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Don Knotts, At Rest

Don Knotts, TV's Barney Fife, Dies.

Don Knotts, the rail-thin comic actor who was perhaps best known to millions of television viewers as the bungling Deputy Sheriff Barney Fife in "The Andy Griffith Show" and the squirrelly landlord in "Three's Company," died of lung cancer Feb. 24 at UCLA Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 81.

Mr. Knotts, who often played high-strung characters, won five Emmys for Best Supporting Actor in the 1960s as the swaggering but hapless Fife. Mr. Knotts developed the idea of the deputy sheriff when he heard that Andy Griffith, with whom he had worked in the play "No Time for Sergeants," was putting together a TV pilot set in the fictional North Carolina town of Mayberry. - Louie Estrada, TWP

Gold Medal iPods

'A sponsorship waiting to happen' - baltimoresun.com.

This Olympics, U.S. snowboarders have competed while listening to the personal music device, and skiers, speed skaters and other Olympians from all over the world have been observed listening raptly during practice and before competing.

All of which makes for great press.

"One of the lasting images of these games is going to be these snowboarders with their iPods," said Abraham Madkour, executive editor of SportsBusiness Journal, a trade magazine that covers the sports industry. "It's the perfect form of subconscious marketing." - Abigail Tucker, The Baltimore Sun; Photograph by A.P.

Weekend Guilty Pleasure

Weekend Guilty Pleasure
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The King of Ambient Music, Brian Eno, viewed here through the lens of some of his early video work.

This stuff looks/sounds great on a wall-mounted LCD hooked up to a 5.1 sound system!

The Color of Respect

Determined Skater Makes History With Fierce Charge to the Gold - New York Times.

As Shani Davis took a final lap around the speedskating oval Saturday to celebrate his victory in the 1,000 meters, the first individual Olympic gold medal won by a black athlete in a Winter Games, an overwhelmingly Dutch crowd set aside color and nationalism to celebrate a spectacular performance. - Photograph by Doug Mills, NYT

Raw

Raw
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I have really been obsessing about fried chicken for a while. I don't know what triggered it but I know listening to the Kitchen Sisters 'Hidden Kitchens' segment on the civil rights kitchen last year put me over the top.

Some cultural thing? A longing for gospel-church Sundays (I missed them, I'm Catholic)? The result of living too long below the Mason-Dixon Line? I am clueless.

Right now, however, I am in the kitchen cooking southern fried chicken. Clean, season, coat with flour. Fry for 25-30 minutes in oil at 350 degrees; turn once. Visions of old church ladies fill my nose. Boy, does it smell good!

Coretta Scott King, At Rest

NPR : Coretta Scott King Dies at 78.

Coretta Scott King, the wife of slain civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr., has died. She was 78.

Truly the end of an era.
It is now up to us to carry on the legacy.
Are any of us ready?

God bless and keep you Mrs. King.