The Police closed the Live Earth concert series in the U.S.
Saturday night with their hit song Message in a Bottle, featuring a
cameo by Kanye West repeating the lyric "Sending out an S.O.S" and
adding the declaration "We can save the world!"
Is Microsoft already hard at work repeating the history of Longhorn
and Windows Vista in terms of overpromising and then
underdelivering? Has the Redmond company already started stripping
Windows 7 down of the features planned initially? Is DirectX 11
already being scrapped from the nest iteration of the Windows
platform?
Let me get this out of the way first, before I start talking about
the arts: If you seek qualified commentary on the local arts scene,
please turn immediately to the work of my experienced and talented
colleagues in the Arts & Life section.
Friday brought more rain to Portland and the wet weather was
expected to stay for the weekend. However, sunshine and dry skies
will return by Tuesday and remain through Thanksgiving, according
to meteorologists.
Jasmine Dixon, Long Beach Poly's senior All-America forward/guard,
doesn't hesitate when asked why she is one of the USA's best girls
high school basketball players.
Alice L. Baumann, 86, of Watertown, died Thursday afternoon, Sept.
27, 2007, at the Watertown Memorial Hospital, from pneumonia,
following a major stroke. She was proud to have survived two
courageous bouts with cancer.
1 Orange Blossom
The Police closed the Live Earth concert series in the U.S. Saturday night with their hit song Message in a Bottle, featuring a cameo by Kanye West repeating the lyric "Sending out an S.O.S" and adding the declaration "We can save the world!"
2 Dark Nebula
Is Microsoft already hard at work repeating the history of Longhorn and Windows Vista in terms of overpromising and then underdelivering? Has the Redmond company already started stripping Windows 7 down of the features planned initially? Is DirectX 11 already being scrapped from the nest iteration of the Windows platform?
3 Patrick Wolf
Darsheel Safary, the young actor who has made news recently
4 Jose Feliciano
I took this photo of my daughter's pacifier for her website; there's something about it that I really like.
5 New Young Pony Club
Let me get this out of the way first, before I start talking about the arts: If you seek qualified commentary on the local arts scene, please turn immediately to the work of my experienced and talented colleagues in the Arts & Life section.
6 Rahsaan Roland Kirk and Al Hibbler
Friday brought more rain to Portland and the wet weather was expected to stay for the weekend. However, sunshine and dry skies will return by Tuesday and remain through Thanksgiving, according to meteorologists.
7 Pylon
Malcolm Turnbull says he is serious about climate change - the polls say otherwise.
8 Vincenzo Bellini
Jeremy Mayer makes large sculptures of humans and fanciful creatures out of dismantled typewriters. These are just gorgeous. Link...
9 The Coasters
Jasmine Dixon, Long Beach Poly's senior All-America forward/guard, doesn't hesitate when asked why she is one of the USA's best girls high school basketball players.
10 Escoude
Alice L. Baumann, 86, of Watertown, died Thursday afternoon, Sept. 27, 2007, at the Watertown Memorial Hospital, from pneumonia, following a major stroke. She was proud to have survived two courageous bouts with cancer.