After eight years at Forbes, he is managing editor at Silicon Alley Insider. Peter Kafka sits down with Julie Alexandria to share his thoughts on the future of newspapers and magazines, the 2008 recession, and the hit TV show "American Idol."
NEW BERLIN, Wis. -- International Monetary Systems, Ltd. (OTCBB:INLM), a worldwide leader in business-to-business barter services, today announced that it has acquired the assets and client base of Bartermax, Inc., a barter trade exchange serving clients in Boston, MA and Providence, RI. Don Mardak, CEO of IMS commented:...
LONDON, July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading group of mobile operators today unveiled a new initiative to create a blueprint and roadmap for opening up mobile functionality to encourage the development of exciting mobile applications without compromising customer security. The new initiative will be known as...
Close-up The actor braces himself for the 'Brideshead Revisited' backlash The Ben Whishaw appreciation society has a tantalising six months ahead. First, their man is to appear in Criminal Justice, a thriller for the BBC that starts tomorrow. In...
Sonomax Hearing Healthcare Inc. (TSX VENTURE: SHH) will be holding its Annual General Meeting on Thursday, June 26th, 2008. It will be held at "The Sheraton Center", 1201 Rene Levesque, in the Salon Kafka-Lamartine at 10:00 a.m. The meeting will be used to introduce a new management team...
THIS year marks the 40th anniversary of the Booker Prize. Or so we are led to believe by Colman Getty, the prize's indefatigable PR company. In fact, the Booker was born in 1969, which even those of us unable to grasp the finer...
Why do we fear and hate the State so much? The idea of it, I mean. The metaphor. What has the actual State ever done to us? I use "us" in the quasi-royal sense: us easy-come, easy-go Brits. What terrible experience of State persecution haunts our...
The Siege By Ismail Kadare, trans David Bellos CANONGATE Pounds 16.99 (322p) Pounds 15.29 (free p&p) from 0870 079 8897 The Ottoman pasha leads a vast army towards Albania, where a lone castle stands amid plains. When his first attack is beaten back,...
ToolWatch Enterprise, the constructionindustry's first on-demand construction resource management system, hasjoined several powerful technologies in a unique way to create anapplication that is easy for both users and IT staff, reliable and secure.Built on Microsoft's .NET Framework, ToolWatch Enterprise incorporatessmart client deployment, SQL Server Compact Edition and SQL Server 2005Enterprise...
PIERRE, S.D. -- Joan Kohler is not a typical new scooter customer. But the 51-year-old restaurant owner bought a candy-apple red Honda last week, as worries about the price of gas overrode any trepidation about learning to drive it. With the average price of...
'IF THE BOOK we are reading does not wake us, as with a fist hammering on our skull, why then do we read it?" Franz Kafka wrote. "What we must have are those books which come upon us like ill- fortune, and distress us deeply. ... A book must be...
PRAGUE AFP — Czech author Arnost Lustig has been chosen as the eighth winner of the annual Franz Kafka literary prize, the Czech association commemorating the famous Prague author announced Tuesday. "The decision to award the prize to Lustig was taken by the jury," Daniela Uherkova of the...
Scholar of German literature Idris Parry was a noted scholar of German literature, writer and broadcaster. After 15 years as a lecturer at Bangor, he was appointed to a Chair in German at Manchester University, where he stayed until his retirement in 1977. His literary interests were...
An English Tragedy Palace Theatre, Watford A thought-provoking war-trial drama from Ronald Harwood, whose screenplay for The Diving Bell and the Butterfly has earned him a Bafta. To 8 Mar Metamorphosis Birmingham Rep; Northern Stage, Newcastle upon Tyne A visually stunning,...
ABSTRACT: Natal'ia Gorbanevskaia is primarily known as a poet and leading human rights activist, as well as for her role as author and editor at Kontinent and Russkaia mysl'. One important and substantial aspect of her life that is not well known outside of limited circles is the formative...
PsychoGeography Feeling like the protagonist of Kafka's fragment Before the Law, I cycled across town on a windy February evening to the Royal Courts of Justice. They're Gothic, certainly, but the Gothic is so entrenched in British architecture - as style, recursive style, fakery and mockery -...
Metamorphosis Birmingham Rep The Lyric Hammersmith's visually stunning, acrobatic version of Kafka's nightmare is a wonder to behold. Listen out for Nick Cave's score. To 1 Mar Roots Royal Exchange, Manchester The second play in Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup trilogy is...
Metamorphosis Birmingham Rep The Lyric Hammersmith's visually stunning, acrobatic version of Kafka's nightmare is a wonder to behold. Listen out for Nick Cave's score. To 1 Mar Roots Royal Exchange, Manchester The second play in Arnold Wesker's Chicken Soup trilogy is...
Metamorphosis Gregor Samsa - travelling salesman, breadwinner, the essence of Franz Kafka's disenchanted, alienated modern man - awakes one morning in the family home to find that he has transformed overnight into a gigantic insect. David Farr and Gisli Orn Gardarsson's fantastical adaptation of this seminal short...
The Thursday Book MY LIFE AS A TRAITOR By Zarah Ghahramani, with Robert Hillman BLOOMSBURY, Pounds 12.99 Order for Pounds 11.69 (free p&p) on 0870 079 8897 Yet another ghosted prison memoir? Yes, but this one is different. As a first-hand account of...
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