Beale Street Beat (Free subscription) | 11/23/2009
Ken Rosenthal, FOX sports – Rosenthal is reporting that the Red Sox are shopping Mike Lowell and are willing to pay half of his $12M salary for 2010. The idea here is to move Lowell so that they can shift Youkilis to third and go after Adrian Gonzalez or another big bat like Miguel Cabrera [...]
MLB Rumors - MLBTradeRumors.com (Free subscription) | 11/21/2009
In a piece for ESPN Boston, Peter Gammons and Gordon Edes answered five key questions about the Red Sox and the upcoming offseason. There's not many hard rumors in the piece, but there's plenty of discussion topics, so let us know what you think... Both Gammons and Edes believe the Sox will retain Jason Bay (Gammons guesses the contract will be in the four year, $64MM range), and neither is sure who...
Fenway West (Free subscription) | 11/20/2009
Every team can now negotiate with Jason Bay. Here's the latest buzz from around the internet: Peter Gammons and Gordon Edes both believe Bay will end up back in Boston . The Angels are very interested in trying to sign Bay. The Giants are not that interested. The Mets are looking to spend some money and Bay could be on the receiving end. Theo says signing Bay is a priority . Larry Luccino says the...
Rough Edges (Free subscription) | 10/30/2009
Hamp Cameron comes to Mormon, a town on the edge of Death Valley, looking for the gambler who seduced his sister and then abandoned her to die. That’s a book right there by itself, right? Not in the hands of William Heuman, who often begins a book where others would probably end it. Hamp Cameron’s vengeance quest becomes something else entirely, as he finds himself caught up in a war between...
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
Raymond Blanc, Anthony Worrall Thompson, Paul Merrett, Peter Gordon and Martin Lam, have leant their support to the RSPCA campaign encouraging restaurant-goers to ask more questions about the origins of what they are eating.
Liverpool Echo.co.uk (Free subscription) | 10/22/2009
CELEBRITY chefs have urged diners to demand restaurants tell them how they source their ingredients.
Stingray: a blog for salty Christi (Free subscription) | 10/21/2009
Tonight is a night of contrast between 1965 and 2008. Peter and Gordon had a string of Top 40 hits from 1964 to 1967. Their first, A World Without Love, was written by Paul McCartney under a pseudonym. McCartney wanted to know if he could write a number one hit that stood on its own merits rather than because it happened to be by The Beatles. The careers of Peter and Gordon weren’t hurt by the...
Beattie's Book Blog (Free subscription) | 10/01/2009
PETER GORDON : A CULINARY JOURNEY by Peter Gordon, with photography by Jean Cazals. Published by Penguin Group (NZ) RRP$70 Growing up in a small town in New Zealand, Peter Gordon didn’t discover avocadoes or sushi until he moved to Australia in his late teens. From there he travelled to Asia where a whole new culinary world opened before his eyes. Often dubbed the ‘father of Fusion cuisine’...
Barnhard (Free subscription) | 09/30/2009
Summary: Conversation between Jon Taplin and Peter Chermin and Gordon Crawford - media is changing, nobody knows how to pay for it [video aprox 1 hour] “Newspapers are so dead. Aside from the Wall Street Journal and stuff. Honestly just think about the concept of a newspaper. You cut down a bunch of trees, you boil them, you [...]
Guerrilla Billionaire™ (Free subscription) | 09/26/2009
Art of the Long View Join communication professor Jonathan Taplin for a conversation with leading media architects Peter Chernin and Gordon Crawford about the long view of the evolving role of the media conglomerate in the next ten years. Chernin, former president and COO of News Corp, oversaw Fox's film, television and new media business both in the U.S. and internationally. He currently heads his...
The Irish Times (Free subscription) | 09/24/2009
A FINANCIAL deal needed to support the devolution of policing and justice will not be concluded during talks involving the heads of the Executive and the British prime minister, DUP leader Peter Robinson has warned.
Abbey Road News (Free subscription) | 09/16/2009
We are delighted to announce that Howard Goodall�s score for the HBO/BBC film Into The Storm, recorded at Abbey Road, has won a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Music Composition for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special (Original Dramatic Score).The film, starring Brendan Gleeson, portrays Winston Churchill�s days in office during World War II. The score was recorded by Peter Cobbin in...
Popdose (Free subscription) | 09/11/2009
Beatles Week continues with CHART ATTACK!, where Jason Hare looks at ten Beatles covers that hovered around the Billboard Top 10. Prepare to be shocked, amazed, and perhaps disturbed!
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 09/10/2009
Following up on my earlier post, Dan Klein points my attention to the following piece by Wendell Cox, Peter Gordon, and Christian Redfearn, from Economic Journal Watch. Excerpt: Suburbanization has, for a long time, been a trend based on consumer...
Marginal Revolution (Free subscription) | 09/08/2009
The Voluntary City: Choice, Community and Civil Society, edited by David Beito, Peter Gordon, and Alex Tabarrok. It's very much anti-zoning. Here you can look inside the book. I am genuinely puzzled by this progressive meme that GMU economists don't...
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