Archive for November, 2012
Balancing the Books
by Jack Grapes
What was I going to find in Dark Laughter by Sherwood Anderson?
Though it seems like yesterday I read Winesburg, Ohio back in college.
But I was just as taken by Dark Laughter, his tenth book and fifth novel.
There was something poetic about Anderson's writing, something
oddly quaint that I knew, even at 21, couldn't last.
Today I was sear More...
Herakut and the Art of the Collective
by Chiwan Choi
Last week, I picked up a clean used copy of Herakut: the Perfect Merge at The Last Bookstore. Since then, I’ve browsed through the pages at least twice a day, everyday. Herakut is a collaborative duo, Hera and Akut, both street influenced artists with crazy spray paint skills who were introduced to each other and, well, the rest is history.
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Oh, Siri
Copyright © 2012 by Carol Green. All rights reserved.
Carol Green, the creator of Cultural Weekly's original comic series, Life After Birth, is a coach, writer, illustrator, veteran film publicist and wry observer living in Los Angeles.
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Awesome Free Events: Live TEDx Stream, Cultural Weekly Gathering
This is your invite for two great events -- both free, fun and enlightening.
TEDx Malibu
TEDx Malibu will be streaming live video of its annual event.
Among the featured speakers are James Makawa, founder of the Africa Channel, style editor Shannon Bindler, Rabbi Judith Halevy, Worldwide Pay It Forward head Charley Johnson, and Cultural W More...
Cultural Weekly Reader Founds Innovative School in Indian Slum
What a community we are!
Cultural Weekly reader Newneet Ranjan is setting up a recycling school in an Indian slum, and making a documentary about it.
"Having limited resources ignites a creativity lost to many living in abundance," says Nawneet. "Innovation is a survival skill in slums as people create products, architecture and services fro More...
When the Conventional Wisdom is Wrong
by Sophia Stein
On April 4, 1989, a white woman was beaten and raped and discovered comatose in New York City’s Central Park. Five teenagers – Raymond Santana, Antron McCray, Kevin Richardson, Yusef Salaam, and Korey Wise – 'The Central Park Five,' as they came to be known during the media storm of their trial, were convicted and incarcerated for the crime. More...
100,000 Stars
100,000 Stars is an interactive visualization of the stellar neighborhood created for the Google Chrome web browser. You can watch the video below, then pull up Google Chrome and go to http://workshop.chromeexperiments.com/stars to take the tour yourself. More...Kasey Chambers & Shane Nicholson, ‘The Quiet Life’
Australian country singer Kasey Chambers has always been one of our favorites. She married Shane Nicholson in 2005, and they now have two kids. This video, the second single from their duet album Wreck & Ruin, suggests that although they may be settling down a bit, their inventive style is only getting better. More...Happy Hobbit Fans Ready for New Zealand Premiere
by Pallas Hupé
Posted November 28, 2012, 3:30 am local time from Wellington, New Zealand
The countdown to The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey is making worldwide headlines, and the film premieres here tonight. The frenetic activity behind closed post-production studio doors isn’t much impacting the run-of-the-mill rest of us, whose focus is, as it is so often More...
Of matchbooks, phone booths and the loss of Nickodells
by Beth Ruscio
In those days, when somebody famous
yanked open the bar’s side door off Melrose,
spilling a rectangle of sunny rebuke
on us unknowns ripening
in Nickodells’s night-for-day ambience,
we looked up without looking up
slitting our eyes to the light.
We were dark-clothed theater rats
rehearsing all hours in our black box “empty s More...
