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Tom Hoye, Surfer, Shaper And Emigre, 1945-2021 Santa Cruz to Margaret River — a classic surfing life. Tom at Injidup in 1971, just after arriving in WA. Surfline By Tom Blaxell Many surfers in Western Australia will be saddened by the loss of master surfboard maker Tom Hoye. Tom applied his considerable skills in WA for 50 years, to a devoted following. He leaves an advance orders book extending out for two years. Tom came to Australia from Northern California at the start of the 1970s. Born on April Fool’s day in 1945, he was brought up along with sister Jeananne by his single mum Marion...

What’s loose in the store and smashing goods to the floor? Staff and customers at a 7-Eleven in the Thai city of Nakhon Pathom, near Bangkok, were stunned this week by the intrusion of a giant Asian water monitor, which barged through the store and scaled shelves next to the beverage cooler, drink cartons cascading down in its wake. Shrieking bystanders recorded some of the action. Once. Twice. Thrice it almost crashed to the floor. But the lizard was muscular. It appeared determined. It could not be deterred by nine shelves of snacks, footage reveals. Tongue protruding, it remained on...

In a sign of the times — and the growing emphasis on cultural sensitivity in entertainment — Pepe’s recent SAK gig was his last in his current form. Performer Rob Ward, who created the risqué, fun-loving Pepe in 2008 for Fringe, is “evolving” the character.

Within a few minutes of “End of the Rainbow,” Judy Garland has dropped the F-bomb and nearly been caught performing a sex act on her future husband No. 5. So, yeah, we’re not in Kansas anymore.

West Linn cop's blackface clown painting removed from school February 10 2021 The West Linn Police Department issued a statement that the painting has been removed; school district says it should never have been displayed. A post in the West Linn Open Forum community Facebook group has sparked the removal of a velvet painting depicting a clown in blackface from a school resource officer's office wall at West Linn High School. The officer, Jeff Halverson, said the painting was used as an icebreaker to make students more comfortable talking to a police officer. "It's not somethin...