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Copyright © 2013 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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McSex Sells When McDonald’s Unwraps
by Adam Leipzig
If you’re going to co-opt imagery, it’s wise to check the source. In the case of McDonald’s commercial for its McWrap sandwich, the co-opted imagery, surprisingly enough, comes from pornography.
I’m not trying to call out McDonald’s. I’m drawing attention to the choices commercial producers make, consciously or unconsciously, and th More...
Landfill Harmonic Tunes Up
Landfill Harmonic, a documentary feature currently in production, reveals a mind-boggling, inventive effort give children hope - with musical instruments made from trash. In the barrios of Paraguay, a humble garbage picker uses his ingenuity to craft instruments out of recycled materials, and a youth orchestra is born. Music arises and children fin More...
Screen Names
by Adesh Kaur
SCREEN NAME: CREA8IVE
This is an insignificant poem. I went on
a date, in a restaurant on the boulevard
not far from my apartment. The man
across the table made an effort to ask
the great questions of life while I chewed
my falafel. I wished my kids would call.
After years of love, I emptied out my pocket
into the garbage, did the laundry More...
Tribal Inspiration
by Chiwan Choi
We had a chance to get away last week. It’s Judeth’s Spring Break right now and through awesome friends like Faye Lane and Sunyoung Lee, of our partner in crime Kaya Press, we were able to afford a few days in New York. We imagined eating a lot of good food, seeing some theater, drinking a “few” beers, and enjoying a city we love and miss s More...
Japanese Tea Memory in the Dominican Republic
by Keren M. Goldberg
There are places all over the world where people are caught
never able to express the culture of their birth
never able to embrace the culture they have come to live in.
In 1969, I traveled by car to the central region of the Dominican Republic, a country that shares an island with its neighbor, Haiti, in the Caribbean. I spoke Spanish and my More...
Cutbacks
Copyright © 2013 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.
Please contact us for information about syndication rights. More...
The Man Who Tried to Copyright Pi
If you think Monsanto's evil for trying to patent the food we eat, how about the guy who tried to own mathematics? Courtesy of our friends at Numberphile, Dr. James Grime tells the true story of Edward Goodwin who tried to copyright Pi (the mathematical constant that's the ratio of a circle's circumference to its diameter) so anyone using it wou More...Are The Beatles Back? Meet The Strypes
OK, we fell for it. The retro look, the easy rhymes, the mod haircuts, the four lads. This video's a deliberate throw-back, and well, we love it. The Strypes are from Cavan, Ireland. Their rock 'n' roll feels pretty universal to us, and we guarantee you'll be seeing and hearing much more from them. More...Punctuating ‘Hamlet’
by Stephanie Wilson
Shakespeare can drive you crazy.
I have always loved the song from Hair, “What a Piece of Work is Man,” so I decided to check the text in Hamlet. and. First, I went to my mother’s old copy of the Complete Works from her days at the Pasadena Playhouse.
To my surprise, I discovered that the wording was different in my mom’s editi More...
