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According to reports from inside Madison Square Garden, last night the company ran two music videos on the screens in the building. One was video highlights of last years WrestleMania 23 (footage that included Bobby Lashley) and another was a tribute video to Ric Flair.
- As we have been reporting, WWE had a heavy presents in New York City over the weekend. Beth Phoenix and Brian Kendrick did an autograph signing yesterday morning which drew close to 350 people according to Mike Johnson. The final AXXESS event was an appearance by Ric Flair which drew 600-800 people. Advertisement: *SPOILER* The Big Show Arrives Backstage At RAW In Philly! View His NEW LOOK >> .
Analysis: UK business falls out of love with Labour
Many of our members put their lives into building up their businesses and expect to sell them to finance their retirement," says John Wright, national chairman of the Federation of Small Businesses and owner of a training consultancy in north-east England. “They are now faced with an 80 per cent increase in capital gains tax. Imagine an ordinary person drawing some of his pension and being asked for another 80 per cent in tax. It's totally unfair." The government's initial response to such protests was to say that the change met their frequently expressed demand for tax simplification. Business leaders do, indeed, like tax simplification, but they did not like the fact that the reform would raise an extra £900m a year for the Treasury. Even after last week's concession, it will still rake in an extra £700m – a lot of it from entrepreneurs.
Regal soon to control East Cooper movies
The nation's largest movie theater chain is set to corner the East Cooper market and add to its near-lock on the rest of the region. Charlotte-based Consolidated Theatres, owner of the Palmetto Grande 16-screen megaplex at Mount Pleasant Towne Centre, is dropping the curtain and selling itself to industry kingpin Regal Entertainment Group for $210 million in cash. The deal will give Knoxville, Tenn.-based Regal control of all 28 silver screens in the East Cooper market, rarely a good situation for consumers. If history is any guide, the Palmetto Grande moniker will likely be changed once Regal integrates it into its national network of movie houses later this year. Regal is already the undisputed heavyweight of the region's movie exhibition business, with three megaplexes and 46 screens in North Charleston, Summerville and Mount Pleasant.
The Roch Cup — a ski-town legacy
Editors note: This piece ran first in the September 2007 Skiing Heritage magazine. We will publish it in two parts, the first this week, before this years World Cup races begin in Aspen, and the second Dec. 9, the last day of the races.
Aspens Roch Cup was always more than just a ski race. From its first running in 1946, it was a celebration of skiing as the economic and spiritual engine of Aspen. The annual event helped breathe new life into the scruffy, post-silver boom, post-World War II mining town, revitalizing not just the economy, but the self-esteem of a community, struggling to emerge from its Quiet Years.
Aspen had once been the largest silver-producing town in the nation. In 1890, its 12,000 residents ran four schools, six newspapers, three banks, two theaters, an opera house, and a small but thriving red-light district.
Redfin Launches 'Sweet Digs' in Boston and Washington, D.C.
SEATTLE, Jan. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- Online real estate broker Redfin Corporation today launched its online real estate blog, "Sweet Digs," for the first time on the East Coast. Home buyers and sellers in Greater Boston and the Washington, D.C. metro area can read local, data-driven real estate market information online or in a daily email newsletter. The Boston-area blog is available at http://boston.redfin.com/blog and the D.C.-area blog is available at http://washingtondc.redfin.com/blog. Every week, the Boston and D.C. Sweet Digs blogs each offer as many as 20 candid, saucy and analytical write-ups of recent sales, price reductions, open houses and real estate trends. Local coverage includes Back Bay, Cambridge and Somerville in Boston; and Bethesda, Loudoun County and McLean in the D.C.
Phila. Councilman Kelly Acknowledges FBI Probe of Staffer
A Philadelphia City Councilman says he's cooperating fully with a federal probe that reportedly involves a member of his staff. The Philadelphia Daily News reports that federal investigators are probing the dealings of Councilman Jack Kelly's chief of staff with two real estate developers. The US Attorney's office will neither confirm nor deny the report. Kelly himself was not available. His legislative aide, John Cerone, says Kelly and other staffers are cooperating: Q: "The Councilman has been interviewed by the FBI, correct?" Cerone: "It is my understanding that the Councilman has cooperated fully with all authorities, as has his staff." And Cerone stresses that Kelly has not been accused of any wrongdoing. Kelly, a Republican at-large Councilman, just narrowly survived his re-election bid, beating a challenger by only about 100 votes.
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