" PARIS (Reuters) - The private art collection of French fashion designer Yves Saint Laurent and his partner Pierre Berge has been put up for auction and will be sold in February 2009, auction house Christie's said...
If you live in the Cleveland area, today is the day for 23 cent pizzas! "UPDATE: According to WKYC , this offer has been expanded to include some stores in NE Ohio (Toledo and Youngstown):
Papa...
"Perhaps it's appropriate that Ozzie Guillen would unleash one of his patented expletive-filled tirades on Chicago fans, the Cubs, and media outlets just a few short days removed from the 25th anniversary of Lee...
The folks at Flickr are hosting a party in San Francisco for the company's fourth birthday on March 15. Since the vast majority of NowPublic contributors are Flickr users, and since most of us aren't lucky enough...
"The "People's Choice Awards" took on a new format this year as a result of the writers strike. Instead of the normal set-up with an audience and the winners taking to the stage, the nominees were presented through the use of clips and filmed acceptances.
Among the fan...
Was the lastest show of force by Russia a hoax? The
Russians call the device the “Father of All Bombs,” This Wired Article
questions that Claim. The video is the official Russian coverage."“All that is alive...
Many came to pay homage to the humanitarian Mother Teresa, who won a Nobel Peace Prize 1979
for her work with the poor, and died in Calcutta, India, at age 87.A few people came to protest Mother Teresa's saint status...
The Fides press agency published a dossier of St Augustine-related texts (in Italian only, alas) to accompany the Roman Pontiff's visit to Pavia this past weekend, including this essay by Father Nicola Bux on St Augustine and the catholicity of the Church which is quite good...
"The adventures of Tintin and Snowy turned comic books into an art form. Now their creator Hergé is being honored by a mega-exhibition in Paris. On show are drawings, illustrations and recordings -- and documents of...
Beneath the broad tides of human history there flow the stealthy undercurrents of the secret societies, which frequently determine in the depth the changes that take place upon the surface.