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HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE — February 3, 2010 at 7:03 pmby Dahlia Rizk
The year’s technology: hands-on and hassle free.
This past week the streets of America have been abuzz with technological news regarding items that until recently, we never knew we needed, but now, will never be able to live without. One such item has been the Apple iPad—the iPhone with the really big screen and a personal message that says, “Hey, you, average consumer. Give us more of your...
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Saving Civilization: Lester Brown at I-House
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Two weeks ago I reviewed Jerry Taylor’s talk on energy policy, which provided an economic conservative’s...
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Three Days in Barcelona
Barcelona’s heritage is etched in the lines of antiquity but definitively defined by modernity. It is one the notable cities...
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For your pleasure … Lady Robot
by Dahlia Rizk
The year’s technology: hands-on and hassle free.
This past week the streets of America have been abuzz with...
Feb 3, 2010 19:03
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For your pleasure … Lady Robot
by Dahlia Rizk
The year’s technology: hands-on and hassle free.
This past week the streets of America have been abuzz with technological news regarding items that until recently, we never knew we needed, but now, will never be able to live without. One such item has been the Apple iPad—the iPhone...
February 3rd, 2010 | HEADLINES, LIFE & STYLE | Read More
The Other Nuclear Option (You Know, the One That Involves Fission)
Although in recent months the term “nuclear option” has mainly applied to legislative tactics, during Wednesday’s State of the Union address Obama discussed the original nuclear options. One—nuclear proliferation—he emphatically rejected. The other—nuclear power—he strongly endorsed, eliciting...
January 31st, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More
White Suburbanites Vote Republican, Stun Nation
(Revised on 26 January)
Even though I was born in Boston, I spent my early years in the town of North Andover, in northeastern Massachusett’s Essex County. Full of greenery, winding roads, old cottages and a Congregationalist church, it is also home to not a few ostentatious houses and parking spaces....
January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES | Read More
Three Days in Barcelona
Barcelona’s heritage is etched in the lines of antiquity but definitively defined by modernity. It is one the notable cities where the ubiquitous glassy facades of modernist architecture works, even when juxtaposed against the stone of centuries old buildings. It is home to architectural heavyweights,...
January 21st, 2010 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL | Read More
Oh my god, we’re back again.
by Dahlia Rizk
You’ve seen them onstage, you’ve played and rewinded their cassette tapes—yes, I said cassette tapes—on your tape player. You’ve cried when said cassette tape got stuck in your player or when your parents refused to get you their latest lunchbox or bookbag. Things were good in...
December 4th, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE, [blog] musings on the state of this here society ... | Read More
Bun Ziua From Bucharest!
by Candice Brown
It was with mild reluctance that I finally purchased a plane ticket to Bucharest, Romania- two days before the flight. I finally gave in to a friend’s persistence to sojourn to Eastern Europe. Thus I ended up in an area of the world, and a country in which I never imagined going. What...
December 3rd, 2009 | HEADLINES, INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More
Mega-Development at the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Micro-Development at the Graham Foundation
by Alexander Naylor
The theory and practice of urbanism find themselves in fairly different places today. While the urban planning discourse of the United States and Europe is full of responses to the environmental challenges of climate change (and other threats), most of the world’s actual urbanization...
December 2nd, 2009 | LIFE & STYLE | Read More
Saving Civilization: Lester Brown at I-House
By Alexander Naylor
Two weeks ago I reviewed Jerry Taylor’s talk on energy policy, which provided an economic conservative’s view on energy policy. Although Lester Brown, founder of both the Worldwatch and Earth Policy Institutes, definitely falls on the more liberal end of the spectrum, that wasn’t...
November 18th, 2009 | HEADLINES, LOCAL | Read More
Chicago Holiday Drag Mashup
by Suyeon Khim
Photos by Mehves Konuk
Quickly following on the coattails of the Boystown Halloween Parade, two budget-friendly drag events open in Chicago tomorrow: 1) The Addams Family premiere — featuring drag/goth inspiration Morticia Addams played by two-time Tony Award–winner Bebe Neuwirth,...
November 12th, 2009 | Uncategorized | Read More
U of C Voices from Abroad: Italy’s Two-Faced Liberties
by Candice Brown
The culture shock inherent in traveling does not spare you in Rome. Its ubiquitous police force comes in four easily identifiable divisions, including military police. They all patrol the city streets. The shocking numbers of police seem to parallel the crushing volume of tourists trawling...
November 11th, 2009 | INTERNATIONAL | Read More
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