Please welcome Beth Wiseman, author of The House that Love Built, who is touring the blogosphere with Litfuse Publicity! Brooke Holloway is a widowed mother of two and strives to make life normal for them by working steadily at the family’s hardware store and keeping to a routine. Brooke knows that her heart just isnt ready for a new [...]
But less attention has been paid to the bass player they were trying to recruit: Paul McCartney, who was busy with another band at the time. This tantalizing detail about the super group that never was — jazz standout Tony Williams would have been on drums — is contained in an oft-overlooked telegram that Hendrix [...]
If publishers drop digital rights management controls on eBooks, will piracy increase? One prominent publishing example saw “no discernible increase in piracy.” Macmillan’s Tor imprint dropped its DRM over one year ago, and Tor UK editorial director Julie Crisp wrote an essay looking back at the imprint’s progress since then. The article included commentary from [...]
The Blowout festival is celebrating its super sweet 16th birthday by doing things a bit differently. The local music festival, which kicks off tonight at the Majestic Theatre in Detroit, runs Friday and Saturday in Hamtramck and expands to a second weekend May 2-4 in Ferndale. This is the first time the Metro Times-sponsored event [...]
Heidi Klum was on vacation in Hawaii this weekend when her two kids and the nanny got sucked into a riptide and almost drowned, but Klum rescued them. What a shitty nanny. People reports: “We got pulled into the ocean by a big wave. Of course, as a mother, I was very scared for my [...]
As news emerges about two explosion at the Boston Marathon, television news reports are filled with graphic images. To help parents, we built a list of books to help parents discuss traumatic events with children, grade schoolers and young adults. If you want to help, you can donate to the Red Cross. We’ve linked to [...]