AP has moved 31 holiday cookie recipes -- one for each day in December -- but maybe you'd like to make some for Thanksgiving, so here they are now. It's a nice bunch this year, and includes sugar cookies to cut out in holiday shapes and pierce to hang on' [...]
This is Part 2 of our annual survey of Food Editors' Thanskgiving choices. Here's Part 1.
Baton Rouge (La.) Advocate: A few basic facts make roasting turkey simple, Basic Thanksgiving recipes good year after year
New Orleans Times-Picayune: Favorite New Orleans Thanksgiving recipes
San [...]
For Thanksgiving, the elegant Luxirare molds Silicone Plastique Food Grade Silicone Mold Putty around a real, tiny pumpkin, cuts it in half to make two molds, then presses pie-crust dough around their inside walls, pipes in pie filling, removes the outer molds and seals the edges of [...]
Bob Dylan, Must Be Santa by Hal Moore and Bill Fredericks (1960), first made popular by Mitch Miller.
Well, the last thing I remember before I stripped and kneeled
Was that trainload of fools bogged down in a magnetic field.
A gypsy with a broken flag and a [...]
Black Friday 2009 countdown: Sales, deals and tips. Doug Stanglin of USA Today blogs the roundup (so I don't have to). For instance,
Dealnews is awash with Black Friday information, including a Buying Strategy Guide.If nothing could get you into crowds like that, Dealnews is awash with online' [...]
Here's the first pass of 2009 through the nation's newspaper's Thanksgiving food sections online. I'll add more over the next few days.
Akron Beacon Journal: Holiday sides from scratch, Maple Candied Yams, Green Beans With Mushrooms, Almonds And Caramelized Onions, Fresh Cranberry-OrangeSauce
Augusta (Ga.) Chronicle: [...]
Wolfgang's Vault lets you listen free to more than 3,000 live concerts and interviews from hundreds of groups and musicians -- Bill Graham's West Coast concerts as well as, as of yesterday, 27 acts from the 1959 Newport Jazz Festival, with more to come. [...]
Long Sunday before the Pats game tonight.
I'm Belle de Jour: "Finally the anonymous sex blogger from Diary of a London Call Girl comes clean to The (London) Sunday Times: She's Dr Brooke Magnanti." Just another London student paying the rent while she finished her' [...]
Paintings by Mike Stilkey; photos by by Dave Kinsey
Mike Stilkey's Library : The Book Bench : The New Yorker:
Go to Google today and the search may already be filled out, under a special logo honoring NASA's discovery of significant water on the moon.
AP: Splash! NASA moon crash struck lots of water
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- The lunar dud for space enthusiasts has' [...]Tara Bradford's Paris Parfait usually shows lush, large photos from elegant curio shops and fashionable shop windows in Paris, or perhaps lush countryside with lovely stone walls and a castle.
A field trip trip suggests there are a lot of Parisians to patronize such rarified tastes.
Trailer for the Video Art Exhibition at Gallery Z on Atwells Avenue, launching Thursday night and running through Nov. 28.
As the Electron Movers, Rhode Island's' [...]
The Detroit News has a nice clickable graphic breaking down the Cash for Clunkers trades by state: Interactive: State-by-state numbers for the'cash for clunkers' program.
That's a screenshot of Rhode Island's data at right.
Every New England state shed 4WD Ford Explorers -- [...]
The Design Inspiration collects a sample of favorite Google Doodles from Different Countries You Haven't Seen.
While enjoying this fine filtering of the Google logo database, I also learned about some new holidays, although I won't be celebrating them.
[...]
BOB DYLAN
Music From Renaldo And Clara [no label, 1CD]
Stereo film soundtrack.
Drench - the world's simplest flash game
There are no instructions, but the premise really is simple: Turn the entire board any one color within a set number of moves. Begin at the upper left square and click one of the colors on the right; all [...]
NASA/JPL/University of Arizona
Intersecting swirling trails left by the earlier passage of dust devils across sand dunes, as they lifted lighter reddish-pink dust and exposed the darker material below. Also visible are darker slope streaks along dune edges, formed by a process which is still [...]
Ann Johansson for The New York Times
Léon Bing, a model for Rudy Gernreich in the '60s, in her Pasadena apartment.
Cathy Horyn, fashion critic of the Times, writes a surprisingly judgmental story (Modeling and All That Came After)' [...]
These all lead to far better visuals:
Enthused and Infused: 19 New Directions For Teapot Design at WebUrbanist. Shaped like a gun, books, a torus, swan or snail, changing color when hot, transparent, trapping tea leaves, making toast too -- these aren't the porcelain pots of Zen they used to' [...]
So, the story goes, the venerable Henry Allen, 68-year-old Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter and editor at the Washington Post Style section, poet and, imho the most graceful narrative writer of our time, threw a single punch at colleague Manuel Roig-Franzia in the Washington Post newsroom [...]
We cooked Thansgiving dinner yesterday.
This was not a trial run. I just saw a good deal on frozen free-range turkeys, and swooped down the aisles in search of dressing, cranberry sauce and stock. The family comes over on Sundays to watch Patriots games, and it [...]
Photo by Sheila Lennon
Right-handed former Red Sox pitcher Dick Drago as he recounts the memorable sixth game of the 1975 World Series. You can listen to his tale below.
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Click the left arrow in the player above [...]
GENESIS - RHODE ISLAND 1974 REVISITED
Providence 1974 [no label, 2CD, Dan Lampinski audience recording]
Live at the Palace Theater, Providence, RI, December 8, 1974.
An interesting anecdote regarding the show was posted by glampins: "Another little tidbit of info on this show from Dan" [...]
Helmet feeder attracts hummingbirds just inches from your face . Daily Mail Online, the Brits:
A new helmet with a built-in bird feeder will allow wearers to get amazing face to face contact with nature.
The flighty birds hover in front of the wearer's face for' [...]
It feels almost irresponsible to blog this, but there's postmodern horror news on Halloween.
Imagine a world of large flies hobbled by tiny banner ads tied with thread to their legs like miniature airplanes at the beach, each disoriented and lurching from shoulder to human shoulder, spreading disease in the [...]
Cake Wrecks, which shows good icing ideas gone bad, and great execution by the pros, has a Halloween collection to laugh at or emulate. You can start at the main link and keep going through some non-Halloween posts, or click the links on the photos below to go to [...]
Amazon is offering, for free, the 21-trackAmazon.com: The Orange Mountain Music Philip Glass Sampler Vol.I
Whether you're already a fan of the minimalist composer or have never heard of him, this is worth checking out.
This may be just the year for Christmas gifts of home-burned' [...]
Termites In My Basement [Hi Rez], recording for Al Basile's Soul Blue 7 CD.
Al Basile was Roomful of Blues' first trumpet player, in 1969, and his seventh album, Soul Blue 7, on which he sings and plays cornet on these songs he wrote, is something' [...]
not martha offers lovingly documented, fully illustrated instructions for a Meat Hand for your Halloween dinner.
Uncooked, some of its secrets are revealed -- onion fingernails, provolone over the fingers. Mashed potato piping is added between the fingers after cooking to make them appear [...]
One of the handiest things I ever discovered on the Web was called Library Lookup: Clicking a link on my browser's bookmarks toolbar when I was at a book's page at Amazon would open the title in my local library catalog. From there I could see [...]
Foster Parrots photo
The headline on the projo news blog yesterday read, RI parrot rescuers honored by Mass. animal cruelty-prevention society
HOPKINTON, R.I. -- Marc Johnson and Karen Windsor, co-directors of Foster Parrots, a rescue, adoption and sanctuary service, have been awarded this year's' [...]Last night's live stream of U2 on YouTube - Live from the Rose Bowl is now archived at that link, streaming in wide-screen (853 pixels). Two hours, 21 minutes long.
The concert didn't start until 8:30 p.m. in California, so folks with an early alarm clock on the East' [...]
GeoCities' time has expired, Yahoo closing the site today. Los Angeles Times:
We always imagined how this might end: GeoCities would finally take down all of the animated "under construction" signs, and we'd hear one last Midi file to the tune of [...]
sugarpond at flickr
Produce at the Park Slope, Brooklyn, Food Co-op
When Members Run Afoul of the Park Slope Food Coop, recently in the Times, brought back memories.
A Brooklyn resident -- -- suspended from the co-op, kicked out of the garden of cheap produce [...]
Fake AP Stylebook is great fun for pedants and desk jockeys.
Always capitalize 'Bible.' You don't want to get letters from those people.Use 'Scotch' to refer to the adhesive tape or the drink, 'Scottish' to refer to Starfleet engineer Montgomery Scott.
Do not refer to an anonymous source as "Mr. Scaredy'" [...]
Leaping wolf snatches photo prize. The BBC story.
A picture of a hunting wolf has won the prestigious Veolia Environment Wildlife Photographer of the Year 2009 award. (The WPY competition, now in its 45th year, is owned by BBC Wildlife Magazine and [...]
Pearl Jam, Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine and R.E.M. are among the musicians supporting the National Campaign to Close Guantanamo: from Musicians Standing Against Torture .
Musicians crank up the volume on Guantanamo debate. AP:
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A [...]
Bob Dylan: Outfidel Intakes: Power & Greed & Corruptible Seed.
A reassemble of Dylan's 1983 album, Infidels, recorded in May, 1983 at the Power Station, New York. Excellent soundboard.
On board for the sessions were two Englishmen, Mark Knopfler and Mick Taylor, giving this album a rock [...]
Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel photo
English Mummies (clockwise from bottom), Mummy Dogs and Pups, Frozen Zombie Eyes, Lime Kool-Aid, Edible Eyeballs, and Frightening Fingers.
You could spend hours drilling down deep to find Halloween party foods that look spooky but actually taste good, or you could find them [...]
Trailer for Machinarium; in the actual game, clicking around in the right order initiates many of the actions you see here.
Machinarium is the latest stunning art game from Flash designer Jakub Dvorsky and his crew at Amanita Design in the Czech Republic.
In September 2009 my doctor recommended an MRI to rule-out a couple of potential conditions. The scan came back completely normal, which was a great relief! I decided to do something with the images, and spent a fun weekend [...] Updated: AP Saturday night:
Artist Shepard Fairey, who recently admitted concealing a key mistake in a lawsuit over his use of an Associated Press photo in his famous Barack Obama "HOPE" poster, said Saturday that the error should not be viewed as "premeditated and sinister."
Fairey was at the Warhol [...]
Stacks by Tony Cragg, 1975, the Tate Collection.
To make this work Cragg arranged miscellaneous objects and materials, collected at random, into a solid, geometric structure. The layering suggests geological strata, showing how both natural and fabricated elements are incorporated into landscapes shaped over [...]
Alfred Hitchcock famously directed Psycho and other classic movies, but many of us first knew him as kids, when he hosted a weekly nighttime series of TV stories called Alfred Hitchcock Presents from 1955-65.
Sir Alfred died in 1980 -- at 81 -- and I hadn't realized how much' [...]
Sept. 26 2009: Polaroid Last picture show. Telegraph (U.K.)
As the final cartridges of Polaroid film pass their use-by date, an exhibition of the finest photographers to use the instant format demonstrates just how much it will be missed...Oct. 13 2009: Press Release 13/10/2009 (PDF): The Impossible Project [...]
Former Vanity Fair and New Yorker editor Tina Brown's Daily Beast site ranks America's Smartest Cities--From First to Worst and Providence is #22:
#22, PROVIDENCEProvidence is home to half of Rhode Island's institutions of higher education, including Brown,' [...]
THE ROLLING STONES
LIVE! On The BBC: Fast Eddie Version [Sister Morphine 43, 1CD]
BBC studio sessions, London. Best sources. VG+ to Ex FM stereo.
These sessions are from 1963 and 1964 -- the signature songs: You Better Move On, Mercy, Mercy, Satisfaction, The [...]
