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Onstage presentation happens "one-night only" this year and will likely pack out the church's 4,000 seat cathedral DETROIT, April 1 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- It's more than a stage production. The color, the pageantry, and the presentation make it an experience. Greater Grace Temple presents "The Whip, Hammer, & Cross," the powerful story of Jesus Christ and Calvary. It happens, Good Friday, April 2nd at the "City of David, 23500 W. Seven Mile Rd. Start time is 7:00 p.m. Doors...

WEST CHESTER, Pa., Nov. 13 /PRNewswire/ -- Metabo Corporation, a leading international manufacturer of professional grade portable electric power tools and abrasives for industrial, construction and welding applications, recently unveiled the SB18 LT hammer drill/driver from the lithium-ion PowerMasterSeries of 18 V cordless power tools. At only 8-13/16" long, Metabo's new SB18 LT hammer drill/driver is more compact than other cordless models in its class to increase ease of use in tight...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M., Nov. 2 /PRNewswire/ -- Principal photography began today on Let Me In, writer/director Matt Reeves' adaptation of Let the Right One In, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. Reeves (Cloverfield) and young stars Kodi Smit-McPhee (The Road) and Chloe Moretz ((500) Days of Summer) were among those on-set as filming commenced on the Hammer Films production at Albuquerque Studios. Filming will also take place in various other locations in New Mexico before returning to Albuquerque to...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., Oct. 1 /PRNewswire/ -- Kodi Smit-McPhee, Chloe Moretz and Oscar®-nominee Richard Jenkins will headline the cast of Let Me In, Matt Reeves' adaptation of Let the Right One In, when principal photography begins this fall in New Mexico. The announcement was made today by Hammer Films Co-CEOs Simon Oakes and Nigel Sinclair, as well as Overture Films CEO Chris McGurk and COO Danny Rosett. Director Reeves (Cloverfield) has cast Smit-McPhee (The Road) and Moretz ((500)...

SEATTLE, Sept. 25 /PRNewswire/ -- The following blog post was published September 22, 2009, by Shafeen Charania, author of the synthesis blog, winner of the 2008 Weblog award for best new blog, and Time.com's 25 best blogs of 2009. If the only tool you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail. When the problem you're trying to solve requires tweezers, utilizing experts in hammering may not yield the ideal outcome. America's efforts in Afghanistan are now eight years old. During this...

BEVERLY HILLS, Calif., July 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Gravity Summit is pleased to announce that MC Hammer, the multi-platinum selling rapper and Executive Producer and star of A & E's new reality series Hammertime, will be the featured keynote speaker at the upcoming Social Media Marketing for Business conference at the Harvard Faculty Club in Cambridge, MA on August 31, 2009. The theme of this year's event is "Twitter and social media's role in today's culture and how that impacts your...

A 41-year-old woman has been arrested after allegedly wielding a hammer and confronting Jade Goody, the cancer-stricken reality TV star's publicist said. The terminally ill former Big Brother star was lying in her bed Sunday at the Royal Marsden Hospital in London when the woman entered her room, brandishing a hammer and looming over her, The Times of London reported. (Goody's husband Jack Tweed) had been with her for a few hours and had gone to get a cup of tea in the canteen when this...

By Victor Gordon THEY made the blood curdle, the spine chill, the hair stand on end. But Hammer Films, whose gory productions died a death in the 1970s when TV killed off the cinema until its resurrection in the late 20th century lives again - in Ireland! The final nail has been extracted from the Hammer coffin and the makers of all things horrific have risen from their tomb, and turned up in dear old Donegal for its first film in three decades. The new film is a grave production called...

MIAMI (Reuters) - Mystery writer Mickey Spillane, who created the tough-guy private eye Mike Hammer, died on Monday at his South Carolina home at age 88, a funeral home official said. The cause of death was not immediately announced. "Mr. Spillane died this morning at his home here. His family was with him," said Brian Edgerton, funeral director at the Goldfinch Funeral Home in Murrells Inlet, South Carolina. Born Frank Morrison Spillane on March 9, 1918, in Brooklyn, New York,...

MIAMI (Reuters) - A Florida man has confessed to bludgeoning his roommate to death with a sledgehammer handle and a claw hammer after an argument that started over an empty roll of toilet paper, authorities said Tuesday. Franklin Paul Crow, 56, was arrested early Monday and later charged with murder in the beating death of 58-year-old Kenneth Matthews in the small town of Moss Bluff, according to the Marion County Sheriff's Office. Capt. Jimmy Pogue said Crow told investigators he...