Stuff music blogger Simon Sweetman will soon find out if he really is the man. The ruthless critic who has given out more hits than Savage, will take centre stage when he interviews Leonard Cohen’s biographer Sylvie Simmons live on stage at the Carterton Events Centre on May 21
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Want to Make More Than a Banker? Become A Farmer!
If you want to become rich, Jim Rogers, investment whiz, best-selling author and one of Wall Street’s towering personalities, has this advice: Become a farmer. Food prices have been high recently.
An Excuse to Use My Name 16 Times
I always believed I was special, thanks to both Mr. Rogers and my own giant ego
Science: Sun Gun
The scene was Allied press headquarters in Paris on a rainy summer day. Facing the half-dozing correspondents, Lieut
Sport: Success Story of the Year
Maybe the success story of the year came out of the horror of the football season: a death by cocaine.
Kevin Clash: The Man Behind Sesame Street’s Elmo
Kevin Clash is an Emmy-award-winning performer and producer with dozens of TV and film credits to his name, but he’s far better known as a furry red monster. Clash is the puppeteer and the voice behind Elmo, one of the most popular characters on the seminal children’s television show Sesame Street, which this week marks its 40th anniversary with a series of special episodes and a two-disc DVD set, Sesame Street: 40 Years of Sunny Days
Medicine: An Hour When Life Stood Still
For seven months the blond, chubby-cheeked twins ate, slept, cried, had their diapers changed, just like babies everywhere. But they gazed at the world around them from an awkward and virtually immobilizing position.
Investor Jim Rogers Bullish on Commodities, Not Stocks
Jim Rogers’ daughters may not have been born with silver spoons in their mouths, but they’ve got them now. Not silver spoons, exactly, but silver bullion.
Ivanovic crashes out in U.S. Open thriller
World number one Dinara Safina and most of the top women’s seeds at the U.S. Open coasted through to the second round, but Ana Ivanovic was knocked out by Ukraine’s Kateryna Bondarenko in a playoff thriller that was decided by the last point. Safina, who crashed out of the second round of the Rogers Cup in Canada in late August, survived a scare from Australian teen Olivia Rogowska, winning 6-7 (5-7), 6-2, 6-4.
Tennis: Nadal happy to be back on court
Rafael Nadal returned to singles action Wednesday at the Rogers Cup in Montreal but his comeback lasted just 36 minutes as his opponent, David Ferrer, was forced to withdraw with injury. World No