today’s news and information gleanings from here and there!

Quote for today … “To those of us who knew the pain Of valentines that never came … ” – line from Janis Ian’s classic. A clip of Janis performing “At Seventeen” was included with the Saturday Night Live show last night. Definitely, there were SNL “glory years.”

• SNL guests who’ve been “banned for life” – Reading Eagle

• Remembering small town movie houses: The Midtown Cinema in Harrisburg is an example of what can be from what could have been. Attending a showing here is a treat.
  

• A lasting memory: Organ playing before watching a Batman movie at the old theatre in Marietta. Restoring the theatre is a current project.

• The weather outside truly is “frightful” – Anyone hear the thunderclaps just after midnight?

• “Readability is a website that pulls the content from any page and shows it to you in a nice, readable format, removing all the ads, navigation, etc.  Since it uses it’s own servers to render the page content, it’s not actually your browser that is requesting the content.”

• BUT … packernet.com offers “Tips for Avoiding paywalls.”

• “Many midstate restaurants inspected from Jan. 18 to 24 came through with no problems. Butt some restaurants in Dauphin, Perry, York, Cumberland and Lancaster counties had violations including mildew on shelves and rodent droppings.” Seems nearly everyone’s getting serious about restaurant and dining facilities! Harrisburg’s Patriot-News website has started listing restaurant inspections from five central PA counties.

• A complete listing of all inspections at food serving facilities in Lancaster, York counties and the entire state, except those in Columbia – Columbia persists in having its own inspection system with its own forms and inspection items – rather than the one used statewide, is available at the Pennsylvania Department of Agriculture Website.