Violets: Eyes Through Violet

Musical Society is all set for a magnificent show in Tuam (Western People) - 200 weeks ago

Each year, the Marian Choral Society in Tuam entertain the masses with their amazing ability and terrific talent. This year's show will be no different, as Cróna Esler reports.

Sonic Youth Prepare Deluxe Goo Reissue (Pitchfork) - 200 weeks ago

Funny how time slips away when you're an indie rock icon. Upon its release in 1990, the Sonic Youth album Goo was considered a huge step toward the mainstream, and people took sides either for or against this "late Sonic Youth" sound.

Groups And Grumps: Study Identifies 'Sociality' Neurons (Science Daily) - 200 weeks ago

A University of California, San Diego study has for the first time identified brain cells that influence whether birds of a feather will, or will not, flock together. The research demonstrates that vasotocin neurons in the medial extended amygdala -- which are present in most animals, including humans -- respond differently to social cues in birds that live in colonies compared to their more

Nabaztag: A conflicted Wi-Fi rabbit (CNET) - 201 weeks ago

CNET News.com put the bunny through its paces and found it darn cute, though a bit thin on exciting features. Photos: Wi-Fi bunny hop

RELIGION: Influence of company (Central Chronicle) - 201 weeks ago

The spiritual tradition stresses the importance of cultivating the company of good people because even the mind of a virtuous person can be corrupted by constant indoctrination. This holds good even for worldly life as wrong association can ultimately lead to total ruin.

Interview: Thabitha Khumalo (New Zimbabwe) - 201 weeks ago

Violet: On the programme Hot Seat we welcome Thabitha Khumalo, the Zimbabwe Congress of Trades Unions third Vice President. She was recently named one of the winners for this year’s Woman of the Year Award in the United Kingdom.

NYC Record Store Mondo Kim's Raided by RIAA (Pitchfork) - 201 weeks ago

The rumors are true: Mondo Kim's, one of New York's best and highest regarded independent music and video stores, was raided by New York police Wednesday at approximately 1:00 p.m. EST for allegedly selling unsanctioned hip-hop DJ mixes featuring bootlegged tracks by RIAA artists.

Halloween treats can take a spooka-licious approach (The Monitor) - 201 weeks ago

Chocolate witch hair, eyeball cookies, bloody punch - sounds like quite the frightful menu....

A LIFE REMEMBERED (The Herald-Mail) - 201 weeks ago

Editor's note: Each Sunday, The Herald-Mail runs "A Life Remembered." The story takes a look back - through the eyes of family, friends, co-workers and others - at a member of the community who died recently.

Op for comic after brutal attack (The Scotsman) - 201 weeks ago

A POPULAR gay comedian is facing major surgery on a shattered jaw today after he was kicked and punched unconscious in a brutal attack by a gang of teenage thugs.