‘The Social Life of Kimono’: Innovation faces tradition in the fight to keep kimono relevant BY LUCY ALEXANDER In 1985, a 24-year-old art student from England visited Japan for a summer holiday, fell in love and never went home. The Social Life of Kimono, by Sheila Cliffe.256 pages BLOOM[...]
Archive for April, 2018
[...] April 20th, 2018 - 11:56 am § in Donald Trump, Politics
Democrats sue Trump campaign, Russians, and Wikileaks for 2016 election conspiracy
The Democratic Party filed a federal lawsuit against Trump’s presidential campaign, the Russian government, and Wikileaks on Friday, seeking millions of dollars of damages for what the DNC called an illegal conspiracy to “bolster Trump and denigrate the Democratic Party nominee[...]
[...] April 19th, 2018 - 12:36 pm § in Donald Trump
Photo of taxpayer-built Marine One helipad at Mar-A-Lago
Isn’t this supposed to be used by government aircraft for official purposes? Read story here.[...]
April 18th, 2018 - 5:03 pm § in Donald Trump
New poll finds race between Ted Cruz and Beto O’Rourke “too close to call”
Texas Tribune— A new poll released Wednesday suggests the U.S. Senate race between U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz and U.S. Rep. Beto O’Rourke is far more competitive than many political observers have initially thought. The poll from Quinnipiac University shows the two men in a dead heat: 47 perce[...]
April 18th, 2018 - 3:44 pm § in Politics
GOP legislators punish Memphis for removing symbols of rebellion, slavery, racism, and lynchings.
“Hateful, unkind, un-Christian, and unfair,” is how Memphis legislators describe a bill passed by Tennessee’s GOP-majority legislature stripping funding from the city’s upcoming bicentennial celebration in retaliation for removing statues of Jefferson Davis and Nathan Bedford[...]
April 17th, 2018 - 9:47 am § in Hypocrisy
What is Social Reality … gender, race, now age? or species?
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April 17th, 2018 - 8:18 am § in Schools & Colleges, UW
Will Britain Privatize Oxford and Cambridge?
The US excels in two things … our mega military and our universities. Americas’s universities consistently fill all of the top slots in world ranking of “top fifty schools” … with the exception of Oxford, Cambridge along with the Imperial College London, UCL, and King[...]