Addis Ababa-based artist Yemsrach Yetneberk on how the radical spread of the Ethiopian capital is changing neighbourhoods. (The Guardian) The Guardian Originally trained as an architect, Yemsrach Yetneberk now runs an illustration based company,Laughing Gas Design, with her brother in ...
1931: 'EMPIRE STATE TOWER, TALLEST IN WORLD, IS OPENED BY HOOVER' By 1931, the country was gripped in the throes of the Great Depression, but in New York City, engineers and builders had scraped the sky. The Saturday, May 28 edition of The New York Times reported on the opening of ...
Kekis, Haritatos and another partner called them "Turkey Bones," at least for a few years. Turkey Bones would quickly become Turkey Joints as the candy gained popularity.The History of Candyland In 1921, Kekis and Haritatos traveled east to Rome, NY where they decided to open a new resta...
I had written a fair bit on what someone called “Fifth Column Veganism,” but I think it is better to say “Controlled Opposition.” I had assumed this opposition was funded by meat and vivisection business interests, but it could also be something more tribal and religious and crazy. ....
Loving humility is marvelously strong, the strongest of all things, and there is nothing else like it. Fyodor Dostoevsky In the well-known passage of the Gospels called the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus teaches us to love our enemies – in fact, to "bless" those who persecute us. But it ...
Vega: It’s calledLover Beloved: Songs From an Evening With Carson McCullers.Duncan really pushed me out of my comfort zone. Your idea of melody is much broader than mine, especially for my own voice. Sheik: Well that’s very kind. If you think my melodies are broad, you should hear ...
This film is near and dear to my heart. Jackie and Annie are an older couple who live on the Isle of Man, just off the coast of Ireland in a little village called Tullymore. It's a fictitious place with only a few people who live there. One of the people in the village won the...
I feel lucky to have witnessed it and to have made the journey across it because, sadly, the original and decades-old construction is no more. The last erected bamboo bridge construction was in 2016, where thereafter a government-funded steel and concrete bridge was built further up the river...
“subset” of the larger regional bee fauna.Thirteen percentof New York state’s bees were found in New York City community gardens.Halfof Germany’s beeswere discovered in Berlin.Interestingly, bees areflourishing, particularly in vacant lots in so-called shrinking cites such as Detroit and ...
The city is busy, noisy, and overstimulating to every one of your 5 senses — I think there may be a special sense called “Hanoi” that is a combination of the overstimulated 5 senses. I still have ringing in my ears 12 hours after having flown from Hanoi to Bangkok. We cannot ...