Archive for January 25th, 2010
Taking Coachella
In roughly 80 days, thousands of young people will make an exodus to the desert town of Indio, filling the dusty, flat landscape with tents and blankets. Their appearance will seem sudden, their visit brief, but many of them have planned for months (even years) to get to this spot. To the uninformed observer, this [...]
‘Legion’ fails to fly
DEMONS: Angelic saviors and monsters in disguise meet at a roadside diner to fight for the fate of humanity.
Dessa: Your New Favorite Rapper
hip-hop: Underground rapper and spoken word artist Dessa is a rare mixture of lyrical and beat-making talent.
Little Defense for ‘Transference’
UNDERDOGS: Spoon’s newest album, “Transference,” more closely resembles a fork. It’s got gaps.
Charlotte Gainsbourg: ‘IRM’
DREAMGIRL: Actress and daughter of music royalty, Charlotte Gainsbourg struggles to find her own musical path.
Roger Rabbit Didn’t Kill the Newspaper
Who killed the American newspaper? Craig Newmark did. Fifteen years ago, the IBM engineer started an email list for his friends. That list became Craigslist and has, along with the Internet, been largely responsible for upsetting the newspaper’s century-old revenue model.
It’s hard to imagine, but once upon a time, newspapers could and did make people [...]
Where’s The Change?
At the end of President Obama’s first year, our reaction when we hear that his approval rating has fallen to 53 percent should be a good, apathetic “so what?” It’s in the same neighborhood as approval ratings that Presidents Clinton and Nixon received at the end of year one, and it’s much higher than conservative [...]
Mr. ‘Cosmo’ Brown Goes to Washington
The confetti and balloons have dropped and the Republicans have drained the last of their celebratory champagne. From Tuesday’s Massachusetts election results it would seem that the meteoric rise of Senator-elect Scott Brown has stopped President Obama’s entire agenda dead in its tracks, especially on the issue of health care reform. Pundits from every corner [...]
Google Bluffs in China
Don’t be evil. Google has recently committed itself to fully following this motto. After a sophisticated cyber-attack originating from China on the possible e-mail accounts of Chinese human rights activists and by extension, Google’s servers, Google has had enough.
Google may be alienated in a country of harsh realities; but for Google to abandon one of [...]
Google Sticks it to the Red Commie Man
Over the last few years, Google in China has been criticized for complying with restrictions put in place by the Chinese government. The company agreed to censor keywords like dictatorship, genocide, human rights, oppression, persecution, Chinese Central Propaganda and Tiananmen Square Massacre among others.
Then, in the aftermath of what Google has labeled a “sophisticated and [...]
