Michael Schumacher returns to Formula One with Ferrari

Provided the 40-year-old seven-time world champion can prove his fitness – and the German is a man who prides himself on his conditioning – he will line up against reigning world champion Lewis Hamilton for the very first time at the European Grand Prix in Valencia on Aug 23.
The announcement, which will have Ferrari’s hardcore [...]

Indonesian Terrorists Find Refuge

Militants Evaded Crackdown That Hurt Group by Seeking Havens, Recruits Among Sympathetic Islamists

Nikon D300s officially announced — 720p/24 movie mode with autofocus and mic input

(Engadget)
Well well, Nikon managed to keep the big secret about the new D300s under wraps even as everything else was leaked in the past few weeks: the new $1,799.95 body will shoot 24fps 720p video with contrast-detect autofocus and offers an external mic input. That’s basically every would-be DSLR videographer’s major wishlist right there — [...]

Phil Spencer: from boom to bust

(Telegraph)

The recession will not dampen Britain’s desire to own property, says Phil Spencer
For the past 18 months, Phil Spencer’s life has had all the drama, jeopardy and upset of an episode of Location, Location, Location – without the happy ending. The television presenter’s home finding business, Garrington, went into administration early this year. “It was [...]

Why I love my Chanel

(Telegraph)
By By ERIC WILSON

Chic in Chanel: (from left) Poppy Delevingne, Lucy Yeomans and Virginia Bates
‘Fashion,” said Gabrielle ‘Coco’ Chanel, “is about moving forward, not looking back.” Forward, diagonally, sideways and in witty, whimsical circles, Chanel (1883-1971) did it all. Finding the women of her time “too dressed up and not nearly elegant enough”, she stole [...]

The Get Up Kids apologise for inventing emo

(The Guardian)
By Sean Michaels
The heart-on-sleeve indie rockers have said sorry for inadvertently helping to spawn a generation of miserable, eyeliner-wearing bands with not a song between them

The Get Up Kids … responsible for Fall Out Boy and many other emo atrocities
Finally, someone has apologised for helping invent emo. The Get Up Kids, the recently re-formed [...]

Label of love: ZTT

(The Guardian)
By Paul Lester
Masterminded by music journalist Paul Morley, ZTT was in its brief golden age as intoxicatingly collectible as any imprint before or since

Frankie Goes to Hollywood … one of ZTT’s ‘crucial three’.
It’s great to see Paul Morley experimenting with modern media these days, but the ex-NME journalist was actually finding new ways to [...]

Model combination: Robert Mapplethorpe and Michelangelo

(The Guardian)
By Jonathan Jones
The photographer’s provocative nudes are taking Florence’s Accademia gallery in an exciting new direction

‘Brilliantly composed and lit’ … Mapplethorpe’s intimate portraits, including this one of Ken Moody (1983).
The naked bodies in the Accademia Gallery in Florence, home to Michelangelo’s David, strain and contort and flex their muscles. Athletic flesh is posed in [...]

uut bar

Event information
Tagline:uut bar
Host:ladies and men dating
Type: Party – Dinner Party
Time and place
Date: 1 August 2009
Time: 6:30 – 12:30
Location: beijing
Street: beijing sanlitun
Neighbourhood: 朝阳区(Chaoyang)
Phone: 010 58767410
E-mail: prines_hot1@hotmail.com
Description:
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uut bar
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Less easy to find a ” courtyard”in center of Beijing .There have paths and wooden [...]

The Big Picture China Tour–Beijing Live

Event information
Tagline:live rock
Host:Road
Type: Music – Concert
Time and place
Date: 30 July 2009
Time: 21:00 – 23:00
Location: Dongcheng District,Beijing
Street: No.111,East Street of Gulou(Gulou Dongdajie)
Neighbourhood: 东城区(Dongcheng)
Phone: 010-64025080
E-mail: live@indiechina.com
Description: Supporting:
Chanchan(China)
Style:Indie-Pop/Electronic/Trip-Hop
Listen www.douban.com/artist/chanchan/
The Feast The Feast(U.S.A)
Style:Folk/Lo-Fi
Listen http://www.myspace.com/thefeastthefeast
Performing:
The Big Picture(Sweden)
Style:Indie-Pop/Lo-Fi
Listen http://www.myspace.com/picturethisbig
Time:30th,July,2009;9 P.M
Venue:Mao Live House http://www.maolive.com
Add:No.111,East Street of Gulou(Gulou Dongdajie),Dongcheng District,Beijing
Tel:010-64025080
Tickets:50 RMB
Preorder:30 RMB,plz mail to live@indiechina.com with title”TBP”,inclouding ur name.U’ll received the e-mail of [...]