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Thursday, November 1, 2001
Outside the box

ONLINE VOTERS EJECT EXTROVERTED C-101 DJ
   What: 4th week of competition in Caller.com's "Survivor: South Texas"
   Who's out: Rex Gabriel, C-101 morning show host
   How many voted: 1,008
   Votes against Rex Gabriel: 396, or 39 percent
   Runner-up for most votes: Carol Gibson, aka the Lamp Lady, with 341, or 34 percent
   Why voters sank Rex Gabriel: "Get him off the island so I do not have to hear about this contest for four hours every morning!"
   Kicked out since the game began:
   1-Jack Gordy
   2-Jennifer Pena
   3-Sugar Ray
   4-Rex Gabriel
   How to play: Log on to Caller.com, go to "Survivor: South Texas" link and cast your vote. This week's round of voting lasts until 3 p.m. Wednesday.

   JAZZ FESTIVAL TO RUN ON LOCAL CABLE CHANNEL
   Highlights from this year's Texas Jazz Festival will be televised on Time Warner Cable channel 10 at various times throughout the next few weeks.
   The program, which was produced by Time Warner Cable, will air on Time Warner channel 10 today at 8 p.m. and will repeat Friday at 3 p.m., Monday at 1 p.m., Nov. 8 at 10 a.m., and Nov. 14 at 8 p.m.
   The two-hour program includes performances from headliners Tom Braxton and Randy Garibay and the crowd's heartfelt rendition of the Star Spangled Banner.

   HARRY POTTER MOVIE PROPS STOLEN
   LONDON - Three gold coins and a wizard's hat vanished from the set of the upcoming Harry Potter movie and reappeared a month later on an Internet auction site, police said Wednesday.
   Workers at the Leavesden studio in Abbots Langley, outside London, realized the props were gone when they turned up for sale on the Internet in March, said Sarah Borges, a spokeswoman for the Hertfordshire police. The studio thought the items probably had disappeared a month earlier, she said.
   Detectives are still searching for the props, Borges said. She did not know on which Web site they had been offered for sale.
   "Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone" the film based on the hugely popular first installment of J.K. Rowling's book series about a boy wizard, opens Nov. 16 in the United States. It opens on Nov. 4 in London under the title "Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone."

   IMMORTALIZED MEADOW SAVED FROM DISASTER
   LONDON - A meadow immortalized by one of England's most famous painters is to be saved from development for an annual rent of a bunch of wild flowers.
   The land in Richmond, Surrey, near London was rented Tuesday to the Petersham Trust, a preservation charity, for 125 years. Joseph Turner's painting of the Petersham Meadows is one of his most famous works. It hangs in the Tate Gallery in London.
   Property developers were looking at the land, worth an estimated $104 million.
   Chris Brasher, chairman of the Petersham Trust, said, "Turner agreed with us when we say it is one of the best views in the world - a herd of cows grazing beside a majestic river.
   "The view epitomizes what England is all about. In what other capital city would it have been preserved so lovingly?"
   - Associated Press

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