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Geoff Boucher, at latimes.com, writes: “It looks like Spider-Man will be swinging over to Broadway and bringing Bono with him.”
A musical? I must admit that I’ve never seen one of Julie Taymor’s productions, but did she read Spider-Man when she was a kid?
SustainLane.us, “the largest community-powered directory of green products and businesses and user reviews,” recently rated Oakland, California, the top city in the US that “provide(s) citizens with the highest percentage of power produced from renewable energy…”
“SustainLane Government determined the percentage of each city’s electricity that comes from renewables such as solar, wind, geothermal, and small-scale hydro energy.”
That’s great positive news for Oakland, my hometown.
My dad collected stamps. He even had some of the Republic of China’s first issue stamps with the portrait of Dr. Sun Yat-sen.
The scene from Stanley Donen’s Charade (1963), seems to epitomize philately as my father enjoyed it.
In the film, Mr. Felix, the stamp dealer, acquires a valuable stamp from a young boy in a marketplace. When Audrey Hepburn’s character, Reggie Lampert, goes with the boy to recover the valuable stamp, the dealer knew that he would have to return it, but says just having the stamp in his possession for a few minutes gave him much satisfaction.
Now, I’m down with Star Wars but USPS marketing seems to have gone postal.
They really know how to blow up hotels in Las Vegas.