Archive for the ‘VOICES’ Category

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

Up up and away, and back down again

by Dahlia Rizk. Photo by Brian Forbes. While the rest of the nation was looking up to the sky for a silver balloon containing a screaming and frightened six-year-old boy, the answer landed on those who were too busy sitting on their couches watching Jon and Kate plus 8, and thinking, Wow, look at...

October 23rd, 2009 | [blog] musings on the state of this here society ... | Read More

Les Enfants Terribles: A Review of The Emperor’s Children by Claire Messud

“The Emperor’s Children” By Claire Messud 431 pp. Alfred A. Knopf. $25 by Christopher Ross (from the January 2007 print edition) “The malady has been diagnosed—heaven alone knows how to cure it!” -Mikhail Lermontov, A Hero of Our Time Claire Messud’s new novel, The Emperor’s Children,...

September 9th, 2009 | ART & CULTURE, LIFE & STYLE, LIFE AFTER GRADUATION | Read More

Non-Governmental Disorganization: The Problem with Third-World NGOs

Image by Julie Fry By Julie Fry (from the January 2007 print edition) I completed a 10-week internship in Nairobi, Kenya, with Defence for Children International (DCI), the internationally-recognized, Geneva-based NGO. I was interested in the area of children’s rights, and more specifically the demobilization...

September 9th, 2009 | ACTIVISM, INTERNATIONAL, TRAVEL DIARIES | Read More

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August 27th, 2009 | EVENTS, LETTERS, TRAVEL DIARIES, VOICES | Read More

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January 27th, 2006 | ACTIVISM, EDITOR'S PICK, EVENTS, ISSUES, LETTERS, LGBT, LIFE & STYLE, LIFE AFTER GRADUATION, LOCAL, LOCAL, POETRY, PROSE, PUTTING IT IN PERSPECTIVE, RESTAURANT DEALS, SUBCULTURES, TRAVEL DIARIES, VOICES | Read More

All My Friends Are Funeral Singers
March 10, 2010 09:03
Climate Rhetoric Heats Up: The Rest Versus the West
March 5, 2010 03:03
Eye on Conakry, Guinea: Poverty
March 2, 2010 01:03
Grenada’s Imaginary Subversives
February 22, 2010 07:02
Diskord Panopticon Road Trip
February 10, 2010 15:02

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