Boys Like Girls
Solanco graduate Tim Williams took a trip to New Mexico.
Leonardo DiCaprio can't wait to be called "Dad."
Scarlett Johansson has wedding stories to tell.
Britney Spears was in the Bronx, New York.
Head out to Millersville University Friday night, for a concert by Boys Like Girls, with guests Cute is What We Aim For and Lights.
Boys Like Girls has made a name for itself with hits including "The Great Escape." The Boston-based pop-rock group toured with Good Charlotte and Metro Station, among other groups.
Tickets are $15 for MU students; $20 for the general public; and $25 the day of the show. Tickets can be purchased at the MU Student Memorial Center, by calling 872-3811 or at
www.muticketsonline.com.
The concert will be held at Pucillo Gymnasium. Doors open at 7 p.m.; the show begins at 8.
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Benefit shirtsThe Conestoga Valley and Cocalico football teams have joined together to fight breast cancer.
October is Breast Cancer Awareness Month, and both teams are selling T-shirts for $10 through Friday. Anyone who wears the shirt to the Oct. 24 game between the schools will receive free admission. Proceeds from shirt sales will benefit the American Cancer Society; the teams' goal is to raise $5,000.
To purchase a shirt, contact CV coach Gerad Novak,
gerad_novak@cvsd.k12.pa.us.
Cowboy update
Solanco graduate Tim Williams, who won the state steer-wrestling championship in Harrisburg in June, traveled to New Mexico in July to compete in the National Finals Rodeo.
Despite a rocky road to the finals (a more-than-4,000-mile trip that included two blown tires and the loss of his trailer's septic piping after running over a low curb), Tim and his mom Diana arrived in New Mexico, ready to tackle the championship.
Unfortunately, Tim did not win the finals, but he did get to compete in the team roping event. His partner, whom he had roped with all year, did not make the trip out west, so Tim roped with someone he had never worked with before and did not win that event either.
Refusing to get discouraged, Tim, who last year placed fifth in the country in steer wrestling, currently appears with Dave Martin's Bullride Mania, where he'll perform in the Rodeo Finals, Saturday, Nov. 22, at the Farm Show Complex, Harrisburg. Check out
www.bullridemania.com for more info. Tim also has a scholarship to Northwestern Oklahoma State University, which he hopes to attend next year, after saving up to cover living expenses.
Celebrity news and notes• People reports that Britney Spears visited John Philip Sousa Junior High, in the Bronx, last week, to donate $10,000 from the coffers of Elizabeth Arden, which makes scents that bear the pop star's name. The money is to be used as an endowment for the school's year-old music program.
• Fox has ordered a full season of its J.J. Abrams-fueled, FBI-centric sci-fi thriller "Fringe," Variety reports. The show ranks No. 1 among all new shows in the adults 18-to-49 demographic.
• Beverly Mitchell, 27, of "7th Heaven," wore a Melissa Sweet gown to swap sacred vows with Kenneth Cole-attired accountant Michael Cameron, 27, in Ravello, Italy, last week. The 100 guests included bridesmaid and former "7th Heaven" co-star Jessica Biel, who brought along her boyfriend, Justin Timberlake. "7th Heaven's" Mackenzie Rosman also showed up. Cameron proposed — on New Year's Eve in 2005 — with a 3.5-carat yellow diamond ring by designer Louis Glick.
• Leonardo DiCaprio says his feelings about love have evolved. The 33-year-old "Revolutionary Road" star, who once boasted that he felt "few emotions," had "never been in love" and planned never to marry, is singing a new tune. "I want to get married and have children," DiCaprio tells Parade. "I realize I am contradicting everything I've said before."
DiCaprio, who says what he previously said now "sounds like the ignorance of youth," has been going steady with Israeli model Bar Refaeli, 23, for two years. So is she the reason for his 180-degree turn? Not at all. The actor just did some soul-searching.
"What I definitely feel a need for is to make my life about more than just my career," he says. He even admits love always motivated him: "Love is what people are hungry for. That's absolutely why I became an actor."
• Scarlett Johansson and Ryan Reynolds enjoyed the great outdoors during their wedding. But they weren't roughing it. Quite the contrary: People says they were at an ultra-expensive resort in Canada, which is marketed as an "ultra-luxurious eco-destination." Activities included salmon fishing, horseback riding and mountain biking. Guests even camped out in "delux tents," outfitted with private showers, Adirondack-style beds with down duvets, rugs, oil lamps and heirloom china.
• Muhammad Ali's daughter, Laila Ali, who on Aug. 26 gave birth to Curtis Muhammad Conway Jr., her first child with husband Curtis Conway, says the experience was the happiest "challenge" of her life.
Ali, 30, tells OK! mag that the 15-hour labor and delivery weren't the easiest.
"The doctor thought that the baby might have a growth restriction," says Ali, who had initially planned a home delivery. "When I got to 39 weeks, they said, 'I think we should go ahead and take the baby out,' because he wasn't getting 100 percent of his nutrients" and was thus not growing properly.
"That was hard, too, because I didn't want to be induced. You can plan all you want, but things happen!"
The baby weighed in at 6 pounds, 8 ounces.
• In music news, "Death Magnetic," by Metallica (see Music Review, page 3), stays at No. 1 on the Billboard album charts for the third week in a row, moving 132,000 copies, according to numbers from Nielsen SoundScan. Demi Lovato's "Don't Forget" enters at No. 2, with 89,000, while Ne-Yo drops a rung to No. 3, with "Year of the Gentleman."
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