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She married into Hollywood royalty but as an A-lister in her own right Catherine Zeta Jones doesn't fit the mould as the dutiful Hollywood wife. For a start she's a rugby fan and don't expect to find her in the kitchen - she needed cooking lesson to take on her latest role in No Reservations. Click here to watch the Catherine Zeta Jones interview Sir Ian McKellen He's one of the world's greatest living actors, and we almost see him as one of our own after his role as Gandalf in The Lord of the Rings trilogy. Sir Ian McKellen is on a flying visit to New Zealand with the Royal Shakespeare Company in its productions of Shakespeare's King Lear and Chekhov's The Seagull. He told Corinne Ambler playing Lear has been emotionally exhausting but has helped him learn valuable lessons. Click here to watch the Sir Ian McKellen interview Knocked Up Sal Morgan meets two of the stars of the romantic comedy Knocked Up, Katherine Heigl and Seth Rogan.
After Dark: How to make the most of your holiday weekend
Labor Day Weekend has arrived, quicker than ever it seems, and the transition to fall is on everywhere you look, in the stores with their colored leaves and Halloween displays, on the streets where school buses are everywhere you look, and at the pools which are either closing or severely shortening their hours." target="newplace"> .
Group connects kids, parents with services
PASSAIC -- More than a decade ago, Elise Bourne-Busby decided to do her doctoral dissertation on the needs of her own community. She found there were many programs and services available to families in Passaic, but they didn't know how to access them. She started working with a group of other concerned individuals to create the "Communities in the Schools of Passaic" program as a way to connect families to those services. .
How dairy herds yield the milk of human blindness
Most mornings, on the way to work, I stop and chat to a herd of dairy calves. Not that long separated from their mothers, they are skittish and curious, rushing to the fence to exhale sweet, grassy breath over me. In the past week or so, I’ve taken to telling them how lucky they are. "The world belongs to you girls," I say. "You may not know it, but you’ve suddenly become one of the most precious commodities on the planet. Not long ago you might have been looking at dog food; now you’re facing a long productive life and lots of children." Here I lean close, and they sway and blink. "And you know what, girls? We humans were too greedy and far, far too shortsighted to see it coming." Should anyone ever want a perfect example of what short-termism has done to the world, they just need to go and look at a dairy cow.
Festival highlights local food, wine
Sample food featuring local ingredients from 20 Boulder restaurants and wine from 25 Colorado wineries at the Boulder Food & Wine Festival, noon to 5 p.m. Sunday in Central Park (Broadway and Canyon). Participating restaurants include Laudisio, Mateo, Leaf, Flagstaff House, The Kitchen and Q's Restaurant. Tickets are $35 in advance and $40 at the door, and include unlimited wine and mead tastings and five food coupons. At 1, 2 and 3 p.m., teachers from the Culinary School of the Rockies will demonstrate cooking techniques; on the half-hour, wine experts will talk about pairing wine and food. In the waiter's race at 2 p.m., service pros will run while carrying trays of glasses full of red wine. The Swingin' Seven Dance Orchestra, an eight- piece big band, and Ginga, a Brazilian band led by Boulder guitarist Bill Kopper, will perform.
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