A regular roundup of stuff that wouldn’t necessarily make it on the blog, but is worth noting:
• The renovations at the Lovers Lane Central Market are mostly done, and the store should be back to normal by the end of the month or the beginning of November. The remodeled cafe is set to open Oct. 31.
• And who says social networking isn’t dangerous? An English husband murdered his estranged wife after she changed her Facebook listing to say she was single. The BBC reports that the man was drunk and high on cocaine, and that he beat her, tore out clumps of her hair, and repeatedly stabbed her in the head and neck.
• If you’ve noticed that there aren’t as many ads for credit cards on TV, you’re right. Television ad spending declined 24 percent in the first three weeks of September from a year earlier, after rising almost 27 percent the previous two months, according to the Nielsen Co.
• Even those of us who preferred the Temptations will miss Levi Stubbs, the lead singer for the Four Tops. He died last week at the age of 72 after a series of illnesses dating to 2000. The Four Tops were the Temps’ great rival during Motown’s heyday in the 1960s and early 1970s. But the Four Tops never stopped performing, including this, from Sesame Street in the 1980s, and courtesy of YouTube. You can’t beat that choreography.
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