(Photo by Harrison Funk/MJ Memorial via Getty Images)The Michael Jackson film This Is It, featuring rehearsal and behind-the-scenes footage of the singer as he prepared for his London comeback shows, is headed to the big screen on Oct. 30. Proceeds from the flick will go to MJ’s estate. Meanwhile, an all-star concert honoring the late King of Pop is being planned in Vienna. Finally, the rendition of “Smile” that Jermaine Jackson sang at his brother’s memorial is headed to iTunes.
Look through the Michael Jackson gallery with photos from his lifetime.
Hoping to send tourists — and spending — up, up and away, Navy Pier plans to open a new balloon ride as early as this year.
New York-based AeroBalloon will operate the new attraction, a tethered-to-the-ground balloon that, according to the company Web site, would allow tourists to “See Chicago as Never Before — Floating 35 stories above Navy Pier!”
Up to 14 passengers, plus the operator, would go up on any given ride. Passengers would be required to wear a harness attached to the gondola to prevent them from falling out during the 15-minute rides.
The picture above is of the AeroBalloon in the Boston Commons. To read more about the new attraction, including pricing, click here.
Don’t forget to check out the 104.3 JACK FM RCN Connection Crew at Navy Pier EVERY WEDNESDAY for music, prizes, and fireworks!
In the past three months more than $10,000 (£5,000) worth of cucumbers have gone missing from allotments and gardens.
In the latest of the 11 thefts, 50 bags of cucumbers were stolen from a glasshouse on Saturday night.
Police, who have very few leads, have appealed to the public for help.
Chief Inspector Kym Zander said the crimes were certainly “unique”.
“We’re having difficulty establishing where they’re going,” he told the Australian Broadcasting Corporation “It’s obvious or evident that it is somebody in the know to establish which glasshouse is growing cucumbers, tomatoes, et cetera.
“We find that the cucumbers are being picked, they’re being either packed in bags or in buckets ready for the market the next morning and when the growers turn up with their vehicles the glasshouse is bare.”
Insp Zander admitted that even if police could trace the missing vegetables, it would be hard to determine which ones were stolen.
“The issue with the cucumber is how do you and I tell who owns a different cucumber?”
This is too funny. “That’s my cucumber!” “No, that’s MY cucumber!”
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Axel chillin’ on a hot summer day.
Owner: Caryn Griffith
