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Greg Johnson has been cooking up a feast. The Santa Monica-based Kiwi songwriter kicked off his Table For Six Tour in Auckland on Friday with six of his favourite musicians – Jan Hellriegel, Ben King, Lisa Crawley, Kurt Shanks, Wayne Bell and Mark Hughes.
For Freda Kelly, secretary to the Beatles and head of the band’s fan club, work sometimes involved trailing the Fab Four to the barber shop, sweeping their locks from the floor and mailing strands of hair to adoring female fans. Kelly, one of the Beatles’ longest-serving employees, worked for the British band for more than a decade but had never shared her stories publicly until now.
There is no god but God, and Muhammad is the Messenger of God.” That confession of faith, the shahada, is professed by all Muslims, be they the 700 million Sunnis who dominate the Islamic world from Morocco to Indonesia or the 90 million Shi’ites who rule Iran and form majorities in Lebanon, Bahrain and Iraq. To the shahada, however, the Shi’ites add, “And Ali is the Friend of God.” Those additional words in praise of Ali, whom the Shi’ites passionately claim is Muhammad’s true successor, epitomize the complex and often bloody feud between Islam’s two branches.
While the high visibility of my public life has not always brought me personal peace and happiness, it has lent a certain universal quality to my various metamorphoses.
In October 2000, I found myself drinking champagne in an east London bar with Molly Ringwald. I’d had the usual schoolboy interest in the coltish American actress ever since The Breakfast Club; she was visiting town and a mutual friend suggested we meet.
“My mind has been both my best friend and my worst enemy,” says Elyn Saks, the author of The Center Cannot Hold . It’s hard to argue with that
Liz, a Shi’ite in her late 20s, is afraid to leave her house. She says that the last time she went out, government-hired thugs stopped her car at one of the many checkpoints that litter Manama, the capital of Bahrain.
Why don’t people wear shirts when they shop at Walmart? Or pants that fit
Public interest in “The Real Housewives” of hither and yon notwithstanding, the well-behaved trophy wife is not, generally speaking, a character we’re dying to know more about. And beautiful Pippa Lee is a trophy wife of the highest order
If you want to understand the disconnect between watching cooking shows and wanting to cook, get this: Schwan’s Home Service is offering Top Chef–branded frozen meals. The idea that hard-core fans who study contestants’ knife skills every week would choose to order from a giant company that’s been delivering frozen food to rural America for 57 years doesn’t surprise Harry Balzer, who tracks food trends for the market-research firm NPD Group.