Food trends are like New Year’s resolutions — they show up like clockwork at the start of a new year. From the trendy to the traditional, the austere to the outrageous (are we weary of fusion already?) food trends define our lifestyles in more ways than one.
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Quirky and fun food trends (Toronto Sun)
Chris Albrecht, the recently-appointed President and Chief Executive Officer of Starz, LLC, will deliver a keynote address on the opening day of the upcoming MIPTV, Monday, April 12.
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Starz CEO Chris Albrecht to Keynote at MIPTV 2010 (PR Newswire via Yahoo! Finance)
LONDON (SHARECAST) – Bus and train group FirstGroup has been called “the worst company in Britain” and the Telegraph completely understands this point of view but believes from an investment point of view, there are compelling reasons to buy the shares.
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Tuesday tips round-up: FirstGroup, Templeton Emerging, Hiscox (ShareCast)
In a frank interview, the famed writer talks about motherhood, Catholicism, her parents and soulmate Harold Pinter Lady Antonia Fraser adjusts her pearls, gazes out…
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Ginny Dougary: Lady Antonia Fraser’s life less ordinary (The Huffington Post)
One of James Bond’s most memorable foes was the gold smuggler Goldfinger. As well as his garish habit of painting women in gold, he wanted to detonate a nuclear bomb at the US gold reserve to increase the value of his insufficiently precious bullion. Thankfully, the fictional force of the British state defeated him, but 007’s real-life counterparts at the Financial Services Authority were less …
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Consuming Issues: Dodge the gold jewellery rip-off (Independent)
In today’s Remainders, the future! The soldiers of tomorrow get a new battery for their exoskeletons; a 2012 Olympic Stadium built from recycled weapons; discoveries on how a big brain can indicate a great gamer, and more. (more…)
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Remainders – The Things We Didn’t Post: Talk Of Tomorrow Edition (Gizmodo Australia)
A fledgling local group that brings businesswomen together is partnering with Edmonton Fashion Week to host a fundraising fashion show this week in the hopes of raising enough money to kick-start a scholarship fund.
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Fashion show to kick-start local scholarship fund (Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune)
Detectives have released an e-fit image of a man they wish to speak to following burglaries in a north Suffolk village last week.
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Police issue e-fit following burglaries (EDP24 – Eastern Daily Press)
Luxury watch trade fairs have opened in Geneva this week amid signs that wealthy shoppers are again splashing out on prestige timepieces.
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Quiet optimism on display at Geneva watch fairs (Swissinfo)
This weeks letter is abbreviated since most things were mentioned in the update to subscribers, and quite frankly that long update burnt me out. To be sure the major indices are still a buy, but there is more and more talk that a double-dip recession coming soon and I agree.
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No Double Dipping…Yet (Kitco.com)
In Search of a Context , an exhibition about the relation of art to its setting of time, place, social and historical moorings. Artworks include paintings, sculptures, drawings, collage, films and video.
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ART Till January 9 at CIMA Gallery; 3 pm – 7 pm (Monday) & 2 pm – 7 pm (Tuesday to Saturday): (The Telegraph)
Next week Elvis Presley’s family will host a little party in honour of what would have been the King’s 75th birthday. Tears will be shed, toasts will be made and, on the north lawn of Graceland, a cake will be cut.
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Elvis’ 75th birthday special: Meet the fans, artists and entrepreneurs behind the $45m Presley industry (Independent)
In Search of a Context , an exhibition about the relation of art to its setting of time, place, social and historical moorings.
A win for Aston Villa would put them third in the table ahead of Arsenal (having played two games more, admittedly, but I’m trying to big this up so bear with me), while Sunderland could leapfrog Fulham (and possibly go ahead of Birmingham City on goal differ … ah, what’s the point?).
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Midweek clockwatch – as it happened (Guardian Unlimited)
Kelly Reilly gives good argy-bargy. She’s had enough of overbearing, manipulative, condescending men and boys
An art camp featuring 14 contemporary painters from India and Bangladesh. December 7 – 26 (except Sunday) at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am – 7 pm: A Study in Abstraction — an exhibition featuring works of Manjari Chakravarti, Shridhar Iyer, Prabhakar Kolte, Manish Pushkale, Deepak Rajvar, Partha Shaw, S. Harsha Vardhana, Deepak Tandon and Neha Chandria.
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ART December 7 – 11 at Taj Bengal, The Poolside; 10 am – 5 pm: (The Telegraph)
Emami Chisel presents Bikash Bhattacharjee: A retrospective exhibition of paintings . Till August 19 at Academy of Fine Arts; 3 pm – 8 pm: Calcutta Sculptors presents its 16th annual sculpture exhibition in celebration of the 75th birthday of eminent sculptor Shankar Ghosh.
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Art Till September 9 (except Sunday) at Emami Chisel Art Pvt. Ltd, Emami Towers, 687 Anandapur, E.M. Bypass, … (The Telegraph)
‘All this talk of an end to the recession is government bluff and marketing,’ said postman Philippe Dupayage as he ferreted through bargain bins Ferreting through the bargain bins of €7 gentlemen’s trousers at Tati, the legendary French cheap clothes emporium, shoppers at Republique in Paris were deeply sceptical of any talk of an end to the economic crisis in France. Philippe Dupayage quit his …
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… as news France and Germany are out of recession is greeted with scepticism (Guardian Unlimited)
A solo exhibition of paintings by Dr Jayasmita Chatterjee. Till August 15 at Ganges Art Gallery, 33A Jatin Das Road, #2465 3212; 11 am – 7 pm: Eternal Landscape — a group show of landscape art featuring works by Manisha Dey, Ramlal Dhar, Sohini Dhar, Gopal Ghose, Mrinal Mondol, Surya Prakash and Sandip Roy.
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Art Till August 15 at The Art Walk, Emami Chisel Arts, South City Mall; 12 noon – 8 pm: (The Telegraph)
Meditative Beauty — a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Tanuj Sardar. Till August 9 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am – 11 pm: The 11th solo exhibition of paintings by Sujata Chakraborty. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
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Art Till August 8 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G-7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park, #30534053; 11 am – 6 pm: (The Telegraph)
Meditative Beauty — a solo exhibition of recent paintings by Tanuj Sardar. August 3 – 9 at The Promenade Lounge, Taj Bengal; 10 am – 11 pm: The 11th solo exhibition of paintings by Sujata Chakraborty. The artist will be painting live from 3 pm to 6 pm.
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Art August 3 – 8 at Masters Collection Art Gallery, G-7 Malayalay Apts, 3 Woodburn Park, #30534053; 11 am – 6 pm: (The Telegraph)
Today’s top pick PLEASURE QUOTIENT TEST ONLINE (TASTE BUD TEASER) This weekend, a Victorian-clad mod squad will go along Orchard Road, and on board the MRT train to invite people to participate in an online Pleasure Quotient Test to win Magnum Pleasure Cards worth $100 each. A total of $5,000 worth of cards will be awarded to 50 winners. Info: Accept the ‘Royal Decree on Pleasure’ invitation …
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What’s on: Sat’s picks (Straits Times)
Lured by Red Stripe and other totally legal substances, the scientists wowed festivalgoers with the delights of space travel and Jupiter’s moons, the neuroscience of music and the propagation of waves in conga lines – before they were finally allowed to join the party I’m standing in a field in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire. All about are the typical trappings of a music festival. The bright …
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Guerilla scientists gatecrash Secret Garden Party (Guardian Unlimited)
Election fever, it is fair to say, is not gripping the good folk of Norwich – or at least not in the political sense. Swine flu decided yesterday to pay a visit to the Norwich North by-election and struck down one Chris Ostrowski, who just happens to be Labour’s candidate.
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Candidate may have swine flu, but contest is hardly infectious (The Herald)