Well you can't buy love, but you can buy The Beatles's old gear — for a price. Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay won the bid for Ringo Starr's first Ludwig drum kit for $2.2 million from Julien's Auctions in Santa Barbara, Calif. this week. The kit was used in more than 200 live performances and was used...
In October, the wife of Igor Nikolaev Julia Proskuryakova her first child, her husband pleased the little daughter Veronica. After this 33-year-old singer for several months hiding from the public. On December 3, it still appeared on the creative evening of her husband in Moscow. Seven thousand public saw Proskuryakov in a red...
A woman stands with performing Beethoven's Symphony №5. However, it was not played by fingers, it was played by ass. The audience is...
A drum kit that Ringo Starr used to record some of the Beatles’ early hits has sold for $2.2m at an auction to Indianapolis Colts owner Jim Irsay. Julien’s Auctions says Irsay bought the 1963 Ludwig Oyster Black Pearl three-piece drum kit Friday at a sale in Beverly Hills, California. The two-day auction...
A woman stands with performing Beethoven's Symphony №5. However, it was not played by fingers, it was played by ass. The audience is...
From a history of gems to an account of the raid on Entebbe, the memoir of a sketch artist to a linguistic history of Europe, make shelf space for these, writes Jane Ciabattari. James Lee Burke, House of the Rising Sun Burke, named a ‘grand master’ by the Mystery Writers of America and winner of two Edgar awards, is...
They are buildings in which to teach and learn – but they can be magnificent too. Jonathan Glancey discusses some of the most stunning seats of learning. Nancie Atwell, American winner of the inaugural Global Teacher Prize, was in London in early November where she put across her simple, resonant message: children are...
The mine at Cerro de Pasco, Peru, once funneled silver to the Spanish crown. Today, it’s consuming the town—and poisoning children with lead. CERRO DE PASCO, Peru—For a woman intent on moving an entire city, fifty-six-year old Congresswoman Gloria Ramos Prudencio, barely five feet tall, looks unassuming. Her...
Nothing sets the mood for a little dramatic tension like a Death Star hanging from the ceiling like a disco ball. In that spirit, there's now a movie theater with a permanent Star Wars theme. The new Alamo Drafthouse in La Vista, NE — near Omaha — pays tribute to the the beloved franchise with a lobby devoted to...
They are buildings in which to teach and learn – but they can be magnificent too. Jonathan Glancey discusses some of the most stunning seats of learning. Nancie Atwell, American winner of the inaugural Global Teacher Prize, was in London in early November where she put across her simple, resonant message: children are...
"Married with Children" is one of the most successful comedy television series of America. It was broadcast for ten years. It was nominated for the "Emmy" eight times and "Golden Globe" seven times. It is not surprising that he was remade in more than one country in the world. Everyone...
Sand Hills, a painting by German artist Ernst Ludwig Kirchner, handed back to the Fischer family after MoMA recognised that it was stolen by the Nazis. The New York Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) has returned a painting stolen by the Nazis to the heirs of its rightful owner, after a decade-long dispute. Ernst Ludwig...