Just for a few moments the boundless enthusiasm of yore seemed to have come back to the auction world as Henry Wyndham conducted Sotheby’s Tuesday evening sale of Impressionist and Modern art. Perhaps it was the high hopes pinned on a Picasso picture from the much-sought-after year 1932 that galvanized the attendance. At the end [...]
A Japanese rocket carrying supplies for the International Space Station has lifted off from a remote island in southern Japan. Japan is poised to launch its second-ever unmanned cargo vessel to the International Space Station early Saturday morning (Jan. 22). The vessel, which was initially scheduled to launch Thursday (Jan 20), was delayed due to [...]
The Motorola Xoom is the new tablet with Android 3.0 Honeycomb that was shown off at CES 2011 and will be available Q1 2011 Greetings from Las Vegas. The Motorola press conference was one of the most eagerly anticipated moments of CES for me, as I was hoping to see the might-as-well-already-be-official Motorola Xoom tablet [...]
Vladimir Putin played Louis Armstrong’s classic “Blueberry Hill” on the grand piano and then sang it in English for the roomful of Hollywood stars and all other guests who took part in a charity concert. He also performed the famous Soviet song “From Where the Motherland Begins”. The guests rose in applause, and Western celebrities [...]
There was applause all-around last night as First Lady Michelle Obama spoke at a Democratic National Committee fund-raiser in New York. Jill Biden was on hand as part of the tag team, or as Mrs. O. put it “my partner in crime.” Sarah Jessica Parker was emcee of the night, which started with an event [...]
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