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[extract1] According to the New York Times, and their Top 41 places to go to in 2011, Tallin Estonia is the 21st place to go. Not bad ranking, and may sound like a trouble to get there, but it is a actually a very good deal.
For Estonian Public Broadcasting, the Music that Falls Between the Cracks is in part from Estonian. They said, David Rothenberg an ECM recording artist, describes himself as a "musician, co...
Monday, February 7, 2011 / 12:01 PM
Its Strictly a 315 Mill Business, nothing Personal?
[extract1] It would be great to start this story with words like, “no one imagined that the versatile writers who started out from nothing would today sell their site for 315 USD million”…but this is not a Hollywood script, so I will spare your day and not insult your intelligence.
It was May 9th, 2005 when the Huffington Post was launched. It is no secret, (at least not today), that Arianna Huffington co-founded ...
Friday, February 4, 2011 / 08:39 AM
Rembrandt Bread to Art? Montesquieu to Flour?
Self Portait Rembrandt
Make due with what you’ve got and experiment with art. Two clichés that only can be lived become alive today. Or, more elegantly put, “the artists tools are not the limitation but the opportunity of the technique”. It is well known that artists, specially the good ones, lived a life of tragedy, poverty and went unappreciated but never stopped to cry about that, certainly not to cry about the...
Buenos Aires from the top view of the Panamericana Hotel is an incredible thing, a thing to remember. Maybe she thought about the view, maybe she didn’t. Witness say she ordered a coffee at the top of the restaurant of the Luxury hotel. Then she took her shoes off.
And she must have walked a few steps barefoot on the top of Panamerican Luxury Hotel, on the 23rd floor. Barefoot, she must have considered the inc...
[extract1] According to Time, on the 24th of January, 45,000 Belgians marched through Brussels to press their fumbling political leaders to hurry up and form a government.
According to sources, Belgium and other countries, shows signals of concern. Concerns focusing on economic discontent of the public and rising prices.
The Tunisian protest are considered the inspiration of many ...
Algeria, Morocco, Western Sahara, Tunisia, Libya and Egypt, the North African border countries, have all seen recent developments. Western Sahara, Morocco and the Polisario Front lead the way into the demonstrations and violence in North Africa.
Egypt recently saw an election which was questioned by opposition, dialogue and questions on democracy rose and sporadic protests continued. Now, Reuters reported that t...
Do you turn over your products when you go shopping? Do you look for the “Made in” tag on the back of your product?
The President of China Hu Jintao visits Obama at the White House. Accroding to the Mail Online, still no one knows who will be cooking the dinner? The media go frantic. Another event occurs to raise opinions in the Court-Shop of the General Public. Generation Electron, does not care.
Natalie Portman plays, to the limit, a ballerina in the thriller, Black Swan. In the movie, the ballet dancer, is both the innocent White Swan and the sensual Black Swan.
From anorexia, drugs and the need to wide out impress the audience, ballet dancers in the New York scene undergo different problems, both physical and psychological. This has led to the fall, and even death of many talented artists.
2011 started off just well. Every year 15 million children die of hunger. With a world wide rise of prices in food the international community began the count down to next year. There are news can be shocking, and news that seem to be important. Then there are news that really affect the people. Rise of food is one of those news.
The BBC reported and clicked away on a keyboard, "North African neighbors Algeria ...
It can not be argued that the price of war is suffering and human loss. But what is the price of war, and how does a local conflict turn international? How does the price of the edge of war extend to all regions?
[extract1] El Pais from Spain reported, “North Korea accuses their neighbour of the South and the United States of America in taking the Korean peninsula on “the edge of war” with their plan to develo...
