July 2011
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Dams to Be Removed in Washington to Replenish... →
Beginning late this summer, one of the most promising and pure acts of environmental restoration the region and the nation have ever seen will get under way here, experts say, in the form of the largest dam removal project in American history. It will demolish two massive hydroelectric dams, one of them 210 feet high, that block the otherwise pristine flow of the Elwha River, nearly all of which...
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Agatha Christie, Surf Diabla →
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Austin among worst-dressed cities in America,... →
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Life on the Line Between El Paso and Juarez →
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Audio interview with Tayeb Salih, 2002. →
Sudanese author of Season of Migration to the North.
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Elizabeth Parker's Cross Stich Confession →
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A Stimulus Plan for Seafood: Tear Down Those Dams →
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“I’ve been thinking what to do with my future.
I could be a mud doctor,...”
– Linda, Days of Heaven
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“Kummerspeck (German):
Excess weight gained from emotional overeating....”
– (from Fifteen Wonderful Words With No English Equivalent)
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Five greatest bar brawls in American history →
Philadelphia Election Riots, 1742; Astor Place Riots, 1849; NYC Draft Riots, 1863; Atlanta Race Riots, 1906; Black Cat Tavern Riots, 1967.
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A whiff of history →
Efforts to get smells into the historical record
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Where House Cats Roam: Researchers Compare the... →
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“I think a man ought to get drunk at least twice a year just on principle, so he...”
– —Raymond Chandler
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“Chandler is one of my favorite writers. His books bear rereading every few...”
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Austin-area job growth flat, unemployment rate up... →
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Lens Cap On →
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“Red meat and gin.” -Julia Child (on what her longevity was attributed to)”
– Dainty and Dangerous
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Locus of Sadness in Mexico, Bathed in Light,... →
Xipe Totec - A new public art piece in Tlatelcoco plaza, site of Spanish destruction of Aztec temples and 1968 massacre of student protestors. “It’s an attempt to give it a new sense of place,” Mr. Glassford said. “There’s been a constant stepping on other cultures there. But a skin — in this luminous way — covers without changing.”
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Russian Youth, Prisons & the Icon: An Interview... →
Yana Payusova’s Russian Prison Series is a complex portrait with embedded cultural memes and fierce visual détournement. It is a strong and committed project. Russian Prisons Series, painted photographs of forgotten incarcerated Russian youth is Payusova’s most extensive use of photography in her many series.
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Is Your Cell Phone Fueling Civil War in Congo? →
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The embroidered road →
What I love about the embroidered insoles is that they are both exquisite and useful, and yet by virtue of their very function, can only be appreciated by one person, the wearer. Traditionally made by women, they’re a true labor of love.
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The Scale of Nature: The Army Corps of Engineers... →
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Helen Oyeyemi Searching for the Perfect City →
Prague was openly inviting. And yet. I was unable to take its invitations seriously. I love that wacky city, but all I can think of is the evening I was sitting outside a café in Vinohrady, talking to someone I was beginning to like very much, when a man came by with a bucketful of enormous sausages and offered them to us in a manner very similar to that of the people who wait outside theatres and...
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California Gothic: Jaime Hernandez's Ghost of... →
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The Most Important Fish in the Sea →
Menhaden clean up ocean pollution, are vital feed for fish we eat, and they’re in trouble
