| Color Me Thursday: Hairdresser recounts stories from 21-year career in Wilton
During her 21 years as a salon owner in Wilton, Frieda Newton jotted down all kinds of notes, on paper napkins, quarter-inch strips of paper, envelopes, anything at all, about the funny things that happened daily at her salon. Customers who asked for more hairspray until their hair was immovable, little kids squirming all over the place while their hair was being cut, customers who said "Do it just like last time" when "last time" was a year ago were among her anecdotes. When she had eight years' worth of humorous incidents, she turned it into a 64-page book: Color Me Thursday with illustrations by Michael Lobasz. The title, she explains, is salon language. "Many women who are going to a wedding over the weekend will have their hair done on Saturday, but their coloring on Thursday," she said.
Can hair color make other people act dumb?
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Beauty: Feel poor, look great
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Great masters of Austrian art
Gustav Klimt�s �Head of a Girl with Eyes Closed� (left, pencil on paper, 54.2x36.1 cm) from 1913. On the right: �Dead Mother� (pencil and oil on wood) painted by Egon Schiele in 1910. Both works come from Vienna�s Leopold Museum. By Alexandra Koroxenidis - Kathimerini English Edition It was during the last decades of the Habsburg monarchy that the Austrian metropolis experienced a cultural life whose modern, progressive and cosmopolitan character breathed fresh air into a conservative Viennese society. In art, the founding, in 1897, of the Secession, a movement that was first born in Germany, expressed the break with conventional academic painting and expressed a dynamic will for change. Its aim was to encourage the work of avant-garde Austrian artists but to also organize exhibitions that introduced the Viennese public to the latest, modern developments in the art of Europe�s major artistic centers.
Bonding with eva
NOW, what would a Bond girl be if she didn�t ooze sensuality, didn�t have a physique to die for, intelligence next to a rocket scientist�s, and gun toting skills rivalling a SWAT team? Lucky for the new Bond fl ick, Casino Royale, as the new Bond girl, the lovely French Eva Green, who plays Vesper Lynd, has all that, and more. Casino Royale was first released in 1967, and starred the vivacious Ursula Andress as Vesper Lynd. Green has some big shoes to fi ll, but with her killer looks and winning ways, it�s very likely she�ll be be making a defi nite Bond name for herself. If you�re wondering where you�ve seen her before, she recently starred opposite hottie Orlando Bloom in Ridley Scott�s Kingdom of Heaven, and her striking beauty was first discovered by Bernardo Bertolucci, who cast Green in his 2003 art house hit, The Dreamers.
Global Peace And Justice Auckland Newsletter
NATIONAL DAY OF ACTION ON DEC 1. This will be the time to say “NEVER AGAIN! REPEAL THE TERRORISM LAWS NOW”. ORGANISING MEETINGS AUCKLAND: Civil Rights Defence Committee, 6pm, Tuesdays, Unite House, Level 12, 300 Queen St WELLINGTON: Weekly support group meetings - open to all - 6pm Tuesdays at 128 Abel Smith St .
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