Celtic Colours Curtain Call Less Than A Week Away
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on October 5, 2008
The leaves are quickly changing colour and that can only mean one thing the Celtic Colours International Festival is just around the corner.
Foulds explained that the biggest shows of the festival particularly the opening and closing concerts require a lot of rehearsal time between the main artists and the guest artists who are coming together [...]
Curtain Rises On Wimax
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 29, 2008
Baltimore usually isn’t considered a technology mecca. But many people in Silicon Valley, and other high-tech centers, will be watching closely to see what happens after Sprint Nextel Corp. flips the switch on a new wireless network Monday.
The service is a milestone in the gestation of WiMax, a technology that chip giant Intel Corp. and [...]
Curtain Comes Down On Budget Farce In Sacramento
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 21, 2008
Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger and lawmakers know this crisis is coming. But Republicans and Democrats remain hopelessly divided on taxes and spending. They booted the can down the alley, as Schwarzenegger would say, on this budget, and are showing no stomach for the next one.
To head off next year’s fiasco, House Speaker Karen Bass, D-Los Angeles, [...]
Cricketer Hick admits ‘lack of cutting edge’ as curtain falls
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on September 17, 2008
‘Unfulfilled promise’ has often been a phrase used to describe Graeme Hick’s career so it may be cruelly apt if his final season before retirement is cut short by injury.
That means the former England international is set to miss the four-day County Championship match against Middlesex starting on Wednesday.
Born in what was then Salisbury, Rhodesia, [...]
Olympics That Never Ring Down Curtain
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on September 11, 2008
“Life should be like Olympic Games that never ring down the curtain,” said Ping Yali, China’s first Paralympic champion on Thursday.
Starting from 2007, Ping has turned her parlor into a chain of successful business though there were ineviatably all sorts of difficulties. And, more than that, after many years of motherly love and patience, her [...]
Curtain down on ‘truly exceptional’ Beijing Games
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on August 24, 2008
The Beijing Olympics, played out against a background of political intrigue and featuring 16 days of compelling and controversial action, drew to a spectacular close on Sunday.
International Olympic Committee chief Jacques Rogge described the Games as “truly exceptional” in a lavish closing ceremony at the Bird’s Nest stadium which culminated in the handing over of [...]
A Small Brazilian Curtain Firm Trying to Make It Big Overseas
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 21, 2008
According to the company director, Aparecida Ibrahim, who is a daughter of Lebanese parents, it was a Jordanian trader who sent the company an e-mail showing interest in JJ Cortinas products. “We are very pleased and it is being very positive for us,” stated Aparecida, who took months selecting a sample of each curtain of [...]
Curtain falling on Cantab stalwart
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on August 20, 2008
The days in a Canterbury jersey for former All Blacks prop Campbell Johnstone are numbered but the veteran is determined to see the red-and-blacks stay on the winning trail before he leaves to play for Biarritz.
Johnstone, Canterbury’s most capped player in the 2008 squad with 66 appearances, has been given an early release by the [...]
Banks Branded a Phony by Talk Show Audience
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 18, 2008
Model-turned-talk show host Tyra Banks has been branded a “phony” by infuriated audience members who waited more than two hours for her to appear in the “Tyra Banks Show” studio.
The beauty, who won a TV Emmy earlier this year for the series, reportedly ignored fans waiting to film the show on Tuesday in New York [...]
Valencia to raise curtain on Spanish season
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on August 17, 2008
Real Madrid winger Robinho was included this Saturday in Bed Schuster’s squad for the first leg of the Spanish Supercup in Valencia.
Robinho’s inclusion should end speculation over whether or not the Brazilian would refuse to travel as he continues his campaign to force the club to sell him to English Premier League side Chelsea.
“I am [...]