is a vanity project that offers little
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Uh Huh Her is a pretty picture on paper: Its face is the well-dressed duo of “The L-Word” actress Leisha Hailey and singer-producer Camila Grey. But the music inside the package wears all the marks of a vanity project.
Recalling slick-produced 1990s acts like Garbage (no surprise given Hailey’s history with Lilith Fair band the Murmurs) [...]
Men Housework and Better Sex Lives
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Men who do more housework and child care have better sex lives and happier marriages than others according to noted marital researcher Dr. John Gottman. Psychologists Claire Rabin and Pepper Schwartz have found when wives and husbands make what they both feel is a successful effort to divide chores fairly, both spouses benefit. Inequities in [...]
Machiavelli, Medici Come Alive In Rushdie’s Siren Song: Review
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Akbar the Great, Niccolo Machiavelli and Lorenzo de’Medici spring to life in Salman Rushdie’s culture- spanning new novel, each falling under the spell of the siren who steals men’s hearts and the book’s title.
“The Enchantress of Florence” takes the form of a story within a story, borrowing from the history and myths of both East [...]
Update 1-Australia’s Jb Hi-Fi Lifts Profit F’cast, Shares Up
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Australian home electronics retailer JB Hi-Fi Ltd (JBH.AX: Quote, Profile, Research) raised its profit forecast for fiscal 2008 by as much as 12 percent on strong sales, solid margins and cost controls, sending its shares up over 5 percent.
The company, which started out selling car radios, said it expects a profit of around A$64 million [...]
Crossin Dixon I Love My Old Bird Dog I Love You
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Crossin Dixon have the potential to be huge, but this excellent song won’t break them into the charts.
It’s a sad truth that, while Country radio WILL give this airplay - it’s the wrong kind of song for the charts. That’s a criticism of the charts, NOT the song!
Heck, it’s got an original melody; it doesn’t [...]
Side Project Becomes Love Of Life For Letter K
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Letter K and the Side Project began as just that - a side project for members of the Stockton rap-rock act InterCourse.
When InterCourse broke up, however, the side project became something more.
“It’s a side project to life,” said frontman and rapper Eric “K” Luis, 30.
Life means day jobs and families for the band members, who [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
