Vets Park Pine Curtain Begs For A Leafy Compromise
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 18, 2008
That’s the root of the issue for 47 people who petitioned the Bay City Commission yet again to remove 15 or 16 pine trees along John F. Kennedy Drive in Bay City.
This request has become a regular rite, city officials say. The City Commission denied the request early this month.
People who crave a view and [...]
Jail For Mokbel Brother
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 17, 2008
Milad Mokbel, 40, will spend at least eight years in jail after pleading guilty to trafficking and attempting to traffic a large commercial quantity of methylamphetamine, and knowingly dealing with the proceeds of crime and blackmail.
Justice Elizabeth Curtain sentenced Mokbel to 11 years jail, to serve a minimum of eight years. He has already served [...]
Curtain Goes Up On Pegasus Reunion
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on December 17, 2008
PAST and present actors and actresses from an Oxford theatre will be getting together for a reunion before a complete revamp of the venue.
It is the second time the Pegasus Theatre in Magdalen Road has organised a grand reunion, with the first taking place in January – shortly before work was due to start.
Now that [...]
Behind The Curtain Of Electricite De France
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 17, 2008
Nicolas Sarkozy, President of France, has outlined plans for EDF to construct a second plant. The Flamanville reactor is expected to be online in 2012; with nine more reactors in the United Kingdom, China and the United States at Calvert Cliffs in a deal with Constellation expected to be constructed and working by 2020.
The company’s [...]
Final Curtain For Primary
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 16, 2008
AN axed primary school is to host its last show tonight.
Pupils at Lismore Primary in Bingham will be performing Sleeping Beauty to parents, staff and members of the public from 6.30pm. The school will close its doors for good on Friday.
City councillors voted last month to close the school, along with Bonnington in Leith and [...]
Curtain Up 4
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 16, 2008
For years, Tomer Sharabi and Maya Stern danced and created a line of decent duets based on subtle dance-theater esthetics and contact-improvisation technique. Their works were sensitive, composed, but never groundbreaking. The pair felt that now was the time to split and expand, using the Curtain Up framework to present the results; Sharabi did Monk [...]
U.S. Air Force Developing Nuclear Blast Curtains
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 16, 2008
The U.S. Air Force yesterday announced it is developing thermal curtains to protect the crews of its B-52 nuclear bombers from the light of an atomic blast.
The curtains being prepared by personnel in the 540th Aircraft Sustainment Squadron would consist of a reflective layer, a stiffening layer and a third layer made of rubberized vinyl. [...]
Behind The Velvet Curtain With A Retail Santa
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on December 15, 2008
Whitney Houston is singing, “Hark! Are the Bells; Sweet Silver Bells,” on the boom box.Two Christmas trees bow with oversized red globes, pyramids of beckoning but empty gifts on their skirts. Wreaths, snowflakes and Peace on Earth plaques line the promenade to the Santa altar. And the throne? A Neptune-esque red velvet upholstered mountain with [...]
Curtains Come Down For The 56Th Savai Gandharva Festival
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2008
Curtain rang down on the four-day of Savai Gandharva classical music fiesta here today which presented a memorable spectacle of Bharat Ratna Pandit Bhimsen Joshi lending his ear to the melodious renderings sitting in his car.
With the age dictated restricted movements, the 86 year old maestro of Hindustani ‘Khyal gayki’ who started the event 56 [...]
Man Behind The Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on December 14, 2008
He’s the guy who decides whether it’s too snowy or foggy for Fort Wayne students to go to school.
He’s ultimately the one who makes sure all 20,000 meals that Fort Wayne Community Schools prepares each day are served. The buck stops with him when it comes to school security and technology.
The departments Doug Coutts oversees [...]