Non-$1 Million, Non-Stub News

Catching up on other Claremont news, spanning the cultural spectrum:

Eugene R. Sheppard, an associate professor of modern Jewish history at Brandeis University, will be speaking tonight at 6:45pm at Claremont McKenna College as part of the Marion Cook Athenaeum speaker series. The lecture's entitled "Leo Strauss and Judaism: Epicureanism and Its Discontents."


Marion Miner Cook Athenaeum
385 E. 8th St.Claremont, CA 91711-6420
(909) 621-8244
athenaeum@claremontmckenna.edu

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The Daily Bulletin noted that Claremonter Jared Cicon won $5,700 for being a semi-finalist in a Heinz ketchup ad contest. Cicion' ad was shown Monday on NBC's The Today Show, according to the Bulletin's Will Bigham.

The winner, Andrew Dodson of Wheelersburg, OH, got $57,000, and Dodson's was shown during ABC's telecast of the emmy awards this past Sunday.

You can see all the ads on the Heinz's Top This TV Challenge site.

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A reader also sent a link to this video of Britney Spears and a friend on a road trip from Beverly Hills to Pomona College's Bridges Auditorium on the celebrity video site X17video.com. Spears was using Bridges as a rehearsal space for a performance of the MTV Video Musica Awards, according to Will Bigham.

For those of you with voyueristic tendencies, you can watch Spears and Co. stopping at a Charo Chicken drive-thru for a quick nosh, and then later popping into a liquor store for another snack. It's sort of like a wildlife documentary.

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