Newser - Arts & Livinghttp://www.newser.com/2008 - Newseren-usNewser Feed GeneratorWed, 19 Nov 2008 12:06:32 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42993/obama-girls-join-exclusive-white-house-sorority.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIf Malia Obama sneaks a boy into the White House, it won’t be an action without precedent. The generations of girls who occupied what Margaret Truman billed “the Great White Jail” form a sort of underground society, Lauren Collins writes in the New Yorker . The Johnson sisters, for example, planted notes to welcome the Nixon ladies to the home where they surreptitiously entertained dates.http://www.newser.com/story/42993/obama-girls-join-exclusive-white-house-sorority.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 11:53:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43070/chuck-norris-prop-8-foes-wreaking-anarchy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultOpponents of California's gay marriage ban need to learn how democracy works, Chuck Norris argues at TownHall.com. Post-election Proposition 8 protesters are attacking churches for backing the ban and threatening boycotts, Norris writes, when they should be accepting the majority vote of their fellow Californians. "Like it or not, it's the law now," the actor writes. "The people have spoken."http://www.newser.com/story/43070/chuck-norris-prop-8-foes-wreaking-anarchy.html?refid=rss_all_defaultWed, 19 Nov 2008 8:26:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43029/south-park-duo-to-skewer-mormons-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultCanadians can rest easy. The creators of South Park are ready to offend an entirely new population—Mormons, reports the New York Post . This time, though, they will do so not on the big screen or the small screen but on Broadway. Trey Parker and Matt Stone are bringing the Mormon Musical to the Great White Way with the help of Avenue Q creator Robert Lopez.http://www.newser.com/story/43029/south-park-duo-to-skewer-mormons-on-broadway.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 16:15:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42982/atheists-offer-reasons-greetings-in-marketing-blitz.html?refid=rss_all_defaultIt just isn’t the holiday season in America until nonbelievers and the devout begin sparring. This year, the godless are on the offensive, launching a marketing campaign to capitalize on the loosening grip of organized religion, telling neighbors, “We’re just like you,” the Wall Street Journal reports. Next month’s HumanLight celebration is intended as another milestone in their fight to enter America’s mainstream.http://www.newser.com/story/42982/atheists-offer-reasons-greetings-in-marketing-blitz.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 14:25:01 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42975/nonprofits-may-be-future-of-muckraking.html?refid=rss_all_defaultInternet journalism has long been dominated by partisan commentary, gossip, and well-intentioned amateurs, but that’s all changing, the New York Times reports. Sites like VoiceofSanDiego or the St. Louis Beacon are doing serious, investigative journalism many a newspaper would envy at a fraction of the cost. Voice’s reports on local corruption, for example, have led to investigations and criminal charges.http://www.newser.com/story/42975/nonprofits-may-be-future-of-muckraking.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 12:50:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42956/beyonce-more-gimmicky-than-fierce.html?refid=rss_all_defaultBeyoncé’s latest, I Am … Sasha Fierce , consists of two discs: one with “some lovely ballads” and the other “aggressive, sexual, and, well, fierce,” writes Leah Greenblatt in Entertainment Weekly . But despite a few gems, “the collection might have been better served had she edited it down to one disc, rather than belabor what ultimately seems like a marketing gimmick,” Greenblatt notes.http://www.newser.com/story/42956/beyonce-more-gimmicky-than-fierce.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 11:47:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/43003/tivo-adds-dominos-to-its-menu.html?refid=rss_all_defaultHungry? Don't get up from the couch. TiVo customers can now order Domino's pizza right on their TVs, the Wall Street Journal reports, in a promotion that pops up when a customer forwards through a Domino's commercial. The promotion has two goals: Beefing up the pizza chain's bottom line—shares are down 71% in the past year—and taking advantage of DVR technology, which is popular with consumers but not advertisers.http://www.newser.com/story/43003/tivo-adds-dominos-to-its-menu.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 9:46:00 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42943/bruno-borat-disrupts-nbc-set.html?refid=rss_all_defaultNo one saw it coming. Production was temporarily halted and an extra forcibly removed during the filming of the popular NBC detective series the Medium when the actor suddenly disrupted a tense courtroom scene involving Patricia Arquette, reports Entertainment Weekly . The extra turned out to be Borat star Sacha Baron Cohen in character as his latest alter-ego, flamboyant fashion reporter "Bruno."http://www.newser.com/story/42943/bruno-borat-disrupts-nbc-set.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTue, 18 Nov 2008 3:05:25 CSThttp://www.newser.com/story/42937/banks-will-pay-for-top-model-contestants-sex-change.html?refid=rss_all_defaultTyra Banks shocked a former America's Next Top Model contestant by offering to pay for her sex change, the New York Daily News reports. Transgendered Isis King, booted off the show for flunking a poolside photo shoot, was stunned when Banks said a doctor will operate pro bono. "This is not happening," cried King on the Tyra Banks Show episode, slated to air tomorrow night.http://www.newser.com/story/42937/banks-will-pay-for-top-model-contestants-sex-change.html?refid=rss_all_defaultMon, 17 Nov 2008 19:27:59 CST