Josh Radnor, who stars as Ted Mosby in the CBS sitcom How I Met Your Mother, will detail his journey from Bexley to Hollywood in his upcoming memoir, One Big Blissful Thing.

The book also will make an unexpected stop in Brazil, where Radnor apparently hung out with a shaman in 2007 and helped himself to some ayahuasca, an indigenous plant medicine known for its hallucinogenic properties.

From One Big Blissful Thing‘s Amazon page:

“The story of one man’s unlikely spiritual awakening—this is Eat, Pray, Love for those who would rather be reading McSweeney’s . Josh

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While doing press for the historical action picture , LucasFilm producer Rick McCallum ‘let slip’ a few details about what might become the highly anticipated live-action Star Wars television series. Pur

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Erica Fernandez, a Stanford student from Oxnard, continues to garner recognition and awards for her environmental activism.

Fernandez’s latest achievement came at the seventh annual MY HERO International Film Festival last month in Los Angeles, where the 2011 Daniel Eldon Activist Award went to the short documentary “Erica Fernandez: The Tool of Protest.”

Narrated by Fernandez, the six-minute film was produced by The Working Group, an Oakland-based nonprofit media company contracted to produce Sacramento-based Unity Lab’s “Tools of Unity” short documentary series.

The film tells the story of Fernandez, 21, who came with her family from Mexico to Oxnard at age 10.

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MARSHALL, Ill. — Join the Harlan Hall Entertainment Committee for a fabulous night of fun and frolic at the Winter Wild Sock Hop on Saturday at Harlan Hall.

Entertainment will include DJ Dan Crews, who will play favorite hits from the 50s, 60s, and 70s (and maybe some more modern tunes as well). There will be mini dance contests for the jitterbug (swing dance), the twist and disco complete with prizes.

Guests are encouraged to dress in the style of their favorite musical decade. Snacks will be provided, and a cash bar will be available. Doors open at 7:30 p.m. CDT, and the DJ plays from 8 to 11 p.m.

There will be a cover charge at the door of $7 per person or $12 per couple.

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Today is Zooey Deschanel‘s birthday. Every hipster boy and hipster girl across the great plains of America should rejoice in unison, as your adorable poster girl is 32. Zooey, as we all know, is ridiculously multi-talented, and has managed to sustain a ridiculously successful film career, as well as a burgeoning folk singing one.

Additionally, she is even a co-founder of hellogiggles.com, an adorable blog targeted to young females like herself.

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There’s a Zelda visual guide book coming soon to celebrate the 25th anniversary of the game series. The Legend of Zelda was released on 21 February 1986.

The Japanese title is ハイラル・ヒストリア ゼルダの伝説大全: 任天堂公式ガイドブック. The book is going to be 274 pages.

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