Online Music And Movie Shopping

Book Review: War for the Oaks by Emma Bull (Blogcritics.org)
This has reminded me why I love the urban fantasy genre so much. It’s been a little while since I dipped into the urban fantasy genre. Lately I’ve spent my reading hours pouring over histories and memoirs, leafing through the serious and humorous. But in the end I’ve gone back to one of my first loves and I picked up one of Emma Bull’s novels that I’d never read, War for the Oaks....

Secrets to Successful Online Holiday Shopping (Lexington Clipper-Herald)
(ARA) - No one's quite ready to cancel the holidays because of the economy, but sales and promotions will be a deciding factor for 40 percent of holiday shoppers this year, according to the National Retail Federation's recent holiday survey.

Shoes And Boots For Women (PIZZAHEROS)
So ladies shoes and sandals are extra decorative in appearance or have interesting surface texture, shimmer or glistening shine and gleam to the materials and leathers.

Dept. stores begin 2009 business with price-cuts (Philippine News Agency)
TOKYO, Jan. 2 (PNA/Kyodo) -- Major department stores kicked off their business for 2009 on Friday, cutting prices to attract increasingly thrifty consumers amid a recessionary economy.

Response to Castleton golf facility leads to 1 in Carmel (The Indianapolis Star)
In April 2007, Mark Short opened a GolfTEC franchise in Castleton, bringing to the area a facility that combines technology with hands-on training by PGA professionals.

Buffett Was Teen Shoplifter, Murdoch Dyes Hair: Leading Reviews (Bloomberg)
Jan. 2 (Bloomberg) -- Warren Buffett discusses his teenage shoplifting and Rupert Murdoch is glimpsed dying his hair orange in two biographies topping the list of the most-read Bloomberg book reviews in December, Alice Schroeder ’s “The Snowball” and Michael Wolff ’s “The Man Who Owns the News.”

Bossier-Shreveport film industry gives the local economy a major boost (Bossier Press-Tribune)
For the time being, it appears that the movie cameras and sets are going to stay put around Shreveport-Bossier. Sherri McConnell, head of the Louisiana Economic Development’s (LED) entertainment office, oversees the administering of film, sound recording, live performance and digital media program.

Let's keep giving to those in need in 2009 (The Sentinel Newspapers)
One of the things that I love most about being involved in a community newspaper is catching people at their best.

Takings soar at John Lewis stores as shoppers enjoy one last spree (Times Online)
A last-minute surge in Christmas spending sent takings soaring at one of Britain's biggest stores but experts said yesterday that the high street would be disappointed by the January sales.

Paperback Advice (New York Times)
1. RACHAEL RAY?S BIG ORANGE BOOK, by Rachael Ray 2. THE LOVE DARE, by Stephen and Alex Kendrick with Lawrence Kimbrough 3. TWILIGHT, by Mark Cotta Vaz 4. I CAN HAS CHEEZBURGER?, by Professor Happy­cat and icanhascheezburger.com 5. DINERS, DRIVE-INS AND DIVES, by Guy Fieri with Ann Volkwein

Revealed: Al Capone used Scottish caddies... and kept guns in his golf bag (Daily Record)
MOB boss Al Capone used Scottish caddies to improve his golf - and hid guns with his clubs.

Teen designer Kira Plastinina's U.S. store chain files for bankruptcy (Los Angeles Times)
A rough economy and belt-tightening shoppers force the Moscow teen queen's chain to file for Chapter 7 seven months after its debut. The chain had plans to open 250 stores in the U.S. Seven months after 16-year-old Russian golden child and fashion designer Kira Plastinina burst onto the U.S. scene with a dozen boutiques bankrolled by her millionaire father, the much-hyped chain has filed for ...