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Competition announced for Mardi Gras poster (Galveston County Daily News)
GALVESTON - The competition for the design of Galveston Island's 2009 commemorative Mardi Gras poster is open to anyone who wishes to submit a design. Popular Tags (San Francisco Bay View)
The shift in consciousness between 2008 and 2009 is something palpable; almost the same type of anticipation greeted the move between centuries, 20th into 21st, 1999-2000. Best year ever (The Sudbury Star)
This past year brought with it many entertaining highs and lows -- and even taught us a few new words. With the proliferation of big, [...] Data glitch shuts down TSX for entire trading day (CTV Winnipeg)
The Toronto Stock Exchange missed an entire business day Wednesday because of a technical glitch, the first time in history for such an occurrence for Canada's dominant trading platform. Shaky economy gives bartering a boost (Pensacola News Journal)
In these penny-pinching times, folks get what they want by trading skills, services and items. Jazz Fest awarded grant from Alabama Arts Council (The Alexander City Outlook)
Preparations for the 2009 edition of the Alexander City Jazz Festival are officially underway with the recent approval of a grant for the festival from the Alabama State Council of the Arts. Firecracker Studios bids farewell with 'The End is Here' (Isthmus)
After five years of successes and struggles, Sam Johnson is pulling the plug on Firecracker Studios, a onetime gallery and longtime gig poster factory that worked to build a bridge between art and music in Madison. "Firecracker has changed what it does and how it does it," he affirms in an announcement about the closing, "but has never strayed from it's goal of keeping the Madison art scene ... Apple vs. Dell vs. Lenovo: Got to Love Choices (TechNewsWorld.com)
The economic pressure continues to increase and there is a reasonably good chance that we'll be down to one large car company in the U.S. by this time next year -- Ford, which appears to be the only one that isn't saying it won't survive without a massive cash infusion from the U.S. government. In the PC space, there are three companies being watched closely: Apple and Dell in the U.S. and ... Architect finds beauty in the asphalt jungle (Boston Globe)
Most of us walk, drive, and park on it every day, but we rarely give asphalt a second thought - until we trip on a crack or hit a pothole or notice with dismay yet another instance where someone "paved paradise and put up a parking lot," as the Joni Mitchell song "Big Yellow Taxi" recounts.
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