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'A tremendous guy': David Bowie pays tribute to former bassist Trevor Bolder who died aged 62
Rock star David Bowie has paid tribute to his former bassist Trevor Bolder as a "major inspiration and a "tremendous guy" after he died following a battle with cancer.
independent.co.uk (1 hour ago)
China's Ai Weiwei launches musical career with heavy metal "Dumbass" single
BEIJING (Reuters) - Dissident Chinese artist Ai Weiwei made his first foray into the musical world on Wednesday with the release of the top single from his debut album, a song called "Dumbass" that takes inspiration from his detention in 2011.
reuters.com (5 hours ago)
Theater Review: ‘Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!,’ at LaMaMa
With its inspiration coming from samurai and kung fu films as well as manga, “Deadly She-Wolf Assassin at Armageddon!” delivers dancelike fight sequences.
nytimes.com (12 hours ago)
The Hair And Makeup Secrets Behind A Broadway Production
What do you get when you put a drag queen, a shoemaker and lots of glitter on stage? A Broadway production of "Kinky Boots," of course! The musical, based on a 2005 film, tells the story of an almost bankrupt shoe factory owner, Charlie (Stark Sands), who partners with a British drag queen, Lola (Billy Porter), to...
huffingtonpost.com (12 hours ago)
Massive regional disaster drill draws inspiration from tornado response
Watching the backbreaking work being done to free the injured and retrieve the dead from flattened slabs or mountainous piles of concrete, it didn't take much imagination to think the scene was Moore, Okla.
gainesville.com (13 hours ago)
Geordan Murphy out of grand final as Leicester shun sentiment
Twickenham may be Leicester's second home, after all Saturday's grand final is their ninth on the trot, but any hint of selectorial sentiment went out of the window on Tuesday when their club captain, Geordan Murphy, was told he had no chance of ending his career at rugby's headquarters. After 16 seasons and 317...
guardian.co.uk (13 hours ago)
Caregiving elderly family member can be rewarding, challenging
Amy Cotton loved nursing long before she entered the profession. Cotton’s grandmother, Clarice Gooch Hoyt, a nurse in Downeast Maine who made house calls on horseback, was a constant source of inspiration. Cotton calls her “a pioneer.” Before there was public health nursing in Washington County, Hoyt used to provide...
bangordailynews.com (13 hours ago)
Social Media Etiquette Rules For Every Wedding
By Kellee Khalil for Lover.ly While the Internet has made weddings more fun in a lot of ways (loads of inspiration! live streaming the ceremony!), not every wedding moment needs to be splashed across social media. With wedding season approaching, here are our tips for combining weddings and the web. Photo by:...
huffingtonpost.com (17 hours ago)
Skater style – fashion's hottest trend
Once upon a time, in the dim and distant past – around 2010 – you were no one on the front row of a fashion show unless you were dressed up to the nines. Eveningwear was quite acceptable at 9am, couture was alpha-wear and 5in heels were the minimum requirement. Fastforward to the autumn/winter 2013 shows. Fashion...
guardian.co.uk (18 hours ago)
When A Money-Printing Butterfly Flaps Its Wings In Japan, This Is What Happens In Greece
Since the BoJ enunciated its actions on April 4th, the world has decided that consuming risk assets (the riskier the better) is the path to salvation. While it makes perfect sense that some level of inspiration for a global recovery makes sense (though hardly) given Japan's actions, it beggars belief that the most...
zerohedge.com (20 hours ago)
Dresses are flowering all over
Are the stars of Cannes getting inspiration from the Chelsea Flower Show? Milla Jovovich looked floral at yesterday’s French Riviera premiere of Blood Ties, starring Clive Owen and Marion Cotillard. Jovovich isn’t the only one who’s gone full bloom - everyone from American Vogue editor Anna Wintour to Kim Kardashian...
standard.co.uk (20 hours ago)
Dresses are flowering out all over
Are the stars of Cannes getting inspiration from the Chelsea Flower Show? Milla Jovovich looked floral at yesterday’s French Riviera premiere of Blood Ties, starring Clive Owen and Marion Cotillard. Jovovich isn’t the only one who’s gone full bloom - everyone from American Vogue editor Anna Wintour to Kim Kardashian...
standard.co.uk (20 hours ago)
Yahoo Will Learn To Live With Tumblr's Massive Porn Archive
Yahoo just paid $1.1 billion for the blogging network Tumblr. Which is sort of a problem, because - among all the cats, GIFs and inspirational posters - Tumblr is full of porn. Well, apparently it's not much of a problem after all. Yahoo CEO Marrissa Mayer says that following the Tumblr purchase her company will...
huffingtonpost.com (22 hours ago)
Mageia Linux 3 brings a raft of key updates
Mageia has long been what you might call a “best-kept secret” of the Linux world, consistently residing among the top five distributions in DistroWatch's page-hit rankings despite minimal marketing and hoopla. The distro has only been around since it was forked from Mandriva Linux back in 2010, of course, but after...
pcworld.com (23 hours ago)
Live Q&A: how to protect your intellectual property
The process of setting up a small business can commonly start with a flash of inspiration during which an entrepreneur will come up with an innovative idea for a product or service. But, in the midst of starting up, there is one risk you may not have taken into consideration: that someone else might replicate your...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Honor provides inspiration to battle on
The Courage Award special freeholder meeting on April 17 was such a wonderful event and a memorable night for me, as well as for my family and friends. Since hearing the surprising news that Freeholde
phillyburbs.com (1 day ago)
Frankford wins one for Tito
The Pioneers played with inspiration after a motorcycle accident last week took the life of a former school baseball star.
philly.com (1 day ago)
'True Blood': Alan Ball, Set Designer Reveal Vampire Authority Secrets (Exclusive Video)
Ball and Suzuki Ingerslev discuss the inspiration for the council's meeting place in a season five DVD extra.
hollywoodreporter.com (1 day ago)
They're Back Together! 'Reaper' Reunion Preview
"Reaper" reruns are heading to FEARnet and to celebrate, the network reunited the cast. Below, get a first look at the "Reaper" reunion on FEARnet, featuring Ray Wise, Tyler Labine, Bret Harrison, Rick Gonzales, Ken Marino, Christine Willes and series creators Tara Butters and Michele Fazekas. In the first video,...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Rabbi Abraham Cooper: From Sudan to North Korea and Syria: A Plea to President Obama to Activate...
Co-authored by Professor Samuel Totten "In remembrance lie the roots of redemption; in forgetfulness the roots of destruction." That Judaic theme has inspired museums, international memorial days, and not a few politicians to invoke "Never Again" when the specter of genocide rears its horrific head. Yet while...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Yahoo rolls out massive Flickr redesign, gives everyone 1TB of free storage
The "internet" asked Yahoo CEO Marissa Mayer to make Flickr awesome again. Or at least that's how she tells it. But however the message got across to Yahoo's new-ish leader, today she and some of the Flickr team realized the fruit of their labor. Flickr has received a massive redesign, one that's up at this very...
techradar.com (1 day ago)
CD Reviews: Saturday Looks Good To Me, Alpine
âOne Kiss Ends It Allâ Saturday Looks Good To Me 3 stars When Michigan-based indie-pop project Saturday Looks Good To Me regrouped in 2012, it was a welcome but weird experience. The meta-nostalgia of revisiting a beloved early-2000s band that drew its inspiration from the wavering mini-symphonies of the â60s...
amny.com (1 day ago)
Galifianakis To Take Homeless Woman He Saved To 'Hangover III' Premiere
Zach Galifianakis hasn’t even been married a year, but he has another leading lady in his life. When the bearded funnyman was just getting his start in show business in the 90s, he struck up a friendship with Elizabeth “Mimi” Haist, a woman who volunteered at a Los Angeles laundromat and depended on tips from...
huffingtonpost.com (1 day ago)
Danish designer finds inspiration in Ghana's Ashanti empire
In their pursuit of an African voice, designers are often left stuttering when it dawns on them that simply being drawn to the continent, without substance, isn't quite enough. The mass clamour about how "so-and-so was inspired by Africa", together with a confusion between east and west African cloths and the...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Danish designer finds inspiration in Ashanti empire - in pictures
Trine Lindegaard worked with a family of traditional Ghanaian weavers to develop a vibrant new line in menswear, which will be on show in London in June
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Could Sound Women sustain radio's future? | Tracy Ramsden
What would help women hustle their way into radio? I asked Meera Syal at last week's Sony Radio Academy awards. "A wife!" she suggested, before highlighting the importance of women in the industry extending the hand of sisterhood. And so to Saturday's debut Sound Women Festival, where the theme was "inspiration" and...
guardian.co.uk (1 day ago)
Culinary instructor gives lessons on preparing and cooking fresh produce
A stroll through an area farmers’ market can inspire even the most timid home cook. But inspiration can quickly turn to frustration when faced with figuring out how to clean, cut and cook item…
madison.com (1 day ago)
Best-selling author makes her way to Westampton
Lisa Scottoline, the bestselling author of 20 novels, will discuss her inspiration for writing and her newly released book “Don’t Go” when she appears at the Burlington County Library in Westampton on
phillyburbs.com (1 day ago)
Israeli inquiry says film of Muhammad al-Dura's death in Gaza was staged
A film of a 12-year-old boy crying and cowering beside his father as a gun battle raged around them in Gaza has been challenged by an official Israeli report that suggests that the entire event may have been staged. The images, which became a symbol of the second intifada, contain no evidence that the child was...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
Premier League 2012-13 review: gripe of the season | Paul Doyle
Welcome to guardian.co.uk's review of the 2012-13 Premier League season. Now that the campaign has ended we would like you to help us choose your favourite goal, the best signing and the best manager, as well as eight other categories. We have nominated some contenders, but this is just to get the discussion going:...
guardian.co.uk (2 days ago)
