by | Feb 23, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The Telegraph Stolen £700,000 Degas painting found on a bus near Paris by Rory Mulholland Edgar Degas was a leading Impressionist. CREDIT: HERVE LEWANDOWSKI/AFP/GETTY IMAGES) French customs officers making a random check on a bus at a motorway layby found a...
by | Feb 22, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from Rolling Stone The Last Word: George Clinton on Alien Encounters, Trump’s Lack of Funk The Parliament-Funkadelic legend also discusses the perils of LSD, the death of doo-wop and how to find great musicians By Brian Hiatt Parliament-Funkadelic leader George...
by | Feb 20, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from BBC Roman boxing gloves unearthed by Vindolanda dig Image copyrightVINDOLANDA TRUST Image captionThe gloves were “skilfully made” about 2,000 years ago Roman boxing gloves unearthed during an excavation near Hadrian’s Wall have gone on public...
by | Feb 14, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from Smithsonian Why Curling Ice is Different Than Other Ice There is a science to preparing ice for the shuffleboard-like sport. It’s all about the pebbling By Erica R. Hendry An ice maker pebbles the 2014 Olympic curling rink in Sochi. (Rich Harmer) Let’s be honest:...
by | Feb 8, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The LA Times He’s America’s TV dad. Get to know ‘This Is Us’ star Milo Ventimiglia By YVONNE VILLARREAL Actor Milo Ventimiglia, from the NBC hit, “This Is Us,” is photographed at his Los Angeles home with some of his hat...
by | Feb 7, 2018 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News, Projects
from The Bookseller New James Frey novel from John Murray by Katherine Cowdrey James Frey, author of A Million Little Pieces (John Murray), is publishing a new novel with John Murray called Katerina. Katerina, pitched as a sweeping love story that alternates between...