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It's been impossible to ignore the hype surrounding this weekend's release of the second installment in the Twilight franchise, a story about abstinence and being a teenage vampire.
Call me curmudgeonly, but I really don't get it. I don't get the current vampire zeitgeist, and I don't get why so many people are so crazy about these Twilight books. Virtually everysinglepublicationinexistence has had an article about what this whole trend means and, after reading a lot of them, it's still not really clear.
Bill Cotter, McSweeney's contributor and author of the book, Fever Chart, put some money on some credit cards to start a business. The business didn't take off. He ended up in debt. The story, give or take a few details, is common enough in America these days. Cotter's account of his ordeal, however, is something different.
Published in seven parts on the McSweeney's Website, Cotter's story of his situation not only details the bizarre world of debt collection and bankruptcy law, but does so in a way that makes those things far more interesting to read about ...
To understand the future of healthcare, however, is to understand the past. Where did the notion of healthcare come from? How did health insurance start? And where on earth did we go wrong?
A recent episode of Chicago Public Radio's This American Life endeavored to answer those questions and, in the process, created probably the most interesting hour about the insurance industry ...
Every actor who achieves success for a certain role will always be identified with that character in real life, to a certain extent, and there's a general assumption that the two are similar. This is especially true for a show like Curb, which stars Larry David, Ted Danson and other celebrities, ostensibly playing themselves. In her appearance on the show last week to discuss her new ...
If you're like me, you spend way too much time trolling YouTube for nuggets of awesomeness like this. Hopefully, by my posting it here, I can save you some valuable time in your workday. Or, at least, give you a jumping off point for more video watching.
The clip is from a 2005 documentary called Looking Glass, about the composer Philip Glass, and sounds to me like it's narrated by Werner Herzog. I couldn't confirm the latter, but ...
Most people enjoy taking the opportunity to sit down and take a photo
with their family. It's a fun opportunity to share and
cherish a brief moment in time for years to come. By the looks of all the smiles in the picture, it appears the
same is true for the Obamas.
The White House photo was taken back in September and released last week through its ...
I've been a fan of The RZA since the first time I heard a Wu-Tang album back in the '90s. Among the members of that iconic hip-hop collective, his voice stood out, as did his lyrics.
I followed his work through his solo projects, through his collaborations with Jim Jarmusch and Quentin Tarantino, and was lucky enough to see him perform live on several occasions. No matter the project, The RZA could always be relied upon to create music that was unique, profound and totally satisfying.
As I mentioned Tuesday, the growing e-reader market and the new Barnes & Noble "Nook" had me shook.
After all, I'm a book lover and was worried that the ability to share electronic books would mean that traditional books would go the way of newspapers, records and CDs.
I admit it. I buy music from an online store. I read the newspaper online. I read magazines online. I listen to the radio online. I occasionally download a movie rental from the Web, instead of schlepping to the video store.
I no longer have stacks of newspapers sitting in a bin in my dining room. The basket that my magazines once sat in is now filled with unopened mail that I haven't gotten around to. I have an MP3 player and bold plans to download all of my old CD's to my ...
Roland S. Martin takes on a new role as host of his first Sunday morning talk program.
Ask anyone in the television
business and they will tell you (or at least they should) that getting your own TV show is no easy task.
Having
said that, one man's drive and relentless pursuit has finally paid off.
You may have seen him on CNN
during the 2008 election coverage, or filling in for CNN colleague
Campbell Brown. You
may have even read his blog on Essence.com
or even caught a political commentary of his on TV
One or The Tom
Joyner Morning Show.
Last week, U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan
and U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder visited the city of Chicago
to address the issue of violence in the public school system.
This fall, the Criterion Collection will release special HD editions of Monterey Pop and Gimme Shelter, two of the best concert documentaries of all time. Monterey Pop, directed by D.A. Pennebaker, documents the eponymous festival in 1967, at which Jimi Hendrix, Janis Joplin, Otis Redding, Hugh Masekela, Ravi Shankar and many others appeared. It was as monumental a gathering of popular musical talent as the world had ever seen in those pre-Woodstock days, and Pennebaker's unblinking lens captures it in all it's hippy-dippy glory. The double-disc set includes transfers of the film lovingly restored in HD, ...
Yesterday, as I jumped online and into the realm of cyberspace, I was reminded from an unlikely source of how passionate one should truly be in their life.
I visited a website which featured La Casa Norte, an inner-city program that works with the city of Chicago's youth.
I watched this story about the program and was captivated by one
of the young men whose participation in the program had made a positive
change in his life.
Towards the end of the story, he said something that really stuck with me. In terms of ...
This Friday, author Nick Hornby will appear on the show to discuss his two newest endeavors. The first is a book called Juliet, Naked, about a couple and their lives' intersection with a reclusive musician. The second is a screenplay for the film An Education, starring Peter Sarsgaard, Emma Thompson, Alfred Molina and newcomer Carey Mulligan.
The film, based on a memoir by English journalist Lynn Barber, which first appeared in the literary journal Granta, is now completed and opens October 8th. An Education has received heaps of critical acclaim already (and some ...
The most remarkable thing about Moussa Dadis Camara is how unremarkable he is. The Guinean junior army officer seized power in a bloodless coup in December, promising to usher in a new era of democratic elections and prosperity, but has since proven to be yet another military dictator, full of big-sounding rhetoric, but with only the interests of his junta at heart.
Camara's coup last December received some news coverage, but it mostly went unnoticed in the western world. After all, how newsworthy is yet another African strongman seizing power and offering his people everything they need, ...
Has it been two years already since Michael Moore was last on the show? Boy, does time fly. Back in 2007, Moore was Tavis' guest to discuss his HMO-skewering docu-ganda piece Sicko,in which, among other stunts, he took a group of ailing 9/11 survivors to Cuba to get them healthcare.
This time around, apropos as always, Moore's target is Wall Street. In his new film, Capitalism: A Love Story, he points his sights at those responsible for the economic meltdown and recipients of government bailout money. Among the stunts in this film, expect to see ...
President Obama mentioned it in his healthcare reform address. Employers are increasingly encouraging their workers to join their corporate-sponsored wellness programs. And while everyone agrees that preventive care and wellness are good for health, everyone is not in agreement about the cost savings that proponents promise.
The information mentioned was a study from the
Economic Policy Institute. It stated
that the overall childhood poverty rate willclimb to
27% and the poverty rate for African American children will reach
52.3% in 2010.
More than half of African American
children will likely be living in poverty next year. Take a moment to
digest that. Also, realize that these aren't just numbers on paper. ...
The last few years have brought us a good crop of promising young bands with compulsively listenable debut albums. Jamie T, Vampire Weekend and Phoenix are some standouts in the bunch, whose records may well outlive them.
Others, while they may end up being part of the soundtrack to a summer, won't have the same longevity. The XX, however, a group of 20-year-olds from London, seems very promising indeed. Their music is soul-infused rock, with whispered, sultry lyrics and driving basslines. The lyrics, sung in tandem by bassist Oliver Sim and guitarist Romy Madley ...
A couple of weeks ago, I was reading an article by Robin Abcarian of the Los Angeles Times. In the article, she mentioned how some of the recent outbursts and other unfortunate moments of bad judgment left her to question whether Americans have lost a real sense of civility.
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