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Just when you thought it was all about knitting, a much broader craft-it-yourself movement has emerged that's altering modern views about the domestic arts and enabling anyone with the will, the imagination and a sewing machine to create one-of-a-kind fashions. The movement is driven by style-conscious women who are bored by the cookie-cutter apparel sold at stores like Gap and Banana Republic. It's spread by websites like craftster.org and getcrafty.com which serve as latter-day sewing circles--places to trade ideas, share patterns and post pictures of your best work...
...BUSINESS'S BULLY! They picketed a celebrity-studded party the Governor threw at his Brentwood home for retired NBC anchor Tom Brokaw. When the A&E channel ran a biopic called See Arnold Run, the California Nurses Association punctuated it with commercials of R.N.s denouncing him as "driven by greed and profits," part of a $100,000 TV campaign. Their full-page ads in Washington and California newspapers accused him of kowtowing to the hospital lobby to "put vital health policy up for sale." The headline: KICKING BUTT OR KISSING UP? Wherever Schwarzenegger turns up these days, nurses are sure...
...another feature film, creating storyboards in her hospice bed. She was unable to complete that project, but when her hair fell out from chemo, she and her boyfriend filmed each other shaving their heads into Mohawks for a short film called True Love Mohawk. In addition to that, the driven filmmaker organized a retrospective of her work to be shown at an art-house cinema in New York City. It opened five days after her death...
...think about our own. In fact, as a woman, it is hard to not to identify with and reflect on two skits (“Hair” and “My Angry Vagina”) that pointedly discuss the unnatural aesthetic standards by which a sex-driven consumer culture measures women...
...Syria to arrest Sulayman Khalid Darwish, a Syrian who Washington charges is not only the chief banker to Abu Mousab al-Zarqawi, the terrorist mastermind in Iraq, but also one of his top logistical agents and recruiters. The official says Darwish sends money "across the Syrian border in vehicles driven by couriers carrying bags of cash" to be delivered to al-Zarqawi's personal aides. Assad's response to U.S. demands, says an authoritative official, has been tepid...