Earths End Is Near Again: CrichtonS Brain Squad Is Back
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“The Andromeda Strain,†Michael Crichton’s 1969 novel, written while he was still a medical student at Harvard, is like one of the mutations the book painstakingly describes. It can shape-shift into a dozen metaphors. At the time of its publication it spoke not only to cold war fears but also to more up-to-the-minute notions that [...]
A Country Girls Urban Tree House
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Nearly 20 years ago — when she was a young mother who had recently earned a Master of Fine Arts in poetry from Columbia University — Ms. Redel’s father, Irving, gave her the down payment to buy a three-bedroom 12th-floor apartment with panoramic Hudson River views on Riverside Drive and 81st Street.
“My father decided that [...]
Studios Should Look To Trent Reznor For Future Of Distribution
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There was an article over the weekend in the New York Times about new tactics Warner Brothers is planning to boost flagging DVD sales. Warner plans to release direct-to-DVD companion films alongside new releases in the future, in an attempt to build buzz for the later DVD release of the main feature. What they really [...]
Novel Tells The Story Of Thwarted Ambition
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A NOVEL about life in a 1970s comprehensive school has been published after lying in a Porthcawl film-maker’s drawer for more than 30 years.
Anthony Hontoir, now 52, was 19 when he began Free and Easy, a story that resulted from frustration at a decision not to let him study biology up to O-level.
That, he believes, [...]
Giving Books Away To Sell More
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At the mesh 2008 conference in Toronto this week (full disclosure: I am one of the co-founders of the conference) Ethan Kaplan of Warner Brothers Records talked about how value in the music business no longer resides in “the artefact” — that is, the song or the album — but has moved elsewhere. In a [...]
‘free Food For Millionaires Hit Bookstands
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It’s like skipping a stone on water ― a small stone seems to merely tag the surface of the water but it creates ripples. That was how reading “Free Food for Millionaires” by Lee Min-jin felt.
The novel, which is about a Korean immigrant’s life in the United States, brings to mind another Korean-American writer Chang-rae [...]
Love Him Or Hate Him, Shia Labeouf Is A Movie Star
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I am happy I have never said anything bad about Shia LaBeouf over the course of his recent rise to Hollywood stardom. Before Disturbia even hit theaters on its way to over $80 million he was already booked to star in Transformers and Indiana Jones and the Kingdom of the Crystal Skull. There was no [...]
Talking Sex Tantra The Science Of Ecstasy
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This week, we explore the mystery of tantric sex. Tantric sex originated in India some 3,000 years ago.
The word ‘tantric’ is derived from the Sanskrit word ‘tantra’, which means to manifest, to expand, to show and to weave.
Tantric sex is said to expand consciousness and to weave together the polarities of male (represented by the [...]
Kerre Woodham Making Red Mean Stop
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If you’ve lived in Auckland for any time, you’ll have a red-light, lucky-escape story. My brush with death came just after midnight when my Irishman was collecting me after my shift at NewsTalk ZB.
We were sitting at the lights, on the corner of Cook and Nelson Sts, catching up on our respective evenings and I [...]
Inspired By The Love Of Art
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His famous “Art Nouveau†jewellery sets are now highly sought after by museums and collectors as true works of art. With his brilliant imagination and mastery in techniques, he revolutionised the technology of glass art and created a vast collection of bowls, vases, statuettes and perfume bottles.
His works are presented in more than 40 museums [...]
