The out of competition films have been announced for the Tribeca Film Festival and the movie selections feature Tribeca debuts from Sundance alums like  Steven Soderbergh, Raymond De Filleta and  Melissa Leo. Tribeca is starting to appear more like Sundance after Geoffrey Gilmore left the film fes...

  By Bobbie Leigh   Gouged out of soft stone, the cave dwellings in the  steep, craggy cliffs of  Matera  are  without a doubt the most unusual in all of Italy. There's  probably nothing like their chaotic, troglodyte "spontaneous architecture"...

The extraordinary protests by British Muslims in Luton against The Royal Anglian 2nd Battallion after the return of the troops from Iraq have led to widespread protests. Quite a few from religious ministers and groups have come in today. There could be a crackdown on the banned extremist group, al M...

There’s an overwhelming number of news items here tonight — almost a hundred. If you all think that this operation is becoming unmanageably large, please let me know. With all the juicy items that people send me, it’s hard to pick which ones to leave out. Thanks to Abu Elvis, C. Cantoni, CSP, ...

Fujiya & Miyagi - "Sore Thumb" Fujiya & Miyagi, Pop Levi British band Fujiya & Miyagi latched on to the strange idea of sounding like a motorik-groove-lovin' Kraut-rock group circa 1970—Neu! or Can, say—fronted by a soft-spoken Japanese vocalist. The result is music of pell-mell propulsi...

• Entertainment-starved country feels loss deeply • Foreign teams are urged not to let violence win There were two sets of mourners in Pakistan this week. Friends and relatives of those caught up in Tuesday's brazen attack on a convoy of visiting Sri Lankan cricketers in the heart of Lahore buri...

teacher fantasy. no idea whether I'll continue it or not, since I don't think too much of it. I’d known my jazz director since I was in grade school; he’d taught me everything I knew about music, my first love in life. By my senior year we’d done tons of traveling together, stayed in hotels al...

Daily summary of new genealogy queries posted on CousinConnect.com, for March 03, 2009: New Queries Posted: 139 Total Active Queries: 187775 Total Active Users: 191894 Yesterday's 139 new queries included the following surnames: ADEBIYI, ADOPTED PARENTS SURNAME CHAMPION, ANDERSON, ANNING, ARMSTRONG,...

Si diceva che ad un ridimensionamento di Alitalia a Malpensa avrebbe a breve seguito la decadenza dello stesso scalo milanese. Si diceva che questo e' uno dei motivi per cui lo Stato dovrebbe controllare il trasporto aereo, per non lasciare alle follie egoiste del mercato un servizio cosi' s...

Nach den Maccaroni wollte ich unbedingt mal Orecchiette selbst machen. Man braucht dazu keine Küchenmaschine aber ziemlich viel Geduld bis man als Anfänger den Trick des Formens raus hat. Ich habe nur wenig Teig gemacht und von Anfang bis Ende für ein Blech Orecchiette eine gute Stunde gebraucht....