Blistering Barnacles! That iconic quiff has finally arrived on the big screen in The Adventures of Tintin: Secret of the Unicorn. Tintin‘s creator Hergé stated before his death that ‘if anyone can bring Tintin successfully to the screen’, it would be Spielberg, and he has done exactly that, [...]
Posts Tagged ‘Creativity’
Woody Allen’s son to join UW Rhodes Scholars!
Woody Allen’s son to join UW Rhodes Scholars! NEW YORK (AP) — The son of actress and activist Mia Farrow and director Woody Allen has been chosen as a Rhodes Scholar. Ronan Farrow is among 32 American students who will be awarded scholarships to study at Oxford University. It’s not the[...]
November 3rd, 2011 - 9:57 pm § in America
Steve Jobs, the cartoons
Cartoon: Steve Jobs Reincarnation Cartoons by Matt Bors, Steve Breen, The passionate debate about Steve Jobs is amazing. I wonder if we are seeing the beginning of a religion? Read some of the debate here. Of course when an entrepreneur is equated to Franklin and Edison, one begins to wonder [...]
November 3rd, 2011 - 7:27 pm § in America
HUMOR: 575-pound Heart Attack Grill spokesman dies
by Weldon B. Johnson – Mar. 3, 2011 05:16 PM Blair River was a big guy with a big heart. River, who stood 6-foot-8 and weighed about 575 pounds, gained a measure of fame in the past year as spokesman for the Heart Attack Grill, a west Chandler restaurant that specializes in thick hamburgers an[...]
What Happened to America As The Land of Opportunity
Der Spiegel Reports: Has America Become an Oligarchy? The Occupy Wall Street movement is just one example of the sudden outbreak of tension between America’s super-rich and the “other 99 percent.” Experts now say the US has entered a second Gilded Age, but one in which hedge fund m[...]
October 17th, 2011 - 11:43 am § in America
Preserving the Bucky Dome
An effort to restore the dome has been given new life with the recent award of a Save America’s Treasures matching grant to the tune of $125,000. “He envisioned the dome as a house. It was the first dome home. It’s the only one he ever lived in,” says Janet Donoghue, developm[...]
Is the NIH Imploding?
IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. IMAGINE THE REACTION TO A 50% CUT IN DEFENSE! That is the REALITY at the NIH. Figures just published on Genomeweb look grim. The good news is that the NIH grant success rate is now 17.4%. The bad news […][...]
October 1st, 2011 - 12:18 am § in The Ave Scene
New Art Theater Opens in Seattle
Via Moira Macdonald at The Seattle Times: The Uptown Theater, one of Seattle’s oldest movie houses, is about to begin a new chapter. The Seattle International Film Festival announced Saturday night it has taken over the Queen Anne theater’s lease from the AMC chain, which had closed the [...]
September 19th, 2011 - 7:25 am § in America, Schools & Colleges
A UW Graduate Writes About Howard, I. Self Segregation
Dear AAUP: Just a note as a lurking alumna. I got my Ph. D. from Slavic Languages in 2001. I worked as a Mellon Post-Doc at Emory University the two years after that. Since then, I have mostly been working as a lecturer at Howard University in Washington DC, a HBCU. HBCU stands for Historically Bla[...]
Cutting Retirement Benefits on the Animal Farm
SOME ANIMALS HAVE MORE RIGHTS THAN OTHERS Here in America we hear about the sanctity of property. The right opposes inheritance taxes because it mean money gets “double taxed.” The über rich news magnate justifies the behavior of Fox and the rest of News Corp because, after all, he[...]