(In the 'zine that accompanied Los Campesinos! second album there's a quote emblazoned on white space: "Telling stories is telling lies". They're the words of B. S. Johnson, one of those forgotten...
I can’t decide whether Red Riding is the greatest movie trilogy since Satyajit Ray’s Apu films or simply the smoothest job of making three episodes fit together seamlessly while also working as...
“Big Love,” which airs Sunday nights on HBO, is the story of a family trying to follow The Principle (i.e fundamentalist Mormon beliefs) in modern-day Utah. Because "Big Love" centers on a...
I skipped the State of the Union. I've been fed up with Obama speeches for a bit—strange, considering he's the best political speaker of my lifetime, certainly. But I just couldn't take another...
Two weeks ago, Secretary of State Clinton issued a statement on Internet rights for all, pledging to file a formal State Department protest regarding this month's alleged Google China censorship and...
The future of journalism: it's the subject of books, panel discussions, and countless blog posts and news articles, most of which revolve around the ways we can fund media after the shift to the Web....
Alternative dispute resolution (ADR) mechanisms in the Arab world have been growing hand in hand with the resurgence of various countries as members of the fast growing club of successful emerging...
Maybe it's the coffee, but on the way into New Cross the graffiti only seems to say 'Modern Life Is Rubbish'. Alongside the railway line, for what seems like a full five minute stretch, mounds of...
The location is any international airport in 2010. The scene is one of controlled chaos. People are pushed, prodded, searched, questioned and scanned. Row upon row of irritated passengers interact...
These days I imagine a life without you like one might imagine the seas ending – the story moves across barren landscapes flecked with the debris of dead civilizations and people live in tin...
