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Style: 16 May 2008
London
Karl Lagerfeld:
"Confidential" or Just Plain Confusing?
Shine Anthony-Dharan weighs
in on the up-close documentary and haute gossip about the life and times
of fashion designer, Karl Lagerfeld.
Comment: 13 May 2008
Paris
Is Nicolas Sarkozy the
French John McCain?
John McCain and Nicolas Sarkozy mirror
and echo each other in unexpected ways: anti-immigrant appeals, a
dispirited party out of ideas, and the slavish calculus of poll-driven
politics. Sarkozy's first year reveals that strategies that win elections
don't necessarily help you govern -- and the French Gaullist President and
Republican Presidential nominee may be drinking each other's strategy
juice. Harold Hyman comments from Paris.
Boxing: 27 April 2008
Los Angeles
Oscar De La Hoya To Fight
Steve Forbes at Home Depot Center
Golden Boy Oscar De La Hoya and
former champ Steve Forbes strap on the gloves for a 12-round bout in Los
Angeles.
Comment: 21 April 2008
Cambridge,
Massachusetts
The
Commercialization of Race: Science, Technology and Medicine
Do medical and commercial products targeted by race
re-energize the idea of race as a biological category just when scientists
thought they had laid it to rest? MIT research scientist and physician Dr.
David S. Jones weighs in on the controversy before an upcoming conference
on race, medicine and the social sciences.
Tech: 13 April 2008
San Francisco
Does Online
Gaming Harm the Environment?
An inefficient gaming PC with powerful
graphics card, multiple hard drives and optical drives, flash memory
reader and a 30-inch LCD might consume as much as 750 watts, or about as
much as a typical refrigerator.
Books, DVD: 2 April 2008
New York
Dying Darfur: Sudan Genocide Subject
of New DVD, Book
Sudan coverage may be missing from
American news these days, but Janjaweed ethnic cleansing, financed by
Chinese oil money, goes on every day. A new film on DVD and a book of
photographs call us to remember those dying in Darfur.
Calendar: 25 March 2008
New York
Juanes on U.S. Leg of "La Vida
World Tour"
Colombian rock superstar Juanes tackles themes of world
peace and social change. He also reminds us that while conflicts in Iraq
and Afghanistan grab headlines, Colombia's war kills 3,500 people ----
mostly civilians ---- every year.
News: 18 March 2008
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Senator
Barack Obama’s Speech on Race in America
Read the full text of
Senator Barack Obama's speech today at Constitution Center in
Philadelphia.
Style: 17 March 2008
Paris
Fashion
Collections: Fall 2008
"As talk of recession, global warming and
terrorism buzzed around the front rows, the fashion pack were expecting
more than usual from the designers this season", writes Shine
Anthony-Dharan from Paris and London.
News: 14 March 2008
New York
Polish Catholic
Priest-Cosmologist Awarded $1.6 Million Templeton Prize
Heller has
become a compelling figure in the realms of physics and cosmology,
theology, and philosophy with his provocative fundamental questions such
as "Does the universe need to have a cause?"
Seen: 13 March 2008
San Francisco
Emperor's Club
Contemporary Arts and Other Diversions
The recent Elliott Spitzer Emperor's
Club scandal brings to mind some unexpected questions about contemporary
art, hospitality and homelessness...
Travel: 9 March 2008
New York
Green Events: A Guide to a
Green Economy
Green Festivals have been growing in both venues and
attendance and in 2008 will take place in Seattle, Chicago, Washington, DC
and San Francisco.
Cinema: 24 February 2008
Paris
Marjane Satrapi's
Persepolis: An Exile's Cartoon of Iran is France's Oscar
Nominee
Satrapi's
Oscar-nominated autobiographical film cannot help but be a political
gesture in the current climate of tensions between Iran and the West--and
France has clearly made a gesture as well in sending a film knocking Islam
to the Academy Awards.
Persépolis
aux Oscars: Le Bouffe-Mollah Devient Tendance
News: 12 February 2008
New York
2008: Year of the Rat, Leap
Year... and Now, Year of the Frog?
While those celebrating Chinese
Lunar New Year mark 2008 as the Year of the Rat, and much of the world
attaches mystical significance to 2008 as a leap year, 2008 has also been
designated the "Year of the Frog".
Movie Review: 1 February 2008
San Francisco
Atonement: Knightly, McAvoy,
Redgrave, Ronan Enchant in Oscar-worthy Adaptation
The
moral's a little cheesy, but everything else in this film is a
pitch-perfect re-creation of McEwan's novel.
Movie Review: 22 January 2008
San Francisco
Charlie Wilson's War:
Embarrassing Oscar Bait
No country for
old history, America may remember 9/11, but Americans seem to have
forgotten all the things that led up to it--like Charlie Wilson's War.
Comment: 18 January 2008
San
Francisco
Britney Spears
Pregnancy Rumor Shows Media Ripe for Jamming
"It's a shame
that most of the political coverage of the American primaries is really
little smarter than the usual celebrity chase", writes C. Antonio Romero.
Tech
San Francisco
Sports Cars: Legends of the Open
Road
Too big to be a stocking stuffer, this gorgeous, smart
companion book to an Italian automobile design exhibition would make a
fine Christmas treat for anyone with a car or a coffee table.
Movie Review
San
Francisco
No Country for Old
Men
Melynda Nuss reviews the new thriller from filmmakers
Joel and Ethan Coen.
Comment
Podgorica,
Montenegro
Real
Estate Investment: Montenegro Coastline
"The Russians, who rather
than just add a cottage here or house there to their portfolios, will go
ahead and buy a whole hill", writes Colin Graham from Podgorica.
Review
Paris
The Man Who Made Dead
Bodies Speak and Fathered the American Public Library
Harold Hyman
reports on a a travelling exhibition in Boston about a man who
was expelled from medical school because he made cadavers speak during
autopsies.
Comment
New York
Why Web 2.0 Spells a Reckoning for Google
and Mass Media
Who, now, is content to merely surf the web? We seek
to swallow it whole, to process it, filter it, repackage it, redirect it,
and spit it out with our name on it.
Comment
Stanford, California
NEA
Chairman Dana Gioia to Stanford Grads: Without Arts Education, America
Facing Cultural, Economic Disaster
Food company executive,
award-winning poet and Bush-appointed NEA chair Dana Gioia may not be
famous enough for today's Stanford graduates, but his commencement speech
warns in stark terms of the consequences of an increasingly illiterate
culture starved for arts education.
Comment
Warsaw
European Union: The World From
Poland
With 38 million inhabitants Poland was the biggest of
10 countries to join the EU in 2004. Since then, over one million young
Poles have headed to countries such as the UK or Ireland to seek a better
life. Colin Graham comments from Warsaw. |
Dying
Darfur: Sudan Genocide Subject of New DVD, Book
Darfur:
Twenty Years of War and Genocide in Sudan
copyright ©
powerHouse Books
Photo courtesy of powerHouse Books
Comment
San Francisco
Obama Super Bowl Ad and "Yes We Can Song" Show Campaign's
Media 2.0 Savvy
C. Antonio Romero on the
political implications of the viral Internet & YouTube phenomenon with
over 12 million views in 72 hours.
Comment
San Francisco
Mitt Romney: Faith,
Freedom, and Mormonism Unseen
Willard M. Romney pulls the Constitution,
religious freedom, and tolerance (rather than the Book of Mormon) out of
his hat, and may have distracted his audience long enough to "disappear"
the more bizarre and controversial doctrines of his religion.
Comment
San Francisco
Stocking
Stuffer: Senator Larry Craig Talking Action Figure
This year's hot must-have toy comes with a wide
stance, bendable limbs and a voice recording declaring that he is not
gay.
Sports
Tokyo
Soccer: High
Price of Being a Fan
Pricey new book
weighs in on history of England’s most storied football club.
News
London
The
Perfect Storm: Iran Sits in Eye of Political
Hurricane
Swirling in wake of hostage crises, White
House pressure and Russian influence, Iran sits in eye of political
hurricane. An editorial by Andrew Jack.
News Feature
Paris
Days of Glory: Valor,
Racism and the Ingratitude of the French Republic
Cannes Film Festival sensation
Days of Glory is set during World War II, and is the compelling
tale of four brave North African soldiers and forgotten heroes who assist
in liberating France from Hitler’s Nazi oppression.
Theatre Review
Paris
Philippe Decouflé
and the Theatre of Shades
Audiences in Paris and London have packed
theatres each evening for Philippe Decouflé's eagerly awaited new work,
Sombrero , a magical mix of dance, theatre, video, painting and
music. Patricia Boccadoro reviews a Paris performance.
News Archives
Paris
Pardon My French
Bloggers Debate France's
Presidential Candidates
"Political videos are much in demand, a
phenomenon that is indicative of what is happening on French blogs," says
Marion Lagardère.
Comment
New York
The Plague: Racism
and the Swiss Elections
Point de vue
New-York
La Peste : Le
Racisme et Les Elections Suisses
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