TASCHEN has had its way with me again. This time its Paris: Portrait of a City, a voluptuous oversized volume of photographs of the city of my dreams, a visual feast covering 150 years of Parisian hi...
LOS ANGELES -- As most anybody knows who cares about newspapers, the absentee owners of the New Orleans Times-Picayune have announced plans to quit daily print publication of the paper, turning to a ...
The below is a joint piece by Evan Wolfson and Aubrey Sarvis. Evan Wolfson is founder and President of Freedom to Marry, the campaign to win marriage nationwide. Aubrey Sarvis is an Army Veteran and ...
From Michael Roths commencement remarks at Wesleyan, May 27, 2012. When most of you began your Wesleyan education in the fall of 2008, the world was in a precarious state. It was an odd time to be in...
The marquee out front said that this was the show with the most Tony nominations. Inside, the place was buzzing. There was a pub onstage full of musicians playing Irish folk ditties; people were find...
This Memorial Day, as we pay tribute to all the brave heroes we have lost fighting for our country, we must also remember the debt we owe to those veterans who return home. One of the greatest challe...
Nigel Carr, former CEO of Oriel Wines, offers the following advice to ensure proper preservation of wine: Flickr photo by stevendepolo 1. Store wine away from direct light, which can damage or premat...
Mitt Romney made a boatload of money for himself and his fellow fat cats. No doubt about it. Billions. But he made it the way Americans hate most -- Wall Street style wheeling and dealing. Americans ...
The accumulation of a fine art collection in this poped-out global economy is a visible indicator that all is well within the walls of the collector upon whose walls the modern masters are hanging li...
ATHENS -- Europe is right on the edge of a needless calamity. One can view the European debacle through three lenses -- the weakness of European governmental institutions in a crisis; the excessive r...
Memorial Day began in this country after the Civil War as an effort toward reconciliation between the families of veterans in the North and the South. After the war, there was already a tradition in ...
Wall Street, the financial sector and its minions have much to answer for in their self-absorbed destabilization of the American economy being played out over the crumbling lifestyles of so many Amer...
"Facing the truth is hard to do, especially the truth about ourselves. So Americans have been sorely pressed to come to terms with the fact that after 9/11 our government began to torture people,...
Even as details trickle out about how JPMorgan Chase lost several billion dollars on derivatives trades, the essential unknowns continue to outweigh the knowns. This inevitable ignorance is worth kee...
Im what they used to call a "fallen away" Catholic -- though I havent fallen so far that Im out of reach of the latest rotten apples dropped (or flung) from the twisted Tree of Rome. I weathe...
Note: Do not read on if you have not seen Season 1, Episode 7 of HBOs "Girls," entitled, "Welcome to Bushwick a.k.a. The Crackcident." Excuse me if what Im about to say sounds vaguely...
We can best honor those who have given their lives for this nation in combat by making sure our military might is proportional to what America needs. The United States spends more on our military tha...
Worrying about the fluctuating price of Facebook and whether Morgan Stanley properly managed the IPO misses the major historical and cultural point of what happened. What, we should be asking, is the...
In every economic crisis there comes a moment of clarity. In Europe soon, millions of people will wake up to realize that the euro-as-we-know-it is gone. Economic chaos awaits them. To understand why...
During the recent Bay One Acts Festival, a fascinating two-character play by Christopher Chen that was originally produced by Instrumental Theatre made a deep impression on me. Directed by Paul Cello...
Every year it happens, just the same, like turning our clocks back in November (unless youre in Arizona or Hawaii) or filing taxes in April. Come May, as the flowers being to bloom and Al Gore braces...
Apple has taken China by storm. A Starbucks can be found on practically every major street corner in coastal cities and beyond. From Nike to Buick to Siemens, Chinese consumers actively prefer Wester...
Since weve launched the campaign for The Bully Chronicles last week, there have been at least five more suicides, including a 7-year-old Detroit boy who allegedly hanged himself. Bullying is suspecte...
In honor of Memorial Day, Ive selected two poems from the past and one from the present to help remember the sacrifices of our soldiers. Laurence Binyons poem "For the Fallen" is often recite...
This weekend the United States celebrates Memorial Day. Sadly, for many Americans the holiday mostly marks the beginning of summer rather than a time to remember those who gave their lives in service...
This week, last years Arab Spring blossomed into the first Egyptian presidential election since the fall of Mubarak; private space travel hit the stratosphere, with SpaceXs Dragon capsules arrival at...
By Javier D. Martinez, Deputy Director of Legislative Affairs, NCLR, U.S. Army veteran As millions of Americans plan their Memorial Day weekend activities, NCLR would like to take the time to remembe...
Renowned food writer M.F.K. Fisher once wrote, "First we eat, then we do everything else." That might sound startlingly unromantic at first, but Fisher revered, as all gourmands do, the dual ...
We are filmmakers in our late 20s and, like most everyone in our generation, we take a lot of things for granted. Past Memorial Days have simply been a day off from work, a trip to the beach and a ba...
Many people will spend as much time this weekend thinking about whether rain will douse their parades, or what sauce to use on the BBQ, as they do remembering the brave soldiers who died in battle fo...
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