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Yahoo! News Search Results for Museums, Galleries, and Centers Madejski puts Degas dancer back in the transfer market at £12m (Guardian Unlimited) After five years, the romance between the football club owner and the little dancer is over: a Degas sculpture is for sale again, with a £12m transfer fee on her head. Leeds United dismiss assistant manager Steve Staunton (Guardian Unlimited) The former Ireland head coach has been dismissed by Leeds United Tell Me Lies About Vietnam by Adrian Mitchell (Guardian Unlimited) Adrian Mitchell first read To Whom It May Concern (Tell Me Lies About Vietnam) at a protest in Trafalgar Square in 1964, and kept changing the final verse as the years passed and events demanded. He referred to this version as "the 21st century remix" Headbanging does create risk of brain damage, says study (Guardian Unlimited) Forget cigarettes, fried food and holding your breath too long – there's another indulgence that some doctors wish to quash. Rockers should cease their headbanging, Australian scientists have advised, or wear a less-than-rocking neck brace. "We identified a definite risk of mild traumatic brain injury from headbanging," Dr Andrew McIntosh, of the University of New South Wales (UNSW), ... Alison Sharman tipped for Sky1 controller job (Guardian Unlimited) The ITV director of factual and daytime, Alison Sharman, has emerged as one of the frontrunners for the Sky1 controller job. Sharman, a previous BBC controller of both daytime and children's programmes, is understood to be the leading candidate to replace Richard Woolfe, who is leaving the BSkyB-owned channel to join Channel Five as the new controller of its main network. Sharman is ... Volkswagen launches Matrix-style Golf ad (Guardian Unlimited) Volkswagen has drawn inspiration from the Bourne and Matrix movies for a TV ad to promote the new VW Golf that features a car designer having a series of vicious running fights with sinister clones. The TV ad, created by ad agency DDB London, opens in the German VW factory where the Golf is made, in the chief designer's office. He answers a knock at his door and is confronted by a sinister ... War continues to create ideal conditions for poppy growth in Helmand province (Guardian Unlimited) More than 90% of the world's heroin comes from Afghanistan, and two-thirds of that from a single province, Helmand, garrisoned by British forces fighting a gruelling counter-insurgency against the Taliban. Those figures come from the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC). In its report last month there was some good news for change. This year there has been a 19% reduction in poppy ... Elisabeth Mahoney: Radio review (Guardian Unlimited) Between the Ears (Radio 3, Saturday) began with clattering, hammering and an unsettling whoosh of steam. There was puzzling talk of "a Portakabin a little bit like a medieval cathedral" and a strange tale, told over a dazzling arc of ancient, elegiac music, about a man taken ill on a train and how nobody wanted to sit in his seat after he'd left the carriage. So far, then, this was ... Portsmouth area community calendar (Portsmouth Herald) SNUG AS A BUG!: is Seacoast Science Center's wintertime program for preschoolers ages 2 to 3.5 years old. January and February sessions open for registration. Snug meets Mondays, Jan. 5-26 and Feb. 2-23, from 10:30 to 11:30 a.m. Cost $65 for members; $85... Letter: Hot-housing hats (Guardian Unlimited) Letter: Wear your bobble hat to keep your brain warm, not to prevent your body getting cold |
