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Nice, Craig! So far no snow here in Toronto, but plenty just north of the city, or so I've heard!

Craig, I'm getting an SQL error trying to sign onto the Moderator forum.

The Hour on CBC is hosted by a young fellow by the name of George Strambopolous who interviews some very interesting people indeed. Tonight, this wasn't an interview but some clips - I don't know where he got them from - of Steven, um, being deep. They looked like they were candid videos taken...

So they're rerunning The West Wing on CLT (Canadian Learning Television) and the Secret Service gal they've got (who's now on CSI) guarding the prez's daughter, her character name is... ...Gina Toscano. Do you think Aaron Sorkin was having a little fun naming that character or was this...

My 'hood, that is. Three times in the last three weeks I've heard gun shots. Always just two shots - bang (pause) - bang. Thursday night I called 911 and reported it. Police came, said they checked around, talked to people out and about (at 1:30 in the morning?) who said they didn't hear...

I notice there's been more Seagal movies on tv (on different channels!) than there has been for a long time. Just in the past couple of weeks, Half Past Dead (on two different days/channels), Today You Die and Fire Down Below have been on. Something in the air?

Craig, this has been bugging me for a while - since last year's upgrade, in fact! Everytime I go to new posts and then choose a thread to look at, once I'm finished with the thread and return to new posts, the thread's gone from the list (instead of just showing it as "read", i.e., not...

...there's such a thing as overkill. Drunken teen stumbles into wrong home Nov. 30, 2006. 12:25 PM CURTIS RUSH STAFF REPORTER A Burlington teen who wandered into the wrong home after a Saturday night party will not be charged with break and enter, Halton Regional police said today...

U.S. to watch Cdn border with high-tech devices 21/09/2006 2:34:46 PM The U.S. Homeland Security Department announced Thursday that it will be installing high-tech devices along the border with Canada as part of a multibillion-dollar plan to reduce illegal entry into the United States. Under...

I just peeked in at the official site and it's gone, with only a placeholder showing the upcoming concert dates. Everything else - message forum, store, chat room - gone, all gone. What the - ? I e-mailed the guy at stipko media that ran the site and got a message that bounced back. Starbuzz...

Red Buttons, 87: Burlesque to Oscar Jul. 14, 2006. 07:46 AM BOB THOMAS ASSOCIATED PRESS LOS ANGELES — Red Buttons, the carrot-topped burlesque comedian who became a top star in early television and then in a dramatic role won the 1957 Oscar as supporting actor in Sayonara, died Thursday...

A writing correspondent of mine found four abandoned 3-day old kittens which she rescued. Alas, two of them died, but two survived. Have a peek at them here: http://myweb.cableone.net/rgifford/kittens/thumbnails.html (click on the first thumbnail, and then afterwards, click on "next...

Below is an obit for Billy Preston. Preston was the keyboardist in Steven's band in Ticker. ------------------------------------------- Singer-songwriter Billy Preston dead at 59 Updated Tue. Jun. 6 2006 2:07 PM ET Associated Press PHOENIX -- Billy Preston, the exuberant...

Widow of Christoper Reeve dies of cancer CTV.ca News Staff Dana Reeve, the widow of the late "Superman" actor Christopher Reeve, died yesterday of lung cancer at the age of 44. Reeve won worldwide admiration for the support of her late actor-husband, who was paralyzed in a horse-riding...

"Oliver!" "Pufnstuf" Idol Dies by Joal Ryan Mar 2, 2006, 12:35 PM PT For Jack Wild, the 1970s and 1980s were about lots of drinking and less work. Still, the former teen idol once said, he was grateful for the journey--"because I have learnt a hell of a lot." Wild, the Oscar-nominated...

'Gunsmoke' Actor Dennis Weaver Dies By BOB THOMAS LOS ANGELES (AP) - Dennis Weaver, the diffident deputy Chester Goode in the TV classic western ``Gunsmoke'' and the canny New Mexico deputy solving New York City crime in ``McCloud,'' has died. The actor was 81. Weaver died of...

Veteran TV actor Don Knotts dead at age 81 Updated Sat. Feb. 25 2006 5:53 PM ET Canadian Press LOS ANGELES — Don Knotts, the skinny, lovable nerd who kept generations of television audiences laughing as bumbling Deputy Barney Fife on The Andy Griffith Show, has died. He was 81...

Babylon 5, Fugitive star Katsulas dies Feb. 22, 2006. 05:25 PM LOS ANGELES (AP) — Veteran character actor Andreas Katsulas, immortalized as imposing red-eyed alien ambassador G'Kar on television's Babylon 5 and a one-armed murderer in the 1993 film The Fugitive, has died of lung cancer. He...

'Grandpa Munster' Al Lewis Dies at 95 By LARRY McSHANE NEW YORK (AP) - Al Lewis, the cigar-chomping patriarch of ``The Munsters'' whose work as a basketball scout, restaurateur and political candidate never eclipsed his role as Grandpa from the television sitcom, died after years of...