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Indian handicrafts get contemporary twist Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 3:28PMModern clutches with zardozi embroidery, halter-neck kurtis with kantha work, handblock print lampshades with stylish stands - arts and crafts from the length and breadth of India are now being mixed with modern designs by an organisation that hopes to keep the charm of Indian handicrafts alive.
Pulps: The Depression's Flowers of Evil Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 12:04PMHard times can inspire bursts of imagination, as seen in the colorful, scandalous pages of 1930s-era comic books
iPhone App Video Review: Ninjammin Beat-Jitsu Tuesday, July 19, 2011 @ 9:54AMNinjammin Beat-Jitsu is a very different looking game released by YoYo Games, from yoyogames.com. They are the creators of Game Maker, a very intuitive and simplified tool for, well, making games!
Monday's Art Notes Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 12:31PMDetails of the work of Joan Crous are seen at Museo del Vetro di Murano during the press opening of 'SiO2nH2O' exhibit on July 15, 2011 in Venice, Italy. Part of the International Biennale of Glass, the exhibit runs from July 16 to September 30 at Murano Glass Museum. Photo by Marco Secchi/ Getty Images * Zahi Hawass, Egypt's well-known but embattled antiquities minister since the popular ...
Otel.com Announces Discounts for Hotels in San Francisco Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 10:09AMOtel.com takes its costumers to another interesting destination which is San Francisco. Otel.com announces San Francisco hotel discounts and gives travelers chance to visit one of the most popular international tourists destinations, famous landmarks and eclectic mix of Victorian and modern architecture in San Francisco. (PRWeb July 18, 2011) Read the full story at http://www.prweb ...
Dhr.com Announces Special Promotions for Hotels in Glasgow Monday, July 18, 2011 @ 9:52AMDhr.com announces special promotions for hotels in Glasgow. Visit Dhr.com and choose some of the cheap hotels for the largest city in Scotland and one of Europe’s top twenty financial centers. With these Glasgow hotels discounts it is really easy to spend some quality time in one of the most attractive places on the continent and get the chance to see the beautiful buildings and parks, modern ...
Collectibles: What's the value of your family treasures in today's market and how to care for them Saturday, July 16, 2011 @ 9:48AMOften less is better when it comes to cleaning.
New Paris hotels offer surprises Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 5:01PMThe Shangri-La Hotel, the Mandarin Oriental and Philippe Starck-designed Le Royal Monceau are among the luxury properties that attend to every detail. There are also new midrange and boutique hotels, including the trendy Hi Matic, the gay Jules & Jim, Le Pavillon des Lettres and the Five Hotel. A suite atop the new Shangri-La Hotel in Paris boasts a 1,000-square-foot terrace overlooking a slice ...
Making room Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 12:12PMIn the run-up to the 2012 Olympics, London is witnessing a spate of hotel openings, writes Nigel Tisdall.
Florence, Italy, undergoes a new Renaissance Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 11:46AMFlorence, Italy's central station is clean, police are more visible, tourists are encouraged to stay longer, traffic is improving and areas once closed are open to visitors now. The city has become more welcoming and open with help from its new mayor "Florence has changed," my friend Alessandra told me on the phone. "There's a new spirit here."
City Different’s Fashion ‘Tacky’ Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:53AMGQ magazine disapproves of bolos and broomstick skirts
GQ Disapproves of Santa Fe Fashion Friday, July 15, 2011 @ 2:52AMSanta Fe has flunked in fashion. That's according to an article on GQ magazi ...
Illustrating Damsels in Distress and Emissaries From Our Deep, Dark Ids Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 6:41PM“Pulp Art: The Robert Lesser Collection” is an entertaining and fascinating exhibition at the Museum of American Illustration at the Society of Illustrators.
Revamp your home with going-out-of-business deals Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 5:05PMFor two Bay Area companies, today marks the beginning of the end, as their going-out-of-business sales commence. The doors will remain open until their inventories are gone. Both were unique resources for tasteful home...
Price is right at Cheaper Show Thursday, July 14, 2011 @ 2:32PMBargain hunters attending Saturday’s Cheaper Show No. 9 have a chance to purchase works from artists including Andrew Pommier.
Asheville couple work to establish businesses Tuesday, July 12, 2011 @ 11:58PMDALE NEAL Asheville Citizen-Times ASHEVILLE, N.C. If you can make it in New York, you can make it anywhere, Frank Sinatra famously sang. New York? That's easy, scoffs Daniel Sanders. "Try making it in Asheville — that's tough," he said. But Sanders and Marylou Marsh, his wife and partner, are doing just that with organic fabrics at their retail clothing store, Spiritex, their T-shirt design shop ...
Stuck in a market shadowland Monday, July 11, 2011 @ 3:32PMEconomies on both sides of the Atlantic are enveloped in a fog of debt and stockmarkets are paying the price. But while there's a way out of the darkness, political will is hard to come by. 12 Jul 2011 10:10 AM
SDMA Exhibits Work Of American Craftsman Gustav Stickley Sunday, July 10, 2011 @ 1:54PMThe first touring exhibition of the work of American craftsman Gustav Stickley makes a stop at the San Diego Museum of Art from June 18 through September 11, 2011. We speak to a curator from the museum about the Arts and Crafts movement pioneer.
Space shuttle's legacy: Soaring in orbit and costs Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 5:04PMCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised. Yet despite all that, there were some big achievements that weren't promised: major scientific advances, stunning photos of the cosmos, a high-flying vehicle of ...
Damnation Alley (Blu-ray) Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 6:56AMHighly Recommended The famous story goes like this: In 1977 20th Century-Fox was readying for release an action-packed, special effects-crammed science fiction extravaganza, a movie they felt certain had broad appeal and which they fully expected would be the year's big blockbuster. Star Wars ? Uh-uh. Fox dismissed that trifle as a movie for kids with limited appeal. No, the film that was really ...
Space program fell short on claims Saturday, July 9, 2011 @ 12:18AMCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. -- The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised. Yet de ...
Muhammad Ali: Lost and Found by Anton Perich Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 4:13PMHigh atop a perch in Pennsylvania, the pioneer spirit lives on at a camp where log cabins dot the landscape, chickens roam, tourists flock, megaton boulders sit and roosters (bird and man variety) crow. Lucky for us, an early-era digital documentarian got it all down on tape. Primitive tape.
Fingers crossed for liftoff: Nasa fuel up Atlantis as a 'million' spectators expected to watch despite 70% risk of ... Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 5:36AMNasa engineers began fuelling the space shuttle Atlantis for its historic final launch today despite a 70 per cent risk of storms causing the liftoff to be postponed.
Last Minute: Cheap, easy ideas for things to do the weekend of July 8-10 Friday, July 8, 2011 @ 2:16AMSome easy, cheap ideas for getting out of the house the weekend of July 8-10
Castlevania: Harmony of Despair - Walkthrough (X360) Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 7:13PMa:link {text-decoration:none;} a:visited {text-decoration:none;} a:hover {text-decoration:underline;} a:active {text-decoration:underline;} Castlevania Harmony of Despair ________________________________ Walkthrough _______________________________________________________________________________ This file may only be published at FAQS.IGN.COM through IGN Entertainment...
Interview: The Siskel Film Center's Marty Rubin, Part II Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 11:11AMIn the conclusion of our interview, Marty Rubin, Associate Director of Programming at the Siskel Film Center, talks about what lies ahead. [ more › ]
Atlantis at the mercy of mother nature: 70% chance of storms delaying last shuttle launch Thursday, July 7, 2011 @ 10:17AMA rain-free, storm-free zone is needed 23miles around Kennedy Space Center on Friday morning, among other things, in order for Atlantis to take off.
Shuttle’s legacy: pretty pictures and many bills Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 5:53PMThe space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable.
Space shuttle’s legacy: Soaring in orbit and costs Wednesday, July 6, 2011 @ 11:40AMCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. — The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised.
Shuttle epitaph: 'We tried' Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 10:59PMAs the last launch nears, the program's many minuses and pluses are clear.
Space shuttle's legacy: Soaring in orbit, costs Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 7:51PMThe nation spent more on the space shuttle than the combined cost of soaring to the moon, creating the atom bomb, and digging the Panama Canal, according to an analysis by The Associated Press.
Book review: 'The Land at the End of the World' by António Lobo Antunes Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 7:44PMRemember Angola? Let us rephrase the question: Have you heard of the Angolan war for independence, 1961-75, that brutal, pigheaded attempt by the Salazar dictatorship to hang on to Portugal's prize African colony? If you draw a blank, don't worry. Portugal's most admired living writer, who was drafted as a young doctor into the conflict in 1971, compressed his two-year experience into a short ...
Shuttle legacy: Soaring in orbit ... and costs Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 2:13PMCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. (AP) -- The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make le
Space shuttle soared in orbit and costs Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 2:08PMThe space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised. Yet despite all that, there were some big achievements that weren't promised: major scientific advances, stunning photos of the cosmos, a high-flying vehicle of diplomacy that helped ...
July Museum Roundup Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 1:26PMThis month, enjoy Asian pottery, a look at the Bauhaus School and several interesting panel discussions, all of which will help keep you cool during the hot summer months. [ more › ]
Space shuttle's legacy: Soaring in orbit - and cost Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 11:05AMCAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. #8212; The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those.
Shuttle Legacy: Soaring Achievements, High Costs Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 9:38AMCAPE CANAVERAL, Florida - NASA's 135th and final space shuttle launch is set for Friday. The space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised. Yet despite all that, there were some big achievements that weren't promised: major scientific ...
Space Shuttle's Legacy: Soaring Orbits and Sky-Rocketing Costs Tuesday, July 5, 2011 @ 8:14AMNASA's first space shuttle flight was in April 1981. The 135th and final launch is set for July 8. Once Atlantis lands at the end of a 12-day mission, it and the other two remaining shuttles are officially museum pieces -- more expensive than any paintings.
Pioneering Asheville couple in fabric building Asheville brand, local supply chain Sunday, July 3, 2011 @ 8:21AMDaniel Sanders and Marylou Marsh operate several of their small businesses, including Spiritex, at their home in Haw Creek. (John Fletcher 6-3-11) / John Fletcher/jfletcher@citizen-times.com
Mother-in-law email: How do you score as an in-law? Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 7:00PMThe first meeting between a bride-to-be and her future mother-in-law can go spectacularly wrong, as a mean-spirited email that went viral last week proved. So how should both parties behave at such an auspicious occasion? Take our quiz on modern manners to find out
Why we must remember to forget Saturday, July 2, 2011 @ 12:56AMHuman knowledge is based on memory. But does the digital age force us to remember too much? Viktor Mayer-Schönberger argues that we must delete and let go When Viktor Mayer-Schönberger's stepfather died, he left a collection of 16,000 heavy glass photographic slides, his visual record of decades travelling the world. His stepson had to decide what to do with them. "I had two rules in working out ...
Space Shuttle's Legacy: Soaring In Orbit And Costs Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 9:07PMThe space shuttle was sold to America as cheap, safe and reliable. It was none of those. It cost $196 billion over 40 years, ended the lives of 14 astronauts and managed to make less than half the flights promised.
Muhammad Ali: Lost and Found by Anton Perich Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 12:38PMHigh atop a perch in Pennsylvania, the pioneer spirit lives on at a camp where log cabins dot the landscape, chickens roam, tourists flock, megaton boulders sit and roosters (bird and man variety) crow. Lucky for us, an early-era digital documentarian got it all down on tape. Primitive tape.
Weekend Sampler: 5 things to do this weekend Friday, July 1, 2011 @ 10:43AMSuggestions from the Enjoy Bloggers on events and activities to attend this weekend:
Malcolm Latour was a man with many interests Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 10:41PMOCEAN SPRINGS -- Dr. Malcolm Latour of Ocean Springs was a renaissance man in the true sense.
Rosa’s La Scarbitta Ristorante in Mamaroneck - Review Thursday, June 30, 2011 @ 10:20PMRosa Merenda, the chef and co-owner of La Scarbitta, adds warmth and personal enthusiasm to this new restaurant.
Bidders Check Out Copley’s Library Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 10:06AMThis detail of the first reliable chart of San Diego Bay, surveyed by Juan Pantoja y Arriaga, fetched $68,500. Bidders at the fourth and final auction of the now-defunct James S. Copley Library, held at Sotheby’s in New York City on May 20, did what they had done at the previous three sales.
Cheap eats: BonBonerie Wednesday, June 29, 2011 @ 8:29AMLots of cafés serve sandwiches and salads, but the BonBonerie's were better than most in terms of quality and presentation.
Garage sales Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 6:42PMFancy the idea of people paying to take your junk off your hands?
The Man in the Net Tuesday, June 28, 2011 @ 3:53PMSkip It THE MOVIE: And this from the director of Casablanca . Pity poor Michael Curtiz. His most famous film must have been a heavy burden throughout his checkered, if somewhat undistinguished, later career. I imagine it as a cinematic equivalent of "We can put a man on the moon, but we can't ______." That is, if people even know the name of the guy who directed Casablanca , which I'd bet most ...