Everyday Goddess (Free subscription) | yesterday
It's Friday, and I don't *really* need to wash my hair this morning. I did just get my period. I have so much work today and this weekend, I really need all the sleep I can get. 7 minutes later....
Fiji Times (Free subscription) | 07/24/2008
EUROPEAN Union shocked an experienced Safeway Marine side 16-11 in round one of the Carpenters Motors business-house bowling tournament on Wednesday night.
The Natural Truth (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Or maybe just a leg tingle? Cast your vote for the best love song to celebrate the media's man-crush on Barack Obama at John McCain's website here. My choice: Close To You by The Carpenters. "Just like me, they long to be...close to you."
NHatky (Free subscription) | 07/23/2008
Her latest film Thoda Pyaar Thoda Magic might have failed to create magic at the box office, but Rani Mukerji still has a reason to be excited about the new development in her life. The actress has shifted to her dream house with her parents. “It took three years to ...
DBKP (Free subscription) | 07/19/2008
UK Nanny State Roundup in not-so-Great-Britain: brooms won't cut it and binge drinking produces a tragic result.
A Plague of Angels (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
We're big fans of brother/sister duos around these parts. We've had Australia's ANGUS & JULIA STONE . Sweden's THE KNIFE . Downey, California's THE CARPENTERS . (Not to mention Detroit's leg-pulling/piss-taking WHITE STRIPES .) Now, we have NYC's BLONDFIRE (formerly ASTAIRE ). ERICA & BRUCE DRISCOLL were born in Grand Rapids, MI but spent a good chunk of their childhoods in Brazil. Perhaps not surprisingly,...
Bakersfield.com Go & Do (Free subscription) | 07/16/2008
Leon Russell, the lauded songwriter and session musician behind hits by The Carpenters and B.B. King, will perform at the Nile Theater Saturday.
Fizzy Pop (Free subscription) | 07/14/2008
If you do not like Abba or at the very least one Abba song then there is something very very wrong with you indeed. In fact the same rule applies to Kylie, Madonna and the Carpenters. I don't mean that in a judgemental way, just in a "you should probably check out your mental health" sort of way. Because Abba are all sorts of glorious. And once again, as happens about every 5-6 years or so, they are...
The Independent (Free subscription) | 07/12/2008
Karen Carpenter, get out of my head. Right now, I am aboard a polar expedition vessel just 10 degrees from the North Pole. I'm on top of the world, looking down on creation, and the only tune that's whizzing around my brain is The Carpenters' 1973 hit, "Top of the World".
Slugger O'Toole (Free subscription) | 07/11/2008
As Sarah Carey says , “Peter Bradshaw's review is a hoot.” So maybe it’s not just me.. There is something about a well written review of a bad movie . Particularly when that movie, complete with a very high-profile cast, has already been receiving free and uncritical publicity. From said review This is Planet Abba or Abbaworld. The characters are forever dancing and smiling and bursting into Abba songs...
Tangled up in blue (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
She makes him sing the Carpenters to her when she's sad . The Ballato-Ways, how so disgustingly, revoltingly precious? You got married in unicorn shirts, isn't that enough adorable to last you at least a year? Must you continue to be delightful cartoon characters? The rest of that scan is actually too fabulous and perfect for me to comment on, hence only referencing the final song picked. SHE LOVES...
Arjan Writes (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
The Carpenters have arguably produced some of the corniest, but also some of the best melodies in pop history. Some of their tunes are so well-known that I imagine it'd be daunting for other artists... (This is a summary of the article only. Visit arjanwrites.com for the full story! )
The Hype Machine (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
in post Superstar Revisited from The Smudge of Ashen Fluff .
The Smudge of Ashen Fluff (Free subscription) | 07/09/2008
Fresh off of the success of Sonic Youth's inspired cover, originally recorded in the early 90's, but resurrected in an important scene in Juno , Dallas, Texas' Shock of Pleasure give The Carpenters' Superstar a different sort of treatment. Shock of Pleasure - Superstar (The Carpenters) (mp3) From their forthcoming album, It's About Time .
Jamaica Gleaner :: Business (Free subscription) | 07/08/2008
The Coca-Cola Company, the world's largest beverage maker, has agreed to pay $137.5 million to settle a shareholder lawsuit that claimed company officials mis-represented or omitted infor-mation in public statements, causing the company's stock price to...
