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On Tuesday Dave Matthews Band album, Big Whiskey and the GrooGrux king, will be released everywhere, and tomorrow their concert in New York will be streamed live on Hulu.com. First-ever apparently. Public relations person, Ambrosia Healy says: “On (Monday), Dave Matthews Band will perform at New York City’s 2,800-seat Beacon Theatre — and Hulu will be bringing this intimate show to fans for free via a live stream at http://www.hulu.com.”
Here’s a trailer:
Four months after his inauguration, Obama finally delivered on a promise to his wife. He said in a statement: “I am taking my wife to New York City because I promised her during the campaign that I would take her to a Broadway show after it was all finished”. Republicans said the trip was insensitive and wasteful against the backdrop of US car giant General Motors preparing for an expected bankruptcy.
Oh dear, you can’t please everybody.
Poor me. I’m feeling rather miserable: Susan Boyle didn’t win. I suspect because she has had her day of fame, the Brits felt that a different act should win. Here are the winners:
This is Natasha Mikhailova who was kept locked in a room with dogs and cats for several years. She was found in Viktor Lozhkin, her father’s apartment in Siberia. She was treated as a family pet, by her father and her grandparents, and now does not speak, laps up her food and drink with her tongue, and walks on all fours.
I find it so hard to imagine why and how people can do this.
An Afghan girl looks at Canadian soldiers on patrol as she travels with women in the back of a taxi at Bazaar e Panjwai in Kandahar yesterday. (Picture Reuters)
What to do on a Wednesday evening when you’re a “chick with sticks”? Well I tried a stitch ‘n bitch evening with some friends: wine, knitting, and some good gossip. The natter was so good in fact that I missed the soccer. The knitting was entirely incidental. Apparently similar knitting circles are on the rise and a chick with sticks is the perfect image of a retro approach to modern life.
If unlike me you can’t remember a thing you learnt in your home economics classes in primary school, there’s a book to help you learn essential skills for this recession.
I love this story. I want to go on holiday immediately. Watch this excerpt from the movie, Sliding Liberia which is about a group of young surfers who travel to Liberia. As they travel through the worn-torn West African country, they record the stories of people they meet along the way. One of the people is Alfred Lomax, a young boy who became Liberia’s first surfer after finding a bodyboard while fleeing from rebels. He called his hobby sliding.
The movie is scheduled to screen at the Durban International Film Festival this year. If not a trip to Liberia, then at least a winter break in Durban for a weekend of movies.
Here is an opportunity to add your voice of concern to a growing campaign of support for the release of Aung San Suu Kyi. While Burma is determined to put Suu Kyi behind bars as her current house arrest comes to an end the world is increasingly voicing its disapproval. In the online campaign “64 Words”, Gordon Brown, George Clooney and Salman Rushdie have added their written messages of 64 words supporting, Suu Kyi, on her 64th birthday (June 19th 2009).
Here are Clooney, Rushdie and Brown’s messages:
George Clooney
Nineteen years ago, the Burmese people chose Aung San Suu Kyi as their next leader. For most of those 19 years she has been kept under house arrest by the military junta that runs the country. We must not stand by as she is silenced again. Now is the time for the international community to speak with one voice: Free Aung San Suu Kyi. Read More…
Another strange tragic story of child neglect has unfolded today. A 5-year-old girl who has spent her entire life shut up in a flat in the company of cats and dogs has been taken into care by police in Siberia. When she was found the girl was unable to speak and behaved like a dog. Specialists say she jumps on people and plays dog games but she is not mentally retarded. With therapy, it is believed that she can adjust to normal social life.
I have to agree with Vogue’s Joan Juliet Buck when she said that “Never before has a president’s wife brought beauty, brains, talent, culture, style, a fortune of her own, an illegitimate son, a racy past, and nude pictures to the table.” This picture of the French first lady will be on auction next week in Berlin.
The President, in typical French fashion, has no problem with nude pictures of his wife going on sale. Le Post quotes a source at the Elysee Palace saying: ‘He has made it clear he has no problem with this because he knows that the only images of his wife in existence are tasteful. Some may be nude, but she is a beautiful woman who was a model and only ever posed for pictures that had artistic merit.’
Bruni wouldn’t be surprised by this. She has said of her husband: “My husband may represent a—moderate—right-wing party, but in no way is he a conservative. If he were, he wouldn’t have married me.”
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