• Just call her the party planner! Brooke Shields coordinated a small gathering at N.Y.C.'s Bowlmor Lanes, where the actress and her two daughters, Rowan, 7, and Grier, 5, helped celebrate a family friend's birthday. Everyone cheered and high-fived with the actress's girls as they enjoyed the alley's glow-in-the-dark lanes. Shields also helped her youngest daughter perfect her aim.
In the great, neon-lit rackety universe of bowling enthusiasts, there are some men who stand out from the rest. John Amend, a 62-year-old resident of Dallas, is among them. Amend caught the bowling bug 10 years ago, when he went with one of his sons to Showplace Lanes in suburban Garland, Texas, and rolled for the first time in 35 years. "That just ignited me," he recalls. Soon he was spending four or five nights a week at Showplace Lanes. He bought a pair of black Dexter bowling shoes. He purchased his own lane-gripping, reactive resin ball. Then he hired a bowling coach, overcoming a natural "chicken-wing" delivery to boost his average score to about 200 pins a game.
Grandma's waiting for me on a lone bench in the heat, just beyond her building's shaded front entrance. She's wearing denim capris and a lightweight cable-knit sweater that precisely matches the yellow patent leather moccasins on her feet. Saucer-sized sunglasses block out her face, and her silvery hair is cut short and chic.
The reality starlet hits the VIP lane at the grand opening of a Connecticut alley
It wasn't the dream wedding Rachel Sifuentes, 28, envisioned as a little girl.
The Date Night star wants to make something very clear: No wife swapping!
The country star goes bowling with Cory Monteith, then has lunch with her ex Lautner the next day
Kelly Kulick's favorite movie is A League of Their Own.
More than 500 seniors participated in a Wii bowling championship in an effort to improve their quality of life.
On a Monday night earlier this month, the projection screen hanging on the wall of a bowling alley in Brooklyn's bar-heavy Williamsburg neighborhood was displaying neither strikes nor scores, but columns of the Twitter client TweetDeck.
President Barack Obama turns 48 on Tuesday. While the first family encourages you to send contributions to your favorite charity in lieu of the White House, if you insist on doing some last-minute birthday shopping for 44, you might consider a pair of jeans or a case of Bud Light. For some historical precedent, here's a look back at some of the more interesting presidential gifts.
The Ugly Betty star says her twins laugh at the dogs - and their parents' bowling skills
Nancy Grace Producer Phil Rosenbaum has an update on the murder of 23-year old Alana Gwinner, killed in Ohio in 1997.
Alana "Laney" Gwinner, a 23-year-old accounting student at the University of Cincinnati, had a lot to celebrate Tuesday, December 9, 1997. She had just aced an exam and received a promotion at work.
CNN's Suzanne Malveaux looks at President Obama's appearance with Jay Leno.
An unexpected and sudden spotlight on the Special Olympics, an organization that for more than 40 years has served and honored those with intellectual disabilities, comes less than two weeks before the nonprofit launches a new campaign: Spread the Word to the End the Word.
President Obama mixed jokes with serious discussion Thursday during an appearance on "The Tonight Show with Jay Leno."
The Grammy nominee also stands up for marijuana while hanging out with Katie Couric
LOS ANGELES -- Early Monday evening, two hours before his annual bowling tournament was set to begin at Lucky Strike Lanes in Hollywood, Chargers linebacker Shawne Merriman approached a clerk and requested that one lane be opened. "I've got to practice," he said.
The Diff'rent Strokes star allegedly backed his car into a fan who took his photo
A man accusing Coleman of running him over "brought it on himself," the actor's attorney says
For a while this offseason, life for Chris Paul felt like a series of 7-10 splits. Here one day, way over there the next. He bounced from Winston-Salem, N.C., to Las Vegas. From Vegas to Beijing, then back. Down to New Orleans with his brother, C.J., then out of there lickety-split when Hurricane Gustav roared their way. Finally back to Winston-Salem. It was as if the New Orleans Hornets' point guard and his All-Star skills were left standing in one corner of a slickly oiled lane, his head and his heart stranded across the way in the other.
The misdemeanor charges stem from an altercation at a Utah bowling alley
Police in Utah say the actor hit a man with his truck after an argument
Much has been made of the whole "what do women want/what do men want" thing. I think it's actually pretty simple: Women want men to know what women want. And men want women not to want anything.
The post-Katrina emergency management agency is doing better in responding to the Iowa floods. But there are still some complaints
As the waters crest and begin to recede in some spots, the state's beleaguered residents brace for what they may find
• Audrina Patridge, kissing her new man, Tal Cooperman, at the grand opening of bowling lane Strike Orange County in Tustin, Calif. The Hills star and Cooperman – who co-owns the DCMA Collective clothing line with pals Joel Madden and brother Benji – kept their PDA low-key and bowled with a posse including her tattooed sister Casey. Though Patridge didn't hang out with Hills costars Lauren Conrad, Lauren "Lo" Bosworth and Whitney Port, who did their best to get a strike several lanes over, she did send over a round of Patron shots.
Looking at the faces around the table at a bowling alley nestled inside of a local GameWorks, Willie McGinest's decision seems natural, if not easy.
Obama is trying to unnerve Clinton by campaigning in working-class areas that are expected to give her a big victory
OK, I've learned to accept it that the Dodgers left Brooklyn and the Colts left Baltimore and NASCAR left Rockingham. And I even finally bore up to the reality that Brad actually left Jennifer. But, I'm sorry, I simply can't take it if bowling leaves Milwaukee.
NEW ORLEANS -- He's broken or tied 29 NCAA records. He finished third in this season's Heisman voting. Yet for all he's accomplished in 34 starts as a college quarterback, Colt Brennan's career is almost certain to be defined by how he performs in his final game.
Brad Pitt and Angelina Jolie pinned down some family time at a French bowling alley Monday as their vacation rolled to an end, PEOPLE has learned.
There should be some tension between Matt Leinart and Vince Young. It was Young who dashed Leinart's dream of finishing his collegiate career with a national championship at the Rose Bowl. It was also Young who was picked third in the 2006 NFL Draft to play under Norm Chow in Tennessee while Leinart nearly fell out of the top 10. Yet there the two quarterbacks are chatting and sharing a drink next to the pool table at Lucky Strike in Hollywood during Leinart's first annual celebrity bowling night benefiting his foundation.
NEW YORK -- Five behind-the-scenes tales from the 2007 NBA Draft:
SI.com: Pros vs. Pros updated: Tue Feb 06 2007 15:13:00
Excited for Saturday's Pro Bowl? Me neither. With so many players sitting out due to injuries, the game has more subs than that Jared guy.
Fortune: You do what?updated: Wed Nov 08 2006 14:36:00
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