JSOnline (Free subscription) | yesterday
The acme of the Milwaukee Choristers' 75th anniversary season is coming Saturday. At that concert, the Choristers will premiere three pieces of music composed to celebrate the occasion. The Brazeal Dennard Chorale, a small, elite, African-Ameri...
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 08/10/2008
The expert view on how the credit crunch will impact on the NHS
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 04/10/2008
Peter Mandelson's qualities are plain, but his ability to divide will trouble Labour loyalists, writes
PinkNews.co.uk (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
He has always been a figure of controversy, and today friends and foes of Peter Mandelson have lost no time in sharing their views on his shock return to Cabinet.
Famecrawler (Free subscription) | 28/09/2008
Ex-James Bond and Remington Steel star Pierce Brosnan, 55, was out shopping in Malibu recently and brought along his sons Paris and Dylan. Brosnan enjoyed a meaty role in "Mamma Mia!" this year and will be out in a film adaptation of Robert Harris' novel "The Ghost" next year. Source
Bookninja (Free subscription) | 25/09/2008
The Guardian has a bunch of articles by key practioners on how to write in various forms. Good, entertaining, basics stuff. Here’s Wendy Cope on poetry, and Robert Harris on novels. He was an elderly man and he had queued up with the people who were waiting for me to sign their books. When his turn [...]
Bibliobibuli (Free subscription) | 24/09/2008
Ooeee, it's not just Catherine Tate talking about writing comedy in the Guardian this week there's a ton of other great stuff about writing in all kinds of genre in the How To Write Series . Just a small taste of what's there : Wendy Cope talks about why poets must read ; Robert Harris (left) offers excellent advice on writing the novel ; Midge Gillis talks about finding your voice when writing a biography...
On Our Radar Today (Free subscription) | 23/09/2008
Consumers don't understand the language of health plans and, thus, don't know how to use them. Market research published by Regence , which covers 3 million Blues plan enrollees in Idaho, Oregon, Utah and Washington, says that consumers face a "steep learning curve" when it comes to health insurance lingo. ...
Scotsman.com Living - Books (Free subscription) | 20/09/2008
THERE'S WIDESCREEN GLORY IN the ancient world, the stuff of toga movies, Steve Reeves flexing mythically, the stories we think we know: like the ruin of Pompeii, the Roman
TREND HUNTER Magazine (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
(TrendHunter.com) 10 artists were commissioned to create 30 original art work using just paper napkins to promote Robert Harris Coffee Roasters, New Zealand’s largest coffee brand. All the art pieces were mounted in successive…
Reel Suave (Free subscription) | 17/09/2008
Polanski and Quentin Tarantino are set receive funds for their upcoming projects Ghost and Inglorious Bastards respectively from the German Government. Ghost will be based on an adaptation by Robert Harris and will star Pierce Brosnan and Nicolas Cage and will begin shooting in January and not in September. Tarantino is also set to start shooting his World War II film Inglorious Bastards from October....
Other Stories (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
Another Top 20 today, since it's been a few weeks since I did one. I fear we're in for more of the same, but I like to keep everyone abreast of the UK book sales situation from time to time....
bad banana blog (Free subscription) | 04/09/2008
To promote Robert Harris Coffee Roasters, ten artists were commissioned to create thirty original works of art from coffee napkins. Under the theme "Every break should be inspirational," the art pieces are exhibited in successive bus shelters, creating an outdoor art gallery for people forced to wait for the next bus. Clever idea from DRAFTFCB, Auckland, New Zealand. Via Ads of the World.
Adland (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
DraftFCB Auckland decided to go all artsy for Robert Harris Coffee Roasters, since "all breaks should be inspirational". So they commisioned 10 artists to create 30 original works from coffee napkins and hung the results in the Adshel posters so waiting for the bus was like hanging out in an outdoor gallery. This is a shot of one such bus stop - close-ups of three pieces are inside. read more
se71 (Free subscription) | 01/09/2008
The Yiddish Policemen's Union - Michael Chabon Book 24 in my 52 books in 2008 I am a science fiction fan, this is pretty obvious from my book choices. This recent novel won the Nebula Award, and has been nominated...
