Sharp’s Weekly Web Roundup

by Peter on June 29th, 2009

There’s a very good reason that mid-life crises and convertibles go together. When a man reaches a certain point in his life (usually around the time his hair begins to thin and his paunch begins to make itself known), he begins to wonder if the choices he has made have been the right ones. Perhaps he has some regrets (hell, even Sinatra had a few) and perhaps he wishes things had turned out a little differently. Regardless of his present situation, a man of a certain age is likely to look back on the halcyon days of his youth and long for some of the things left behind. Optimism, perhaps, innocence, and, more likely than not, young women. Read more…

Relationships, we are so often told, are all about compromise. Ok. Fine. We get it. You can’t have your cake and eat it, too. Unless you’re single, in which case you’ll likely be eating your cake alone. And who likes to do that? Read more…

If you’ve an ear for delicate, whimsical, jazz-pop beats then Lizzy Parks is a name you need to know. Her debut album was a collection of competent but anodyne jazz ballads and belters. On the follow up, This & That, Lizzy has deconstructed some of those songs and re-presented them, alongside a handful of new tracks, as stripped down, minimalist musings of the most intimate kind. Read more…

For Hollywood’s latest “It Girl,” a striking, charismatic and intelligent 23-year-old from Rockwood, Tennessee, the blockbuster success of 2007’s Transformers was instrumental in instantly turning her into a Tinsel Town A-lister. Read more… 

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