Oil industry faces investment crunch: IEA (SpaceDaily)

PARIS, Nov 6 (AFP) Nov 06, 2008 Investment in oil and gas production and the development of new processes is a central uncertainty for energy security and action against global warming, the IEA said on Thursday.

Housing slump a bust for builder: Andrew Meghdadi files for bankruptcy

Citing a housing slump, longtime local builder Andrew Meghdadi has filed for bankruptcy.

Music Shorts

Melissa Ferrick 's name has pretty much become the definition of 'strong female singer.' Everything in Ferrick's music has an intensity about it.

No Subject

When is a post, not a post, if I don't post, but still want to post. I've got nothing to say, but I keep feeling the need to hit "PUBLISH", but why should I without any content? Now you've gone and done it -A ...

My Brightest Diamond - 2008 Tour Dates, a new covers comp w/ The...

My Brightest Diamond - 2008 Tour Dates, a new covers comp w/ The Forms, Takka, Matt Pond, Frightened Rabbit, more My Brightest Diamond is playing a show with Clare & the Reasons at Le Poisson Rouge in NYC on ...

In Review - R' Ephraim Luft's "The Torah Is Not Hefker" Part IV

Moving on to Chapter Two, "Quotes From Newspapers and Books On 'Rock and Roll'"... In the first section of this chapter, Rabbi Luft brings many quotes from books and media condemning Rock and Roll.

My Brightest Diamond @ the Larimer Lounge

Shara Wordern drew from a variety of sources to the keep the crowd involved at the Larimer Lounge on Thursday.

Indie composer talks musical relationships, boasts lyrical variety

Listen to "Inside a Boy" If diamonds are a girl's best friend, My Brightest Diamond is a woman's. "Someone said to me this week that they felt like, seeing the show, they had come into a sanctuary," said Shara ...

My Brightest Diamond will put on show to remember tonight at the Red Room

Shara Worden is not so much a musician as she is an artist. On her latest CD under the moniker My Brightest Diamond, she crafts a record that plays like a painting.

Global Energy Transition Plan

Despite there being no 'supply side solutions' able to replace or substitute current rates of world oil and gas demand, and cover coming physical supply shortages, near-term for oil and probable by 2010-11 for ...

1,700 pubs will have shut in 2008

Research group Market & Business Development forecasts that nearly 1,700 pubs will have closed in the UK in 2008.