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• Chef Beau MacMillan Talks To andPOP About “Worst Cooks In America”

  
  andPOP.com — Authority: 144
  Imagine twelve American average Joes handpicked for their notorious cooking skills, who are then broken up into teams Red and Blue- which are then each coached by a prominent chef to whip them up into cuisine shape. For six grueling weeks each squad will then endure challenges and elimination until the last cook ...
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• Classical Music Sampler: January 2010

  
  The Arts Fuse Blog — Authority: 120
  By Caldwell Titcomb Dutch keyboardist Ton Koopman will conduct the Boston Symphony Orchestra Jan. 6, 7,8,9,12: The Boston Symphony is led by Ton Koopman (b. 1944), Dutch keyboardist, conductor, and specialist in early music, knighted in 2003 in the Netherlands. With a bow to Haydn, the biocentennial of ...
  23 hours ago

• The Kids Can Play! Observations From Team Finland Versus Team Canada

  
  The Hockey Writers — Authority: 488
  Christopher Ralph – THW’s Flames, Draft and Prospect Correspondent Fortunate enough to land lower bowl seats in the Saddledome for last night’s tilt between Finland and Team Canada in a pre-WJC tournament game, I thought I’d reflect back on the game with observations from my point of view – some obvious ...
  4 days ago

• Darryl Accone Judges Five Book Covers: The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 484
  An amusing piece from the Mail & Guardian’s books editor on five covers that caught his eye this decade, for alternately the right and wrong reasons: The Good The Bad The Ugly What could be more redolent and evocative of decades past than the old-fashioned glass milk bottle, with ...
  5 days ago

• Darryl Accone’s Nod for Emperor Can Wait

  
  Pan Macmillan — Authority: 116
  Emma Chen’s Emperor Can Wait features on Mail & Guardian books editor Darryl Accone’s list of the top “walls, wars, food and games” reads that 2009 brought us - the only SA book to make the cut. Congratulations to Chen! I must disclose immediately that I am a friend of Emma’s. It would be remiss, ...
  5 days ago

• Exclusive - Labour PPC Abandons Front for Online War

  
  Tory Bear - right-wing political gossip — Authority: 573
  Yes TB knows he is meant to be packing but a nice little scoop to leave on. This has come from a couple of places but people are being very cagey... They are promising a "shock and awe" rejigging of their online activities in the new year, and tonight TB understands that the not entirely unattractive Claire ...
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• James MacMillan talks about The Sacrifice

  
  Chandos Records — Authority: 123
  Chandos offers the world premiere recording of this theatrically and musically devastating opera commissioned and performed by Welsh National Opera. This is released on CD only, and not available to download.  The Sacrifice , described by The Scotsman as ‘a powerful and evocative piece of music’, ...
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• Christmas Editorial

  
  Chandos Records — Authority: 123
  I write this Christmas editorial with the first snow falling in Essex, which, I have to say, always gives me a child-like frisson. Weather, a bit like music, can quite easily evoke memories. I remember first hearing a recording of Glazunov’s wonderful ballet The Seasons at Christmas one year, and the icy chill of ...
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• The Sunday Independent’s Survey of SA Writers’ Top Books of 2009

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 484
  Alert! As has become tradition this time of year, Maureen Isaacson has solicited the opinions of a number of prominent writers - many of whom review for her excellent books page - on 2009’s top books. Michiel Heyns, Karina Brink , André Brink , Imraan Coovadia , Chris Dunton, Leon de Kock , Nadine ...
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• Georgina Parkinson

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  Ballerina prized by Kenneth MacMillan for her elegance and her support in moments of crisis
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• Village church visited by JFK and Harold Macmillan to close on Christmas Day

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 969
  A village church that was visited by John F Kennedy just months before his assassination is to close on Christmas Day.
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• Save Our Pool: the day Mid Argyll became a community

  
  For Argyll — Authority: 444
  Very particularly this was the day Lochgilphead became a community. It moved march organiser Dave Payne, in his speech at the culmination of the rally on Front Green, to say he’d never known what ‘community’ was until today.It’s always hard for a larger town to develop a community spirit. The prospect of ...
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• What We Have Here Is a Failure To Communicate

  
  The Big Money — Authority: 698
  The evolution of publishing from print to digital has caused a schism in the reading world. There are now two constituencies: Readers (and writers) on the one hand and the publishing world on the other. And they don’t want to hear each other. Readers want books that are plentiful and cheap; publishers want to ...
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• 2009: Nigeria’s Year of the Short Story (Plus: a Report from Lagos on the “Macmillan Literary Night”)

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 484
  Literary news from Nigeria: two links. In the first, Anote Ajeluorou notes that a significant number of Nigerian writers have debuted, and excelled, in the short story genre, but asks whether it has liberated or limited them: Over the years Nigerian writers have latched on the short story format as a significant ...
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• Turkish Translation Rights Sold for Transient Caretakers

  
  Pan Macmillan — Authority: 116
  Pan Macmillan is proud to announce the translations rights sale of Mervyn King and Teodorina Lessidrenska’s Transient Caretakers to Turkish publishers Caretta of Istanbul. See the flyer for more details! Book details Transient Caretakers: How to make life on Earth sustainable by Mervyn King, Teodorina ...
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• Video: Interview with Peter Magubane on CNN

  
  Pan Macmillan — Authority: 116
  Peter Magubane, acclaimed South African photographer and author of Man of the People , was the subject of a lengthy CNN “Inside Africa” piece recently. “Photography brought Apartheid to its knees,” says Magubane, detailing how his and others’ images brought the reality of the crisis to the rest of the ...
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• It’s an Invasion! South African Writers off to the 2010 London Book Fair in Droves

  
  BOOK SA - News — Authority: 484
  Alert! The London Book Fair may be several months away, but a veritable army of South African writers have already booked their tickets. In several cases, of course, we’re talking bus tickets, because many an SA scribe lives or works in the UK, and won’t have much to do to get to Earl’s Court, where the ...
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• Macmillan US Announce Enhanced Ebook Editions For 2010

  
  POD, Self Publishing and Independent Publishing — Authority: 427
  Macmillan US will commence selling enhanced ebook editions of what they the publisher expects to become bestsellers. The limited editions will appear from 2010 and will include enhanced features like author profiles, interviews and reader guides. They will sell for a slightly higher price than the inital hardcover ...
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• Are you always planning ahead?

  
  Bookshop Blog — Authority: 118
  Joseph-Beth bookstore I spent a recent lunch break attempting to clean off my desk while replying to email, listening to voicemail, placing a book order, addressing an employee concern, and actually eating my lunch. I kept kicking a box that had been shoved under my desk and I finally hauled it out after cursing at ...
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• AIDs PEI Angela MacKinnon gets house arrest for stealing $80K

  
  NJN Network — Authority: 146
  PEI’s climate of entitlement corrodes the morals of public servantsThe former head of Aid’s PEI has been found guilty of stealing $80,000 from the organization over a four year period. That’s a crime but who can blame her in PEI’s prevailing culture of entitlement. CBC AIDS PEI ex-head gets house arrest, ...
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