Eighteen years after their debut album, Public Enemy has put out studio release number 10, entitled New Whirl Odor. This album finds all of the original members back together, sans Terminator X (DJ Lord once again taking over duties on that front), on Chuck’s new label Slam Jamz. The album sounds both similar and different [...]

Last Sunday, February 5th, millions crowded around their TVs to watch one of the most highly anticipated televised events of 2006. The three hour spectacle promised hard-hitting action, and it delivered. The halftime show was an exercise in brilliance: tightly choreographed and packed with dazzling displays of ability and daring. Yes indeed, Animal Planet crafted [...]

Munich was a worrying film. Steven Spielberg is a great director, to be sure, but his recent efforts – everything from War of the Worlds to Artificial Intelligence: AI – have been lacking. Spielberg’s true opuses were made in the seventies and eighties. Since then, the emphasis seems to have turned more and more to [...]

Linda Butler
Tributary and Cliff Face, Wu Gorge, 2000
Silver gelatin print
Linda Butler’s latest exhibition, Yangtze Remembered: The River Beneath the Lake, details the dramatic transformation of the Yangtze River in central China, which was dammed and flooded in 2003, resulting in the relocation of more than a million living along its shores. Through her photographs, Butler [...]

In an effort to make a ‘motoring’ category worthwhile, I decided to add another post to it.
Background
How did I come to own a Honda Accord? A few months ago, when I was in Germany, I learned that my mother had “something to tell me”. I had no idea what this was, but soon found out [...]