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It is easy to assume that a writer’s debut novel will take an at least partially autobiographical form. We imagine authors living their stories before putting them onto paper; their voices emerge once they manage to organize their thoughts and observations into a narrative. Only then, with their distinct selves discovered, structured, and shared, are …
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Through August 27th, New York City art space The Kitchen is hosting a two-month retrospective of its auspicious first fifteen years as a bastion for the downtown art scene of the seventies and eighties. Now located in Chelsea, The Kitchen stood in Soho for its first fifteen years, where it supported the wild, defiant expressionism of a very pre-Giuliani metropolis.
Studying can be fairly antisocial. Writing papers and studying for exams are solitary activities, but OpenStudy, a social learning network demoing at TechCrunch Disrupt’s Start-up Alley, aims to change that. OpenStudy connects students in distant locations in what CEO Chris Sprague calls a ‘massively multiplayer classroom’.
Shopping online these days can be fun, but saving money can be just as enjoyable. Now, one can go on their smartphone and make purchases securely and fast with a few touches. There are websites now that will assist you with deals based on a pre-planned service or product. Many of these specials are for dining and drinks, but they can vary for many other packages.
Christy Turlington Burns, the California-born beauty of Salvadoran descent, is more than a supermodel. She’s also an advocate for human rights, a yoga practitioner, a businesswoman, and a mother.
Unless you’re from Barbados, you probably learned about the Crop Festival for the first time in your life just this week. Rihanna’s appearance at the Festival’s Grand Kadooment and Emancipation Day event resulted in online entertainment headlines all over the internet that introduced the world to the Crop Over Festival.
