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February 22, 2009 - February 28, 2009 Archives


Casing the sausage festival

3:07 PM Sat, Feb 28, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Balkan Insight reports that Serbs Again Try For Record-Breaking Sausage: The small village of Turija, some 30 km north of Vojvodina's capital Novi Sad, lives for their international sausage festival in the last week of February, when each year......

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'Final Edition': Video of the last days of the Rocky Mountain News

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

Final Edition from Matthew Roberts on Vimeo.After 149 years and 311 days, the Rocky Mountain News published its final edition on February 27, 2009. Multimedia producer Matthew Roberts documents its final days -- the Scripps executives announcing first that the......

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Weekend mp3s: Dylan, Clapton, Beatles outtakes

6:32 AM Fri, Feb 27, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

I'm just getting to bed after a night of writing other things, so here's the short version: BOB DYLAN - NEW JERSEY 1988 ERIC CLAPTON - TOKYO 2009 THE BEATLES - Revolution Take... Your Knickers Off! (His Master's Choice 006,......

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Update: Video: Stevie Wonder at the White House last night, on PBS tonight

5:14 PM Thu, Feb 26, 2009 | | Write a comment
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Update: You can see last night's performance tonight at 8 p.m. on PBS. PBS via AP "Please give it up for Mr. Stevie Wonder," said the President, after awarding the Gershwin Prize to the blind musician. There's18 seconds of Stevie......

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Giving up chocolate for Lent? Some give up Facebook or Twitter

Baby_Ruth.jpg 3:38 PM Wed, Feb 25, 2009 | | Comments (2)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Mardi Gras seemed irrelevant this year, maybe because life already feels a lot like Lent. We're all giving up all sorts of pleasures now, in the name of prudence or necessity. When I was a kid, everybody I knew......

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A.H. Belo to lay off 100 more at Providence Journal

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By Sheila Lennon    Email

02.27.09 - Update: After an interview with Journal publisher Howard Sutton, Journal reporter Neil Downing reports today (Journal Co. laying off 74 to cut expenses) that At the Journal, about 100 positions will have been eliminated after the reduction in......

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New portrait of, and maybe by, da Vinci discovered

Leonardobasilicata.jpg 7:17 AM Tue, Feb 24, 2009 | | Comments (1)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Portrait of Leonardo da Vinci discovered in Basilicata. Credit: Ordre Souverain et Militaire du Temple de Jérusalem (Italian Knights Templar)This newly discovered 17-inch by 24-inch painting of Leonardo da Vinci may be a self-portrait.What may be a hitherto unknown portrait......

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Upload your photos of Rhode Island's 'Killer Potholes' so we can all avoid them

potholegraphic.jpg 8:23 PM Sun, Feb 22, 2009 | | Comments (5)
By Sheila Lennon    Email

Potholes are sneaky and dangerous; the worst offer the motorist a choice that isn't a choice: Crash down into it or swerve into traffic in an adjacent lane. If we know where they are, we can avoid them; if we......

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