Junior's Reading And Viewing List: December 22 - 31, 2010

Last Update - February 20, 2011 at 6:36 PM EST

Junior's 'Reading And Viewing List' for December 22 through December 31, 2010 includes title links with snippets from items that hit the internet as December 2010 came to an end.

This list includes most of the usual topics: hockey (Washington Capitals), music and racing (Formula One).


December 31, 2010

Glenn Hughes Announces Tour
Posted by mdome at Classic Rock

...The bassist/vocalist, who’s just done two shows here with Black Country Communion, will play the following 11 shows in May:...

Bondra Goal Lifts Caps’ Alumni to 5-5 Tie
By Mike Vogel at Dump 'N Chase

Early this morning, the Caps and Pens alumni squared off in a spirited game of 40 minutes in length – two 20-minute halves. Fittingly, the contest concluded in a 5-5 tie after a few lead changes...


December 30, 2010

OFB TV: Inside the Winter Classic Alumni Game with Alan May
By pucksandbooks - Posted by The OFB Team at On Frozen Blog

Comcast Sportsnet’s Capitals analyst Alan May made his first appearance on OFB TV Wednesday while taking in the Capitals’ outdoor practice in Chevy Chase, Md. We wanted to try and go on the inside a bit of that other game in Pittsburgh New Years weekend — the showdown between alumni for the Caps and Pens. That game, which will be played at 9:30 a.m. New Years Eve, sold out about an hour after tickets went on sale...

Top quotes from HBO '24/7' episode three: Capitals vs. Penguins
By Lindsay Applebaum at Capitals Insider

...1) Penguins captain Sidney Crosby, finally getting in some f-bombs while arguing for a hooking call on John Carlson: "You gonna [bleepin'] call that? [Bleep] off! [Bleep] you! [Bleepin'] [bleep]. [Bleep]. [Bleepin'] [bleep]. Right in the [bleepin'] face? That's a [bleepin'] joke."...


December 29, 2010

Cheap Trick To Ring In New Year With 'Austin City Limits' Performance
Posted by Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

For its first episode of the New Year, the award-winning PBS television series Austin City Limits welcomes famed American rockers Cheap Trick to the Studio 6A stage for a new, hour-long episode. The performance, recorded March 18, 2010 marks the iconic band’s first appearance on the show, and it premieres on PBS stations nationwide on January 1, 2011...

Watch the full episode. See more Austin City Limits.

December 28, 2010

Clean and Green
By Joe Beninati - Capitals Play-by-Play
Posted at CSN - Washington, DC

For a couple of weeks now we have been hearing about how the Caps are trying to assemble the type of style and strategy that will serve them best by the time the playoffs roll around in April. A game like tonight gives us a glimpse of what it should look like...

Another 'Doctor Who' Season 6 Teaser Hits The 'Net
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

...In the new BBC America teaser, The Doctor (Smith) and Amy Pond (Karen Gillan) have a great little back-and-forth about where they're headed in the new "Doctor Who" season against the backdrop of Monument Valley, Utah, where some of the season's episodes were shot...

Joe Walsh: New Solo Album
By mdome at Classic Rock

...As yet untitled, this will be the man’s first since Songs For A Dying Planet in 1992. Half of the new album has been produced by Walsh himself, with the rest being done with Jeff Lynne. This should be released in the spring...


December 27, 2010

Uriah Heep Begins Recording New Studio Album
Posted by Nightwatcher at Nightwatcher's House Of Rock

According to Blabbermouth.net, legendary progressive heavy rock veterans Uriah Heep have entered Liscombe Park Studios in Buckinghamshire, England to begin recording their next album of all-new material for a 2011 release...

'Doctor Who' Season 6 Trailer Arrives Online
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

...The teaser trailer for the next season of "Doctor Who" has arrived online (courtesy of YouTube), and from the looks of things, Season 6 (or Season 32, depending on how you look at it) has The Doctor traveling to some new destinations in time and space with a few familiar faces popping up along the way. (River Song and The Ood, anyone?)...

Two dads
Posted at God Hates Protesters

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Black Country Communion interview
Posted at Home Of Metal

Glenn Hughes, known throughout the world as both Deep Purple and Black Sabbath vocalist, or more simply as the ‘Voice of Rock’ has recently returned with his lauded new band known as Black Country Communion. With a name like that, it was of no surprise Home of Metal’s collective ears pricked up and sought out the man himself for a chat...


December 26, 2010

Recap: Caps 3, Hurricanes 2
By Becca H at Japers' Rink

After a tremendously hyped game against Pittsburgh and two days off for the holiday, the fact that the Caps came out a bit sluggish early on is to be somewhat expected. That they shook off the Christmas fog and got down to playing the kind of hockey we like to see out of them was a little less so - although one would hope it would become more normal with each passing game...

'Doctor Who' Review: 'A Christmas Carol'
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

...As any Whovian worth his TARDIS replica knows, it's always a fascinating adventure when The Doctor is tasked with saving Christmas. This time around, The Eleventh Doctor plays fast and loose with time travel in an attempt to make mean miser Kazran Sardick (Michael Gambon) a nicer guy — and make him amenable to freeing Amy and Rory's space cruiser from its impending, uncontrollable, and explosive date with the planet below...


December 25, 2010

Corner Gas - "Merry Gasmas" Part 1 (Season 3 / Episode 13)
Originally televised December 12, 2005 - Posted here for Christmas



Watch entire episode, in 3 parts, here.

December 24, 2010

Wow - That Was A Game Worth Watching ...
Penguins 3 - Capitals 2 (SO)
By Usually Frustrated Caps Fan at Mark's Musings

Well last night the red hot Pittsburgh Penguins came to DC to take on the rejuvenated Washington Capitals for their first of four regular season games this NHL Season. The game was well anticipated by fans of both teams, as just next week these two teams will meet outdoors in the NHL's Winter Classic, at Heinz Field, in Pittsburgh on New Year's Day...


December 23, 2010

Recap: Penguins 3, Caps 2 (SO)
By Becca H at Japers' Rink

It's always a bit of a letdown when a game like this has to be decided by a gimmick. When an evenly played, highly competitive match between two heated rivals is forced to end with what is essentially a skills competition...yeah, it's a little anticlimactic...

'Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol' Review
(The Spoiler-Free Early Edition!)
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

..."Doctor Who: A Christmas Carol" officially premieres Saturday night, December 25 — but thanks to the good people at BBC America, your friendly neighborhood Splash Page editor was able to get an early look at the next big "Doctor Who" event. And let me put it this way, fellow Whovians: you will not be disappointed...

'The Avengers' To Shoot In 'Land Of Enchantment' New Mexico
By Rick Marshall at MTV's Splash Page

...In an official press release issued this week, New Mexico Governor Bill Richardson announced plans to host production of Joss Whedon's "Avengers," with shooting scheduled to begin in April 2011...


December 22, 2010

Petrov confirmed at Renault until 2012
Posted at Formula1.com

Renault have announced they will retain Vitaly Petrov for the next two seasons. It means the Russian driver will again partner Robert Kubica in 2011...

Recap: Caps 5, Devils 1
By J.P. at Japers' Rink

With Eric Fehr definitely out of the lineup and Alexander Semin a "gametime decision" for the Caps on Tuesday night, to say nothing of the recent scoring struggles of the players who were going to pull on the red sweaters, one had to wonder from whence - or even if - the goal-scoring would come. The answer? The Caps would get all they needed... from Hershey...