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Book Of A Lifetime: Le Parti Pris des Choses, By Francis PongeThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 6:20PMIn 1991, just out of college, I bought a copy of Francis Ponge's 'Le Parti Pris des Choses'. Ponge, one of the signatories of the 'Surrealist Manifesto', is usually described as a "poet" – yet the label doesn't quite fit. For a start, he wrote in prose. Strange prose, it must be said: short paragraphs so rich with metaphor and all the tricks of rhetoric (apostrophe, the interrogative ...

Sour 'Dinner' doesn't go down easilyThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 1:16PMThe new comedy "Dinner for Schmucks," directed by Jay Roach, is based on a 1998 French film called "Le Dîner de Cons," in which a group of business executives hosts a regular dinner party where they invite the most buffoonish and imbecilic people they can find. The movie is a satire of Euro snobbery -- leave it to the French to turn condescension into a bourgeois parlor game.

On the Red Carpet with Jay Roach and His SchmucksThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 8:15AMComingSoon.net hits the New York red carpet at the premiere of Jay Roach's new comedy Dinner for Schmucks , starring Paul Rudd, Steve Carell, Zach Galiafanakis and a cast of dozens of schmucks.

Interview: Dan Black - Singer, Songwriter and ProducerThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 4:14AMLike most young British artists, Dan Black possesses a love and appreciation for rap, rock and R&B that runs so deep that it spills incessantly into any music that he eventually creates. Unable to contain his work within any genre-specific boundary, the hybrid byproduct of Dan Black’s labor ...

COMMUNITY STARS: Springfield First School nominated for awardThursday, July 29, 2010 @ 3:28AMDESCRIBED by one parent as an "outstanding" place to learn, Springfield First School has been nominated in the Herald/Gazette Community Star Awards. (28/07/2010 08:42:23)

Mariners offense trending towards historically low territoryWednesday, July 28, 2010 @ 1:05PMUPDATE 11:40 a.m.: The Mariners have issued a release stating that Ryan Rowland-Smith is going on the 15-day DL with a lower back strain. Luke French has been called up from Class AAA and will, I assume, start next Sunday in Minneapolis.

Susie Rushton: This counts as too much information, LynnMonday, July 26, 2010 @ 6:18PMThere might be one or two details of Lynn Barber's sex life that I don't know about. Oh, hang on, no – I've got the lot. By now every last teenage fumbling and grinding, each of the hours spent on her back while at Oxford University, must now be in the public domain.

Higher start in store for stocksMonday, July 26, 2010 @ 4:53PMA two-month high for the US Dow Jones overnight should translate to healthy gains here. Plus, everything you need to know for the trading day ahead.

Seketa earns multiple golds at Empire GamesMonday, July 26, 2010 @ 7:45AMWest Genesee boys swimmer Ben Seketa emerged as one of the biggest stars as the Empire State Games returned last weekend in Buffalo. Seketa, on his own, earned two gold medals