Pavel Krusanov. Hard-drinking Russians holla back at the “blue book” cherished by adherents of Alcoholics Anonymous, authored by the semianonymous father of all twelve-steppers, Bill W. The Moscow Times reports on a new anthology whose title, Sinyaya Kniga Alkogolika, translates to The Blue Book of the Alcoholic in English: “Put together by the St. Petersburg [...]
Vida Samadzai On her site Lifeofamodel.com, model and fashion commentator Kelly England invites her fellow models to report “dangerous incidents to help to make the fashion world a safer place for young women and men.” England is working on a book about how “modelling can lead to human trafficking, exploitation, eating disorders and drug dependency. [...]
Like a spider sucking away the bodily contents of its prey, Sara Jane Gutierrez stole nearly a thousand books from public libraries in Greeley, Colorado and sold them to a local secondhand store. Twenty years old and pregnant, Gutierrez pleaded guilty to theft and forgery in May and was sentenced this week to three years [...]
Dibs! is still wondering what Lindsay Lohan is famous for doing. But life is just too short to undertake the research into this matter on a summer day. So, crassly joining the dogpile of reporters reporting on the actions (and even planned actions) of a puzzling figure who is famous for stuff, Dibs! would like [...]
Nostalgic Berkeleyans enter Cody’s for the last time.Notice the “For Lease” sign. Dibs! saw grown men cry during the farewell ceremony today at Cody’s, a big bookstore on Berkeley, California’s famous Telegraph Avenue whose impending closure was lamented recently in the New York Times. (The Times reminisced: “Cody’s, which was founded in 1956, was considered [...]
On Friday, Dibs! reported on dozens of new libraries being built in rural Afghanistan. Now the San Francisco Chronicle notes that Afghanis in the town of Herat, freed from years of shariah law, are getting back into the habit of reading … Shakespeare. At a performance recently as hundreds watched, “five women took off their [...]
A Jordanian who used free-access computers in an Ohio public library to visit jihadist Web sites and send and receive emails about nuclear bombs and other weapons claims that he isn’t a terrorist — he’s just writing a book. According to Ha’aretz.com, Mohammad Radwan Obeid aroused the attention of a librarian in Troy, Ohio, who [...]
Not one, not two, but 26 entire libraries have been created and filled with books around Taloqan (depicted at left), the formerly Taliban-held capital of Afghanistan’s war-torn northeastern Takhar province. Within recent memory, rifle fire and exploding bombs were part of the daily retinue in this remote town and its surrounding district where women wear [...]
She posed nude recently for Playboy and now she’s about to become an author! Cindy Margolis — described on her Web site as “a desired Supermodel, accomplished Host, Actress and Producer … a self -made icon of the of the Twenty-First Century” — hey, we cut and pasted that verbatim … is now writing her [...]
Kola Boof —author of such books as Diary of a Lost Girl, Flesh and the Devil and Long Train to the Redeeming Sin, who claims to have been held captive by Osama bin Laden for several months in 1996 and, in her own words, “shared his bed” — is now offended (according to a press [...]