CAIRO/AMMAN (Reuters) Syrian forces resumed their bombardment of the city of Homs Monday after Arab countries called for U.N. peacekeepers and pledged their firm support for the opposition battling President Bashar al-Assad. Opposition campaigners said tank fire was concentrated on two large Sunni Muslim neighborhoods that have been at the forefront of opposition to Assad. [...]
LOS ANGELES (TheWrap.com) With only one new movie opening in wide release, this weekend is shaping up to be “catch-up” time at the multiplex — a chance for audiences to see films they’ve been meaning to watch, but haven’t had the opportunity. But there’s a twist. While “Mission: Impossible — Ghost Protocol” likely will spend [...]
(Reuters) Seven states will share $200 million in grant money they can use to improve student achievement, the Department of Education announced on Friday. Arizona, Colorado, Illinois, Kentucky, Louisiana, New Jersey, and Pennsylvania will share the money they were awarded in the third round of the funding competition. “These seven states are now among 22 [...]
The Danish chanteuse Oh Land—a.k.a. Nanna Oland Fabricius—has attracted a fashionable following, wooing designers like M Missoni, which chose her as a face of the label, with her sunny electro-pop. For her upcoming tour, she went further than borrowing clothes. She collaborated with Carly Cushnie and Michelle Ochs of Cushnie et Ochs on a series [...]
PHOTOS: Stars reveal their celebrity style crushes “I always had apt wear myself, which namely very amusing when you’re 2,” the Heart of Dixie actress tells NYLON journal in their November issue. “My penniless mom. There was this 1 clothes, it was my favorite — it was actually chromatic and huge and ridiculous. I dressed [...]
PHOTOS: Beyonce’s cilia evolution "I smell anything," she said. "If it smells bad, I smell it. My husband’s fragrance, his one that I forever love, I detest right now. So thank God I have this one!" Though Beyonce demands she doesn’t know the sex of her baby, she has reportedly bought pink Christian Louboutin baby [...]
“It’s a forest in here.” That’s the tag for Ninivah Khomo’s fashionable shop on Walton Street in London’s Knightsbridge. The logo is a whiskered leopard; a riot of beast prints corners the area into a shrine to the cat; and Michael Roberts’ internal re-creates a sun-bleached coast cabin on the rim of the rain woods in Bahia, hand-stenciled palm fronds, slatted screens, and entire.
It’s been six years since Khomo last had a shop, merely, in 1 of fashion’s curious little sy