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November 8, 2006Murder, Booze and Misery: A Female Cop’s Last Hurrah By ALAN RIDING PARIS, Nov. 7 — “Some years just work out that way,” Helen Mirren said with almost regal understatement. “But, yes, it has been quite an incredible … Continue reading →

Quote for the Day

well, there’s a lot going on.  next thursday is my birthday – the 16th.  and its one of those “banner” ones.  not saying which, but one of the ones that makes you look at life and say – WTF is … Continue reading →

What Emma Thompson is up to November 5, 2006  By SARAH LYALL LONDON – EMMA THOMPSON was recalling the pivotal scene in Ang Lee’s “Sense and Sensibility” when her resolutely self-contained character, Elinor Dashwood, realizes that her life has changed … Continue reading →

Read it and cheer – and VOTE on Tuesday! The Difference Two Years Made On Tuesday, when this page runs the list of people it has endorsed for election, we will include no Republican Congressional candidates for the first time … Continue reading →

See the superb Andrew Sullivan for the editorial to be released by the ARMY TIMES calling for R’s resignation.  

It was TIME to clean up the basement storage area – couldn’t  deal with all the folded moving boxes stacked and scattered throughout boxes full of “mysterious” yarn – what was where? miscellaneous boxes full of “stuff” So it being … Continue reading →

George Bush, Dick Cheney and Don Rumsfeld think you’re stupid. Yes, they do. They think they can take a mangled quip about President Bush and Iraq by John Kerry — a man who is not even running for office but … Continue reading →

from NY TIMES By ANTHONY TOMMASINI Even before his career took off, the young Leonard Bernstein sized up television and thought, first, that it was potentially the greatest tool for general music education and, second, that he was the ideal … Continue reading →

New School Knitting: The Influence of Elizabeth Zimmermann and Schoolhouse Press October 27 – December 17, 2006 Elizabeth Zimmermann and Meg Swansen, ca. 1947. Photo courtesy of Schoolhouse Press. A virtual exhibition catalog is available at http://www.newschoolknittingexhibition.org Knitwear designers Elizabeth … Continue reading →