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Linkage: Biggie? chimp retirement homes; MC Hammer is still releavant and more


Biggie, Biggie, Biggie, can't you see?

Gravy, a NYC rapper known pretty much solely for getting shot in the ass outside of Hot 97 (not long after Bobby Bacala shot the rapper in the ass on "The Sopranos"), has been cast as the Notorious B.I.G. in the upcoming biopic. Anthony Mackie will play Tupac.

Last week's "This American Life" had an amazing piece about retirement homes for chimps. Ira Glass talks to guest Charles Siebert, who's writing a book called "Humanzee." Cheetah, the chimp from "Tarzan," lives in a retirement home in Palm Springs. He's 75, a diabetic, spending his days eating Dorito's and drinking diet ice tea. He enjoys watching his old movies. "He's basically living like the aging Bob Hope," Glass jokes.

I'm having a hard time not wasting my day on MC Hammer's new dance video site, DanceJam. With instructional videos!

Geeks salivate as pictures from the forthcoming "Watchmen" movie are released.

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Life and death
Date: 11/19/2009
By: David Koon

Not many were shocked when Curtis Lavelle Vance was found guilty last week of capital murder, rape, residential burglary and theft of property in the October 2008 beating death of KATV anchor Anne Pressly. /more/

Xmas access nixed
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

Two weeks ago we reported on the efforts of the Arkansas Society of Freethinkers to put up a winter solstice display on the grounds of the state Capitol. /more/


Charter school wisdom
Date: 11/19/2009
By: Arkansas Times Staff

The state Board of Education last week demonstrated a more searching approach to charter school applications than it has sometimes shown. /more/