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June 17, 2009 4:48 PM

The Beehive Asks: Where are you eating? (The Cheap Edition)The Beehive Asks: Where are you eating? (The Cheap Edition)

It's already Wednesday, and since you ate such interesting things last week, I figured I'd pose the question to you again.

But here's the twist: This time, tell us about your inexpensive eats of the week. Say, in the range of $10 or less for lunch and $15 or less for dinner?

Same rules apply. Feel free to dish -- on the good and the bad, in and out of the Valley. The more descriptive, the better.

Full credit for this post goes to Lisa Birrell, marketing manager at The Bee. After enjoying an $8 lunch (a spring roll, salad, garlic noodles, and sauteed shrimp and mango) at Mangosteen, she wanted more recession-friendly ideas.

So do I. Tell us, please: Where are you eating on the cheap?

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June 17, 2009 3:32 PM

A day in the lifeA day in the life

Here are random pictures of celebrities I found interesting/sad/funny today:

Sacha "Bruno" Cohen continues to take movie promotion to new heights in London
(via A Socialite's Life)

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June 17, 2009 3:09 PM

CMT awards show gets it rightCMT awards show gets it right

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Back in the '90s, I traveled to Los Angeles to report on the taping of one of the "Comic Relief" fund-raisers. "Comic Relief" was a series of efforts put together by Billy Crystal, Robin Williams and Whoopi Goldberg to raise money for the homeless.

This was a great humanitarian idea. No question about that. What shocked me was the mounds of food backstage for the performers. It seemed like the amount of money spent on feeding the comedians could have fed a lot of homeless people. Yes, some food is donated. The show could have asked that food be sent to local shelters.

When I asked why so much was spent on food, I was told that was the only way to get the celebrities to attend. That floored me. It was as if to say everyone involved had to be bribed to do charity work.

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June 17, 2009 2:43 PM

Fresno Uncensored: The SequelFresno Uncensored: The Sequel

It's the most long-awaited sequel since "Weekend at Bernie's II" -- Fresno Uncensored 2!

You might remember that the original was voted "Most Helpful in Finding Criminals" by Fresno PD and "Most Overly Exaggerated Scandal EVAR" by Fresno Beehive.

Critics are already heralding F.U. 2's greatness by saying, "Oh, great! Here we go again. We thought they learned their lesson the first time."

Mike Oz, from The Beehive says, "Excuse us, but isn't this "Rep your city on DVD" thing as played out as MySpace?"

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June 17, 2009 2:14 PM

To-Do Tonight: A very busy WednesdayTo-Do Tonight: A very busy Wednesday

Good stuff at Crossroads tonight as Mark Stuart & The Bastard Sons and The Councilmen share the stage. Mark Stuart & The Bastard Sons, an Austin-based Americana group, used to be called The Bastard Sons of Johnny Cash, and played in Fresno a few times under that name. The Councilmen, meanwhile, are pretty darn popular in Bakersfield for their folk-meets-country-meets-rock sound.

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As you may have heard by now, Sugar Ray is in town (Yep, the "Every Morning" guys). It's a Y101 event at Twist and you can only get in if you win tickets from them. Brooke White, of "American Idol" fame, is there too.

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June 17, 2009 11:30 AM

NBC: Enough with the kid survival storiesNBC: Enough with the kid survival stories

I'm a regular "Today Show" viewer. So, it's not surprising that some story lines start to bug me after awhile -- the annoying Duggar Family and never ending Casey Anthony saga come to mind. But nothing is getting more ridiculous than these weekly stories of kids surviving being impaled.

Today's story feature a boy who had a 9-inch stick stuck in his neck:

This comes after these wonderful stories over my breakfast:
* Boy impaled on bike handle
* Pencil lodges through toddler's neck
* Key lodged in 17-month-old's eye
* Antler pierces boy's brain
* Butter knife stuck in boy's head

I get it, NBC. Kids have accidents. Weird stuff happens. Can we move on now?

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Kathy Mahan

June 17, 2009 11:11 AM

People's hottest bachelors leave me coldPeople's hottest bachelors leave me cold

People magazine released its always amusing list of the hottest bachelors of 2009, and I'll be straight with you: if these are the hottest bachelors, I'm signing up for spinsterhood right now.

Here they are in all their glory.

1. Chace Cawford. I get this one confused with Zac Efron (they both look like Ellen DeGeneres to me), but I believe this is the one on "Gossip Girl." He's also soon to be in a remake of "Footloose," at which point, People will be forced to revoke the "Hot Bachelor" title. Because he's doing a remake of "Footloose." Seriously.

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