Australian Idol's Carl Riseley thanks Gold Coast dad
GOLD Coast-born jazz singer and trumpeter and former Australian Idol competitor Carl Riseley has his dad, the `love doctor', to thank for a flourishing music career.
Before finding fame as a finalist on TV's Australian Idol in 2007 and releasing two
King of Egyptian kitsch sings of swine flu
CAIRO ? The kitschy Egyptian singer who found fame with the hit "I hate Israel" and who attacked America and Saddam Hussein in song over the Iraq war has traded politics for pigs - bemoaning swine flu as the next disaster threatening Egypt.
The
5 Superior Mothers
Mothers come in all shapes, forms, classifications, and species. Whether you?re a biological mom, an adoptive or foster mom, or some other manner of maternal presence, mental_floss salutes you with the brief tales of five notable mothers. Enjoy!
While
Family first
A Kalihi couple has given 32 children a loving home
Ask Nancy Young about her life and the answer will be a litany of achievements of the 32 children she has mothered.
Young, a retired teacher, and her husband Mike, pastor of the First Unitarian Church
Kiss FM supports HospiceCare
106.1 Kiss FM has collaborated with Grand Old House to present six-time Grammy Award winner and Cuban jazz legend Chucho Valdes on Thursday, 14 May at 7:00 pm.
Following in the footsteps of his father, famed Cuban musician and ?Tropicana? Night Club
Thomas' fear of flying
THE problem with becoming an overnight cult hero is you are made to serve two masters with mutually exclusive priorities.
It is an issue Dale Thomas has quickly been forced to deal with in his short but wildly exciting AFL career.
All the fans want is
When a minnow turns into a whale
The Big One
An Island, an Obsession,
and the Furious Pursuit
of a Great Fish
Reviewed by M.R. Montgomery
Once upon a time, on an island far away, people fished just for the hell of it.
M.R. Montgomery, a former writer for the Boston Globe, is the
'A Drifting Life' by Yoshihiro Tatsumi, translated from the Japanese by Taro Nettleton, edited, designed and lettered by Adrian Tomine
They were, to be sure, bleak times. Yet it was this horrific backdrop that set the stage for the creation of what would become a worldwide cultural force just a few decades later -- manga, or Japanese comics. Rising from the ashes of a defeated and
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