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...since 2006, now have an Oscar and a Grammy. Once is the best-selling album on iTunes and the #9 DVD on Amazon. Their label expects sales of the album to triple in the next week. The pair is gearing up for a U.S. tour: Instead of the 75-seat clubs and bars The Swell Season played last year, they'll be headlining venues like Radio City Music Hall and the Coachella Music Festival. There was one other blessing the film wrought - Hansard and Irglova fell in love while promoting Once last spring...
...before visiting the Forbidden City: the Starbucks there has been removed. 14) Afraid to hawk a loogie in Cambridge? Let it fly in Shanghai. It’s all the rage. 15) In Beijing, the 22nd of each month has been designated “Share Your Seat Day,” a recent initiative to eradicate impolite behavior before the Olympics...
Hand-shaking alone isn’t enough if you’re trying to earn a seat in Cambridge city government—fund raising figures for the 2007 election show that successful candidates need lots of cold, hard cash. There was wide variation in the amount that candidates spent during the race, although with few exceptions those who spent the most money won. The figures were published in an issue of the Cambridge Civic Journal, authored by local political commentator Robert Winters, who is also an Extension School professor. Additionally, Cambridge City Council candidates consistently spent several thousand...
Rejoice in your everyday anarchy, because politics is by necessity a zero-sum game; one candidate will win and others will lose. Obama surges, Clinton crashes. Republicans gain a House seat, the Democrats drop one. Of course, there’s a place for politics, and its well and good to devote time and thought to it, but at some point we have to take a break from red and blue maps, from tables of poll numbers, from endorsement speeches, and from the scandal du jour...
...dozen rejections later, she went to dinner at a small steak restaurant in Arlington, Va., a “down and dirty 45-seat place with an open kitchen.” When the chef came to her table that night, McCulla explained her interest in cooking, one fostered by years of helping her family in the kitchen, a semester abroad in Paris, and other gastro-centric international travels. She asked if she could work there. The chef, thinking it over for a moment, replied, “You show up on Saturday and I’ll give...