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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
Interviewing a Bee Gee can be a tricky business. There was the notorious incident on Clive Anderson's talk show when all three brothers Gibb strode off after tiring of their host's wisecracks. And there was the time Robin Gibb, invited on to Radio 4's Front Row to discuss his last solo album with the probing but hardly combative Mark Lawson, peeled off his mic in mid-conversation.
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Designers who Blog (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
WeeWillDoodle Monday morning. YAWN! After staying up late last night, I turned on the news (finally) this morning (late morning) and watched WeeWillDoodle on the BBC. And since WeeWillDoodle also has a blog, here they are on DWB. WeeWillDoodle is a group of artists deeply in love with the power of the doodle. [...]
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Gadgets and latest digital toys (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
The FusionHDTV7 Dual Express will carry the honor of being the first dual HD (Digital or QAM) reception PCI express card, specially designed for digital/analogue terrestrial and digital cable reception within the desktop and laptop computer environment. It will be compliant with the North America digital terrestrial standard, ATSC, as well as the analogue TV standard, NTSC. You will get dual silicon...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
As safe as houses. No place like home. An Englishman's home is his castle. Our language is replete with positive references to housing. It's almost as if we're programmed to believe, from a very early age, that housing is somehow "safe".
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Dispatches from Tanganyika (Free subscription) | 4 hours ago
I'm very sad that I have posted my clever new FAIL icon in several places and no one has commented on its brilliance. Maybe these young Internet kids have no clue what it's all about ... *mutter* *fulminate*
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Veritas et Venustas (Free subscription) | 7 hours ago
IT IS A TRUTH UNIVERSALLY ACKNOWLEDGED, that a young man in a good architecture school, must be deciding 1960s-style buildings. That's the impression you get from Dwell, which I read recently in the airport. The issue I read featured sober and straightforward new houses that all looked like they were...
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
There is little doubt that Salman Rushdie's novel, Midnight's Children, is considered one of the most important works of modern times. In 1981, the novel, which deals with the partition of India, picked up the Booker Prize. Twelve years later, it earned greater literary kudos by being selected as the Booker of Bookers, a title given to mark the prize's 25th anniversary.
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Times Online (Free subscription) | yesterday
To celebrate 40 years of the Man Booker literary prize, a shortlist of six past winners has been drawn up, from which one will be picked by the public for a Best of the Booker award.
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Alex Constantine's Blacklist (Free subscription) | 8 hours ago
" ... Guantanamo has three Starbucks stands ... " by Nick Turse Metropolitan March 2008, 304 pages $24.00 by Chris Barsanti At some point while readers are perusing his The Complex , Tomdispatch.com associate editor Nick Turse appears to want readers to put the book down and breathe out a quiet, awed, “Whoa”. The idea seems to be that readers will have had no idea, none, about the extent to which the...
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ideonexus (Free subscription) | yesterday
My sister and I had some difficulty getting into the MoMa because the street was closed so the Pope could come down one of the adjacent roads. Luckily, my sister showed me how to get past the police barricade (you wait until their dealing with someone else and walk past them). Of course, a friend [...]
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
In writing about the (apparently soon to come) ouster of Random House head Peter Olson Marion Maneker suggests: If you want to understand book publishing, you need to think less Bloomsbury and more Gambino.
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The most recent addition to the complete review is our review of Per Wahloo's The Generals.
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The ridiculous 'Best of the Booker'-competition proceeds apace, as they've now announced the shortlist. Obviously, the public couldn't be trusted to winnow down the list to six finalists, so a panel of judges made the choice for them -- but they (you !) can now vote for the winner, if you care to.
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
The Franschhoek Literary Festival is coming up -- and this year that's where they'll be announcing the winners of the Commonwealth Writers' Prize, on the 18th.
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the Literary Saloon (Free subscription) | 3 hours ago
In Measure for Measure in the Boston Globe Jonathan Gottschall argues that: 'Literary criticism could be one of our best tools for understanding the human condition. But first, it needs a radical change: embracing science'.
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puigmarti | 02/04/2008
Hotel Estela Barcelona – Art Hotel and World Gallery invite you to the opening of the exhibition of Fili Plaza to be held in the lobby of the artistic hotel on Friday April 11th at 20:00 pm, and which will remain until the month of July. Fili Plaza was born in Salamanca in 1957, moving to Barcelona to study Interiorism at the School of Arts and Crafts, where she also took courses in ceramics. This...
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puigmarti | 29/03/2008
The relentless artistic activity to which Josep Puigmarti is delivered, leads him to work on his relentless quest for beauty through his creations, either in his facet as a painter or sculptor. We are talking about a genius in his purest form, with a unique view of the world around him that he reflects in his works. As a painter, his "Singular Figurations", "Alien fashion" and his new lines "Freedom"...
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puigmarti | 28/03/2008
The Barcelona Airport , in collaboration with the Foundation Trinijove , has just edited the graphic collection “Solidarity and commitment”, performed by the Catalan painter and sculptor Josep Puigmarti , which seeks to promote coexistence in peace through concepts as sustainability, employability, integration, diversity and culture. The collection consists of five postcards linked, each one of them,...
