Arts and Entertainment Digest

New Jersey Arts Entertainment Arts and Entertainment Digest Tweet<!--<a href=IMG src="/art/imgstraus.jpeg"-->The Weis Ecology Center is offering the following programs for youth and adults. All require pre-registration. For more information or to register with a credit card for any of the events listed below, contact the Weis Ecology Center office at 973-835-2160 between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., Wednesday through Sunday. Visit the Weis Ecology Center at 150 Read more [...]

Events listed for Dec. 31

Fri, December 31, 2010 Free lunch: 11:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m., First Lutheran Church, 120-5th Ave. NW.2nd Story Social Club is closed for New Year's Eve.The Sawyer Community Unity Group is sponsoring a family New Year's Eve Community Event: 8 p.m. Friday to 1 a.m. Saturday, Sawyer City Hall. The event will include games and musical entertainment for all ages and will not include alcohol. There will be free snacks and beverages, free party favors and noise makers and door prizes. People Read more [...]

RBS sells five-star Mayfair hotel to Indian billionaire

RBS has sold the five-star Grosvenor House hotel, above, in Park Lane, London. Photograph: Graham Turner for the GuardianTaxpayer-controlled Royal Bank of Scotland has sold Grosvenor House, the luxury Mayfair hotel built on the site of the former London residence of the dukes of Westminster, to an Indian billionaire for £470m.The 494-room property, one of London's largest five-star hotels, has been acquired by Sahara India Pariwar, a media conglomerate controlled by colourful industrialist Read more [...]

Bank Foreclosures Load Up in Middlesex County NJ, Priced 33% Less

Santa Barbara, CA  (MMD Newswire) December 30, 2010 -- The latest foreclosure trends review in Middlesex County, New Jersey shows bank foreclosures dominating local listings of foreclosed homes for sale. RealtyStore (www.realtystore.com), the premier source of local residential foreclosure listings and data nationwide, conducted the review. RealtyStore's data analysis showed 85% of all foreclosures, or REO properties, recorded in Middlesex County are currently listed for re-sale to the public. Read more [...]

For sale: Grade II listed 1950s modernist apartment in Langham House Close …

For sale: Grade II listed 1950s modernist apartment in Langham House Close, Ham, Surrey If you're after a retro pad with heritage, you might want to check out this Grade II listed 1950s modernist apartment in Langham House Close, Ham, Surrey.It's a first floor two double bedroom apartment to the side of Ham Common, designed in the late 1950s by Sir James Stirling and James Gowan. It's been updated since then, but not hugely - so you can turn this into your very own modernist pad Read more [...]

Top 10 U.S.-Listed Chinese Stocks with Highest Short Interest: CMED, HRBN …

Top 10 U.S.-Listed Chinese Stocks with Highest Short Interest: CMED, HRBN, CHBT, TSTC, JASO, MR, APWR, CAGC, DGW, UTA (Dec 30, 2010) Best-Rated Chinese Stocks; Highest-Upside; Fastest-Growing; Top 10 Lists; Analyst Actions Below are the top 10 U.S.-listed Chinese stocks with the highest short interest as a percentage of total shares outstanding, UPDATED TODAY before 4:30 AM ET. Short Squeeze and Short Covering can cause these stocks to rise sharply. China Read more [...]

Classic Square Games Listed on ESRB

HOUSTON - Square Enix (formerly Squaresoft) classics like Xenogears and Vagrant Story are rated for release on Sony's PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Portable. The Entertainment Software Ratings Board rated four games set to be published by Sony Computer Entertainment of America: Xenogears, Vagrant Story, Threads of Fate and Legend of Mana. Kotaku.com reports the titles will almost certainly be released as PSOne Classics on the PlayStation Store. Xenogears was already released in the Japan PlayStation Read more [...]

Home of The Beatles’ Ringo ‘will not be listed’

30 December 2010 Last updated at 06:19 ET Madryn Street is one of several in the area awaiting demolition Campaigners trying to save the Liverpool house where Ringo Starr was born have dismissed a decision not to grant it listed status. The Victorian Terrace in Madryn Street, Toxteth, is one of hundreds in the area due to be bulldozed in the new year. Officials at English Read more [...]

Delhi High Court chief justice declares assets worth Rs 65 L

New Delhi, Dec 30 (PTI) The Delhi High Court''s Chief Justice Dipak Misra has declared his total assets worth over Rs 65 lakhs, including two residential houses, fixed deposits in banks and insurance policies. In his statement on his assets and liabilities uploaded on the high court''s website recently, Justice Misra, however, has listed no liabilities, despite having raised a loan of Rs 22.50 lakhs from HDFC Bank to buy his flat in Delhi. The judges of the Delhi High Court began declaring their Read more [...]

Bodies of two workers found after Wayne store explodes

<!--Saxotech Paragraph Count: 12-->William C. Franks Furniture was a staple of the Wayne neighborhood, and its owner, Paul Franks, is well-known and loved.Pulled from the wreckage of the business he inherited from his father, Franks remained in the University of Michigan trauma center in Ann Arbor on Wednesday night, though his condition -- earlier listed as critical -- had been changed to serious but stable, according to a family statement.Wednesday evening, the body of a 64-year-old store Read more [...]