Ty Dolla $ign and Superchunk are among the notable music acts announced for this year’s Noise Pop Music and Arts Festival in San Francisco on February 19-25, 2018.
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Deliverance
I live in a wasteland. Nothing but wasteland surrounds me. Civilization is its middle name, Progress, its vanguard. Supermarket culture shoved down our throats By hucksters of no particular persuasion, Walmart its proud flagship Where cheaper is better and bigger is quality. Bigger cars, bigger houses, bigger fries, Big Mac. …
Read More »Bar Car Illuminations at New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show
The glittering displays, eye-popping in their holiday finery of brilliant and colorful lights, emblemize the best of being a New Yorker.
Read More »Immigration Report: More Than 1 in 5 DOJ Prisoners Foreign-Born, Vast Majority Here Illegally
Setting the stage for a likely fight in Congress next year, Attorney General Jeff Sessions pointed to the report’s figures as showing U.S. citizens were “being victimized by illegal aliens who commit crimes,” especially drug-related offenses.
Read More »Aliens and UFOs – Either Our Best Hope or Worst Nightmare
I believe Fravor because I too saw something many years ago for which I have no explanation.
Read More »Roy Moore, Donald Trump, and the Fall of White Evangelical Christians
A little less than of half of the people who cast a vote in Alabama voted for an accused child molester, it took the black vote, especially that of black women, to bring about the right outcome.
Read More »Latest Funding Problem for Louisiana’s Public Defenders: No Lawyers for Death Penalty Defendants
In its 1963 decision in Gideon v. Wainwright, the U.S. Supreme Court held that, under the Sixth Amendment of the Constitution, indigent defendants facing serious criminal charges have a fundamental right to counsel, even if they are unable to pay. But the decision didn’t speak to where the funds for …
Read More »All Aboard for the Holiday Train Show at the New York Botanical Garden
This year at the NYBG's annual spectacular show, the entire presentation reflects the notions of the historic, the organic, and the sustainable.
Read More »Supreme Court Stays Death Sentence to Hear Appeal on Juror’s Racial Bias
The U.S. Supreme Court issues a stay in the latest case to question a trial's fairness because of a juror's apparent racist beliefs.
Read More »White House Roundtable Ponders Ways to Improve Ex-Inmates’ Re-entry
The participants support various steps to reshape incarceration practices to better prepare inmates to be able to find and hold productive employment.
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