Ian Bunn | Political & Popular Culture Arts

Tell her story, as she lived it (October 14th)

Courtney Michelle Love the 37 year old US singer-songwriter and co-founder of alternative rock band Hole, described by Rolling Stone as “the most controversial woman in rock history”, has announced she will be writing a “no holds barred” memoir. The memoir according to publishers “is time for the public to hear her tell her story, as she lived it”. The book will disclose her drug abuse, her private family relationships with her daughter and late husband Kurt Cobain, the former lead vocal of Nirvana. Rock biographer Anthony Bozza will be “setting the record straight” as co-author of the book, with her publisher claiming “Courtney is one of the most fascinating and provocative artists of our time … She is one of those rare performers who continues to reinvent herself time and again throughout the arc of her career”.

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Dominique Persoone the renowned Belgium chef and chocolatier, or rather as he is known the “Shock-o-latier”, has come to notoriety for his creation of a chocolate shooter. In preparation for a surprise birthday party honoring Rolling Stone greats Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts, their wives called on Persoone’s assistance to help prepare for the party’s dessert menu with a humorous edge. In response Personne created a dessert with “different structures of raspberry”, and in lieu of the chocolate being on the dish, he created a machine designed to enable the guests to sniff the chocolate. The machine according to Paul Ames of the WSJ, ejects “finely ground dust of pure Dominican Republic cocoa cut with ginger and mint which his “chocolate shooter” catapults nose-ward to fill the brain with an explosion of phantom flavors”.

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