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A bill that would allow the issuance of more bed-and-breakfast permits for the first time in 20 years will likely be defeated when it comes up for a final vote tomorrow.

For a crowd of people rounded up by their own government and forced to live in camps with barbed wire and armed guards blocking their escape, the special honorees at the UC Berkeley graduation Sunday were in high spirits.

Wilmington on DVD: Departures, Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince, Days of Summer, Julie and Julia Mike Wilmington on Wednesday 12/09/2009 10:00 am PICK OF THE WEEK Departures Japan; Yojiro Takita, 2008, EI Entertainment Death begets beauty in Departures , a moving film that teaches us, and its reluctant hero Daigo Kobayashi , all about the ...

Things continue to pop, in a big way, at the Morris & Whiteside Galleries out on Cordillo Parkway on Hilton Head Island.

It took a little extra effort this year, but residents were happy to hear that the traditional Christmas lighting display in the shape of a tree will rise again in Kaimuki.

"I don't know how we met each other. I don't know who got along with whom first.

In DEPARTURES, Daigo Kobayashi, MASAHIRO MOTOKI, is married to Mika, RYOKO HIROSUE, and plays cello in a privately owned Tokyo orchestra.

LAW, Elmer, was quite an athlete in high school. Though small in stature, he was a star running back in football, set records in the pole vault, and was a competitor in every sport in which he participated.

Chris Tauchner left a lucrative sales job at IBM -- the golf-playing, handshaking, deal-making sort of job -- to study jazz piano at Concordia and play keyboards in Kobayashi, a Montreal electro-jazz seven-piece currently on its rst cross-Canada tour.

"Change does not change tradition, it strengthens it. Change is a challenge and an opportunity, not a threat." - Prince Philip MY WIFE AND I, along with a group of friends, attended a matinee performance of the musical, "Hair," a couple Sundays ago at the Willows Theatre in Concord.

President Barack Obama addressing the Summit on Climate Change at the United Nations in New York today.

Matthew McConaughey 's son, Levi, may be just 14 months old, but he's already giving his parents a run for their money.

"The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand." - Vince Lombardi CONCORD LOST TWO of its finest police officers at the end of July, due to early retirement.

Like a stinging rebuke to Quentin Tarantino's Inglourious Basterds , this week the Criterion Collection releases a three-disc set of Masaki Kobayashi's 1959 World War II masterpiece, The Human Condition .

Summer is filled with the hot sun, memories by the pool and, of course, the summer flicks.

Twitter's not just about what you ate for breakfast. Mark Kobayashi-Hillary explains how businesses can take advantage of it and other social networks.

Although "Buffalo Jim Reeves" placed well behind the record-setting hot dog gobbling of three-time winner Joey Chestnut in Nathan's Famous July Fourth Hot Dog Eating Contest, the big man from Boston, N. Y., was satisfied Saturday afternoon.

Don Lerman set a record by eating seven sticks of salted butter in five minutes.

The Stanley Hotel is an historic resort in Estes Park, Colo., perhaps best known for inspiring Stephen King to write his horror masterpiece The Shining .

Graham Rudge, left, pairs off against Sho Kobayashi while Mary Gamberg, Dawson Weir and Rene Koep, centre left to right, look on at the Samurai camp put on by the Aikido martial arts club.