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In Memoriam: Playbill.com Remembers Those We Lost in 2008 (Playbill via Yahoo! News)

A Nobel Prize-winning playwright. A major Broadway theatre owner and producer. A longtime New York City theatre critic. A sultry cabaret star who sexily purred songs into her eighties.

Big names, great games make 2008 year to remember (The Brownsville Herald)

The lesson of 2008: the bigger the stage, the better the show. All through the year, the top names and most-hyped events lived up to their billing.

In Aussie Awe (Salem Statesman Journal)

Michael and Linda Wooters of Salem spent 24 days in August and September (late winter in Australia) crisscrossing through eastern Aussie coastal towns. Here is the first part of their travels, from arriving in Melbourne in the state of Victoria on the southeast side of the country to catching the Penguin Parade that occurs nightly on Phillip Island to a brief stop in the center of the country to ...

All Things Must Pass (Oldham Chronicle)

HOW the Chronicle reported 2008: just a few of the thousands of stories we brought you in the last 12 months. 3 — MOORSIDE student James Ashton was stunned to find that his friend Aisling Davies had changed his named to Ima Stapler by deed poll in secret for revenge for an earlier hair dye prank.

Hot picks: MessFest, Icycle Bicycle, Kagero (Pittsburgh Tribune-Review)

The Carnegie Science Center in the North Side will kick off 2009 today with the messiest, sloppiest and grossest activities for a New Year's Day celebration.