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English Webster (Free subscription) | 12/27/2008
Inspired by the Green Kindergarten initiative made by the Israeli government, I dug up this story I’d written earlier in the year on a unique environmental education center called The Greenhouse: Magical kingdoms and secret gardens don’t necessarily have to stay in the realm of fairy... ...to keep reading, visit Green Prophet...
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New York Times (Free subscription) | 12/23/2008
These cafes treat chocolate like chicken soup: as a balm for the soul.
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Villainous Company (Free subscription) | 12/09/2008
When I was first married, we lived in a small apartment in Colonial Williamsburg. By day, the spousal unit was a student at William & Mary and I kept house and cared for our firstborn son, a tiny bundle of smiles and mischief with brown eyes and strawberry blonde hair. We had very little money. In fact, we were below the poverty line for a family of three. But somehow we got by anyway, even if sometimes...
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Deadspin (Free subscription) | 12/05/2008
Emeritus on Tom Coughlin: "This is not to say that Coughlin is a bad coach, or at least not any worse or better than he was when fans were calling for his head. But the hothouse flowers that make up...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 10/11/2008
Former Hothouse Flowers frontman and longtime troubador Liam O Maonlaí is taking his soul voice from festival stages to the National Concert Hall tomorrow in his first solo concert at the venue.
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Metroblogging Dublin (Free subscription) | 09/24/2008
The Music Show (formerly Music Ireland), Hotpress magazine’s comprehensive exhibition showcasing all things, em, musical is back in the RDS next weekend, Saturday 4th and Sunday 5th of October. The exhibition brings together the cream of the Irish music industry all under one roof. With exhibitors ranging from recording studios and duplication plants to vintage guitar [...]
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CelebNewsWire (Free subscription) | 09/12/2008
Today we read a list of stars' rider demands for the VMAs and wondered: what, exactly, would happen if Kid Rock's yogurts were full fat? What would go down if Christina Aguilera's candles were presented with a lighter instead of a pack of matches? Would these singers be thrown into a tailspin and rendered unable to perform? Would they wither and die like hothouse flowers? Here's In Touch Weekly's list...
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/26/2008
Free gigs, noisy yellow Yanks and holes in the sky - where are they now?
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The Independent (Free subscription) | 08/22/2008
London-based Dublin trio The Script like to characterise their music as "Celtic Soul", but this debut album is light years away from Van or Dexy's or The Hothouse Flowers.
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The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 08/05/2008
HIGH STEPPING and high spirits set the tone for the hugely successful World Fleadh, which took place in Portlaoise at the weekend.
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atHome Top Story (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Canadians are as adaptable as any northern breed – even the hothouse flowers on Queen West briefly reclaim their Starbucks patios when we're hit with a January thaw – so if you're moaning about what a rainy summer it's been in Toronto, you're basically granting everyone in Vancouver another reason to harp on about what a bunch of pathetic, self-centred namby-pambies we are.
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ireland.com (Free subscription) | 07/31/2008
Ireland’s biggest celebration of traditional and Celtic music is due to kick off today.
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Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/25/2008
By Eileen O. Daday Daily Herald Correspondent Forget the fancy dinner dances and auctions. Officials with Northwest Suburban High School District 214 Continuing Education's foundation have found a direct way of drawing prospective bidders - eBay. Beginning at 7 a.m.
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The Telegraph (Free subscription) | 05/19/2008
Hothouse flowers mingle with home-grown veg in an inspiring display. By Val Bourne.
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SF Signal (Free subscription) | 05/08/2008
John Scalzi shows off the cool cover art for he Spanish version of The Ghost Brigades and even offers up the first chapter . Michael Chabon and Jeffrey Ford are talking genre classification over at GalleyCat. Free Fiction: Free F&SF ! The Editor of The Magazine of Fantasy & Science Fiction , Gordon Van Gelder, is giving away free copies of the July 2008 issue to bloggers. Assistant Editor John Joseph...