As someone who rarely gains an appreciation for newer music (past articles here indicate how I tend to have steeped myself in Schubert, hymns, and the Red Army Choir, with occasional forays into Johnny Cash and other classic bands), I would not have expected that a fresh new electronica-ish group (who doesn’t do Commodore 64 [...]
I greatly enjoyed the 1989 Jack Nicholson / Michael Keaton comic-book based superhero action thriller, Batman, when it originally came out to movie theaters. Nicholson’s performance as notorious archnemesis The Joker in that film was outstanding, and it is still worth watching twenty years later. The Joker’s overwhelming insanity and colours are a perfect foil [...]
New climate change regulations have successfully passed through their initial step in the U.S. House of Representatives recently (though its passage through the U.S. Senate is still not guaranteed when it comes up for a vote there in October), after years of growing public interest, understanding, and knowledge about the issue of climate change/global warming. [...]
Every year, it seems that I am reporting on the same massive North Korean white elephant. In June of 2007, I wrote an article about the Ryugyong Hotel – simply out of amazement that this building actually exists. This 330-meter tall pyramidal hotel is in the country’s capital city, and has remained an incomplete concrete [...]