Dodd and Shelby say the financial regulation bill is nearly finished, derivatives-trading ban included. Hawks taking wing in South Korea over its sunken warship. Gordon Brown's wife, Michelle-like, trots out Downing Street's eating and gardening habits. Facing porcine price plummet, China adds to its
If you are not an accidental reader of this whatchamacallit then you are the type of person who is well aware of the new HBO series Treme (which you probably also know, after airing only two episodes, has been renewed for a second season). The attention paid to creator David
The good part about all the horror stories brought back from traveling is that there’s usually a lesson to be learned. (Don’t overpack your luggage with the creaky zipper. Do assume that Vaseline will be considered a potentially dangerous liquid.) This month’s Of Recent Note, as summer
I suppose I ought not be surprised that entertainment business big macher Jerry Weintraub’sbook, When I Stop Talking, You’ll Know I’m Dead: Useful Stories from a Persuasive Man (with Rick Cohen)is a best-seller (Amazon rank #112). Americans have a keen interest in inside-baseball stories,
Running across a story about a shrimp-like creature that survived where few thought anything could live, the Golem recalls the time he hunted the Aepyornis.
Passenger jets begin departing northern Europe; however, new eruptions may cut the elation short. Chaplin's charm extends to a small Indian town that pays homage to him yearly. "America seems to be fascinated with what is going on here, or what is perceived to be going on.
Rarely one for name-calling or naming names, Obama raises hackles at "cynical and deceptive" McConnell. Following Belgium, Sarkozy orders legislation to ban women from wearing Islamic veils in public. Britain reopens airspace late Tuesday. Sleeping in airports: the best, the worst, and a how-to. In California,
One wonders what it takes to staunch the hemorrhaging of originality from cultural conversation—in this case, the overuse of Yadda-Yadda-Nation this or Blah-Blah-Planet that? The clichéd title being the only complaint I can raise with this compendium of 29 dissident texts entitled Protest Nation: Words
Siglio Press’s publication of Torture of Women, created by renowned (feminist) artist Nancy Spero, who died in 2009, is the reiteration in well-designed and printed book form of her 1976 creation. Originally a 125-foot work “juxtaposing testimony by female victims of torture with startling imagery from the
New eruptions in Iceland could further halt European air travel. "European integration," as we have come to understand it, turns out to be utterly dependent on reliable air travel. "We transported them to the countryside so they could roam around." How airports are handling stranded animals,
