Troy is a stallion; Tintero is a gelding,†says the slight young woman with the startlingly recognizable face. Troy is wearing fabulous headgear, and Tintero, her sweet-faced gray, has huge eyes that look like they were made up with a kohl pencil. “He is my best horse, my number one—he’s so clever,†says Charlotte Casiraghi, [...]
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“The Real Housewives Of New York City†Set Robbed
October 5th, 2010 |
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A vehicle belonging to the production crew of Bravo’s Real Housewives of New York was robbed of $30,000 worth of equipment while parked on set in the Big Apple last month. The robbery reportedly occured as Housewives stars Alex McCord, her husband Simon Van Kempen, Sonja Morgan, and Ramona Singer dined at the Emperor’s Brand [...]
Dead Winter Carpenters: Tour
August 30th, 2010 |
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EMERGENT GENRE BLENDERS ON EARLY FALL TOUR
Dead Winter Carpenters, an eclectic quintet emerging from the shores of Lake Tahoe, CA, are in the midst on their first national tour in support of their debut studio album, D.W.C. Their sound is laced with elements of rock ‘n’ roll, bluegrass, folk, ragtime, blues, and reggae inspired from musical influences ranging from Neil Young to David Byrne and Ryan Adams to the traditional fiddle tunes of earlier times.
Dead Winter Carpenters Fall Tour Dates
8/30/10 Red Eyed Fly – Austin, TX
8/31/10 Super Happy Fun Land – Houston, TX
9/01/10 Chelsea’s – Baton Rouge, LA
9/02/10 Blue Moon Saloon – Lafayette, LA
9/03/10 Maple Leaf – New Orleans, LA
9/05/10 The Pour House – Charleston, SC
9/06/10 Smith’s Olde Bar – Atlanta, GA
9/08/10 Lexington Ave. Brewery – Asheville, NC
9/09/10 Awful Arthurs – Roanoke, VA
9/10/10 North Star – Philadelphia, PA
9/11/10 Higher Ground (Showcase Lounge) – Burlington, VT
9/13/10 Harpers Ferry – Allston, MA
9/14/10 Red Square – Albany, NY
9/16/10 Park Street Tavern – Columbus, OH
9/17/10 Booney’s – Avon, IN
9/18/10 Wuhnurth Music Festival – Spencer, IN
9/19/10 Tonic Room – Chicago, IL
9/21/10 Pier 357 – Pierre, SD
9/22/10 The Bottleneck – Lawrence, KS
9/23/10 Quixote’s True Blue – Denver, CO
9/24/10 Salt Water Cowboy – Avon, CO
9/25/10 320 South – Breckenridge, CO
9/26/10 Paddlepalooza – Page, AZ
9/27/10 Mystic Hot Springs – Monroe, UT
10/28/10 Las Tortugas Dance of the Dead V – Yosemite, CA
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Aug 17, 1859: U.S. Airmail Carried by Balloon
August 17th, 2010 |
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1859: Mail is carried by air for the first time in the United States.
On a hot summer day as the temperature soared toward 91 degrees, John Wise stood at the town square in Lafayette, Indiana, waiting next to a balloon named Jupiter. Even for a balloon enthusiast and a well-known aeronaut, it was a big [...]
Le Monde’s uncertain future: Cap in hand
June 10th, 2010 |
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France’s most respected newspaper teeters on the edge of bankruptcy
EVER since Charles de Gaulle called for the launch of Le Monde, first published in 1944, to replace Le Temps, a once prestigious daily tainted by collaboration with German invaders, the paper has prided itself on its independence. Uniquely among leading newspapers, its journalists control it, and have the right to veto the choice not only of editor but also of the company’s chief executive. But the lossmaking firm has just a few months to avert bankruptcy by finding fresh capital—and the price may be the abolition of the writers’ powers.
Three groups are still in the running to take a majority stake in Le Monde SA, the owner of Le Monde, Telerama (a weekly television-listings magazine) and other publications. At the top of the list is a consortium of Xavier Niel, a telecoms mogul, Pierre Berge, the former business partner of Yves Saint Laurent, and Matthieu Pigasse, the local boss of Lazard, an investment bank. Other possible contenders are Claude Perdriel, owner of a weekly paper, Le Nouvel Observateur; and Prisa, a Spanish media group which already owns a 15% stake in Le Monde SA. L’Espresso, an Italian media group, and Ringier, a Swiss one, this week said they would not enter the bidding despite initial expressions of interest. On June 14th shareholders will vote on any formal offers received. …
Gay rights in developing countries: A well-locked closet
May 27th, 2010 |
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Gays are under attack in poor countries—and not just because of “local culture”
THEIR crimes were “gross indecency” and “unnatural acts”. Their sentence was 14 years’ hard labour: one intended, said the judge, to scare others. He has succeeded. A court in Malawi last week horrified many with its treatment of Steven Monjeza and Tiwonge Chimbalanga, a gay couple engaged to be married. The two men are the latest victims of a crackdown on gay rights in much of the developing world, particularly Africa.
Some 80 countries criminalise consensual homosexual sex. Over half rely on “sodomy” laws left over from British colonialism. But many are trying to make their laws even more repressive. Last year, Burundi’s president, Pierre Nkurunziza, signed a law criminalising consensual gay sex, despite the Senate’s overwhelming rejection of the bill. A draconian bill proposed in Uganda would dole out jail sentences for failing to report gay people to the police and could impose the death penalty for gay sex if one of the participants is HIV-positive. In March Zimbabwe’s president, Robert Mugabe, who once described gay people as worse than dogs or pigs, ruled out constitutional changes outlawing discrimination based on sexual orientation. …
10 Biggest Volcanic Eruptions in History
May 21st, 2010 |
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The recent eruptions of the Eyjafjallajökull volcano in Iceland were a stark reminder of nature’s ability to bring human activity to an abrupt standstill. The cloud of smoke that drifted over Western Europe made aviation travel untenable, returning European skies to a quietude not felt for decades. Yet, while the effects of the eruption were [...]
Louis Ducruet Uncommon Public Appearance
May 15th, 2010 |
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As a womb-to-tomb supporter of AS Principality of Monaco, Louis Ducruet is a lot more than habitual to taking in the on pitch activity from the safety of the by-lines.
That week, although, Princess Stephanie and previous Palace guard Daniel Ducruet’s better-looking son made an uncommon appearance in the highlight – participating in a charity football [...]
Police to investigate blog over Sarkozy affair rumours
April 8th, 2010 |
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French police have launched an investigation to trace the bloggers behind the rumours that French President Nicolas Sarkozy and wife Carla Bruni were involved in relationships outside their marriage.
The news came a day after French president’s chief communications adviser, Pierre Charon, suggested Sarkozy could have fallen foul of a “sort of organised plot with financial [...]
Bidding wars
April 5th, 2010 |
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Record sales are expected at Hong Kong’s art auction
IN 2008 China overtook France to become the third-biggest art market in the world, after America and Britain. France managed to reverse that setback in 2009, helped by an Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Berge sale. But relief is likely to be temporary. The value of sales at art auctions in China reached €2.3 billion ($3.3 billion), up by 24% on the previous year. China’s share of the world auction market climbed from 10% to 18%, largely at the expense of Britain and America. Chinese art has grown in popularity. Christie’s Chinese sales in New York last month were its biggest ever. Sotheby’s sales in Hong Kong (April 5th-8th) are also expected to reach record highs. The 20th-century Chinese art sale alone is expected to raise HK$75m ($9.7m) and the ceramics and fine art auctions could fetch more than HK$200m.
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How China bucked the trend
March 3rd, 2010 |
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What really happened in 2009
ONE of the common assumptions about the art market in 2009 was that the stunning success of the three-day Yves Saint Laurent/Pierre Berge sale in Paris—the highest grossing single-owner sale ever—would allow France to reclaim its position as the third-biggest art market in the world after America and Britain. It didn’t.
Clare McAndrew, a Dublin-based analyst of art-market statistics and the founder of Arts Economics, was the first to prove categorically that France’s century-long pre-eminence in the art world had been usurped by China. That was in 2007, and many presumed it was no more than a blip. But Ms McAndrew’s most recent report, the latest in a series commissioned by The European Fine Art Foundation (TEFAF) and published to coincide with the start of TEFAF’s Maastricht art fair on March 12th, proves categorically that China’s art market is getting bigger all the time. …
France issue arrest warrant for Landis
February 17th, 2010 |
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An arrest warrant has been issued for US cyclist Floyd Landis, accused of hacking into a French drug-testing laboratory, France’s anti-doping authority (AFLD) said on Monday. Pierre Bordry, head of the AFLD, said Landis used documents “illegally hacked from the authority’s laboratory computer
Feb, 11, 1939: Lise Meitner, ‘Our Madame Curie’
February 11th, 2010 |
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1939: Austrian-born physicist Lise Meitner publishes her discovery that atomic nuclei split during some uranium reactions. Her research will be overlooked by the Nobel committee when it awards a prize for the work.
Meitner is a prominent example of a woman whose gender put her in the back seat when the top prize was given. [...]
France and the internet: Helicopters at the ready
January 14th, 2010 |
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A proposed new tax typifies France’s ambivalent attitude to the internet
FRENCH internet executives, bloggers and web users cringed in early January when an independent report for the ministry of culture proposed a tax on online advertising revenues, aimed at American firms such as Google, Microsoft, AOL, Yahoo! and Facebook, to pay for new subsidies for the music, film and publishing industries. “Will they send helicopters to America to take the money?” mocked Pierre Kosciusko-Morizet, boss of PriceMinister.com, an e-commerce site. “The world now takes us for fools,” commented Bluetouff, a blogger, echoing hundreds of comments on French newspapers’ websites opposing the tax.
France’s recorded-music industry has been particularly hard hit by illegal downloading. Sales of CDs have fallen faster than elsewhere, while legitimate downloads have grown more slowly. Whereas legal downloads have compensated for around 40% of the fall in CD sales in recent years in America and Britain, in France they have made up for only 19% of the drop. To help French content online, says the report, the government should spend €40m-50m ($58m-73m) a year on measures such as subsidies for digital purchases and faster digitisation of books. …
Jan. 12, 1665: Fermat’s Last Breath
January 12th, 2010 |
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1665: French mathematician Pierre de Fermat dies, perhaps age 57 (his birth year is unknown). Journal des Sçavans declared in a February obituary that he “was one of the finest minds of the century.”
(Journal des Sçavans — later Journal des Savants — was Europe’s earliest scientific journal and only a month old when it published [...]
Dec. 21, 1898: The Curies Discover Radium
December 21st, 2009 |
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1898: Radium is discovered by the husband-and-wife team of Pierre and Marie Curie.
Sorbonne-bred physicist Pierre Curie had been noodling with crystals and magnetism since the early 1880s. He was a professor at the School of Physics in Paris when one of his students, Marie Sklodowska, caught his eye. They wed in 1895, and theirs was [...]
Mirel: Chances for unfreezing agreement good
December 6th, 2009 |
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European Commission Director for the Western Balkans Pierre Mirel said that there is a good chance that the interim trade agreement will be unfrozen. Following the positive report given by Hague Chief Prosecutor Serge Brammertz on Serbia’s cooperation with the Tribunal, the chances of unfreezing the agreement between Serbia and EU have increased, Mirel said.