Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Monday, March 30, 2009, 4:06 pm
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Interesting historical analysis of the long-time-coming newspaper apocalypse on the Poynter Institute website, ironically, by the now deceased founding editor of USA Today, one of the harbingers of the medium’s decline.Take away message: The old news m…

Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, March 30, 2009, 3:22 pm
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A portrait of Princess Grace Kelly is to be auctioned for charity.The picture, by artist Peter Engels, will be auctioned by Lions Club Monaco – for care of the disabled – in the Monaco casino, in the presence of Prince Albert II, Grace Kelly’s son.The …

Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, March 30, 2009, 3:22 pm
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A portrait of Princess Grace Kelly is to be auctioned for charity.
The picture, by artist Peter Engels, will be auctioned by Lions Club Monaco – for care of the disabled – in the Monaco casino, in the presence of Prince Albert II, Grace Kelly’s son.
The actress would have been 80 this year.
She died at the [...]

Post from Route Publishing
Sunday, March 29, 2009, 11:26 am
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A 25 minute excerpt from Mark Gwynne Jones and The Psychicbreads has just been posted. Featuring three tracks from this very special performance. See them now. Follow the link and be sure to click full screen. See it here.
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Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 6:44 pm
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No, I’m not moving to the Big Apple, especially with the media sector there imploding lately (that’s why I read Gawker, honest!)I will however be attending the Canadian Tourism Commission’s Northern Lights Awards. Seems that one of my travel articles p…

Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Thursday, March 26, 2009, 5:41 pm
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According to Print Measurement Bureau statistics, Canadian Health magazine has 30.3 readers per copy, the highest number of any magazine in Canada.I’ve been writing for the consumer health mag, published by the Canadian Medical Association since 2006, …

Post from Giancarlo La Giorgia
Wednesday, March 25, 2009, 9:55 pm
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I haven’t actually seen the new animated film Sita Sings the Blues (in high-definition, no less; there’s also a less bandwidth-heavy standard-definition version), so I don’t know if it qualifies as a masterpiece, but its creator, Nina Paley, certainly …

Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, March 2, 2009, 10:46 am
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Large crowds gathered to see a collection of almost 200 tiny plasticine ‘Morphs’ assembled to honour the memory of children’s television favourite Tony Hart, who died in January, aged 83.The event was organised on social networking website Facebook by …

Post from Lasting Tribute
Monday, March 2, 2009, 10:46 am
Read more: Art

Large crowds gathered to see a collection of almost 200 tiny plasticine ‘Morphs’ assembled to honour the memory of children’s television favourite Tony Hart, who died in January, aged 83.
The event was organised on social networking website Facebook by a group of friends who wanted to remember the artist, whose shows featured the tiny model [...]