"He who has capital in a period of illiquidity is sitting pretty." So says a writer at the Daily Deal. I cite it here because it makes a very good point. Citigroup, in its quest to raise cash, reportedly agreed to sell $12 billion...
In an American diner in East London, Ebony Bones is deep into an anecdote about the time she met Grace Jones. "I was fifteen in the front row of this private show, screaming like it was a Michael Jackson concert. Grace was singing 'My Jamaican Guy,' but she changed the...
No Wave Thurston Moore & Byron Coley Abrams Image 115 West 18th Street, New York, NY 10011 9780810995437, $24.95, www.abramsimage.com Best described as a mish mash of art and punk rock, the No Wave movement of the late 1970s was...
Days Like Those It is a shameful thing to confess, but until recently a form of apartheid had been operating in this house. Matthew did, I know, feel terrible about it. He was racked with self-disgust. "I know, I know, and am racked...
CHOP SUEY (94mins) is photographer Bruce Weber's documentary mish- mash of images and friends he's amassed over the years, including Robert Mitchum, a lesbian wrestler and a punk surfer. A strange reissue.
Anglo-Egyptian Natacha Atlas is back with a nostalgia-tinged set. By TIM CUMMING Natacha Atlas is busy. The Anglo-Egyptian singer is about to launch her first acoustic album, there's a set of Bollywood and Hindi songs in the pipeline, and she has two electric...
Days Like Those Two days I'd been away, sorting out what Matthew refers to as "the very barest of essentials" Sky dish with complete package for our Dorset cottage. I returned to what I often return to. Matthew with his head in hands,...
My Life In A Column This week I have been driving up and down and around and all over the South Downs. I have decided that out of all of my minuscule driving experience, the road that heads from the M2 towards Dover,...
UBM's merger talks with Informa may yet smoke other bidders out, but the deal puts David Levin in sight of realising his ambitions for the firm. By Sarah Arnott Business Analysis David Levin, the chief executive of United Business...
LOS ANGELES -- Houston based keyboardist, composer and tech whiz Antherius (www.myspace.com/antherius) breaks into ACQB's top 20 with his single "Centrifuge," alongside heavy-hitters Colbie Caillat, Matchbox Twenty and John Mayer. With the rapid success of Antherius' second album, 2008-03's, the hypnotic, trippy and Latin influenced single "Centrifuge," is reaching adult...
Willie Nelson Willie Nelson is certainly not your average 75-year-old. With his greying pigtails and continued advocacy of cannabis, he shows no signs of growing old gracefully. Currently in one of the most fertile periods of a career stretching back half a century to his days of...
A common perception about Japanese architecture is that there is a extraordinary mix of old and new styles--from temples dating back a thousand years to Odaiba's infamous sci-fi Fuji TV building, there exists a unique blend of ancient and modern, Asian and Western, sublime and ridiculous. ...
[ILLUSTRATION OMITTED] Small Wars Permitting: Dispatches from Foreign Lands by Christina Lamb Harper Press, pb, pp390, 8.99 [pounds sterling] Since the late 1980s, Christina Lamb--four-time war correspondent of the year has been turning out some of the most insightful, humane journalism in...
The United States needs to overhaul itsoutdated regional infrastructure planning process and create a viablefederal framework, or face compromising its ability to compete in a globalmarketplace, according to a new report co-published by the Urban LandInstitute and Ernst & Young. Infrastructure 2008: A Competitive Advantage provides a snapshot of currentand...
WBZ-TV Meteorologist Mish Michaels to Host Awards Ceremony CAMBRIDGE, Mass. -- Over 350 outstanding science students are putting final touches on their research projects and preparing to compete for more than $425,000 in cash, prizes and scholarships at the 59th annual Massachusetts State Science & Engineering Fair MSSEF....
Byline: Bill Schuh While the interim paper on requirements for the retail distribution review RDR is not due until April 2008, now is the time for pension companies to start preparing for its repercussions. The final shape of regulation...
CHELSEA blew the Carling Cup Final because Juande Ramos is a better manager than Avram Grant. His players were fitter and better prepared. He made sure the right players were in the right positions, whereas Grant left out the on-fire Joe Cole and pushed Nicolas Anelka out to the left...
Byline: CLAIRE GREW LATE OF THE PIER, Carling Academy LATE of the Pier have the look of an in die group, but the passion of a rock band with a bit of electro and dance thrown in. The four teenagers from Castle Donnington may seem like...
GILFORD ISLAND, BRITISH COLUMBIA, Feb 16, 2008 Marketwire via COMTEX -- The Honourable Chuck Strahl, Minister of Indian Affairs and Northern Development and Federal Interlocutor for Metis and Non-Status Indians, today issued the following statement about the official commissioning of the water treatment plant at Kwicksutaineuk...
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