40 posts tagged Philip Young

New Yorker: 100 Essential Jazz Albums No Kenny G? No John Tesh? FTW?! A solid list. Subjective. But what isn’t? Ask 100 different jazz aficianados, you’ll get back 100 different lists and 10,000 picks. There are the genre touchstones, of course — the essential essentials — but these compilations are always good for the handful of new discoveries that help expand the personal jukebox.

Do androids count electric sheep in binary?

London was in glorious weather this weekend; and I was in (mostly) glorious theatre for much of it. Even the Barbican Centre becomes nearly palatable in the good weather: though the lakeside terrace may be an entirely man-made oasis in the midst of the bleakly (dys)functional urban cityscape it is part of, but at least you get the illusion of nature.

Adapted from my Chicklish review. Here Lies Arthur is a look at the legendary Arthur, but not as we know him. Arthur is no king, instead he’s a sixth century leader of a rag tag band of fighters, all pretty merciless, with the exception of Arthur’s most loyal employee, the harp-twanging storyteller, Myrddin.

Alert! Linzi Glass, a South African author now living in the USA, has been shortlisted for the prestigious Carnegie Medal for her youth-fiction book Ruby Red, a tale of young love set against the backdrop of apartheid. Glass “grew up in a white liberal home in Johannesburg…,” according to her homepage.

(NewsVisual, powered by IntellectSpace) -- As large oil companies like Exxon and Chevron are experiencing record first-quarter earnings, The New York Times reported in an article on Thursday that General Motors Corp (NYSE:GM) is investing non-grain sources for creating ethanol.

(NewsVisual, powered by IntellectSpace) -- In response to a shift in market conditions brought about by rising fuel prices, General Motors Corp (NYSE: GM) announced on Monday that it will curtail the production at its full-size pickup truck and its full-size SUV in order to reflect a downturn in consumer demand.

The wife and I spent the day doing as close to nothing as possible, not a bad way to spend the weekend, considering she'll be out of town for about 4 nights this coming week. We picked up some Chinese for lunch and read through the newspaper.

More floaty dresses! Park Junga, Park Shin-hye, Park Shi-yeon, Song Yuri, Song Yeh-jin, Yoo In-young and Yoon Eun-hye all chose gorgeous dresses this time around at the 44th Paeksang Arts Awards. And can’t forget the men, they don’t look half-bad either. The 2008 Paeksang Arts Awards will air on SBS.

Perhaps you read Christianity Today's cover feature "Young, Restless, Reformed" in September 2006, that described the "comeback of Calvinism". Maybe you've encountered someone speaking enthusiastically about "T-U-L-I-P" (Total Depravity, Unconditional Election, Limited Atonement, Irresistible Grace, Perseverance of the Saints) or referring to the "doctrines of grace" or "reformed theology".