Apparently sporting a Ryan Adams costume this Halloween, increasingly prolific scruffy freak-folk hero (do they come in any flavors other than scruffy?) Devendra Banhart has returned to the studio yet again.
Recreational Equipment, Inc. (REI) announced a record member refund of more than $50 million on 2005 annual sales topping $1 billion, a first in the co-op's 67-year history.
At 603 carats it's the world's 15th-largest rough diamond, named the "Lesotho Promise" for the small African country where it was found in August. Today, a South African company bought the gem for $12.4 million, as the AP and the...
RMD Entertainment Group announced today that their star artist Roc Monee's debut album "Diamond in the Rough," which hit major retail stores across North America on September 26th, has shown positive signs of performance in its first ten days on the market.
Chip Davis lives in Cazenovia and works in Skaneateles, but he also does quite a bit of business in Belgium. Davis, 49, has owned and operated Skaneateles Jewelers Inc. since 1986. On Friday, he left for the northern Belgian city of Antwerp to purchase diamonds from world-class diamond cutters.
NEW YORK----Barnes & Noble, Inc. , the world's largest bookseller, announced it has signed a lease agreement to open a new Barnes & Noble bookstore in Glendora, California. The bookstore, expected to open in May 2007, will be located in the Diamond Ridge Marketplace at Valley Center Avenue and Gladstone Street.
Since the days of Prohibition, when barkeeps invented mixed drinks in an effort to disguise the taste of their rotgut with fruit syrups, cocktails have exuded an air of illicit festivity. Beer is fine, and whiskey's quicker, but a cocktail—with its goofy garnishes and splendid colours—is merriment in a tumbler.