BEATNIK INDUSTRIES, a BREAD
BOWL of IMAGES and GENERIC ASPIRIN
March 8th, 2010 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
photographed in Chicago, Illinois on July 19, 2009
This is the story of a band called Sparklehorse and the remarkable man who fronts it, a tale as bipolar as the music it spawned.
Sparklehorse and Mark Linkous– who resides on a farm in Bremo Bluff, a Fluvanna village by the James River– are essentially synonymous, and if [...]
February 4th, 2010 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
photographed at Oktoberfest in Munich, Germany on September 29, 2009
Munich authorities on Monday tightened security checks at Oktoberfest and detained two suspected Islamists just days after terrorist threats led them to declare airspace above the festival a no-fly zone this weekend.
Bavarian Interior Minister Joachim Herrmann said on Monday that extra security and traffic checks had [...]
November 1st, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Brooklyn, New York, New York. November 1, 2009.
Of all the American contenders to try and break the 27-year men’s drought in the New York City Marathon, Meb Keflezighi may have represented the American dream more than any of them. Born in war-torn Eritrea, one of 11 siblings in a village with no electricity, Keflezighi now [...]
October 14th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
London, England. October 1, 2009.
The judges emerged from the intricately carved stone portals of their new home resplendent in their modern regalia. Gone were the full bottomed wigs, robes and breeches.
The Justices of the Supreme Court posed in front of the building wearing their black robes, lavishly threaded with gold. All were bare-headed save for [...]
September 11th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Outside Durango, Colorado. July 22, 2007.
Downtown, fires burned, smoke plumed. The odor stood.
It was a city humbled and scared, where the possibilities of destruction had been recalibrated. It was Sept. 12, 2001. The day after.
So much has been said and written about what happened on 9/11. The following day is forgotten, just another dulled interlude [...]
July 16th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
NASA Simulator, 1969. NASA image.
I’m with you L.E.M. / Though it’s a shame that it had to be you / The mother ship / Is just a blip on this trip made for two / I’m with you boys / So please employ just a little extra care / It’s on my mind / I’m [...]
June 23rd, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York City. June 20, 2009.
For the past five years, Ernie DiGiacomo has been able to count on parents to guarantee the $1,500 to $2,500 rents he charges for the 15 apartments he owns in Williamsburg, Brooklyn. When he called renters who had missed payments, he often heard, “My parents will send you [...]
June 14th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
The California Coast, Pacific Ocean. June 12, 2009.
DETROIT — It was said that the Detroit Red Wings could not lose Game 7 of a Stanley Cup final on home ice. They did.
That Marc-Andre Fleury could not be counted on to win big games. He has.
That these Penguins were not ready to be champions. They are.
They [...]
May 27th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Key West, Florida. July 25, 2008.
NEW YORK — Piracy is an important issue and Carnival Corp. is working with the U.S. military and British Ministry of Defence to protect its passengers and crew from any attacks, the cruise ship operator told its shareholders Wednesday.
Concerns about piracy have increased since Somali pirates took an American freighter [...]
May 10th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Chicago, Illinois. May 10, 2009.
Louis Caldera, director of the White House Military Office, resigned Friday in the wake of the furor over an Air Force jet’s photo shoot over New York City April 27, the White House announced.
In addition, President Obama asked his deputy chief of staff, Jim Messina, and Defense Secretary Robert Gates or [...]
April 28th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Cozumel, Mexico. July 26, 2008.
HONG KONG — What to call the new strain of flu raising alarms around the world has taken on political, economic and diplomatic overtones.
Pork producers question whether the term “swine flu” is appropriate, given that the new virus has not yet been isolated in samples taken from pigs in [...]
April 27th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Chicago, Illinois. March 26, 2009.
But that is quite often not the way it goes. A bowler who appeals to the umpire is not required to ‘I appeal’, the foreman of a jury, in announcing the verdict, is required to say either ‘I announce …’, nor yet ‘We acquit’ or ‘We convict’, and an umpire in [...]
April 27th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Chicago, Illinois. April 26, 2009.
The lottery was conducted–as were the square dances, the teen club, the Halloween program–by Mr. Summers. who had time and energy to devote to civic activities. He was a round-faced, jovial man and he ran the coal business, and people were sorry for him, because he had no children and his [...]
April 8th, 2009 | by nick | published in New and Topical.
Evanston, Illinois. April 7, 2009.
Research libraries are eagerly embracing the digital world. They are acquiring access to great quantities of electronic materials produced outside their walls and are making digital versions of their own holdings. These projects, as they become more common, are bringing both the broad issues and the nuances of the digitizing process [...]