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Happy Thanksgiving everyone! It’s time for the turkey, with family and/or friends, and for the holidays. We hope you will all enjoy this time of the year, although Thanksgiving is not celebrated outside of North America. For those who still don’t know what Thanksgiving is about (the word itself says it all), here comes the definition taken from Wikipedia: Thanksgiving Day is a harvest festival celebrated primarily in Canada and the United ...

English fashion designer Alexander McQueen is very creative. When we saw the photo of the skull clutch, we (2 of us actually) immediatly thought: ‘This clutch is great, it could make a great gift to someone we know very well’. We suppose you guess about whom we are talking about. Max Dana has been working at her atelier lately and we didn’t have the occasion to show her the skull clutch yet, so we thought it could be a good idea ...

  Dear Sama-Readers, this is Twitter Sunday! Last Sunday we said our next Twitter Sunday would be much more serious, but finally, it’s not. After Lady Gaga, here comes Lily (Rose) Allen. Why did we choose Lily Allen? Because apparently, she decided to stop tweeting.   According to the Daily Mirror: Lily Allen has quit using MySpace, Twitter and email and has also given away her laptop and her BlackBerry. Apparently her boyfriend Sam Cooper was ...

“The Oprah Winfrey Show” will end on September 9, 2011.  The hallucinating numbers: 42 million viewers a week in the United States, broadcasted to 145 countries, highest-rated talk show for 23 consecutive seasons. Oprah Winfrey is rich and powerful and she decided to end her show. Check her webiste and wait for the official announcement, by Oprah herself. Many people will miss her show; who would be able to do better? Nobody…

Everyday we check our list of news websites and the Huffington Post is one of them. We appreciate their editors and writers and there is always something interesting to read. But today, this article: Carla Bruni’s Little Black Dress really caught our attention. Not because Carla Bruni-Sarkozy is the wife of our beloved President, no. It’s because we enjoy reading articles about her with another (no French) point of view. Related News On ...

  Sunday is Twitter Sunday on the Sama Gazette! We hope you’re having a great weekend. Today we have decided to share with you our Favorites Tweets from Lady Gaga. Some people like her, some others don’t. And obviously, most of us like her at the Sama Team. So here is a selection of our favorites tweets from the singer @ladygaga, on various topics.   THE FAME is the first album in history to have four #1 radio hits! i wish i could wrap my ...

  If you frequently read the Sama Gazette, then you know we appreciate l’Art de vivre à la Française (French Art of Living) and that we are seriously thinking about launching the Sama Epicurean Fraternal Society for real. Our friends at Cool Hunting (website and @coolhunting) have posted a very interesting article about French company Côté Bastide bath products they discovered while staying at the Hotel Pastis (funny name) in Saint Tropez ...

    Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is out and it’s the best game ever! The single-player experience, the multiplayer modes and features, online competition, full co-op Spec Ops mode. Not to mention the impressive graphical engine… Everything’s there and kicking, and Inifinty Ward‘s game is definitely the best first-person shooters.   Sorry to takeover the (not so) serious articles usually posted on the Sama Gazette but I have ...

Germany celebrates fall of Berlin Wall. 2009 marks the 20th anniversary of the night the ‘Wall of Shame’ came down. The border that separated East and West Berlin from 1961 until 1989 is no more,  and a massive crowd celebrated anniversary of Berlin Wall’s fall yesterday. Angela Merkel, Germany’s first chancellor, former Polish president Lech Walesa, former Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev and many others crossed a former fortified ...

  Last September, we published an article: Buy (RED) Save Lives – JoinRED Fight AIDS. We really like what (RED) does and we wanted to invite you to think about buying (RED) products. Today for our weekly Twitter Sunday, we thought it could be a good idea to share with you our favorites tweets from (RED) on Twitter: @joinred. Meet our old friend Rose from Rwanda. Shes HIV+ & on ARVs for 6 yrs. Shes strong, healthy & a leader in her community ...