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Gavin Rossdale
Gavin Rossdale, gravel-voiced dad to two-year-old Kingston James McGregor Rossdale and three-month-old Zuma Nesta Rock Rossdale, is not only husband to a rock star but also something of a badass musician himself: "Love Remains the Same," the first single from this summer's WANDERlust (Interscope), has re-elevated the forty-three-year-old...
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The Mumpreneur
When Catherine Freemantle said goodbye to a successful accounting career in Melbourne to concentrate on her new role as a farmer's wife in Central Victoria she never thought that a couple of years down the track she would be running her own web-based business. Launched in November 2006, her online store Bump, Baby & Beyond sells affordable and styl...
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Mandarin for Babies?
My most vivid memory of preschool Spanish class is of standing in a classroom, in front of my teachers, being tested on how high I could count. While I can still count in Spanish, most everything else I learned now evades me. Francois Thibaut, founder of The Language Workshop for Children, says that's just because the teaching methods weren't co...
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Barenaked Ladies
Canadian alternative rock band Barenaked Ladies will soon be celebrating twenty years of making melodic, hyperactive pop, but first they're taking a break to celebrate parenthood. Their latest release, Snacktime!, is the band's first foray into the kid record world — and if the enthusiastic toddlers on their recent promotional tour are any in...
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Jackie French
It's an idyllic spring day down on Jackie French's farm in the Araluen Valley on the South coast of NSW. The author is watching her garden come to life, a four hectare parcel of land which grows about 270 different sorts of fruit. It's a wilderness garden openly shared with the local wildlife — wombats, lyrebirds, swallows and wallabies, not...
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Ben Stiller, Chris Rock & Jada Pinkett Smith
Dreamworks is coming out with a second installment of their Madagascar film, and in this one, they're upping the ante. Madagascar: Escape 2 Africa, set to be released November 7th, follows the New York zoo animals from Madagascar to (surprise!) Africa, via an almost-working plane. The cast features a whole slew of new characters including Moto-moto...
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Terrence Howard
Don McLean, Cat Stevens, Barry Manilow: It's a favourite singer-songwriters list that only Terrence Howard could reel off without a hint of embarrassment. The green-eyed movie-star-turned-singer's September album, Shine Through It (Sony), is getting glowing reviews and doing for melancholy what DJay, his Oscar-nominated Hustle & Flow character,...
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Yo Gabba Gabba
"I really don't think that Yo Gabba Gabba could have survived or made it out into the mainstream any other time but now," says Christian Jacobs, co-creator of the offbeat preschool television show. Although Yo Gabba Gabba clearly owes a debt to the classic kids' shows of the 70s, Jacobs has a point: the show started out as a low-budget internet pr...
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