OBITUARY: Great musical talent and artistic spirit – this was Lancelot Barrie Rhodes, a specialist teacher whose ideas for teaching his students often stretched “out of the square”. One day, he took a pool table to Timaru’s main school, bought it for his wife’s birthday, although she had never played pool, and introduced it to […]
WHEN Tommy Kennedy met famous fashion designer Ossie Clark in 1972 while visiting Beamont Tech School, he was fascinated by him. Ossie, a working class man from Warrington had traveled to London and taken the fashion world by storm. And he got Tommy so interested that he chose to write a new book about him […]
“It takes a lot to make a winner,” sings soulful Elijah Mawli on new single Winner. The track produced by EastSyde Records is an autobiographical tale at once naive and responsive, but evolving for the better through the lessons of tribulations and the teachings of Rastafarian. The post complements the music video produced by Norwix […]
This little one surprised everyone when she made her big debut. Looks like it was yesterday when the girl from The young and the restless‘Melissa Ordway and her husband Justin Gaston arrived five weeks (and a whole year) earlier. But it wasn’t yesterday, and little Sophie will be 4 on December 9. The past four […]
Since its debut in 1962, the Incredible Hulk has been one of the most recognizable and popular characters in the Marvel Universe, and to celebrate its 60th anniversary, Marvel Comics has hired cartoonist Jim Rugg to take on the Hulk. : Grand Design, the latest in the publisher’s series. life stories of classic characters through […]
Few stars shone as brightly as Sidney Poitier. In films like “Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner” and “In the Heat of the Night” Poitier put on powerful performances that electrified audiences. He also broke racial barriers as a leading man and first box office draw in the 1950s and 1960s, and became the first African-American […]
I was sitting there one day in June, the tools of my job as a reporter in hand: shorthand, red felt, well of curiosity. Willing to listen to someone’s story, as I have done a thousand times over for decades. “This has to be the worst interview you’ve ever had,” said the woman who told […]
In the end, he dodged his hospital stay; Like most of Upton’s clients, he wanted to end the book on a positive note. “They want it to be, you know, ‘This is what I left for my kids and my grandchildren.’” Upton was returning, as she always did, to her bedroom in her ground floor […]
The queue at Taqueria d’El Jefe stretches to the door. It’s 1:40 a.m., in the wee hours of Sunday morning, and loads of college students anxiously await their late-night burritos. This is the brainchild of John Schall, the latest creation in a wild career that has taken him from Marxist economics to waste management policy […]
AG Lyttle reads from his new biography of his great-grandfather WG Lyttle – ‘The Storyteller’ Wesley Greenhill Lyttle started the North Down Herald in 1880 and edited the newspaper that would soon become the Bangor Gazette. He was also an acclaimed novelist, comic short story writer in Ulster-Scots, and a popular stage artist. His great-grandson […]