65-inch versions later this year, though pricing has yet to be determined. ● More from: Crave – CNET

MySpace readies site overhaul to rekindle growth

With shrinking audiences, deep layoffs and two management shake-ups, MySpace, the one-time leader in Internet social networking, has had a rocky year. ● More from: Reuters

Critics lose 2 powerful voices as Variety cuts film’s Todd McCarthy and theater’s David Roone

In showbiz, timing is everything. It could hardly be a coincidence that the morning after Oscar season mercifully came to a close, Variety laid off its two best-known critics, longtime chief film critic Todd McCarthy and chief theater critic David Rooney. According to Variety President Neil Stiles, the firings were an “economic reality.” ● More from: Los Angeles Times

Kathy Ireland: ‘I wasn’t drunk at the Oscars’

Model-turned-actress Kathy Ireland has hit back at reports she was drunk at Sunday’s Oscars, insisting she was just overjoyed and “grateful” to be invited. ● More from: blog.seattlepi.com

New Matt Damon movie “Green Zone” slanders America

After all of Hollywood’s Iraq movies have flopped (even the Oscar-garlanded “The Hurt Locker” earned only $15 million at the box office), one studio thinks it has the following secret to success: The previous films didn’t insult the United States enough. ● More from: Kyle Smith – NYPOST.com

HotTopic: Letterman

Television producer pleads guilty to trying to blackmail David Letterman ● More from: FeedFeedFeed

HotTopic: Sea lions

California sea lion euthanized for eating too much salmon ● More from: FeedFeedFeed

HotTopic: Betty White, SNL

Betty White to Appear on Saturday Night Live ● More from: FeedFeedFeed

Glenn Beck boycotting ‘Hurt Locker”

Declaring it an “anti-troop movie” by Hollywood elites, Glenn Beck said on his radio show Monday he won’t be seeing The Hurt Locker, the Oscar-winning movie that realistically portrays (and lionizes) US Army bomb squad technicians of the Iraq War. ● More from: BlatherWatch

Jesse James: Sandra Bullock Deserved the Oscar “More Than Anybody”

Motorcycle man Jesse James is thrilled for his wife Sandra Bullock, who won a Best Actress Oscar for The Blind Side Sunday night. ● More from: UsMagazine.com

Newly released Jimi Hendrix album, ‘Valleys of Neptune,’ sparkles

Jimi Hendrix is dead. The album is dead. And so the arrival of a new Jimi Hendrix album is an extraordinary occasion. “Valleys of Neptune” comes out this week on Sony Legacy Recordings, part of a flurry of Hendrix-related goods hitting shelves this year as Sony and Experience Hendrix LLC, the local company run by Hendrix’s stepsister that manages his estate, commemorate the 40th anniversary of the Seattle-born guitarist’s death. ● More from: Seattle Times Newspaper

‘Crazy Heart’ has surprising staying power

Purveyors of art-house films like to talk about the “Oscar bounce,” the phenomenon by which niche movies see a surge in ticket-buying after being nominated for Academy Awards.

This year, few films are bouncing, as “Avatar” dominated the winter months and adult audiences continue to stay away from upscale dramas. Oscar nominees “An Education” and “A Single Man,” for example, have earned only about $2 million apiece since the nominations were announced. ● More from: Los Angeles Times

The 10 funniest tweets during the Oscars

Rainn Wilson, Mindy Kaling and Roger Ebert crack wise in 140 characters or less during awards show ● More from: Salon.com

White House tweeting spreads president’s message

#wanttospinWHreporters?

If you’re PressSec — White House press secretary Robert Gibbs’ username on Twitter — you join the powerful social media platform and push your message across the Internet, 140 characters at a time. ● More from: Yahoo! News

Do You Miss Him Yet?

I know you’re not supposed to, but I just love to say I told you so.

What I told you back on Sept. 28, 2008, was that within a year of the day he left office George W. Bush would come to be regarded with affection and a little nostalgia. The responses (over 300 before the comments were closed) to that prediction were overwhelmingly negative; even the very few who agreed with me attributed what they took to be a sad fact to the stupidity of the American people. The other 290 or so said things like “No way”; “Are you kidding?”; ”Are you mad?”;“What a ridiculous and insulting premise!”; “I’ll miss him like a rash”; “This must be a satire”; “Bush is a sociopath”; “George Bush has destroyed this country”; “History won’t forgive him”; and (a popular favorite) “I hate the man.” ● More from: Opinionator Blog – NYTimes.com

Lindsay Lohan sues E-Trade for $100M over “milk-a-holic” Super Bowl commercial

The world revolves around Lindsay.

Lindsay Lohan is suing the financial company E-Trade, insisting that a boyfriend-stealing, “milkaholic” baby in its latest commercial — who happens to be named Lindsay — was modeled after her. And she wants $100 million for her pain and suffering, The Post has learned. ● More from: NYPOST.com

Palin says her family went to Canada for health care when she was young

Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin, a fierce opponent of Democratic health-care reform efforts who has said America under President Obama is headed toward socialism, told a Canadian audience her family used to go to Canada to get medical care when she was growing up. ● More from: voices.washingtonpost.com

If you like your cop dramas gritty, dirty and intense then Brooklyn’s Finest is for you. Sure . . lotsa cop cliches, and an urban style that’s very familiar but outstanding performances from Richard Gere, Don Cheadle and particularly Ethan Hawke lift this material into something special for fans of the actors and genre. And I really like the three separate story lines that we follow as they slowly converge. Someone called it New Jack City meets The Wire. That pretty much nails it. Rounding out the cast is Ellen Barkin, Lilli Taylor, Will Patton and speaking of The Wire, Michael K Williams. [ RT ]