“Besides hearing Rand distill her philosophy into a few TV-friendly sentences, you’ll also get another glimpse at late-night talk shows as they used to be.”
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Helen Gurley Brown, 90
“Helen Gurley Brown, who as the author of Sex and the Single Girl shocked early-1960s America with the news that unmarried women not only had sex but thoroughly enjoyed it – and who as the editor of Cosmopolitan magazine spent the next three decades telling those women precisely how to enjoy it even more – died on Monday in Manhattan. She was 90, though parts of her were considerably younger.”
Houston Lighting Artist Jeremy Choate Killed In Hit-And-Run Incident
The 33-year-old father of two, who created installations at galleries throughout the US, worked often with musicians and dance companies as well as in theater. He was thrown from his motorcycle on Saturday night when a driver ran a red light, struck him and then fled the scene on foot.
Edinburgh Festival Chief To Protestors: Leave Batsheva Alone
“The director of the Edinburgh International Festival has defended his decision to invite an Israeli dance company to the city yesterday and said ‘disingenuous’ pro-Palestinian protesters should not disrupt the group’s performance.”
San Francisco’s Exploratorium Prepares For Big Move
“In January it will close its current site on the northern edge of San Francisco. In the spring, it will open a new $220 million facility on Piers 15 and 17 along the Embarcadero … Exhibit space will triple, to 330,000 square feet, and the focus will expand: New exhibits will delve into the environment, microbiology and social psychology.”
The Suffix That Replicates And Spreads Like A Virus
“In the beginning, there was the genome. Then came the foldome, the phenome and the connectome, quickly followed by the secretome, the otherome and the unknome.”