Friday , October 16 2026

Eric Olsen

Career media professional and serial entrepreneur Eric Olsen flung himself into the paranormal world in 2012, creating the America's Most Haunted brand and co-authoring the award-winning America's Most Haunted book, published by Berkley/Penguin in Sept, 2014. Olsen is co-host of the nationally syndicated broadcast and Internet radio talk show After Hours AM; his entertaining and informative America's Most Haunted website and social media outlets are must-reads: Twitter@amhaunted, Facebook.com/amhaunted, Pinterest America's Most Haunted. Olsen is also guitarist/singer for popular and wildly eclectic Cleveland cover band The Props.

“There Are a Few Obstacles”

Like the “Kim: Rot in Pieces” tattoo, the murderous lyrics, she having someone else’s baby, but love conquers all according to Eminem’s grandmother: Betty Kresin told The Post from her home in Missouri that Kim has moved back into the controversial singer’s mansion in suburban Detroit. “They’re back together,” Kresin …

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North Pole Times

The online journal of the North Pole: for cyber-kids and true believers. The most immediate concern is a crisis concerning Santa having some spacecraft issues: On Thanksgiving, Santa Claus and Waldo Elf were blasted into orbit aboard The Santa Shuttle, an unfinished spaceship. Although Santa and Waldo are safe, they …

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Pearl Jam’s Boots Have Legs

They’re doing it again: Defying conventional wisdom and their own apprehensions, the Seattle rockers released a live double album for each of the 72 shows on its 2000-01 world tour — a staggering 144 discs. And the band is ramping up for a second avalanche pegged to its 2003 tour. …

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GNR Blows Off Philly

Guns N’ Roses didn’t bother to show up Friday night for their scheduled Philadelphia concert. 14,000 fans got pissed: Furious fans at a sold-out rock show went into a bottle-throwing frenzy when Guns N’ Roses failed to appear, and police were called to the concert arena. Witnesses at the First …

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Wireless Networks Called Security Threat

Richard Clarke, the federal homeland security cyber-poobah says wireless networks are vulnerable: Wi-Fi manufacturers, as well as home and office users, face a clear choice, they said: Secure yourselves or be regulated. “Homeland Security is putting people in place who will be in a position to say, ‘If you’re going …

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Record Sales Inflation Scheme

I ws just telling someone that Soundscan largely solved the significant problem of falsified sales figures for chart position, and then this turns up: Independent music retailers are fabricating numbers reported to Nielsen Soundscan, inflating the number of albums sold by music labels such as white-hot Island Def Jam, The …

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Gateway to Load Pressplay Into New PCs

Gateway getting cozy with digital music services: Computer maker Gateway on Friday announced a deal with online music provider Pressplay to load its PCs with 2,000 songs from music stars such as Eminem, Bruce Springsteen, the Dixie Chicks and Frank Sinatra. The deal with Pressplay, a joint venture between Vivendi …

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Billy “illy B” Martin Interview

Billy Martin has split duty as drummer-percussionist for the wildly popular and successful jazz groove trio Medeski Martin and Wood, and he runs his own label, Amulet, that specializes in “the art of percussion, avant-garde and beyond…” Billy also records for Amulet under the name “illy B,” and has a …

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Probation for the Sticky-Fingered Minx

Winona Ryder was given probation for her shoplifting conviction today: Actress Winona Ryder was spared jail time on Friday for shoplifting thousands of dollars in designer goods, but was ordered by a Beverly Hills judge to serve three years probation and undergo counseling to come to grips with a guilt …

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Before They Were Famous

If you don’t read Jan Herman daily you should – he’s everything an arts and entertainment writer should be: sophisticated but not snotty, worldly but not jaded, experienced but not worn out, funny, and with a fierce integrity. Today he outdoes himself with a wistful but not cloying reminiscence about …

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