Quixotical (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
Alan Campbell’s Lye Street is one of those books I ordered pretty much purely because of the cover. I do that a lot. I love Dave McKean’s art, and the book didn’t sound bad, so I sent more money winging its way to Subterranean Press. I do that a lot too, I’m a sucker for [...]
Apartment Therapy - Chicago (Free subscription) | 02/09/2008
African art and design covers a huge range of styles, cultures, and time periods - many of which have had a big influence on modern Western furniture and textiles. Wood carving, batik dyeing, and we
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 29/08/2008
P.E.I.'s fisheries minister will be meeting with oyster producers and sellers next week to discuss the declining quality of P.E.I.'s wild oysters.
Pharmalot (Free subscription) | 26/08/2008
The nation’s Health Ministry claims it had encouraged several drugmakers to supply a new thyroid treatment ut there had been no takers because the New Zealand market was too small, a ministry spokesman tells The Southland Times. And so the National Party has joined the call for the government to subsidise a new drug as the [...]
CBC.ca (Free subscription) | 25/08/2008
Onsite, the detox and recovery facility a floor above Vancouver's controversial supervised-injection site, is approaching its first anniversary operating at full capacity: Its beds are full, it has a 30-person waiting list and the facility's proponents point to it as evidence that Insite succeeds in helping the city's most desperate addicts get off the street and into treatment.
The Guardian (Free subscription) | 18/08/2008
This weekend's Beijing coverage allowed the BBC's commentators go into Big Olympic Voice mode, says Barney Ronay
What's For Afters? (Free subscription) | 17/08/2008
Forgive the silence folks. I have me some major Olympics addiction going on. I could (maybe will someday) write a sensible post about why I love the Olympics so much but for now all I can really do is squeal. It's been so much fun. Obviously the Beeb has focussed lots on the Brits (though why we're not officially Great Britain and Northern Ireland this time I don't understand) and haven't
Manchester Online (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
REBECCA Adlington swam her way into the record books as she claimed an historic second gold medal for Britain.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Britain's rowers produced a splash of Olympic bronze at the Shunyi rowing lake.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Britain's rowers produced a splash of Olympic bronze at the Shunyi rowing lake.
Times Online (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
The British coxless IV continued an honourable tradition by winning gold at the Shunyi Rowing Lake. The heritage was first laid down by Steve Redgrave and Matthew Pinsent in Sydney eight years ago and was carried on by Pinsent by a mere fraction of a second in Athens. But this was a new crew, who had only started racing together in July.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Elise Laverick and Anna Bebington produced a storming surge to take the bronze medal in a dramatic finish to the women's doubles sculls.
Daily Star (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Alan Campbell got Great Britain's medal hunt in the rowing off to a disappointing start when he came fifth in the men's singles sculls final at the Shunyi rowing lake.
Daily Express (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Alan Campbell got Great Britain's medal hunt in the rowing off to a disappointing start when he came fifth in the men's singles sculls final at the Shunyi rowing lake.
Liverpool Daily Post.co.uk (Free subscription) | 16/08/2008
Alan Campbell got Great Britain's medal hunt in the rowing off to a disappointing start when he came fifth in the men's singles sculls final at the Shunyi rowing lake.
