Culture

Page: 1 2 3 4 5 6 >>

Cultural Transformation: '00s Clock In Big Changes For Chicago

chicagotribune.com | Mark Caro | Posted 12.28.2009 | Chicago

Read More: Art Institute of Chicago, Modern Wing Art Institute of Chicago, Cultural Transformation, Cloud Gate, Chicago, Decade, Decade in Review, Jay Pritzker Pavilion, Chicago Museum Campus, 2000s, Millennium Park, Culture, Chicago News

You would have needed a powerful crystal ball if you were standing at the corner of Monroe Street and Columbus Drive on Jan. 1, 2000, trying to glimps...

Read Whole Story

War on Christmas: Who Is the Enemy?

Jonathan Merritt | Posted 12.25.2009 | Living

In reality, Christmas for Americans--and yes, even the Christian ones--is shaped more by Currier and Ives than Joseph and Mary.

Read Post

Who's the Government? Who's the God?

Reverend Billy | Posted 12.23.2009 | Green

Read More: Militarism, Consumerism, Nativity, Copenhagen 2009, Culture, Bill Clinton, Christmas, Obama, China, Cold War, Green News

The secrecy and isolation of the Chinese/Obama meetings says it all. The rest of us are waiting outside with the rising seas and the fires and droughts and freak storms.

Read Post

12 Awesome Travelers on Twitter Who Rock the Planet

2morrowknight | Posted 12.11.2009 | World

Read More: Adventure, Continents, Culture, Planet, Thrill-Seekers, Travel, Twitter, World, World News, Countries, World News

I also get my "global fix" from reading the work of international travelers on Twitter who illustrate our world in a very bold and enlightening way. Here are 12 world travelers who do just that.

Read Post

Jewish Voices of Color Must be Heard

David A. Love | Posted 12.09.2009 | World

Read More: Anti-Semitism, India, Jews, Social Justice, Hanukkah, West Bank, Gaza, Affirmative Action, Nigeria, China, Race, Rabbi Capers Funnye, Culture, South Africa, Africa, Chicago, Racism, Israel, San Francisco, Israeli-Palestinian Conflict, Michelle Obama, Judaism, Martin Luther King Jr., Mumbai, Barack Obama, Religion, Chanukah, Anti-Defamation League, Martin Luther King, Capers Funnye, Neocons, Religion and Politics, Neoconservatives, Diversity, World News

As we enter this holiday season, Jews around the world will celebrate Hanukah. The Jewish community is a diverse one, a multicultural and multiracial assemblage, by no means monolithic, representing millions of people throughout the world.

Read Post

Death Becomes Us: How Culture Is Redefining the Way We Die

Patricia Martin | Posted 12.08.2009 | Living

Read More: Environment, Holidays, Redefinition, Culture, Death & Dying, Living News

The holidays are no time to think about death. But then again, many of us will be re-connecting with extended family during the holidays, and we can't help but notice that our folks are "getting up there" in age.

Read Post

Biodiversity Remakes Tokyo

Jared Braiterman | Posted 12.03.2009 | Green

Read More: Soil, Air Quality, River, Bicycling, Animals, Tokyo University of Agriculture, Satoyama, Walking, National Security, Urban Forest, Falcon, Biodiversity, Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference, Tokyo, Crime Reduction, Transit, Japanese Pygmy Woodpecker, Elderly, Wall, Yamada Yoriyuki, Forest, Iimura Kazuki, Wilderness, Blur, Sustainable, Places, Plants, Rice, Kobayashi Kenji, Farmer, Energy Independence, Remake, Reforestation, Wildlife, Population, Ginza Bee Project, Street, Cultural, Food Safety, Passion, Pollution, Urban, Culture, Climate Change, Bee, Suzuki Makoto, Post-Industrial, Lot, Roof, Miniaturization, Public Health, City, Habitat, Growth, Public, Ginza Farm, Gardener, Nature, Paddy, Pet, Environment, Firefly, Ginza, Edo, Kajima, Green News

The Copenhagen UN Climate Change Conference addresses unparalleled environmental crisis and the need to transform our relationship with nature. Many p...

Read Post

The Fire Of Thanksgiving

Soren Gordhamer | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Healing, Families, Suffering, Mindfulness, Pain Body, Thanksgiving, Turkey, Fireplace, Traiditon, Family, Culture, Living News

Thanksgiving is one of the few times a year when families come together. Ram Dass used to say that if you ever thought you were enlightened, go spend a week with your parents and siblings.

Read Post

Thanksgiving: A Harvest Of Diversity

Donna Henes | Posted 11.25.2009 | Living

Read More: Traditions, Thanksgiving Dinner, Ceremonies, Rituals, Diversity, Thanksgiving Traditions, Culture, Thanksgiving, Multicultural, Donna Henes, Multiculturalism, Living News

By incorporating what is truly meaningful to us, we take a tradition and make it our own. Thanksgiving is a perfect example. It is the great All-American adaptable ritual.

Read Post

Poop Culture

Robert Rosenthal | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Bathroom, Toilet, Poop, Culture, Bowels, App, Charmin, Marketing, Ass, Blogging, Ambassador, Defecation, Advertising, Living News

It seems inevitable that the potty is going public and the continued descent into indignity will be fed by our insatiable consumption of crap TV and tabloid fodder.

Read Post

Meta-Views: The Economic Crisis and America's "Art Ecology"

Randall Bourscheidt | Posted 11.20.2009 | New York

Read More: American Cities, Arts, Cities, Culture, New York News

We should push the federal government to lead a movement for a new urbanism, a systematic approach to building up the economies and physical and social infrastructures of American cities.

Read Post

Mourning Jeanne-Claude: Christo's Extraordinary Partner

Jezebel | Posted 11.20.2009 | Living

Read More: Christo, Gender Equality, Art, Partnerships, Relationships, Jeanne-Claude, Feminism, Culture, Living News

One of the most salient qualities about the 51-year relationship between Christo and Jeanne-Claude is that they were true partners. Theirs was no arti...

Read Whole Story

End of the world? Not on my watch!

Carleton Bryant | Posted 11.19.2009 | Comedy

Read More: Humor, Current Events, Movies, Culture, Comedy News

The Mayans had an advanced civilization but were conquered by Spain more than 300 years ago. If they were so smart, maybe they should have put that on their calendar.

Read Post

Midtown Manhattan Makes A Comeback

The New York Observer | Irina Aleksander and Meredith Bryan | Posted 11.18.2009 | New York

Read More: Manhattan, Restaurants, New York Restaurants, Midtown, Food, New York, New York City, Culture, New York News

After years spent ducking through secret doorways past relentless doormen, suffering low ceilings, taxidermy, Mary Kate Olsen, the French Vogue editor...

Read Whole Story

At a Chinese Funeral: Eternal Honor

Tom Doctoroff | Posted 11.17.2009 | Living

Read More: Eulogies, Bereveavement, Dying, Shanghai, Chinese Culture, Chinese Funeral, China, Culture, Death, Living News

In all cultures, key milestones crystallize the nature of individual identity. This event, one that took place in twenty-first century Shanghai, city of new dreams and neon buzz, was no different.

Read Post

The Best Thing You Can Have Is Bad Intelligence

Simon Sinek | Posted 11.12.2009 | Business

Read More: Leadership, Walmart, Leaders, Intelligence, Inspiration, Start With Why, General Motors, Microsoft, Entrepreneurship, Motivation, Thought Leaders, Competitive Analysis, Corporate Culture, Wal-Mart, Culture, Business News

The greatest threat any organization can face is not its competition but its own success. With great success comes complacency -- the false belief that you are the best and that you don't have to worry.

Read Post

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

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

Read Post

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...

Read Whole Story

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

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.

Read Post

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

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.

Read Post

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...

Read Whole Story

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

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

Read Post

'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...

Read Whole Story

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

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

Read Post

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