Category: people

She’s “quietly waiting in the wings” to do just that, says retiring Bank of England governor Mervyn King. (Now there’s evolution for you.)

“A man who attacked a ballet dancer, broke his neck and left him lying in the street has been jailed for 13 years.”

Famed for the deployment of natural light in his designs, Larsen is known for the main municipal library in Malmö Sweden; Saudi Arabia’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Riyadh; the Harpa concert hall/conference center in Reykjavik; and the 2005 harborfront Copenhagen Opera House – over which his battles with the builder and funder of the project, shipping magnate Mærsk McKinney Møller, became famous.

“The visual artist-cum-media juggernaut known as Ai Weiwei hurtles forward with the release of his new album, The Divine Comedy. The six-track album, released Saturday, is Ai’s first major attempt at pop music and features the heavy-metal single ‘Dumbass’, which was first released last month.”

She’s a skinny white girl from Maine named Holly Maniatty, she’s signed concerts for acts from the Wu-Tang Clan and Killer Mike to U2 and Bruce Springsteen, and she can keep up with any freestyling a rapper might throw at her.

Max Brooks: “I’ve never seen a zombie movie where someone drank from a puddle and died of explosive diarrhea.”

The powerful collector was photographed with his hand at his wife’s throat at a restaurant – “and as Saatchi knows only too well, a single image can wield immense power.”

“The family thanked the Italian authorities, members of the U.S. State Department, … Hillary Rodham Clinton, and former President Bill Clinton for their assistance expediting the return of Gandolfini’s remains to the United States, a process that typically takes up to a week.”

“The first volume, published in 1987 — the same year as ‘The Closing of the American Mind,’ Allan Bloom’s attack on efforts to diversify the academic canon — made Mr. Bernal a hero among Afrocentrists, a pariah among conservative scholars and the star witness at dozens of sometimes raucous academic panel discussions.”

Amanda Palmer “has made an art of asking for help, of trusting her crowd ‘to catch me,’ hence her determination to sleep on her fans’ couches, and have them draw all over her naked body in marker pens, and have them fund her music directly.”