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Meet the artist behind A Steveston Beginning: Remembering My Mother exhibit (City of Richmond)

Edit Public Technologies 06 Oct 2016
From 1 to 3 p.m., drop into the Murakami Boatworks building at Britannia Shipyards to view her abstract sculptural works that are rooted in Steveston's history and the concept of honouring loved ones - past and present ... The mixes of wire, fiber and paper sculptures are installed in the authentic Japanese-Canadian Murakami Boatworks building....

Haruki Murakami named 4/1 favourite to win 2016 Nobel prize in literature

Edit The Guardian 06 Oct 2016
With a week to go before the revelation of this year’s Nobel literature laureate, internationally renowned names including Irish Booker winner John Banville and Japanese favourite Haruki Murakami are edging up the odds at bookmaker Ladbrokes ... On Thursday morning, Ladbrokes’ favourite to take the prize – at 4/1 – was the hugely popular Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami....

Who Will Win the 2016 Nobel Prize in Literature?

Edit The New Republic 06 Oct 2016
Last year’s Nobel Prize in Literature was something of a rarity in the award’s history in that the winner, Svetlana Alexievich, was favored to win by the British betting site Ladbrokes ... Pasta fetishist Haruki Murakami will not win the Nobel Prize ... Murakami, Oates, Adonis, and Ngugi have led the Ladbrokes field for years not because they are contenders necessarily, but because people bet on them ... ....

Baseball ‘Bows to play 35 home games in 2017

Edit Star Advertiser 05 Oct 2016
A three-game opening series against N.C. State headlines the nonconference slate for the Hawaii baseball team. The full 2017 schedule was released on Monday with Hawaii playing 35 home games in its 51-game schedule ... 37 by Collegiate Baseball Newspaper ... UH ends the season with a three-game series at Les Murakami Stadium against UC Santa Barbara, which advanced to the College World Series last year ... All home games at Les Murakami Stadium ....

Amazon Faces Publishing Dispute in Japan Over Book Subscriptions

Edit Bloomberg 04 Oct 2016
Amazon.com Inc. is caught up in another publishing dispute, this time in Japan over its subscription-style digital book service. The web retailer pulled more than 1,000 titles from Kodansha Ltd. over the weekend amid negotiations with Japan’s largest publisher over their contract and the books included in the service. Kobunsha Co ... Its portfolio includes works by Haruki Murakami, as well as “Attack on Titan,” a popular manga series ... ....

This Robot Wants to Have a Word About Your Bank Account

Edit The Oklahoman 03 Oct 2016
Text a question like “What’s my credit card debt?” or “How much did I spend on gas this month?” and the friendly answer comes within seconds. “Let’s see,” it begins, before listing the requested information. This is a banking chatbot, a software program that understands and responds to questions and commands about your bank account ... Time for a chat ... Amber Murakami-Fester is a staff writer at NerdWallet, a personal finance website. Email ... ....

Kim Kardashian robbery: Inside Paris' 'No Address Hotel"'

Edit AOL 03 Oct 2016
Locally its known as the "No Address Hotel." But five masked gunmen managed to find and enter the private residence on rue Tronchet where Kim Kardashian was staying Sunday night, allegedly storming into her private apartment at roughly 2.30 a.m ... That two-story apartment is decorated with art from Jean-Michel Basquiat, Keith Haring and Takashi Murakami ... Read more. Paris Mayor on Kim Kardashian Armed Robbery. "The Streets Are Protected" ... of....

Nobel for medicine goes to the discovery of how cells eat themselves

Edit Business Day 03 Oct 2016
Japanese novelist Haruki Murakami tipped to ......

Vital statistics

Edit Star Advertiser 03 Oct 2016
Marriage licenses and birth certificates. Each Sunday, the Honolulu Star-Advertiser publishes Oahu vital statistics for marriage licenses and birth certificates filed with the state Department of Health’s Vital Statistics System. The statistics cover the five-business-day period ending the Thursday of the previous week ... MARRIAGES. Filed on Oahu, Sept. 23-29, 2016 ... Kevin Takemi Murakami and Stephanie Sachiko Takemura ... BIRTHS....

Translated book sales are up, but Britain is still cut off from foreign literature

Edit The Guardian 30 Sep 2016
Bestsellers from the likes of Elena Ferrante and Karl Ove Knausgaard have helped the market, but fundamental obstacles to reading genuinely widely remain. Today is International Translation Day. Look at any bookshop bestseller shelf in the UK and you’ll see translated names everywhere. Elena Ferrante, Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami, Swedish names all over crime fiction ... Read more ... “We read so much about America ... But Tennant warns ... ....

Sotheby's eyes a new generation with K-pop icon T.O.P.

Edit CNN 29 Sep 2016
Photos. #TTTOP auction highlights. Korean Pop star T.O.P ... Hide Caption. 1 of 13. Photos ... 2 of 13 ... $6,446 to $10,314 – Some of the pieces were made specifically for this auction by T.O.P.'s artist friends, such as Takashi Murakami and Nawa Kohei ... (whose real name is Choi Seung Hyun) posing in tribute to a lanky Alberto Giacometti sculpture, lounging in a metallic chair by Ron Arad and palling around with the likes of Takashi Murakami ... ....

Colombia tipped for Nobel Peace Prize after deal to end war

Edit The Himalayan 29 Sep 2016
A national libray employee shows the gold Nobel Prize medal awarded to the late novelist Gabriel Garcia Marquez, in Bogota, Colombia on Friday, April 17, 2015. OSLO ... HUMAN FACE ... Individuals have always been the most compelling winners ... Japanese write Haruki Murakami, Syrian poet Adunis and US novelist Philip Roth are among favourites for the hard-to-predict literature award, according to bookmakers Ladbrokes ... ($1 = 8.5656 Swedish crowns)....

Winnipeg chef headed to world competition

Edit Toronto Sun 28 Sep 2016
Almost every Saturday, Winnipeg’s Mackenzie Ferguson hit the St ... Executive chef Takashi Murakami presents Ferguson with a “black box” filled with ingredients for Ferguson to prepare a three-course meal (appetizer, main course and dessert) for four people in four hours ... I’ve never competed internationally. “I really have to thank Chef Murakami for those trial runs, as well as his advice and guidance.”....
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