Reuters: Deals:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - General Electric and Vivendi are moving closer to a deal on NBC Universal, with Vivendi agreeing to accept payment for just one-third of its stake until a related deal with Comcast closes, according to a (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
Bluegrass, fado, opera and jazz fuse together at Georgia's glorious medley of a festival. Kate Connolly falls in love with the music, history and mint julepsThe man who drives me from the airport to my hotel sings for much of (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Donatello was the first genius of the Renaissance, but his raw, expressive work also challenges all our assumptions about the period. He is justly the star of the V&A's triumphant new galleriesThe Ricordanze of Giovanni Chell (Read More)
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'I felt that the only thing I was on earth to do was to write'A couple of months ago Mavis Gallant had a dream. A messenger came to the door carrying a cardboard box with a lid on it. On top was written "Mavis Gallant" in big (Read More)
The Guardian:
Swedish soprano whose perceptive singing and vivid acting made her a great heroine in operas by Tchaikovsky, Richard Strauss and JanacekOne of the most perceptive and admired sopranos of the postwar era, Elisabeth Söderström, (Read More)
observer.guardian.co.uk:
The US chocolate company Hershey is considering an audacious go-it-alone attempt to buy the besieged Cadbury confectionery empire through a takeover offer of at least $17bn (£10.2bn) to edge out Kraft's £9.8bn hostile bid.Sou (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
Readers' responses to The Inheritance of Loss by Kiran DesaiKiran Desai was not the first novelist who has come to speak to the Guardian book club and confessed to having second thoughts about the ending of her novel. Several (Read More)
www.guardian.co.uk:
On the 10th anniversary of Paul Bowles's death, Paul Theroux remembers the writer and traveller who set him on his wayThe Sheltering Sky was Paul Bowles's first novel and, although he honed his art almost to his dying day – n (Read More)
NY Post:
What's eating this restaurant owner? Vadim Ponorovsky, the owner of Paradou, a restaurant in the Meatpacking district, bashed his staff in a profanity-laced e-mail tirade aimed at getting them motivated to collect e-mail addr (Read More)
NY Post:
Two men have been indicted on hate crime charges in an assault on a transgender woman in one of New York City’s most diverse neighborhoods. Queens District Attorney Richard A. Brown said Friday that a grand jury indicted Gilb (Read More)
NY Post:
A New York cardiologist is free on $1 million bond following his arrest on federal child pornography charges. Dr. Frank T. Pollaro of Babylon pleaded not guilty on Friday to charges he shipped and received photographs and vid (Read More)
Reuters:
NEW YORK (Billboard) - Sting's "If on a Winter's Night..." may feature holiday-inspired songs, but don't call it a Christmas album. "The whole season is much broader than that," he says. (Read More)
NY Post:
The New York Post’s PSAL football beat writer, Marc Raimondi, takes an in-depth look at Saturday’s City Championship semifinal between No. 2 Erasmus Hall and No. 3 Tottenville. No. 2 Erasmus Hall DutchmenHead coach: Danny Lan (Read More)
Gawker:
Newspapers are dying, which means there will never be any more investigative journalism and politicians will screw whomever they want. But it's OK, because "innovative" new "partnerships" like the Chicago News Cooperative are (Read More)
VentureBeat:
Thanks to everyone who made it out to GreenBeat 2009 yesterday and Wednesday!We were thrilled with the turnout, and couldn’t be more grateful for all the support we received from attendees, speakers, sponsors and the press. I (Read More)
The Guardian:
Christina Ambers claims she is being mistreated by residents and workers after her marriage to porterA New York City foot and hand model claims her marriage to a footman in her ritzy apartment block has trod on building worke (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
Bill Moyers is leaving weekly television.The New York Times' Elizabeth Jensen reports that the PBS newscaster is retiring from his Friday night program, "Bill Moyers Journal," on April 30, 2010."Bill Moyers Journal" launched (Read More)
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed:
SUFFERN, N.Y. — Cable television newsman Dominic Carter, an influential reporter on New York politics, was convicted Friday of an attempted assault on his wife.The Rockland County district attorney's office issued a one-sente (Read More)
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Today, the Open Book Alliance released an extensive compilation of third party analysis of the revised Google Books Settlement. The wide-ranging consensus from a diverse chorus of voices is that the revised Settlement is bar (Read More)