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  • Icahn launches hostile bid for Lions Gate

    Local business from the Times-Dispatch | 03/19/2010 03:32 pm

    NEW YORK—Activist shareholder Carl Icahn is launching a takeover bid for Lions Gate Entertainment. The disclosure comes a week after the film studio rejected his bid to take a larger ...

  • Calif. transportation activist found dead in creek

    WRIC 8 News | 03/04/2010 11:36 am

    A former adviser to former Gov. Jerry Brown who became an activist on transportation issues has died in what California authorities believe was a suicide.

  • Ill will for slain Mich. activist as trial nears

    WRIC 8 News | 02/23/2010 01:49 pm

    In life, anti-abortion activist James Pouillon spent years trying to influence people in his small Michigan city with large signs of dead fetuses. In death, that combative style could make ...

  • Is Ben and Jerry' Closed- AGAIN?

    West of the Boulevard | 02/20/2010 03:01 pm

    Richmond Activist, Blogger, and Tweeter @RVAFoodie posted this yesterday. Noticed @BenJerrysVA in Carytown was closed during business hours tonight & all ice cream was gone. Victory is Bev’s!!! #RVA Can ...

  • What's Your Six Word Biography?

    Buttermilk & Molasses | 02/10/2010 09:06 pm

    Smith Magazine is inviting writers to submit their succinct life stories for its latest collection of extremely brief life stories, according to NPR. How succinct? Six words: It All Changed ...

  • Oregon Hill Cats Zine

    Oregon Hill | 02/08/2010 01:00 pm

    As promised, Shawn Jones has put the first issue of a zine devoted to Oregon Hill. Its a b/w photocopied affair that’s called ‘Oregon Hill Cats’. In it are features ...

  • Swift murder conviction in abortion doctor's death

    WRIC 8 News | 01/30/2010 01:40 pm

    An activist who confessed to gunning down one of the only U.S. doctors to offer late-term abortions faces a sentence of life in prison after a jury found him guilty ...

  • Worshippers urged not to 'sanitize' King's legacy

    WRIC 8 News | 01/19/2010 05:18 am

    A scholar and activist invoked the fiery side of Martin Luther King Jr.'s rhetoric Monday at the civil rights icon's church, urging the audience not to "sanitize" King's legacy or ...

  • SC crusaders look to right Jim Crow justice wrongs

    WWBT 12 News | 01/17/2010 04:45 pm

    Associated Press - January 17, 2010 11:45 AM ET MANNING, S.C. (AP) - A South Carolina activist is trying to clear the name of a 14-year-old boy put to death ...

  • paper dolls – final chance for Dec. 24 delivery

    Final Fashion | 12/14/2009 01:17 pm

    Just a heads up, if you are planning on getting the Paper Dolls book for a gift, this is the last day to order for delivery by December 24th. If ...

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