Tag: america

New York Finds Cool Again: Fountain Art Fair

'It was the hippest New York scene outside of the eastbound L train you’ll find until next year.' Scott Laudati reports from New York's Fountain Art Fair...

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Rigorous Imagination and the Polis of the Psyche

Circumstances do not change unless perceptions change. ...

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Ocean life at Extreme Depths

James Cameron's DEEPSEA CHALLENGE expedition uncovers biodiversity ranging from gigantic amoebas and crustaceans to swimming sea cucumbers at extreme depths. ...

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Has evolution given humans unique brain structures?

By combining different research methods, we now have a first piece of evidence that could prove that humans have unique cortical brain networks....

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Empire Of Panic And Ephemera

Keep buying stuff. More stuff! As long as you buy stuff, nobody needs to get hurt. The politics of Empire...

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Freedom Toast : Southern Style

I know you ladies like it thick ...

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Melvins Announce London May Shows

Melvins performing live Lysol & Houdini at London Brixton Electric on Sunday 19 May and playing Bullhead & Stoner Witch at the same venue on Monday 20 May...

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New Bomb Detection Technique Discovered

Explosive breakthrough in research on molecular recognition as researchers discover new bomb detection technique....

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The Great Dismal

Our actions exist as living architecture that surrounds the breathing moment. Future generations will dwell in the world we erect, thought by thought, deed by deed....

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Super Mario Brothers, Reptilian Rape and the Hollow Earth Theory

The ideology of imperialism runs deep in Bowser. He is also, at least, a kidnapper, but more probably a pedophile. ...

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Anger, Passion, and Destiny in the USA

There has been a deadly legacy wrought by social structures that inflict shame and thus sow seeds of inarticulate rage. ...

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Single Women, Sex and Colonial Religion

Research reveals how single women shaped the religious culture of colonial Latin America...

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Finding Chicago’s food gardens with Google Earth

Urban agriculture is promoted as a strategy for dealing with food insecurity, stimulating economic development, and combating diet-related health problems in cities....

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A Financial Cliff, a War on Christmas, and Other Dim Tidings

The conversation, between humankind and catastrophic natural phenomenon, tends to be a bit one-sided....

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Of Grief and Hope

Climate chaos. Dying oceans. The degradation of U.S. corporate/militarist empire and the concomitant collapse of the global, neoliberal order. Our child will be born into a world where there will be...

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After the Flood

In the presence of death and in the aftermath of great storms, we apprehend how vainly we cling to the illusion of certainty and permanence. ...

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Alexandra Ackerman: Interview

Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty,...

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Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

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Brown Sugar and Mustard-Glazed Bone-in Ham

Well the holidays are indeed coming and as y’all know, a homemade baked ham is a southern holiday staple. ...

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Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

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Crunching Genital Injury Stats

Women saw a five-fold increase in genital injuries between 2002 and 2008, and show no signs of slowing....

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The cookie crumbles beneath the foot of the dancer (Sam Pink)

'I didn’t write in high school. I barely talk about writing to most people in real life because no one cares and I kind of agree, I like not talking about it. ' Scott Laudati interviews author Sam...

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Empire’s Halloween Part 2

The US Empire is dead meat. We should lose the imagery of a noble and lofty bald eagle: rotting road kill should be proclaimed our official national animal, vampires and werewolves offer a more apt...

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Sandy: Satellite View

A satellite view of Hurricane Sandy's landfall on the US coast...

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Col. Jon’s Cherokee Corn Pone

It’s another favourite snack in these parts and something that I like to have the little woman cook up for me whilst I hang up the goat on Hallowe’en. Up until now this has been a very closely...

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Grieving for Greed. Welteschmerz Pt. 1

If the end of the commercialist capitalist empire gets you down, the right thing to do is to grieve for it. Then move on....

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Big Boys Gone Bananas* [Film]

Back in 2009 director Frederik Gertten was scheduled to premiere his latest film at the LA Film Festival. Called simply Bananas, it dealt with alleged abuses suffered by Nicaraguan workers who worked...

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Welfare Greed

A Danish researcher has compared two of the most different welfare systems in the western world. Despite the differences, the research shows surprising similarities in the way in which people in the...

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Hot as Hell, But Where’s the Hottest?

"This investigation demonstrates that, because of continued improvements in meteorology and climatology, researchers can now reanalyze past weather records in much more detail and with greater...

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Hubbardites Vs Crowleyites Pt 3

If the current management of the Church of Scientology were not so keen to airbrush all aspects of its founder’s life and work we would have a much clearer idea of his motives for infiltrating...

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