Ruthless Borgia to be celebrated at resting place
Ruthless Borgia to be celebrated at resting place
Cesare Borgia, son of Rodrigo Borgia - Pope Alexander VI - brother of Lucrezia, a serial murderer by his early twenties, whose family name has long been a byword for corruption, greed and violence, is to be rehabilitated in the northern Spanish town where he died.
Piven finally makes it (but fame brings its own problems)
EVANSTON, Ill. — It’s a weekday evening in October and Jeremy Piven is about to be interviewed onstage at Northwestern University’s Pick-Staiger Concert Hall in Evanston. There’s a problem, though: The hall has only 1,003 seats. They’re going to need a lot more than that to accommodate the crowd of students queued up outside. At about 15 minutes after the scheduled starting time of 8 p.m., …
Survivors of ‘37 flood eager ‘to save this history’
Then known as the Armory, it was a place of refuge for 75,000 victims of the 1937 flood. Yesterday, about 300 people, including 30 flood survivors, gathered there to remember the disaster that many say helped shape the city that Louisville is today.
Anglesey snaps up maritime treasures
Anglesey has regained a number of unique maritime treasures following a successful visit to the Sotheby auctioneers. A volume of work and a chart penned in 1748 by Lewis Morris were snapped up at the world famous London auction house.
He has a sense of timing with Bush
Santa Cruz bookseller is selling a clock that counts down the minutes until the president leaves office. It’s struck a chord. SANTA CRUZ At his independent bookstore in this famously left-leaning town, Neil Coonerty offers bestsellers from both sides of the political spectrum. But there’s freedom in owning your own shop: You can make fun of those you don’t like. …
‘Pajamas’ fulfills distributor’s dream
Anyone who read Peter Biskind’s best-selling book “Down and Dirty Pictures,” about the independent film movement of the 1990s, knows that Jeff Lipsky is one of the key indie distributors — a man who started with John Cassavetes’ “A Woman Under the Influence”…
Earth Biofuels Launches New BioWillie(R) Website
DALLAS—-Earth Biofuels, Inc. , the exclusive distributor of Willie Nelson’s brand of biodiesel - BioWillie - today launched a new Website. The website has been designed to better inform customers on company developments, station locations, product and industry news, and provide enhanced marketing support for current BioWillie fueling stations.
Tiger and Brandt
Tiger Woods fans, it should be a good day for you in the final round of the Buick Invitational. Woods is only two strokes back, and every sign points to his being able to overpower the field and win his seventh straight tour event and his fifth Buick Invitational.
20 Questions: Though not same player, Payton still has a lot to say
By Dan Le Batard McClatchy Newspapers (MCT) Twenty questions with chatterbox Miami Heat guard Gary Payton: 1. Most money you’ve ever lost gambling? “Shooting dice with my friends - $25,000-$30,000. That’s cash. My friends left happy that night.'’
Veronique Bergeron
The newest generation of Macalester students rarely has the opportunity to become acquainted with the colleges heavy weights of days gone by. Recently retired faculty and staff witnessed an era of change, a period in which Macalester became the college it is today.