Fly My Pretties has introduced many breakthrough musicians over the past decade and once again, the Homeland Tour brings together a cast of fresh and established talent to join founder, Barnaby Weir and past members of the collective. With a cast that reflects a diverse mix of New Zealand’s musical landscape, the Homeland Tour welcomes: Anika Moa,
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How to bit on a storage locker
If you can imagine it, chances are that Darrell Sheets has found it in a storage locker. The storage auction veteran has spent 36 years buying storage units without being able to tell exactly what is in them.
Medicine: Prepaid Medical Care: Nation’s Biggest Private Plan
Just 17 miles from downtown Los Angeles, the brand-new Kaiser Foundation Hospital at Panorama City looms above the summer-dried landscape like a pair of upended binoculars. But the rush of patients to the twin seven-story towers this week was far more than a response to architectural novelty.
The Kidnapper’s Trick
Around the globe, millions have followed the story of Natascha Kampusch, the girl who was kidnapped at age 10 and held prisoner for eight years in a windowless basement near Vienna, Austria.
ART: America’s Prodigy
During his short life — he died in 1848, at the age of 47 — Thomas Cole became something of a national culture hero: a young one for a young nation.
Elie Wiesel
I remember the icy snow crunching beneath our every step, the subzero wind biting at our bare faces, the quiet utter stillness.
A Spanish Island’s Quest to Be the Greenest Place on Earth
At the moment, the project that will transform the future of El Hierro doesn’t look like much more than a hole in the ground. Or two, to be exact: one on top of a mountain, another smaller one down below, and in between, a long stretch of pipeline tinted the same color as the scrub that grows so abundantly on this volcanic island.
Mars Probe Reveals Dry Ice, Pointing to a Wetter Past
Mars is a dry, frigid, dusty, nearly airless place. A couple of billion years ago, though, it wasn’t much different from Earth.
In California Bid, Whitman Spends Record but Struggles
In California Bid, Whitman Spends Record but Struggles Meg Whitman, the Republican candidate for governor in California, passed a milestone the other day, investing $119 million of her own money into her campaign, breaking a record held by Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg of New York. But Ms. Whitman is the latest wealthy Californian to learn […]
Excerpt: ‘The Audacity to Win’ by David Plouffe
In a new memoir, The Audacity to Win, David Plouffe, who managed Barack Obama’s 2008 race for the White House, provides a behind-the-scenes glimpse inside the campaign. Here’s an excerpt.Agony.