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From Hollywood to Kennywood

Friday, May 8th, 2009

Writer/Director Greg Mottola based the script for his movie Adventureland on his experiences back in the 1980s working a summer job at the Adventureland Amusement Park in Farmingdale, Long Island.

Star Trek Gambles For Quickie Vegas Opening; Loses

Wednesday, May 6th, 2009

Everyone: remove your rubber Klingon foreheads. Star Trek: The Experience, is not re-opening yet, apparently stuck in that little room between the clown make-up and anti-clown make-up universes. The Nevada attraction, which closed September 2008 at its old location in the Las Vegas Hilton, was supposed to reopen in the city’s Neonopolis mall this Friday, […]

World’s Largest Pistachio Nut Is Blessed

Sunday, May 3rd, 2009

The World’s Largest Pistachio Nut was officially dedicated and blessed by a priest from nearby La Luz.

The Inevitable Return Of Nothing

Saturday, May 2nd, 2009

The zero-population town of Nothing, Arizona, which had been sold and abandoned in 2005, has a new owner.

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