Drinking in Boston: The "St." Stands for StoutThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 1:19PMRemember what you drank last St. Patty’s Day? No? That’s distressing but not surprising. Odds are, though, that if you weren’t guzzling something “lite” dyed green, you were having yourself a stout. What kind of stout, do you suppose? For Guinness is not the only one out there; in fact, it’s not even the only Irish example. But first, what makes a stout? They are easily recognizable from their ...
Eerie quiet greets Hawks fans in PerthThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 12:23PMAlmost 200 Wollongong fans won't mind being heavily outnumbered when they gatecrash Perth's Challenge Stadium to cheer on the Hawks in tonight's NBL grand final showdown.
Trade Deficit Falls, But...Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 12:10PMThe nation's trade deficit fell in January to $37.3 billion from a downwardly revised $39.9 billion, but for the "wrong reason."
Final WordThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:46AMFinal Word
Review | She's Out of My League (PG-13) **½Thursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:45AMKirk (Jay Baruchel) is a five at best -- a skinny, geeky airport security officer with no career prospects and little ambition and still obsessing over ex-girlfriend Marnie (Lindsay Sloane), even though they broke up two years ago.
Act Fast! Airline Fare Sale Ends TonightThursday, March 11, 2010 @ 11:26AMPlanning to fly this year? You have until midnight tonight to take advantage of big discounts offered by struggling airlines for travel between March 19 and Nov. 16
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Safe and Affordable Jetpack: Just $90,000Tuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:17PMFor years, man has been trying to build a jetpack which would be safe and cheap enough to use by anyone other than Lee Majors on the title sequence of The Fall Guy. It turns out we’ve been doing it wrong. Instead of starting with a pack and adding on the jet, we should have torn the giant engines from a plane and strapped them to some poor schmuck.
Heavy metal in BaghdadTuesday, March 9, 2010 @ 8:11PMSeveral events converged recently that conspired to take me back to the summer of 2006, the summer I snuck into Iraq. The first event was the Iraqi elections. The second was the Oscars. The third was a concert at a little bar tucked into a hip corner of the hippest neighborhood in the world -- Williamsburg, Brooklyn. These events all brought me a little closer to that time, a little closer to ...