August 11, 2011

Junior's Reading And Viewing List:
July 11 - 21, 2011


Last Update - August 11, 2011 at 3:26 AM EDT

Junior's July 11 through July 21, 2011 'Reading And Viewing List' presents title links, with article snippets, from items published during the middle of July 2011.

Film adaptions of super hero comics, Washington Capitals hockey, music, Formula One racing and WRC rally news are among the things covered here.


July 21, 2011

FIA Thursday press conference - Germany
Posted at Formula1.com

Drivers: Timo Glock (Virgin), Nick Heidfeld (Renault), Nico Rosberg (Mercedes), Michael Schumacher (Mercedes), Adrian Sutil (Force India) and Sebastian Vettel (Red Bull)...


The Poti Predicament
By Fehr and Balanced at Japers' Rink

It's no secret that George McPhee has had an incredibly successful off-season to date. Thus far he's assembled (on paper, at least) the best roster Bruce Boudreau has ever had to work with, and one of the best Capitals rosters ever, regardless of era. The most talented forward corps the franchise has ever had, hopefully bolstered by newfound checking depth that Caps fans have been used to relying on. Defense to rival the ‘80s. Goaltending to rival the ‘90s. What's not to like?...


Hirvonen tries rallycross for size
Posted at WRC.com

Mikko Hirvonen has followed in the footsteps of his former factory Ford team-mate Marcus Gronholm by taking part in a fully-fledged rallycross event...


Meeke and Sordo set for more MINI magic
Posted at WRC.com

MINI WRC Team stars Kris Meeke and Dani Sordo say they are ready and waiting to return to world championship duty on Neste Oil Rally Finland next week...


Germany preview - home heroes out to halt Ferrari
Posted at Formula1.com

A whole slew of intermixing factors will ensure that this weekend's German round, the Formula 1 Grosser Preis Santander von Deutschland 2011, will be a gripping affair as the race returns to the Nurburgring...


July 20, 2011

Keeping Development in Perspective
By Becca H at Japers' Rink

...The 2011 Development Camp has come and gone, the prospects returned to their various hometowns, but the impressions remain relatively fresh - of a late-round draftee from last month's draft, or a veteran of three camps who knows he still has some work to do, or a Russian defenseman looking to get his first season of North American hockey underway...


'Amazing Spider-Man' Trailer Swings Into Action
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Spider-Man bootleg no more! It's the real deal — the actual "Amazing Spider-Man" trailer has been caught in the web!...



McLaren confident of reclaiming advantage from Ferrari
Posted at Formula1.com

While six wins from nine races for Red Bull may look dull on paper, the reality of the 2011 season to date has been far more exciting. Not least because we've had the entertaining spectacle of seeing two of the sport's stalwarts - McLaren and Ferrari - battling it out for the honour of leading the vanguard against the 'upstarts' from Milton Keynes...


Gronholm reveals key to Finland success
Posted at WRC.com

Seven-time Neste Oil Rally Finland winner Marcus Gronholm reckons courage and brains are key to success on the world championship qualifier, which takes place in Jyvaskyla in the centre of the country from 28-30 July...


Rees: Petter will fight on in WRC
Posted at WRC.com

Petter Solberg World Rally Team head Ken Rees has vowed to remain positive despite his driver's unequal struggle for WRC glory...


July 19, 2011

Queen's Roger Taylor re-releases anti-Murdoch song - video
Posted at NME.com

...The song, entitled 'Dear Mr Murdoch', was first written in 1994 and was included on the musician's album, 'Happiness'. It is being re-released with the lyrics slightly tweaked...



Patti Smith To Release New Compilation
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Titled Outside Society, it will span her career from 1975’s Horses to 2007’s Twelve. The full track listing is:...


Ford reveals food-themed designs for Finland
Posted at WRC.com

The individual food-themed roof designs that will feature on the trio of Ford Abu Dhabi World Rally Team Fiesta RS WRCs on Neste Oil Rally Finland later this month have been revealed...


Stage Collapses During Cheap Trick Set
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Just 20 minutes into their set on the main stage at the Ottawa Bluesfest, the area was hit by a huge thunderstorm, causing the stage to collapse...


July 18, 2011

'Dark Knight Rises' Trailer: Batman Must Return
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

Batman rises one last time next July, but you won't have to wait a full year before catching a glimpse at the final round of "Dark Knight" mania...



Matt Hendricks talks about Washington Capitals’
offseason changes

By Katie Carrera at The Washington Post's Capitals Insider

With the flurry of changes to the Capitals’ lineup this offseason, Matt Hendricks is one forward who already knows he’ll have to adjust to new linemates when the 2011-12 regular season kicks off...


Jim Simpson's Photographs at Sandwell Museums
Posted at Home Of Metal

Sandwell Museums are hosting an exhibition of long buried photographs of music promotor and former Black Sabbath manager, Jim Simpson. From the late 1950s Jim worked as a musician and a photographer before moving into managmenent and music promotion...


Foo Fighters Stream iTunes Gig
By mdome at Classic Rock

...The gig happened on Tuesday, July 12 at The Roundhouse in London, when the band were joined onstage by Lemmy for the Probot song Shake Your Blood. Brian May and Roger Taylor got up for the Queen classic Tie Your Mother Down, with Taylor Hawkins on vocals.



July 17, 2011

40 Years Stoner Rock
Posted at Home Of Metal

Summer 1971 saw the release of Black Sabbath’s third album Master of Reality. A 10ft x 10ft reproduction of the album artwork features in the 40 Years of Heavy Metal and its Unique Birth Place exhibition now on at Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery. Tony likes it and we hope you will do too...


July 16, 2011

7-16-11 George McPhee
Video posted at Caps365 media player via WashingtonCaps.com

Capitals GM George Mcphee addresses the media on the final day of development camp.



July 15, 2011

TNT cancels 'Men of a Certain Age'
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching?

TNT has canceled "Men of a Certain Age", the low-rated critical darling starring Ray Romano, Andre Braugher and Scott Bakula as the three titular men...


Sky Arts Documentary on Home of Metal
Posted at Home Of Metal

We are delighted that not only will there be a 10 minute documentary screened on Sky Arts throughout the summer, (tonight will be the first airing at 7.50pm!!) but there will also be an extended version of a 30 mins documentary being broadcast on Sky One on the 31st August!

You can watch the trailer here...


Classic Rock’s New Releases Round-Up
By mdome at Classic Rock

This week, we’ve prog legends with a new singer, the teaming of Lemmy and Slim Jim Phantom, a mega expanded anniversary reissue of a thrash classic and a bunch of muthatrucking New Yorkers live on DVD...


Germany preview quotes - Lotus, Pirelli, HRT & more
Posted at Formula1.com

Hot on the heels of one legendary track - Silverstone - comes another, and this time it is the turn of the tight and challenging Nurburgring circuit to welcome the Formula One paddock. As the 'home' race for world champion Sebastian Vettel, Michael Schumacher, Nico Rosberg, Nick Heidfeld, Timo Glock and Adrian Sutil, the event has special significance for many on the grid. Here the drivers and senior team personnel explain why they can't wait to head for the mountains...


Formula One teams gear up for Russian invasion
Posted at Formula1.com

It may be three years before the country expects to stage its first Grand Prix, but this Sunday Russian fans will have the chance to enjoy the spectacle of Formula One at two separate demonstration events - one in the capital, Moscow, the other in the Black Sea resort of Sochi, which is set to host the F1 calendar's inaugural Russian round in 2014...


July 14, 2011

'MTV First: Captain America' Starts Right Now!
By MTV News Team at MTV's Splash Team


...Welcome to MTV First: Captain America, a 30-minute conversation between our very own Josh Horowitz and Mr. Steve Rogers himself, actor Chris Evans, featuring everything you could possibly want to know about "The First Avenger" and his first Marvel Studios adventure. In addition to the interview, we're also debuting an exclusive clip from next week's big superhero release, so make sure to tune in and enjoy the show!...


Second Clip and Featurette for 'Cowboys And Aliens'
Posted at Super Hero Hype

A second clip and featurette for Jon Favreau's Cowboys & Aliens are now up and can be watched using the player below!...





Hirvonen: Finland will be close
Posted at WRC.com

Home hero Mikko Hirvonen reckons this year's Neste Oil Rally Finland will be one of the closest yet - and expects several privateers from Finland to spring a surprise on the world championship qualifier...


Lemmy Readies New Solo Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Among the guests on the album are Dave Grohl, Joan Jett, Reverend Horton Heat and The Damned...


Idiocracy
By Brian Lumley at Rumblings From The Man Cave

...We're on a downward spiral, culturally-speaking, and I see it only getting worse. Lately, intelligence has become a thing of ridicule; a moniker like a big fat scarlet letter emblazoned upon your post-high school, matriculated forehead. For some reason an education makes you an "elitist," and over the past twenty years we've embraced the worst pop culture as our unique American offering to the rest of the world. TV has taught other countries that America's GDP is stupidity and somehow it's wholly chic to be unintelligent...


July 13, 2011

First 'Cowboys & Aliens' Clip: Daniel Craig Owes Harrison Ford
By Kara Warner at MTV's Splash Page

...There's a new "Cowboys & Aliens" clip out today, entitled "You Owe Me", that features a nice little scene between our heroes Dolarhyde (Harrison Ford) and Lonergan (Craig)...



Washington Capitals sign Mathieu Perreault
By Katie Carrera at The Washington Post's Capitals Insider

The Capitals announced Wednesday that they’ve signed center Mathieu Perreault to a one-year, two-way deal...


Black Sabbath's Tony Iommi on the Birthplace
of Heavy Metal - Video

Posted at Home Of Metal

Guitar legend Tony Iommi talks to Stuart Jeffries at the Home of Metal exhibitions in Wolverhampton and Birmingham, celebrating the origins of heavy metal and grindcore in Birmingham and the Black Country, the crucible of the industrial revolution.



The Guardian: Home of Metal - A history of the heavy
in seven objects

Posted at Home Of Metal

To salute home of metal's new series of exhibitions across the west midlands, justin quirk offers a history of the music in 7 objects.

To see the full article and all seven wonderful items:
--> Click here <--


Solberg takes to the skies
Posted at WRC.com

World Rally Championship star Petter Solberg took to the skies last week when he joined the Breitling Jet Team during a promotional event in Switzerland...


July 12, 2011

Leslie West Prepares Album, Tour
By mdome at Classic Rock

Leslie West intends to carry on with the release of his new album and a subsequent tour, despite having the bottom half of his right leg amputated...


50 Things I Don't Want to See, Hear, or Think About Next Season
By The Peerless at The Peerless Prognosticator

Because it's July, it's hot outside, and there is enough going on with development camp to keep bloggers busy, we thought we would offer up 50 things we do not want to see, hear, or think about when the next season of hockey rolls around...


Queen Plan Sheer Heart Attack Video
By gbarton at Classic Rock

Queen are giving independent film makers the chance to create a video for the classic 1977 song Sheer Heart Attack...


Acropolis chiefs set to repeat night stage
Posted at WRC.com

Acropolis Rally bosses are planning to repeat the Nea Politia night stage when the world championship returns to Greece next season...


July 11, 2011

Olie Kolzig: 'I’m glad that I’m back' with Washington Capitals
By Lindsay Applebaum at The Washington Post's Capitals Insider

Former longtime Capitals goalie Olie Kolzig sat high up in the stands at Kettler Capitals Iceplex on Monday, watching prospects and chatting with goaltender coach Dave Prior and other team officials as development camp got underway...



Washington Capitals prospect Cody Eakin: 'I am coming to camp
to make the team'

By Katie Carrera at The Washington Post's Capitals Insider

For this particular development camp, Cody Eakin will be one of the most watched and scrutinized prospects in attendance. The 20-year-old center is set to turn pro in the fall and the question that looms is where will he do so? Washington or Hershey?...


'Spider-Man' Writer Swings For Realistic Reboot
By Josh Wigler at MTV's Splash Page

In one year from now, your friendly neighborhood Spider-Man is swinging back into theaters — and when he does, he'll bring a whole lot of reality with him...


Dear TNT: Please save 'Men of a Certain Age'
By Alan Sepinwall at What's Alan Watching?

Last Wednesday night, I published my review of the season finale of "Men of a Certain Age", which was as much about the idea that it could be the last episode of the show ever as it was about the episode itself. Ultimately, I struck what I felt was a happy but resigned note. You gave us two seasons of this marvelous show, after all - a show whose charms are incredibly subtle (so subtle that I'm not always able to properly describe them, and I love the show) in an era where only the noisiest and/or most high-concept shows seem to be breaking through, a show built around three men who were aging out of the infamous 18-49 year-old demographic even as the series began...


Van Halen Mixing New Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

...Producer Ross Hogarth has revealed that the record’s in the mixing stages, and everything’s prepared for a release later in the year...


Gymkhana tour a hit for Block in Vienna
Posted at WRC.com

Ken Block has said he was thrilled after more than 25,000 fans attended the first stop of his Gymkhana World Tour in Vienna, Austria on Sunday...

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