Park Bench In Memory Of Long-Time Resident
21 June 2008, 07:07 No comments
Frances was diagnosed with cancer in 1997 and fought valiantly through rounds of chemotherapy, each time looking forward to riding her bike again and pursuing her other hobbies of gardening and pottery, said Debbrecht.
“Mom passed away in 2006 after a nine-year battle with ovarian cancer. Believe it or not, she would go through six months [...]
In The Trenches: Project Manager Proud Of Airport Work
7 May 2008, 00:12 No comments
Job: Project manager for Owen-Ames-Kimball Company, a construction management company based in Fort Myers with offices in Naples, Cape Coral and Port Charlotte. I started with OAK as an assistant superintendent in 2004 after obtaining my master’s degree in civil engineering from the University of Texas at Austin. I am fortunate enough to work for [...]
Follow your passion vacations
4 May 2008, 01:01 No comments
From the terrace outside the art school, Ella Yang took in the same sweeping vistas
that have motivated artists since medieval times. Historic buildings hug the mountaintop in Italy that she called home for three weeks after taking a break from her high-powered New York life for a vacation to indulge in her passion: painting.
“For once [...]
A case of foot and mouth
27 April 2008, 18:06 No comments
Even though Ive spoken in public more than 500 times, interviewed Prime Ministers, Sir Ed and legendary All Blacks such as His Nibs Culhane, introducing Tawera Nikau at the Newfield this Tuesday night has got me doubting myself.
Its Taweras prosthetic leg %26mdash; its tying me up in knots.
Like I might say, %26quot;On the league paddock, [...]
Last of the Breed Comedy on the wild side
25 April 2008, 17:05 No comments
Last time we checked in with former Idahoan and writer Maria Dahvana Headley, she was briskly walking down a busy New York City street in 2007 on her way to a read from her best-selling memoir, “The Year of Yes” (Hyperion, $17.21). That book, and the wave of success that followed, propelled her into hyper-speed, [...]
Former CNN anchor does the Possible
22 April 2008, 21:09 No comments
NEW YORK %26mdash; In a competitive and youth-obsessed business, most everyone gets The Call sometime. For ex-CNN daytime anchor Daryn Kagan, it came in January 2006.She was brought into an office and told that CNN would not renew her contract when it expired at the end of the year. Kagan was lucky in one sense [...]
Last of the Breed Comedy on the wild side
16 April 2008, 17:05 No comments
Last time we checked in with former Idahoan and writer Maria Dahvana Headley, she was briskly walking down a busy New York City street in 2007 on her way to a read from her best-selling memoir, “The Year of Yes” (Hyperion, $17.21). That book, and the wave of success that followed, propelled her into hyper-speed, [...]
Bernadette Peters has a new song to share
14 April 2008, 01:01 No comments
“I never tried to write a song before, because I have
too much respect for composers,” Peters said in a phone
interview from New York. “But I was riding in an
airplane coming back from somewhere, and it just came to me,
music and lyrics all at once.”
Peters will sing her lullaby, “Kramer’s
Song,” as part of her performance Tuesday [...]
Movie review The Rape of Europa
7 April 2008, 04:04 No comments
Austria, the joke goes, convinced the world that Beethoven was Austrian and Hitler German when, in fact, it’s the reverse. A quip of similar vintage came from modernist painter Oskar Kokoschka, who was admitted to Vienna’s Academy of Fine Arts in 1907, the same year Hitler’s application was spurned.”If it had been the other way [...]
Busy week full of inspiration
2 April 2008, 23:11 No comments
However, I do consider that this week would have to emerge from the rich tapestry of my life as one of the most dramatic, sensational and proud weeks of my life.
It started with huge 40-year anniversary stories of the tragedy of the Wahine that were published in both the Dominion Post and the New Zealand [...]
