Tuesday, October 24, 2006

Tuesday morning

An article about Hell House. I'm going to see it on Thursday.
There's No Winking in Hell [villagevoice]

Article about a melting glacier in a former tourist town in Switzerland. Think this glacier was featured in An Inconvenient Truth?
Frozen in Memories, but Melting Before Their Eyes [nytimes]

art. modernism. ... A review of a show (“The Société Anonyme: Modernism for America”) at the Phillips Collection in DC. I'm visiting Miki in a few weeks so I'll get to check this out!
Lights From the Dawn of Modernism [nytimes]

I've grown tired of the Harpers Weekly Review, but this week's is pretty good.
Weekly Review 2006-10-24 [harpers]
highlights:
  • The Maine National Guard has been offering “Flat Daddies” and “Flat Mommies,” life-size cardboard cutouts of deployed service members, to spouses, children, and relatives waiting for them to return.
  • Tony Snow compared the President to “one of those guys at the gym who plays about 40 chessboards at once.”
  • The Boy Scouts introduced a new merit badge for learning how copyright law applies to pirated movies and music.
  • and, A Massachusetts elementary school banned tag.
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