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The Delicious Creations of a Hot, Young Chef

2morrowknight | Posted 11.06.2009 | Style

Read More: Kitchen, Persian, Cookbook, Culinary Arts, Pinch My Saffron, Cuisine, Restaurant, Flavor, Aroma, Culinary, Cooks, Culture, Ingredients, Foods, Chefs, Sizzle, Bake, Hot, E-Book, Mediterranean, Recipes, Style News
2morrowknight

Yasamin Beitollahi, one of the hottest chefs to emerge in years, is a world thinker, a world traveler, and a world connector.

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Noor Faleh Almaleki Dies: Iraqi Woman In US Dead After Father Runs Her Over For Being Too Westernized

AP | AMANDA LEE MYERS | Posted 11.02.2009 | Home

Read More: Uk, Islam, Western Culture, Crime, Peoria, Noor Almaleki, Honor Killings, Atlanta, Westernized, Arizona, Culture, Religion, Westernization, Faleh Hassan Almaleki, Car, Phoenix, Noor Faleh Almaleki, Iraq, Muslim, Amal Khalaf, Honor Killing, Home News

PHOENIX — A young Iraqi woman whose father allegedly hit her with his car because she had become too Westernized died from her injuries Monday a...

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Why I Don't Want to Be the Next Amy Tan

Celeste Ng | Posted 11.02.2009 | Books

Read More: Book Reviews, Amy Tan, Ethnicity, Writing, Fiction, Chinese-American, Chinese Culture, Asian Americans, Race, Culture, Asian American Literature, Chinese American Literature, Books News
Celeste Ng

Let's focus on the writing itself: the characters, the language, the narrative style. Because if a review compared me to Amy Tan on those measures, rather than on just our shared culture, I'd be proud.

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Caster Semenya: When Gender Is Not Sex

Elizabeth Debold | Posted 10.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Herculine Barbin, Sports, Sex Identity, Michel Foucault, Intersex, Hermaphrodite, Cultural Evolution, Kaate Bornstein, Feminine, Caster Semenya, Masculine, Culture, Gender, Living News
Elizabeth Debold

It seems pretty likely that Semenya is no longer going to be allowed to compete as a female in the sport that she loves and has trained so hard for.

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Gulf Sees Arts Explosion (VIDEO)

Al Jazeera English | Posted 10.29.2009 | World

Read More: Arts, Abu Dhabi, Doha Film Festival, Qatar, Doha Tribeca Film Festival, Culture, Dubai, World News

The Gulf state of Qatar is preparing to welcome the Hollywood glitterati onto its shores, for the country's inaugural Doha Tribeca Film Festival. T...

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Women at Work: Insights From Women on the Front Lines of Polish Design

Chauncey Zalkin | Posted 10.22.2009 | Style

Read More: Women, Furniture, Design, Lighting, Women in Business, Innovation, Gender, Culture, Polish Design, Emerging Economies, Communism, Design Fairs, Eastern Europe, Style, Poland, Eastern-Bloc, Designer-Maker, New Business, Female, Gallery, Soviet Union, Entepreneurship, Style News
Chauncey Zalkin

Design is about people -- the handiwork of the creator, human ingenuity, and the social ramifications of design in use.

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'Doing Good' Isn't In Your Genes, Study Says

Huffington Post | Victoria Fine | Posted 10.20.2009 | Impact

Read More: Dna, Altruism, Nurture, Nature, Do Good, Ethnography, Adrian Bell, Culture, Impact News

What makes people help others? Evolutionary scientists have long debated whether our genes have anything to do with behaviors that make us help strang...

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The Scientists' Bark

G.A. Bradshaw | Posted 10.15.2009 | Green

Read More: Medical Ethics, Neuroscience, Nature, Animal Rights, Charles Darwin, Frans De Waal, Evolution, Chimpanzees, Mammals, Animals, Bioethics, Culture, Green News
G.A. Bradshaw

The author of Elephants on the Edge: What Animals Teach Us About Humanity examines new findings from primatology and neurobiology.

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Online Gossip: Push It Back

Jim Selman | Posted 10.09.2009 | Living

Read More: Erumors, So Help Me God, Relationships, American Dream, Gossip, Red Menace, Rapprochement, Rumors, Mccarthyism, Roosevelt, Culture, Living News
Jim Selman

In the past, if people dissented or trafficked in conspiracy theories, gossip and propaganda not too much damage was done.

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10 World Class Chefs on Twitter Who Make it Sizzle

2morrowknight | Posted 10.02.2009 | Media

Read More: Culinary, Ingredients, Culture, Foods, Chefs, Twitter, Cuisine, Restaurant, Flavor, Aroma, Cooks, Sizzle, Hot, Cookbook, Bake, Kitchen, Culinary Arts, Recipes, Media News
2morrowknight

Though nowhere near being a chef myself, I appreciate the care and time put into a great meal, and I am always curious of the cultural significance and history behind the meal in question.

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A Magical Night of Music and Another Triumph for Toronto: The Grand Opening of The Royal Conservatory of Music's Koerner Hall

Marissa Bronfman | Posted 09.28.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Anton Kuerti, Classical Music Reviews, Toronto Mendelsson Choir, Beethoven’s Fifth, Music Education, Peter Simon, Acoustics, Michael Koerner, Music, The Royal Conservatory of Music, Culture, R. Murray Schafer, Classical Music, Beethoven, Jean-Philippe Tremblay, Young-Classical-Musicians, Radio, Globe and Mail, Artists of the Royal Conservatory, Glenn Gould, Koerner Hall, Emerging-Classical-Musicians, Arts Education, Grammy-Nominees, Telus, Entertainment News
Marissa Bronfman

Friday night's grand opening of The Royal Conservatory of Music's Koerner Hall proved that Toronto has truly become one of the world's top cities for the performing arts.

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Auto Industry, Meet Twitter: Ford Re-Launches Fiesta

Patricia Martin | Posted 09.21.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Social Media, Twitter, Social Networking, Millennials, Sam De La Garza, Cars, Marketing, Ford Fiesta, Culture, Technology, Chicago News
Patricia Martin

Ford is bringing back the compact to generate excitement and drive sales among the Millennials. The Fiesta re-launch reveals an important lesson for traditional businesses in the Twitter age.

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Reviving the Neighborhood -- At What Expense?

Wayne Trujillo | Posted 09.15.2009 | Denver

Read More: Denver Hotspots, Latinos, Lower Highland, Denver Neighborhoods, Immigrants, Real Estate, Diversity, Culture, Italians, Highlands, Development, Denver News
Wayne Trujillo

How long before Lower Highland becomes the neighborhood equivalent of a tourist trap where long-time Latino locals can't afford to live?

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Jim Carroll Dead: 'Basketball Diaries' Author, Poet And Punk Rocker Dies

AP | Posted 09.14.2009 | Media

Read More: Basket Ball Diaries, Jim Carroll Dead, Punk, Culture, Poetry, Punk Rock, Books, Music, Arts, Jim Carroll, Upper West Side, New York, Punk Music, Nyc Art, New York Art, Media News

NEW YORK — Jim Carroll, the poet and punk rocker who wrote "The Basketball Diaries," died Friday. He was 60. He died from a heart attack at his...

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Impressions of Cairo, Egypt

Lisa Haisha | Posted 11.08.2009 | World

Read More: Architecture, Women, Art History, Middle East, Spirituality, Economy, Culture, World News
Lisa Haisha

Today tourism contributes substantially to Cairo's economy, but people still work exhausting hours to earn in a month what the average American earns during an 8-hour shift -- if they are lucky enough to find a job.

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Republicans Are From Mars

Stu Kreisman | Posted 10.17.2009 | Politics

Read More: Polls, Bi-Partisanship, Gay Rights, Democrats, Gay Marriage, Culture, Republicans, Politics News
Stu Kreisman

If you ever thought there was a cultural difference between Republicans and Democrats, check out this survey by MediaCurves Just click the play butto...

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No, Not My America, You Mean Our America

2morrowknight | Posted 09.29.2009 | Living

Read More: Conflict, Diversity, Race, Culture, Gender, Ethnicity, Conflict Resolution, America, Demographics, Living News
2morrowknight

Rather than wage a losing fight against impending social and demographic changes, it is incumbent upon people to go beyond their communities, and to get to know the residents of other communities.

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What Do Don Draper and American Food Have In Common?

Zachary Adam Cohen | Posted 09.25.2009 | Green

Read More: Mad Men, Sustainable Agriculture, Television, Mind.Body.Soul, Fruit, Culture, Wholefoods, Organic Food, Food Politics, Farmers Markets, Fresh Food, Green News
Zachary Adam Cohen

I want lettuce that is dirty from the fields. I want leeks that are sandy; apples that are crisp and occasionally misshapen. I want my eggs fresh, from pastured hens, with a loose feather inside of the box.

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Culture and Commerce: Zappos, Francesca's Sow Spirit

Patricia Martin | Posted 09.12.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Amazon.com, Chicago Restaurants, Scott Harris, Mia Francesca, Francesca's, Francesca Pignataro, Zappos, Culture, Amazon Zappos, Chicago News
Patricia Martin

Jobs and opportunity are shifting away from giant corporations to small and mid-sized companies, where there is a growing commitment to "culture" -- the spirit of the place.

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Interview with Clive James: A Serious Talent to Amuse

Christina Patterson | Posted 09.10.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: History, Tv Reviews, Clive James, Memoir, Essays, Comedy, Poetry, Culture, Civilization, Entertainment News
Christina Patterson

Clive James is a brilliant bunch of questions, a brilliant bunch of answers, and soliloquies and theories and counter-theories. No need for an interviewer, really, except that I'm here and I'd quite like to do it.

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Digital Immortality and Death 2.0

Scott Lachut | Posted 09.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Death 2.0, Web 2.0, Psfk, Customs, Immortality, Virtual, Digital, Death, Real, Culture, Living News
Scott Lachut

Particularly in the case of social media, when taken together the multitude of eternal digital data forms a history of a person's life.

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Gender Stupid (Psychically) and That is Fine with Me

Margaret Ruth | Posted 09.04.2009 | Living

Read More: Lesbian, Homosexual, Partners, Margaret Ruth, Same Sex Couples, Beliefs, Gay, Heterosexual, Culture, Gender, Hidden Beliefs, Partnership, Gender Roles, Dating, Drama, Relationships, Couples, Love, Living News
Margaret Ruth

Cultural overlays about gender and hetero and homo couplings do some funky stuff to people and block their ability to have perfectly healthy, joyful and whole partnerships.

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"Leftover Christmas Cake" and Other Anti-feminist Expressions

Amanda ReCupido | Posted 08.31.2009 | Living

Read More: He's a Stud She's a Slut, I'm Not Hanging Noodles on Your Ears, Women, Expressions, Feminism, Culture, Words, Idioms, Living News
Amanda ReCupido

Germans must feel they'll never see the light of day again once the wedding band is on -- they refer to it as being "under a bonnet." And a submissive wife? A "cricket on the stove".

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The Good, the Bad, & the Mediated

Carter Phipps | Posted 08.30.2009 | Media

Read More: Thomas De Zengotita, Consciousness, Mediated, Harpers Magazine, Narcissism, Marshall Mccluhan, Mediation, Posmodernity, Post-Modernism, Evolution, Pop Culture, Media, Norman Mailer, Culture, Media News
Carter Phipps

Everyone should read Thomas de Zengotita, not because he has the answers but because he's breaking new ground in tracking a whole field of disconcerting cultural trends.

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Growing Pains

Jerry Zezima | Posted 08.28.2009 | Living

Read More: Fruits, Michelle Obama, Home Improvement, Horticulture, White House Garden, Oval Office, Humor, Nature, Vegetables, Food, Gardening, Rhode Island, Barack Obama, Culture, Living News
Jerry Zezima

We have had several delicious meals featuring string beans, jalapenos and parsley, and there will be plenty more when the tomatoes, eggplants, bell peppers and cauliflowers are ready to eat.

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