Retratos Pintados
From the late 19th century until the 1990s, retratos pintados (“painted portraits”) were common in rural northeastern Brazil: family portraits retouched to improve appearances.
Archive
A collection of 14256 issues
21 June 2010: Morning
Rig worker says both BP and Transocean knew about leak weeks before the explosion. But it isn't fair or equal. South African courts sentence severely during the World Cup. Inside Jamaica's domino culture and its dream for the game to become an Olympic sport. Whether or
Gone Fishing
For teenagers along the Carolina coast, time passes with a little bit of work, healthy amounts of fishing, and a lot of goofing around.
18 June 2010: Weekend
Story of the BP rig workers--those who died and those who were saved. Los Angelenos search for championship trophy under burning cars. Video: Obama joins long line of presidents who preached on TV against foreign oil. Utah executes prisoner with firing squad. Humans convey sadness in music and speech
17 June 2010: Afternoon
After receiving threats, theater owners in Tokyo and Osaka cancel showings of The Cove. How Japan's marketing team, averse to its overseas market, has led to the demise of the country's cool factor. More on the "Prince Charles problem": France raises its retirement age-
Bus Bus Riddim
Bus lines across New York are being rerouted this summer, if not cancelled--and where buses go, so goes the city.
17 June 2010: Morning
Preparing for Capitol Hill grilling, BP backs away from comment about caring for "small people." Google turns its CitizenTube blog into the YouTube News Feed (see here). Fascinating interview with Clara Rojas, former FARC prisoner, about freedom and jungles. The sea is one world, and the sewage is
Fantasy Road Trips
If gas was free, vacation days were unlimited, and your schedule was as open as the road ahead, where would you go? This month’s Of Recent Note is: Fantasy Road Trips. Tell us the trip of your dreams: Where would you go? (Alaska? Atlantis?) How would you get there?
16 June 2010: Afternoon
I think even libertarians recognize certain kinds of speech ought to be restrictable. Legal scholar discusses the state of civil liberty. A profile of culinary anthropologist, diner historian Richard Gutman. How personalities foreshadow family size--the more neurotic you are, the more you procreate. The World Cup will cost Brazil
Summer Daze
Maybe the only thing you can depend on these days, in what was to have been our brave new world (did I miss it?), is the predictability of those benighted outlets that coalesce to form the corporate behemoth inaccurately labeled “mainstream media.” Articles on beach books or summer reading, which