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Travel: Travel blog | guardian.co.u (Free subscription) | yesterday
... on the shelves despite 100 tonnes of concrete holding the boat down". Or so says Radio 1 DJ Mary Anne Hobbs. You remember bottles that jingle? They didn't always make them out of plastic. On a quest to unearth true grassroots music venues across the globe, we asked DJs, musicians and music writers to reveal their favourite hangouts. You can see the results here although your...
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Tony's Kansas City (Free subscription) | yesterday
Once Again Mary-Anne has a great listing of the best weekend events in town at her Kansas City about.com blog . For local music listing check out the Event Driver as well. TKC Reference, my Grandma B. has always said, "You can have a good time or you can you pay your bills. But you can't do both." For po'folk these are words to live by.
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Una Bella Vita A Beautiful Life (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
... courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying "i will try again tomorrow." -mary anne radmacher ** sorry for repeated pictures! i feel like i've used a lot of these before... shout out to my lovely reader & soul sister Chhavi, (who is pictured in the 6th photo down)! photography by: fadedfreckles , Lotte Scott , and one of my all-time favorites Marta Varga...
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Sacramento Bee (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
Q: What ever happened to Gary Allen Bortis from Loomis who shot and killed his neighbor? And what happened to his live-in girlfriend? - Jan, Sacramento A: Bortis, now 53, is in prison and Mary Anne Stein, who was identified as Bortis' girlfriend at the time of his conviction, was paroled in 2008, according to State Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation records. Bortis was convicted...
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Grits for Breakfast (Free subscription) | 03/18/2010
According to the Fort Worth Star-Telegram : A state panel studying ways to reduce wrongful convictions in Texas seemed to find what it was looking for during a visit to Tarrant County this year. After reviewing the district attorney's open-file and electronic discovery system, Mary Anne Wiley, deputy general counsel for Gov. Rick Perry, offered one of several superlatives uttered by panel...
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PAXALLES (Free subscription) | yesterday
... regulations being imposed by the Democrats. Ingraham spoke with analysts Nancy Skinner and Mary Anne Marsh about the effects the health care slog will have on the Democrats in the 2010 elections. Marsh said that the Democrats are pleased with the bill in the main, the GOP isn't and that it will be critical to peel off enough independents to pass the bill. Skinner felt that the advantages...
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Mary Meets Dolly (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
... than previous thought. From the article : Gendercide—to borrow the title of a 1985 book by Mary Anne Warren—is often seen as an unintended consequence of China's one-child policy, or as a product of poverty or ignorance. But that cannot be the whole story. The surplus of bachelors—called in China guanggun, or “bare branches”— seems to have accelerated...
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Flavorwire (Free subscription) | 03/16/2010
... No Child Left Behind policy neglected the arts as core curriculum for K-12 education.) Today, Mary Anne Goley -- former director of the fine arts program for the board of governors -- penned a piece for the Wall Street Journal about the tastes of various Fed chairs, and let's just say, it's pretty revealing. Related posts: Art and Math with Ryan Adams Art World Elegy: Patricia Faure,...
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ProjectDisaster (Free subscription) | 03/13/2010
http://www.orthosupersite.com/view.aspx?rid=61879 Orthopedic collective mobilizes to bring disaster relief to Haiti quake victims By Mary Anne McDonald As the orthopedic community gathers in New Orleans, a city that has made great strides since the devastating Hurricane Katrina 4 and-a-half short years ago, many graphic images may come to mind: broken levees; houses in shambles, if not...
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Lorem Ipsum (Free subscription) | 03/13/2010
... things being auctioned. I want to point particularly to the items from the WisCon guests of honor: Mary Anne is offering to critique your book , provide handmade curry powder and cookbook , or have a private lunch with you at WisCon . (Those are three separate items.) Nnedi is offering two copies of The Shadow Speaker with author doodles . (Two separate items; top two bidders each...
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Screen Savour (Free subscription) | 03/13/2010
... . The story here is of bookworm Ronald (Keaton) who must take up athletics to impress a girl named Mary (Anne Cornwall) for whom book smarts isn’t nearly as appealing as the triumphalism of sports. Many of the jokes involve the trials and failures and ultimate successes as Ronald attempts to win Mary. A few, like a bit with a javelin, succeed. Most others, like an uncomfortable...
