January 2009
“EL PASO - A memorial service was to be held Wednesday in Denton for an El Paso...”
– El Paso native who wrote memorable pop songs has died - El Paso Times
December 2008
Folkwear Sewing Patterns with Timeless Style →
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Art - At Chapel of Sacred Mirrors, Art... →
While the chapel in Chelsea will close with a New Year’s Eve party, the Greys’ project will not come to an end. Through the chapel’s corporation and with help from donors, they have bought a 40-acre plot of land in the upstate town of Wappinger, where they plan to rebuild the chapel and develop an interfaith retreat center. There, eventually, they intend to construct a great four-story, domed...
“Digital cameras let us do away with whatever we decide is not quite right, and...”
– Critic’s Notebook - The Polaroid - Imperfect, Yet Magical - NYTimes.com
The Luxe Chronicles: Wishes You A Very Merry... →
British Vogue Christmas covers from 1924, 1929 and 2001.
Joyeux Noel, Merry Christmas, Feliz Navidad, Buon Natale!
Sincerely,
The Luxe Chronicles
“What’s fascinating and disturbing about this moment in our culture is this...”
– Celebrity scandal in 2008 | Salon Arts & Entertainment
By late December, even celeb site Jossip raised the white flag in a post called, “Gossip’s Dead and It’s Everyone’s Fault.” The item offered a brief summation of the fallen soldiers on the field: “Ben...
“Galleries are closing. Museums are in slash-back mode. So 2009 could be 1989 all...”
– Art - In Galleries at Year’s End, Out With the Fat and In With the Hungry - NYTimes.com
“Anne Cunningham, the housing specialist and liaison to senior citizens for Ms....”
– Big City - Art Gives New Outlook to the Evicted Owner of a Cherished Bookstore - NYTimes.com
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“The river is life, the wall is death.”
– Bobby Byrd: JUDY ACKERMAN & THE STANDOFF AL RIO BOSQUE
Judy Ackerman, a member of Friends of Rio Bosque and the Sierra Club, decided to put a stop to the construction. A 20-year veteran of the U.S. Army, Judy knew how to prepare for the occasion. She wore a hard hat and a reflecting jacket, she...
Art Review - 'Twixt Art and Nature' - History in... →
A lot happened during this period, especially after 1642. Two civil wars culminated in the beheading of King Charles I in 1649. Then came 10 years of the Cromwells and all that, followed by the Restoration (1660), the Great Plague of London (1665) and the Great Fire of London (1666), which did much to extinguish the Great Plague. Finally a fairly bloodless revolution (1688) was quickly followed...
“Is compulsive shopping a mental problem? Do children who continually recoil from...”
– Psychiatrists Revise the Book of Human Troubles - NYTimes.com
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“Somebody in the F.B.I.?” Mr. Nixon asked.
“Yes, sir,” Mr. Haldeman replied....”
– W. Mark Felt, Watergate Deep Throat, Dies at 95 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Associated Press Mark Felt in 1976 on “Face the Nation.”
No one, including Mr. Felt, ever answered that question in full. Mr. Felt later said he believed that the president had been misusing the F.B.I. for...
Researchers Create YouTube Archiving Tool -... →
A new project called ContextMiner has been created by researchers at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The tool lets anyone automate the collection of links to online videos and blogs along with their extensive metadata. Although they’re calling ContextMiner a YouTube archiving tool, it doesn’t actually download the videos off the site…yet. Instead, it extracts the...
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“The Betty Pages was filled with essays, interviews, reproductions of pinup...”
– An Appraisal - Always Comfortable in Her Own Skin - NYTimes.com Paula Klaw/Movie Star News Bettie Page in one of a number of movies she made for the photographer Irving Klaw around the 1950s.
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Isaac Mizrahi on Life and Style | WBUR and NPR's... →
Photos from Isaac Mizrahi’s “Spring-Summer 2009 Show” (after you click on the first image, click on the arrows box in the lower right corner to view photos full-screen)
“By opposing the automaker bailout, Republicans now find themselves vulnerable to...”
– Cheney: It’s ‘Herbert Hoover’ time - Manu Raju - Politico.com
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Hispanic Magazine | Out spoken and on line →
Hispanic Magazine provides a list of political blogs for a Latino audience.
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BBC News | The Good Life house for sale (2001) →
A bee colony is included in the price of TV house The self-sufficient home featured in the 1970s sitcom The Good Life has been put up for sale.
The four bedroom detached house is on the market for £570,000, complete with vegetable patch and bee colony.
The characters of Tom and Barbara Good, played by Richard Briers and Felicity Kendal, supposedly resided in Surbiton but in fact the house is...
Inconvenient Truths →
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The media’s disingenuous failure to state the obvious.
Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum... →
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How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? The answer could lie not in biology but in six-dimensional math and the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.
USA TODAY Special Report – The Smokestack Effect –... →
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National Rank1st percentile 267 of 127,800 schools have worse air.
Exposure to cancer-causing toxics
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Teresa Wu - Generation Y in the Workplace... →
December 7, 2008 · 77 comments
This is a guest post by Teresa Wu
As Gen Y enters the professional world, we bring a whole new set of rules. We’re often criticized for our restless job-jumping or our sense of entitlement. The truth is, we might play the game differently, but that doesn’t mean we’re not every bit as bright, innovative, and hardworking. Here’s why.
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“Teasing is just such an act of off-record communication: provocative commentary...”
– In Defense of Teasing - NYTimes.com
Actually, I believe about 50% of my father’s discourse is laced with over-the-top fantasy riffs about his cooking prowess (not!) or any subject at hand, with the rest dyed in the wool regular and silly teasing.
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The Associated Press: Journalists become targets... →
Juarez’s journalists take extraordinary risks for their daily blood-and-gore reports. They careen through traffic, often arriving at crime scenes before the police. Photographers have stumbled across hitmen who fired shots, pistol-whipped them and stole their cameras.
On a recent morning, an AP reporter accompanied a TV crew as it plied the streets looking for the day’s dead. The...
Free Streaming Live Music, Vintage Tees, retro... →
King Biscuit Flour Hour Archives. Streaming for IPods too.
