Community Theaters Raise Curtain On New Seasons
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on September 11, 2008
Every year smack dab in the middle of hurricane season Treasure Coast community theaters raise their curtains on another season of mirth, merriment and musicals.
This week finds two of the area’s oldest theatrical establishments, Stuart’s Barn Theatre and the Vero Beach Theatre Guild, treading the boards with a pair of plays that combine comedy, pathos [...]
Curtain call for the stars behind scenes
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on August 31, 2008
The Wee Cherub has joined the usual line-up of Bank of Scotland Herald Angel awards as a way of incorporating The Herald Young Critics project which has been run in conjunction with the EIF’s development department since 2003 into the last of the weekly awards ceremonies. It was appropriate, then, for one of the first [...]
Electronic Entertainment Expo curtain raiser
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on July 19, 2008
The great and good of the videogames industry will be de-camping to Los Angeles to show what new titles they’ve got in the pipeline for the coming year.
It seems the focus of the show will be on software, rather than hardware, and although we’re unlikely to see any groundbreaking new consoles getting their grand unveiling [...]
Shower curtains harbour over 100 toxic chemicals
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on June 16, 2008
The study was conducted by the US-based Center for Health, Environment & Justice (CHEJ) and in Canada by Environmental Defence and the Canadian Environmental Law Association (CELA).
Though ubiquitous in homes around the world, PVC shower curtains contain many harmful chemicals, including volatile organic compounds (VOCs), phthalates and organotins.
Toxic chemical off-gassing from PVC shower curtains may [...]
Curtain Time for Barack Obama
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 18, 2008
To understand how the Combine works in Illinois it’s important to recognize that the state is divided into three levels of political clout, beginning with Chicago, Cook County and the state of Illinois, according to Chicago columnist Ray Hanania.
It’s also important to remember that in December 2004, when Obama went house-hunting with his real estate [...]
Speakout Voices: Cigarette display ban
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 21, 2008
We asked you whether you think covering up cigarette displays will make smoking less appealing to young people. Here’s what you had to say.
Hiding cigarettes puts health first? How about putting solar panels on every grid-tied roof in the province so we can finally close down our coal fired power plants? How about banning idling, [...]
Silt spills as NSW desal project begins
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 20, 2008
Large amounts of silt have washed into Botany Bay only two days after the first pipe was laid for the NSW government’s controversial desalination plant at Kurnell, in Sydney’s south.
The pipe is the first of 2,000 links that will form an 18km pipeline connecting the plant with Sydney’s main water supply tunnel at Erskineville.
The pipe [...]
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Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 20, 2008
Large amounts of silt have washed into Botany Bay only two days
after the first pipe was laid for the NSW Government’s
controversial desalination plant at Kurnell, in Sydney’s south.
The pipe is the first of 2000 links that will form an 18 kilometre
pipeline connecting the plant with Sydney’s main water supply
tunnel at Erskineville.
The pipe system will cross [...]
Housing 21 signs PPP care home contract with Walsall
Filed Under Country Curtain | Posted on April 20, 2008
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Treading Lightly
Filed Under Curt Hennig | Posted on April 20, 2008
Subaru’s third-generation Forester ups the ante in the small
soft-roader segment.
Joshua Dowling discovers which one is best.
A NEW Subaru Forester has just gone on sale at a time when sales
of soft-roaders are exploding.
We’re keen to see how the Forester compares with its likely
rivals, so we’ve assembled the top five sellers out of a field of
more than [...]