On Food & Culture
My friend Monica sent me the following news and it is heartbreaking. “18-year-old Sita and 20-year-old Vandana, two young women in India who have been in a relationship together for the last 5 years, were chased and beaten by their families this week after they …
The lush simplicity of Ang Lee’s “Brokeback Mountain” can be compared to that of Chopin’s Ballade No. 1 as it is played by Arturo Benedetto Michelangeli I recall that with both experiences I was awed by the tight structure, the natural orderliness of every minute …
Rest, freedom from activity or labor, is a welcome prospect at the end of this horrendous year, annus horrribilis. SE Asia’s struggle with the devastation by tsunami, over 2,000 US soldiers and countless Iraq civilians dead, Crawford ranch now more fortified against peace demonstrations, Katrina, …
That´s the title of a new video by Los Padrinos. Take a look. ¨No Todo Es Malo¨ melds popular culture with religion intentionally. nice. adan
Dr. Fausto Neto presented an all-too-brief picture of today’s complex religious market, describing it as “a battle of symbols.” He outlined these four aspects of media as a way to understand, in a practical way, the complex functions of the media marketplace. 1. Constitutional: media …
Just heard Representative John Conyers speaking live at the funeral of Rosa Parks. In his closing he said that Rosa Parks taught him: “You can’t maintain a democracy and an empire simultaneously.” As Frist and Bush try to speak well of her, I cringe. Frist: …
I received an urgent plea from Maria Theresa-Nera-Lauron, WACC member in Manila, asking for e-mail support that will shed more light on political killings in the Philippines. Human rights leaders and religious leaders are being assasinated with increasing affront. ’til later. am
Yesterday I visited Casa Juan Diego where hurricane survivors are still receiving assistance with food, medicine and transportation. Latinas and Latinos were not present at the Astrodome. Their story is one of no information, no access to US government resources, no access to Red Cross …
Rodrigo in Chile , with other University “apasionados” of opensource software, is working on aFirefox for Chile. Their vision is to join a growing community of techies, hackers, business people to continue developing more and more free and open software for Latin America and other …
Last night at our Museum of Fine Arts I saw the gripping 2 1/2 hour version of this documentary, “The Power of Nightmares: The Rise of the Politics of Fear.” It was introduced by the director/writer, Adam Curtis. Curtis presents: all the cases that Bush’s …