Louis XXVII Pissed-off at Balloon Dog

from The Guardian UK Descendant of Louis XIV tries to ban exhibition Lizzy Davies in Paris The Guardian, Saturday 27 December 2008 Article history He has seen off the conservatives who accused him of cultural vandalism, and triumphed over fears among sceptics in the...

Oh, Kingston Town…(

from The Times South Africa Creator of Bolt’s victory dance dead AFP KINGSTON – David Alexander Smith, the Jamaican entertainment figure who created the dance performed by Jamaican sprinter Usain Bolt to celebrate his victories, was shot to death at a Kingston...

Greatest Catwoman Ever Gone

from the Pioneer Press Eartha Kitt, sultry ‘Santa Baby’ singer who played ‘Catwoman,’ dies By Polly Anderson, Associated Press NEW YORK — Eartha Kitt, a sultry singer, dancer and actress who rose from South Carolina cotton fields to become an...

Religion Still Bringing In The Big Bucks Five Centuries On

from Art Market Monitor People of the Book  The Delmonico Collection of Important Judaica was estimated at $4.1 to $5.5 million and featured a 15th Century illuminated Hebrew Bible and forty separate lots–including eleven printed on blue paper–of the Babylonian Talmud...