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Here is a first look at the Poster and Video Teaser from Barbra's new movie "The Guilt Trip" coming Christmas Day! The trailer will debut on Yahoo! Movies (http://movies.yahoo.com/) tomorrow morning (Wednesday) at 9AM PT.

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Click here to read more of Allison Waldman's glowing review of RELEASE ME for examiner.com.

Capture the magic of Barbra's stunning performance of "I Think It's Going To Rain Today" from her new album RELEASE ME in this new video recreating the poetry of Randy Newman's lyrics and the studio recording experience.

Click here to read more of The Huffington Post's glowing review of Barbra's new album RELEASE ME.

Here's a brand new photo and quote from Barbra's liner notes of her new album Release Me, a collection of previously unreleased songs spanning her entire career from 1963 through today!

Visit playbill.com today for an exclusive premiere or Barbra's performance of "How Are Things In Glocca Morra?/Heather On The Hill" from her upcoming album Release Me, coming October 9.Read more »

Fan pre-sale begins Sept. 27 at 10 am ET at ticketmaster.com. Public on sale Oct. 1 at 10 am ET.

To celebrate her new album RELEASE ME, Barbra sat down to discuss the songs and what went into making each. Here is her interview about "Try To Win A Friend," one of her favorites to practice on the guitar while filming A Star Is Born.

A rare interview with Barbra Streisand. Her epic career in music, on stage and in films has spanned six decades. A quadruple threat having won Oscars, Emmys, Grammys and a Tony, she's truly in a class of her own. And now she's got a new role, promoting awareness for heart disease, the number one killer of women in America.Read more »

The Republicans fight dirtyathey take every opportunity to shift the political conversation from substance to frivolity. They don't want the public to see the huge differences between the two parties.Read more »

A couple of weeks ago, I turned on my television to tune into the Sunday morning news shows hoping to get a glimpse of Sarah Palin in order to learn more about her. I remember hearing from Bob Schieffer that McCain's campaign manager Rick DavisRead more »

The McCain machine has attacked Barack Obama again using the tired Republican myth of the "tax and spend liberal." BARACK OBAMA IS GOING TO GIVE 3 TIMES THE TAX CUTS AS JOHN MCCAIN TO 95% OF THE PEOPLE!!!... only the wealthiest Americans willRead more »

We are in the worst financial crisis this country has faced in modern times. During these eight long years of Republican control, we have seen runaway greed, the deregulation of financial institutions and the mismanagement of the housing market resultingRead more »
The media has labeled John McCain a "moderate maverick" and a reformer. That moniker could not be more misrepresentative of the core values of the current Republican candidate running for President.Read more »

Maybe he was sick of the lack of media attentionamaybe he had enough of the late night talk show hosts poking fun at his ageamaybe he realized that belonging to a party that has been associated with rich, white men was not going to connect with votersRead more »

I think Americans would agree that intelligence - examining our complicated world and finding the best solutions for hard questions; reading; thinking; evaluating different points of view; etc. - is an important quality for a president to have. After all,Read more »
You strongly supported Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton for the Democratic nomination. Was switching to Sen. Barack Obama difficult?
We had a very deep bench of Democratic Presidential candidates in the primaryRead more »
'Out of many, one' It's the sentiment he's repeated since the moment the world was first introduced to Senator Barack Obama at the 2004 Democratic convention.Read more »
Over these past few weeks, I have been thinking a lot about the public's disapproval of the democrats in Congress.Read more »
Aren't we fortunate? We have wonderful, accomplished candidates vying for the democratic nomination.Read more »
I am reposting this statement that I wrote in 2003, as our country was debating the impending war with Iraq. I hate to say I told you so... Read more »

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog.

Bad news on the economy. It added only 88,000 jobs in March - the slowest pace of job growth in nine months.

While the jobless rate fell to 7.6 percent, much of the drop was due to the labor force shrinking by almost a half million people. If you're not looking for work, you're not counted as unemployed.

That means the percentage of working-age Americans either with a job or looking for one dropped to 63.3 percent - its lowest level since 1979.Read more »

By Abby Quillen, YES! Magazine

The Seed Underground" is a love letter to the quiet revolutionaries who are saving our food heritage.

Janisse Ray celebrates the local, organic food movement but fears we're forgetting something elemental: the seeds. According to Ray, what is happening with our seeds is not pretty. Ninety-four percent of vintage open-pollinated fruit and vegetable varieties have vanished over the last century.Read more »

By MICHAEL WINES

BAKERSFIELD, Calif. — A mysterious malady that has been killing honeybees en masse for several years appears to have expanded drastically in the last year, commercial beekeepers say, wiping out 40 percent or even 50 percent of the hives needed to pollinate many of the nation’s fruits and vegetables.Read more »

By The New York Times | Editorial

Earlier this month, during one of his new across-the-aisle good-will tours, President Obama pleaded with Senate Republicans to ease up on their record number of filibusters of his nominees. He might as well have been talking to one of the statues in the Capitol. Republicans have made it clear that erecting hurdles for Mr. Obama is, if anything, their overriding legislative goal.Read more »

By Keith Wagstaff, The Week

The freshman senator is on a roll, taking on Wall Street at every opportunity.
lizabeth Warren of Massachusetts ran for the Senate as a populist hell-bent on reforming Wall Street. And after starting her tenure as something of a wallflower - much to the consternation of her fans - it appears she's ready to do just that.

Her most recent target was HSBC, which recently settled money laundering charges to the tune of $1.9 billion.Read more »

By Robert Reich, Robert Reich's Blog

We're still legislating and regulating private morality, while at the same time ignoring the much larger crisis of public morality in America.

In recent weeks Republican state legislators have decided to thwart the Supreme Court's 1973 decision in "Roe v. Wade," which gave women the right to have an abortion until the fetus is viable outside the womb, usually around 24 weeks into pregnancy.Read more »

The Facts About the Tar Sands Pipeline

The official State Department process to determine whether the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline is in the “national interest” is grinding along and should wrap up later this year, but that didn’t stop the senators from trying to force the issue last week.Read more »

By Carl Gibson, Reader Supported News

If you're in a canoe that's got a hole letting in water, do you throw the other passenger overboard who is helping you row, or do you just patch the hole and keep rowing?Read more »

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North Dakota's Fetal Personhood Amendment
By Rep. Kathy Hawken, The Daily Beast

North Dakota's State House passed a fetal personhood amendment, which would effectively ban abortion. Rep. Kathy Hawken explains why she voted against it - even though she's pro-life.Read more »

TRUTH

The following fax was sent to E! Entertainment:

"Your recent story listing Barbra Streisand among artists who have embraced the studies of the Kabbalah is about four years out of date and, as Mark Twain once characterizeRead more »
"Barbra Streisand - the ultimate perfectionist - isn't perfect after all...her stock picks are proving to be relative lemons. Streisand is featured in the current issue of Fortune magazine, holding forth about making millions for herself and friends likRead more »
A tabloid story which asserts without naming any source that Barbra Streisand and James Brolin are planning to add to their family by hiring a surrogate mother to carry a baby for them. In classic tabloid style, the story is so far from having any basis iRead more »
"It's okay to be as fiercely loyal to Bill Clinton as Barbra Streisand is. It's okay for a celebrity to appear at stump speeches. It's even okay for a celebrity to use her star power to help a candidate raise money. But when Streisand went online thRead more »

I have it in my hand, the gorgeous deluxe edition of Barbra Streisand’s “What Matters Most” album. This is her self-produced tribute to her old friends, the great lyricists Alan and Marilyn Bergman. If the Bergmans didn’t quite “invent” Barbra, in the manner of John Kander and Fred Ebb, a la Liza Minnelli, they are responsible for so many of Streisand’s signature tunes—including the score for “Yentl”—that they have become vital to Barbra’s enduring legend. The Bergmans know her voice, her personality, her heart.Read more »

If you missed Barbra's CBS Sunday Morning Interview - don't fret! You can watch it here:

And here is some great footage that wasn't used in the actual CBS broadcast:Read more »

Starting tomorrow for one week only, visit your neighborhood Starbucks with your WiFi-enabled laptop or mobile device to watch Barbra perform songs from her new album "What Matters Most" in the Entertainment Channel of the Starbucks Digital Network at starbucks.yahoo.com.

RSVP to 'Barbra Streisand: A Happening At Starbucks' here!Read more »

REMINDER! Tune into the Peabody and Emmy Award winning CBS Sunday Morning on August 21 at 9:00 am ET for a very special interview with Barbra. She'll be discussing her new album What Matters Most which will be available everywhere next week!

RSVP to the event here and remind your friends to tune in, too!

By Elysa Gardner, USA TODAY

Barbra Streisand has long enjoyed the luxury of taking on only those projects that she's passionate about. But her latest album , she insists, is a particular "labor of love."

What Matters Most: Barbra Streisand Sings the Lyrics of Alan and Marilyn Bergman, out Tuesday, features 10 songs by the beloved husband-and-wife team, Streisand's longtime collaborators and friends. All were recorded by the singer for the first time — a notable detail, as Streisand, 69, had covered more than 50 of the duo's songs before.Read more »

Entertainment Tonight - Tonight (Thursday 18 August) - small feature on album including interview and performance footage from MusiCares Event in February this year.

CBS Sunday Morning - TV Interview - Sunday 21 August.

USA Today Feature - Tomorrow (Friday 19 August).

People Magazine - "Pick of the week".

Elle.com - Monday 22 August (PM).Read more »

In February 2011, Barbra performed an intimate concert at the MusiCares annual benefit gala including selections by Alan & Marilyn Bergman. Only a lucky few witnessed this historic event, and now you can too!

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Visit a Starbucks store between August 23rd and 30th with your WiFi-enabled laptop computer, phone, or other mobile device and log on to the Starbucks Digital Network. From there, you'll be able to see Barbra perform some of her greatest hits plus two songs from What Matters Most which she's never before sung live... right from your own mobile device and only in Starbucks. Watch the trailer of the concert now!

Visit the AmazonMP3 Store today only to download "That Face" from Barbra's new album What Matters Most for free and before it's in stores next week!Read more »

Express.co.uk - By Jane Clinton

THEY met her when she was an 18-year-old new kid on the block performing in a tiny club. Wearing an outfit of her own creation (a white blouse and a long herringbone skirt) she opened her mouth, began to sing and brought one woman in the audience to tears.

“I started to cry and I did not stop throughout this little gig in Greenwich Village,” says celebrated lyricist Marilyn Bergman who was with her husband and co-lyricist, Alan Bergman.Read more »

AARP.

Talk about the ultimate engagement gift. When young Brooklynite Alan Bergman wanted to mark his upcoming marriage to fiancé Marilyn Katz, he wrote a song for her called "That Face," and arranged for Fred Astaire to record it.

The Bergmans, now three-time Academy Award winners for their song lyrics, have been married for 54 years. And for many of them, there has been another woman in their life — the singer they call their "muse" and close collaborator, Barbra Streisand.Read more »

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