- What is the world coming to when you can’t buy fine art at reasonable prices at Costco? Quoth the AP: “One of Pablo Picasso’s daughters has questioned the authenticity of a drawing listed for sale on Costco Wholesale Corp.’s Web site, and for two others already sold over the past two years as works by the iconic Spanish cubist.”
- You know I love a good obit. Reveries has a nice summation of the life of Dr. Robert C. Baker. Before Dr. B. came along, chickens were “just egg-laying machines or Sunday luxuries,” reports Douglas Martin in a New York Times obituary.
- How to read a piece of fruit. Not kidding — someone has deciphered the code that is the digits on the little stickers which now appear on all produce. Details here.
- Hollywood still isn’t getting it, this from my colleagues at The Hollywood Reporter: Theater ads don’t stop moviegoers, study says. Yes but it doesn’t exactly encourage them either, does it?
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March 24, 2006 at 1:51 am
Some more, including some nice pics of Dr. Baker.
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/11977348/site/newsweek/