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Cooke just recently retired from his “Letters From America” show on the BBC after 58 years – hasty he was not: Veteran BBC broadcaster and writer Alistair Cooke has died at his home in New York. ….Leading the tributes, Prime Minister Tony Blair described him as “a remarkable man” and …

Given all the chatter about art and museums, it is only fitting that we turn our noses in the direction of the Perfume Museum of Barcelona. In the words of founder Ramon Planas Buera: The Perfume Museum of Barcelona, installed in the Paseo de Gracia 39, it was inaugurated in …

Internet dieting has become extremely popular in recent years, according to this article from AP. We have seen some of the results here: this post on the South Beach Diet has been gathering comments steadily for nine months, and CW Fisher has just started a series on what he calls …

Our manga explorations continue with a boy's fantasy adventure series. . .

As I was driving my mother-in-law to the airport this afternoon we were having our usual low-intensity disagreements about politics, war, the media, whether or not Diane Rehm and her voice like a 110-year-old tracheotomy victim should remain on the air, and we did agree that while there is a …

The NAACP “honors projects and individuals who have demonstrated exemplary works by and for people of color” with the annual Image Awards. The 35th annual awards were handed out Saturday night in Los Angeles: [Luther] Vandross is recovering from a stroke and was not at Universal Amphitheatre to pick up …

BBC 4 has opened a fascinating archive of radio interviews, arranged alphabetically and by topic. Here is a list of the A’s and B’s, by way of example: Achebe, Chinua b1930 Adams, Ansel 1902 – 1984 Altman, Robert b1925 Amis, Kingsley 1922 – 1995 Amis, Martin b1949 Angelou, Maya b1928 …

Walter Yetnikoff was a classic music industry player, until it all went wrong...

Jerry Hall – master thespian, or at least a really fast one: Jerry Hall dashed around London’s theater district Tuesday night, appearing briefly in six musicals – and six costumes – but didn’t have to learn any lines. The theatrical marathon, one of a series of events promoting London as …

Checking out a gritty s-f manga series. . .