Great thanks to Gary Paul for sharing a few photos with us of the shoes/sneakers that Adam Clayton has donated to this year’s Walk In My Shoes campaign. This is part of a display of celebrity-donated shoes that’s currently at St. Patrick’s Hospital in Dublin. Adam has autographed both sneakers, as you can see below. [...]
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That list of the weirdest U2 crafts that Rashas wrote about a few days back was obviously written before anyone saw this. That’s Bono done up in the shape of a giant egg … an egg that also happens to be up for auction this month. If you’re in Dublin during the next couple weeks, [...]
World AIDS Day, December 1
Today, December 1, is World AIDS Day. It’s a good time to remind ourselves that ONE.org is working diligently for and with the poorest of the poor in the fight against AIDS. These are perilous days for international aid programs as governments around the world consider austerity plans, which usually include a reduction of foreign [...]
Bono’s TEDTalks Playlist
I’m a fan of TEDTalks and one of my favorite is Bono’s talk, “Action for Africa.” In it, he recalls his initial foray into activism through Live Aid, his work in Ethopia with Ali, and his journey into becoming “a rock star with a cause.” It’s a beautiful and timely speech from February 2005. It [...]
Aung San Suu Kyi: “Walk On”
This past weekend, Aung San Suu Kyi’s National League for Democracy (NLD), an opposition party to the ruling junta in Burma (officially known as Myanmar by the government there) won an astonishing 43 out of 45 seats up for grabs in a general election. Suu Kyi herself will now sit in one of the parliamentary [...]
Bono on The Ellen DeGeneres Show
In case you missed it, here’s an edited version of Ellen’s interview with Bono on her show today. Based on his outfit, the interview must have taken place yesterday as he’s wearing the same jacket as he wore on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. video platformvideo managementvideo solutionsvideo player
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