1 Sad Day For Puppets - Pale Silver & Shiny Gold
Conceived in the suburbs of Stockholm around the midpoint of the last decade, it's clear Sad Day For Puppets hearts and minds are tuned to a time and place preceding that by several years. Source: Drowned In Sound
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2 Poem of the week: Lycidas by John Milton
This time, a remarkable supple kind of pastoral that makes room for a number of unexpected and daring fusions Dr Johnson, while recognising Milton's genius, took a famously dim view of this week's poem . "Such is the power of reputation justly acquired that its blaze drives away the eye from nice examination. Surely no man could have fancied he read 'Lycidas' with pleasure had he not known its ... Source: Guardian Unlimited
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3 Read an Excerpt From William Gibson's New Novel, Zero History
Get a look at the sci-fi writer's latest future-present story, in which a detail-obsessed Russian translator named Milgrim, a postmodern marketing mogul known as Hubertus Bigend and a taste-making detective called Hollis Henry tussle with technology and its far-reaching tentacles. Source: Wired News
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4 More evolution than Eureka!
BaselWorld and the SIHH in Geneva are magnificent showcases of the world’s watch manufacturers. Although we journalists tend to think that they attend for our benefit, the watch companies participate with one objective: to sell ... and 2006 appears to have been a fabulous year. Source: Europa Star
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5 Woman aims to raise awareness of AIDS, uses Twitter
Woman aims to raise awareness of AIDS, uses Twitter Source: The Spokesman-Review
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6 Theatre Review: TROUBLE IN MIND at Aurora—tight writing and bravura performances remind us of the troubles of not so ...
If you want to see how things really go in the rehearsal of a play, go see Trouble in Mind at the Aurora Theatre playing through September 26 . It’s about rehearsals for a Broadway play in 1955. It is unnervingly realistic in its portrayal of the clash of egos and artistic differences, older actors offering unsolicited advice to new actors, the conundrum of submitting to the arbitrary vision of ... Source: The Berkeley Daily Planet
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7 Biba's back
It was the boutique brand that defined a generation. As synonymous with the Sixties as mods and rockers, The Beatles, mini-skirts and the Pill, Biba was the one-stop-shop for the era’s dedicated followers of fashion. Related Stories Are you doing lunch? Lunch-time? The ladies who lunch Meet Belfast's Mr Bean All eyes on Christine Bleakley Source: Belfast Telegraph
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8 Finding and Cooking the West's Exotic Berries
A trip to the Sierra yields some of the wildest berries in the wild West, from spiky gooseberries to thimbleberries Fruit - Gooseberry - Wine tasting descriptors - Flower - Berry Source: The Atlantic
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9 Backyard volunteers helping track firefly numbers
The yellow-green streaks of fireflies that bring a magical air to summer nights, inspire camp songs and often end up in jars in children's bedrooms may be flickering out in the nation's backyards as suburban sprawl encroaches on their habitats. Urban sprawl - United States - Environment - Growth and Sprawl - Tufts University Source: Boston Globe
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10 HMV and all those lovely labels.
HMV started life as the Grmophone and Typewriter Company, hence the termG and T for their early issues.....nothing to do with gin and tonics.Originally all the labels were black with gold printing. Source: Gramophone
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