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It's difficult to nail down the last time this antique city was considered cutting edge. Whatever the answer, New Orleans was not defined by its spirit of innovation in the decades preceding Hurricane Katrina. But the flood that changed everything...
Posted on August 29, 2007 11:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Ocean Beach's dreadlocked trustafarians and E -fueled hippy chicks have decamped for a multi-day bacchinalia in the desert or at least until the drugs run out. In recent years hipsters and stoners have taken their toll on Black Rock City....
Posted on August 24, 2007 12:03 PM • 7 Comments •
Of all American writers, none have got the genre-hack-to-hidden-genius treatment quite so fully as Philip K Dick, the California-raised and based science-fiction writer who, beginning in the nineteen-fifties, wrote thirty-six speed-fuelled novels, went crazy in the early seventies, and died...
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Posted on August 17, 2007 10:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Outside of English lit classes and seaports rich in maritime history, America's whaling traditions are largely forgotten. However, not only is whaling still practiced elsewhere but for a time slaughering whales for their blubber drove the U.S. economy. In "Leviathan",...
Posted on August 14, 2007 11:23 AM • 0 Comments •
"On the Road" showed, and continues to show, generations of young readers a more intense, more passionate--and more closely examined--life. Some who've busted out to live it themselves died on the streets. Others have refreshed the American sensibility, in music,...
Posted on August 12, 2007 11:59 AM • 0 Comments •
A Texas Bible college is giving new meaning to the term church lady.Southwestern Baptist, one of the nation's largest Southern Baptist seminaries, is introducing a new acadamic program homemaking open only to female students, as part of an effort to...
Posted on August 11, 2007 12:10 PM • 3 Comments •
Second Life's hundreds of thousands of users can teleport at will, transform into dragons and radically change their appearances with a few clicks. They have built cities, created clothing lines and programmed their avatars -- the characters that represent them...
Posted on August 9, 2007 11:56 AM • 2 Comments •
On the heels of Sicko and an Inconvenient Truth, the mega-rich are backing film projects with a message that can influence elections and domestic policy. Microsoft co-founder Paul Allen, is embarking on two new documentary film projects, one about human...
Posted on July 30, 2007 10:57 AM • 0 Comments •
Facing down an army of nerds takes guts.Neil Gaiman enthralled and delighted a besotted audience hanging on his every word at Comic Con on Friday. He's notorious for having sold more ideas to Hollywood, without any of them actually getting...
Posted on July 28, 2007 11:55 AM • 0 Comments •
Kip Thorne is a superstar physicist and darling of the science fiction crowd. Now the theoretician who introduced the world to wormholes, time travel and warped space has himself entered a new dimension: Hollywood. ( The Australian)...
Posted on July 18, 2007 11:02 AM • 1 Comments •
Enrique Gili is a freelance writer covering Lifestyles of Health and Sustainability (LOHAS), issues for regional magazines in the Southland and beyond. I live in Ocean Beach, San Diego the coolest beach town around.
