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June 17th, 2023 - 11:20 pm § in Misc.

PHOTOGRAPHY: Dancer

Melanie Hamrick (photo below) is Mick Jagger’s girlfriend. They’re selling their Florida digs for $3.5 million (see story here, and real estate listing with photo of house here). He has other houses, of course. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

May 27th, 2023 - 4:18 am § in Russia

Full-length movie: “Tanks for Stalin” (2018). Tank races! Bandits! Nazis! Saboteur, traitor, collapsing bridge!

This movie is too delicious to pass up! In the spring of 1940, Russian engineer Michael Koshkin (a real person), lead designer of the T-34 tank, drove two prototypes from Kharkiv to Moscow, a distance of 1,200 miles. Wikipedia only says the actual trip was “grueling” (here); this English[...]

January 28th, 2023 - 12:18 am § in Jews

Broadway play puts faces on Holocaust victims

To many people, the Holocaust is a phrase: Six million Jews. Some people, perhaps, look at the anonymous faces in concentration camp photos. The play “Leopoldstadt” (details here) tries to turn the history of the murdered Jews into a memory of real human beings that audiences can take ho[...]

January 12th, 2023 - 1:30 am § in Humor, Misc.

The dog and the baby goats (video)

The music is almost as good as the video. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

January 1st, 2023 - 10:05 pm § in Misc.

2023 Space Needle New Year’s show

If you missed it, here’s the video from Seattle TV station KING 5. Return to The-Ave.US Home Page[...]

November 25th, 2022 - 1:03 am § in Jews

Steven Spielberg wants to say something (video)

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October 20th, 2022 - 9:15 pm § in Misc.

Who was the “Hang On Sloopy” girl?

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September 4th, 2022 - 8:54 pm § in Misc., Politics

No, Rep. Greene didn’t audition for American Idol and flop

A rumor is circulating that Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA), a GOP clown posing as a legislator, auditioned for American Idol under an alias in 2002 and was rejected following an awful performance (see story here). The person in the audition video that recently surfaced (watch it below) certainly[...]

August 31st, 2022 - 11:46 pm § in Biden, Donald Trump, Humor, News Media, Politics

Wanna watch some political porn?

From the Guardian (here): “The most recent salvo in the campaign to make Hunter’s lost laptop the new Hillary’s emails may, at least, bring about a moment of joy for the rest of us. Available for download from 7 September, the movie My Son Hunter is a piece of political [trash] porn dedica[...]

June 20th, 2022 - 2:29 pm § in Law and Courts, Misc.

Few things are more nauseating than crooks feeling sorry for themselves

Here’s an item from today’s CNN news: “Todd and Julie Chrisley are speaking out about the “very sad, heartbreaking time” for their family after they were convicted of conspiracy to defraud banks of more than $30 million in loans.” (See story here.) The Chrisleys [...]