TVNZ - Alannah Currie has been many things to many people. She has been a massive world-wide pop star with the Thompson Twins, a founding member of the anti-GM group MADGE (Mothers Against Genetic Engineering), a mum and a glass blower. But now she is back in London and doing strange things to furniture.

The Greenville News - COLUMBIA -- Not only are Claire and Christine Thompson twins, but they have the same middle name, Anne. So their initials are C.A.T.

Aspen Daily News - The first time I heard Social Distortion was in the summer of ... wow, this seems like yesterday, 1986. I was 14, skinny and horny as hell. The Thompson Twins were old news, Duran Duran was at the peak of their popularity and INXS was on the verge of mega-stardom.

Isthmus - You may think you've been around a while because you remember when music television featured music. But there is a place on the UW-Madison campus where you can look at stuff from 300 million years ago, a time long before the heyday of the Thompson Twins.

Pitchfork - What do young people do, stuck all the way out in quaint, remote Sunderland, England? If you're David Brewis, one-third of Memphis Industries trio Field Music , you make music with your family and friends, you kick back and watch Trapped in the Closet with the Futureheads, you rework Thompson Twins classics...and you start Doors and Aerosmith cover bands??

Pitchfork - What do young people do, stuck all the way out in quaint, remote Sunderland, England? If you're David Brewis, one-third of Memphis Industries trio Field Music , you make music with your family and friends, you kick back and watch Trapped in the Closet with the Futureheads, you rework Thompson Twins classics...and you start Doors and Aerosmith cover bands??

The Village Voice - Two beloved scribes release two dramatically different books, and celebrate accordingly (By Tricia Romano)

Los Angeles Times - Anyone who invites the Thompson twins over for a snack had better make sure the refrigerator is filled to capacity. And hide the chicken wings too.

Roger O'Donnell packs some powerful credentials, given his stints as keyboardist for erstwhile Eighties outfits such as the Psychedelic Furs, the Thompson Twins, and, most recently, the Cure. However, on his second solo album, O'Donnell's synthesized doodling finds him abandoning the oldies and ...

Stuff - A waterfront hideaway once owned by Thompson Twins pop stars Thom Bailey and Alannah Currie has sold for $4 million, the New Zealand Herald reported today.

The Cincinnati Post - Looper joining Cards' bullpen From Post news services MICHAEL KIM/Associated PressBraden Looper will be a setup man for Jason Isringhausen in the St. Louis bullpen. ... are Isringhausen, Randy Flores and rookie Brad Thompson.TWINS ADD BATISTA - The Minnesota Twins and third baseman ...