Behind the Curtain: City museum hosts one-woman show
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on May 7, 2008
The last time a museum in Attleboro hosted theater it was the Attleboro Area Industrial Museum, which rented a wing to Attleboro Community Theatre to stage plays along Union Street for a decade or more.
ACT eventually moved out and, after a three-year stay at a Firearms School in North Attleboro, settled into a splendid small [...]
columnists Torch relay a magnet for trouble
Filed Under Kitchen Curtain | Posted on April 19, 2008
Early one morning, around 6 a.m. it was, a solitary spectator sat in the stands of a boxing arena in Barcelona.He’d come, without fanfare and without entourage, to witness a preliminary round bout featuring a black South African flyweight the first athlete of colour to represent that country in the Olympics after decades as an [...]
Curtain set to fall on rancorous McCartney divorce
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 17, 2008
The curtain is due to fall on one of the world’s most public - and nastiest - divorce battles in recent history on Monday, with a ruling on how much money Sir Paul McCartney will have to hand over to Heather Mills.Reports yesterday said that Ms Mills, the ex-model and animal rights activist, would walk [...]
Curtain set to fall on McCartney divorce
Filed Under Shower Curtain | Posted on March 17, 2008
The curtain is due to fall on one of the world most public ?and nasty ?divorce battles in recent history on Monday, with a ruling on how much money Sir Paul McCartney will have to hand over to Heather Mills. Reports on Friday said that Ms Mills, the ex-model and animal rights activist, would walk [...]
Russia demands British Council closes offices
Filed Under Curtain Rods | Posted on December 15, 2007
Unveiling the latest retaliation in a diplomatic dispute over the murder of ex-KGB defector Alexander Litvinenko last year, Russia instructed the British Council, the Foreign Office’s cultural arm, to close its outlets in St Petersburg and Yekaterinburg by the beginning of January.
Britain immediately vowed to defy the order, which it said constituted “a serious breach [...]