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National Cheesecake Day

August 13th, 2010

National Cheesecake Day

National Cheesecake Day

What better way to celebrate the National Day of cheese then to … duh, eat some cheesecake? The good thing is that I have taken this decision as a glorious acids – just for today, of course – because there are plenty of promotions to help meet your desires for yumminess.The Cheesecake Factory offers half price cheese in these places. You may also receive $ 5 off any selection of cheesecake bought also get cakes online.In occasion, the restaurant, said that 25 cents of every court sold will be donated to Feeding America, an organization that uses a national network food bank to fight hunger. A quarter might feel like nothing, but in the last two years, The Cheesecake Factory has donated more than $ 1.2 million to the organization. If the kicker was not cheesecake half-off, knowing that you are turning to a great cause that you push way over the edge.

Having already shown in the Sundance Film Festival, the TED Conference and the Cannes Film Festival, “Countdown to Zero” will be broadcast on Sunday, August 1, at 2 pm at the Landmark Midtown Arts Cinema. The film highlights the “global nuclear threat and precise, in terms of cooling, the danger to all if nuclear weapons into the hands of terrorists by chance.” To book your free pass, nichole@wand.org email with your full name, phone number and preferred date (August 1 and August 5 at 7 pm). For more information, call 404-524-5999 wand.

Partnerships for Atlanta Design Museum have been drastically reduced. For a limited time, individual memberships are $ 9, members of the double is $ 18 and family members is $ 27. Membership includes unlimited free access provided for members only events and two museum visitors spend only once, and more. To secure this reduced supply, the unofficial holiday is July 30, but the cheesecake from Eli show begins on Thursday — which means that its time to get a slice! The Chicago company is offering free slices of cheesecake all day, with a different flavor featured every hour, Cheesecake dancers perform to the original songs and fresh cheese Eli Rod, a cheesecake-phones of all kinds, to offer the dessert on the fly.

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Catfish Movie Spoiler

July 31st, 2010

Catfish Movie Spoiler: Overwhelmingly sad, honest, creepy and fd17f3873dpoiler.jpg Catfish Movie Spoilerultimately hopeful, Catfish is easily the most buzzed-about documentary of the Sundance Film Festival so far, but also one that comes with a few rules — most notably that it’s best to go into it as fresh and spoiler-free as possible. On one side, it’s unfortunate, because there’s some great discussion to be had, but on the other I understand the need from a marketing (and moviegoer) standpoint to keep certain parts of Catfish a secret because by doing so it intensifies the overall experience of watching the film.

But here’s what I can tell you: Yaniv “Nev” Schulman is a young up-and-coming New York photographer who, at one point, had one of his photos published in The New York Sun. Not long after that, Nev received a painting of his photograph in the mail; one that was so expertly and beautifully crafted by an 8-year-old girl named Abby. Nev soon struck up a Facebook friendship with Abby, sending her his photographs in order to help feed this little girl with an amazing talent — eventually becoming online and phone friends with Abby’s family, including her mother Angela and older sister Megan, as well as several of Megan’s friends from home in Michigan.