Archive for January, 2010
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 [...]
Who’s Getting Financial Aid?
A revealing new study on financial aid at public research universities could cast a nasty shadow over school administrations nationwide. The study, “Opportunity Adrift,” from the non-profit research group, The Education Trust, finds that public universities, rather than award financial aid primarily to poor and/or minority students who could not otherwise afford college, actually give [...]
Newport Restaurant Week
Once in a while, something about the moment in which we live demands a shift in the way we eat. A previously unappreciated or unknown type of food gets swept, usually with a few modifications, into the culinary limelight because something about it resonates with the bigger picture.
