Topic: ART - on May 6, 2004 at 12:10:00 PM CEST
The world's most expensive piece of art ... a £58m Picasso painting
A masterpiece by Pablo Picasso, painted in 1905 when he was just 24 years old, last night became the most expensive piece of art ever sold when it went under the hammer at Sotheby's in New York for $104m (£58m).
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 6, 2004 at 12:04:00 PM CEST
Festival de Musique et d'Arts de Coachella
Pixies & Radiohead set download
to get the file, you gotta right click, save as, but be sure to add ".mp3" to the end of the name. otherwise it saves as a jpeg.
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Topic: Bastard pop - on May 6, 2004 at 11:55:00 AM CEST
Industrial mash-ups
"Justify My Fear" is Laibach's "Hell: Symmetry" vs. Madonna's "Justify My Love".
"The Artist Formerly Known as Laibach" is Laibach's "Achtung" vs. Prince's "Let's Work".
"Zwei Tribes" is Laibach's "Tanz Mit Laibach" vs. Frankie Goes To Hollywood's "Two Tribes".
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Topic: MUSIK - on May 6, 2004 at 11:51:00 AM CEST
Burning Down the House
Prince has still got that red-hot magic
Hammering! That's the word. That's it!" Prince folds over in laughter and stamps his high-heel boots on the floor. Those heels, as it happens, are clear plastic, and lights twinkle within them. It's a perfect metaphor for the electricity that seems to be coursing through the singer at the moment.
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Topic: W A R - on May 6, 2004 at 11:40:00 AM CEST
Thousands of Afghani POWs brutally executed, CBC alleges US military complicity
There’s only one war on our television screens now – that other war, the one from just a year ago, has been forgotten – but not by everyone. In Afghanistan, filmmaker Jamie Doran has uncovered evidence of a massacre: Taliban prisoners of war suffocated in containers, shot in the desert under the watch of American troops.
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