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Group decries saturated fat in movie popcorn

ALBANY, N.Y.—Forget the apocalyptic earthquakes and alien abductions on the screen, the real movie horror is the fat-saturated popcorn sold by some theater chains, a nutrition advocacy group claims. Just one popcorn-and-soda combo can match the calorie- ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Boston Globe,  19 Nov 2009

Related Topics: AMC Entertainment,  McDonald's,  Regal Entertainment Group,  Cinemark Theatres

Chef Rocco cooks with a little help from his fans

popular dishes," even if it plays against the stereotype of the chef as a culinary autocrat. Twitter and Facebook are helping Rocco DiSpirito write his new cookbook. The media savvy chef is turning to the social networks to help decide which dishes ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Inside Bay Area,  17 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Facebook Inc.,  Twitter Inc,  Rocco DiSpirito,  Culinary Institute of America,  Union Pacific

Author searches for the story of Google

Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three billion searches are conducted daily on the site. Company revenues last year exceeded $22billion. It spent $1.76billion for YouTube and $3.2billion for the digital ad company DoubleClick. men who ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Monterey County Herald,  8 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Larry Page,  Sergey Brin,  Stanford University

Author Ken Auletta searches for the Google story

"Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (The Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three billion searches are conducted daily on the site. Company revenues last year exceeded $22 ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Boston Globe,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Google Inc.,  Ken Auletta,  Larry Page,  Sergey Brin,  Stanford University

Search and destroy? Ken Auletta’s book tells the story of Google and its many media rivals

Author Ken Auletta searches for the Google story "Googled: The End of the World as We Know It" (The Penguin Press, 336 pages, $25.95), by Ken Auletta. Google is best understood in terms of billions. Three billion searches are conducted daily on the ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Simple Thoughts,  2 Nov 2009

Related Topics: Ken Auletta,  Larry Page,  Google Inc.,  AdSense,  Sergey Brin

New fad turns fast-food burgers, pizza, tacos into fancy 'gourmet cuisine'

A tongue-in-cheek Website "chef" buys fast-food dinners, deconstructs them in his kitchen and turns them into mutant meals resembling haute cuisine. Michael Hill orders. At FancyFastFood.com, dashboard dining gets a serious - and seriously upscale - ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Shanghai Daily,  28 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Dunkin' Donuts, LLC,  Taco Bell,  McDonald's,  Facebook Inc.,  Flickr

Bats reintroduced into Vermont caves hit by fungus

Wildlife biologists studying a mysterious fungus killing off hundreds of thousands of bats around America want to find out if they can repopulate caves decimated by the disease. Researchers will introduce 79 healthy little brown bats to two ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Taiwan News,  27 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Department of Environmental Conservation

Biography tracks the rise and fame of David Bowie

"Bowie: A Biography" (Crown, 448 pages, $26.99) by Marc Spitz: David Bowie knows what he's singing about when he performs "Changes." After making a big splash in the early 1970s as Ziggy Stardust, he went on to become the Thin White Duke, an artsy ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Boston Globe,  26 Oct 2009

Related Topics: David Bowie,  John Belushi

Klosterman analyzes Cobain, Unabomber, ABBA

"Eating the Dinosaur" (Scribner, 256 pages, $25), by Chuck Klosterman: Chuck Klosterman has a theory. A lot of them, actually. He has a theory about why grunge rock icon Kurt Cobain was like the late cult leader David Koresh, why the read-option ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Boston Globe,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Chuck Klosterman,  David Koresh,  Kurt Cobain,  Garth Brooks,  H. G. Wells

10/23/2009 -- Tips to have a flu-free party this holiday season

This photo taken Oct. 18, 2009 shows that if this seasons H1N1 flu concerns have you considering canceling plans to gather all your friends together to share stories and possibly germs there are some simple ideas that can help make entertaining safer ...

From MICHAEL HILL, Mother Earth News,  23 Oct 2009

Related Topics: Columbia University

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