TWIN FALLS • Billy Smith’s job defines livelihood.“This provides a home and a family,” he said Wednesday at a ball-toss booth at the Twin Falls County Fair.The former Bostonian’s home is a tent or mobile bunkhouse. Family is a network of mile-hardened carnies he’s on the road with with year-round.“You have to be either that or live under a bridge,” he said.Smith began working shows at 14, in a dime pitch. He’s since spent decades traveling with amusement and concessions operations and has been through all 48 lower states “twice,” he Continue reading >>>

(Photo : official poster/fox) "The Mindy Project" season 3 spoilers hint of a new thorn on the side of the Dr. Mindy Lahiri with the casting of Niecy Nash as Dr. Jean Fishman. Meanwhile, a teaser promo for the premiere episode shows the protagonist's dominant side. The TVLine reported "The Mindy Project" season 3 spoilers as it described Dr. Jean Fishman's character as a lesbian and "a tough Bostonian physician who is the new chief of Shulman Associates' admitting hospital. A take-no-prisoners type who puts up with no nonsense whatsoever." Like Us on Facebook Meanwhile, in Continue reading >>>

According to TV Line, Reno 911’s Niecy Nash will be appearing on Fox’s The Mindy Project during its upcoming third season. She’ll be playing Dr. Jean Fishman, a “tough Bostonian physician” who will be a new rival for Kaling’s character. We assume that means she’ll have little patience for Mindy’s wacky bullshit, but unlike every other character on the show, she won’t end up finding the wacky bullshit charming. Also, in TV Line’s words, she “happens to be a lesbian.” That suggests—at the very least—this storyline will probably help The Mindy Project improve its scores Continue reading >>>

There is no way Bostonian ALS sufferer Peter Frates could have known that people across the world would take him up on his ALS Ice Bucket Challenge. But after the former Boston College baseball star called on his athlete friends to dump buckets of ice water over their heads to raise money and awareness for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, the neurodegenerative disease also known as Lou Gehrig’s disease, the campaign spread to the world of celebrities, politicians and the general public, helping raise a total of $22.9 million for the charity so far. The ALS Ice Bucket Challenge phenomenon is thriving Continue reading >>>

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“Why is life better here? Well it’s warmer, I don’t shovel snow, I buy beer for under $1, I’m 10 minutes from a beach, and I play softball all year round,” says expat Jim Thomas. Jim lives in Las Tablas, a small town that serves as capital of Panama’s Los Santos province, heartland of the country’s Spanish-colonial heritage. Las Tablas is known for its annual carnival celebration and Holy-Week observances, major events that attract crowds from around the country. The rest of the year this rural town is peaceful and unassuming. It was sports that first brought Jim to Panama in Continue reading >>>

In 1924 Louis J. Duprey, who left little other trace of his existence, nearly revolutionized the way people enter and leave theaters. Duprey patented his invention that “permits any patron of the theatre to enter or leave his place without at all disturbing other patrons”. The method is not simple, but it is exciting. You, the patron, entered vertically, though a trap door, already ensconced on a chair. When you want to leave, a discreet twist of a knob activates the machinery in reverse, causing the chair, and you, to quietly sink back down, and out. The images you see here are from US patent Continue reading >>>

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 (Photo: Flickr/Creative Commons)   Tweet The “Chug a Beer Challenge to Strike Out PMS” is finally here, and Bostonian Marc Butler shows the world how it’s done in this short video. “Growing up in a household with only women, I’ve been directly affected by this disease from a very young age,” he says. “And I believe we all have.” He then chugs a beer and obviously nominates three more people. “I would like to nominate [massive burp] [Birdcan?] Ryan Flaherty and Tony [last name]. You have 24 hours!” WATCH: Follow Rachel on Twitter Continue reading >>>