Culture and Society

An American photographer and a Japanese poet met in a New York City café.

Two books about the horrible things done to girls, most often by other girls. One is the application of the label “school slut”. Now I think about it, every school, college and similar collection of adolescents or young adults with which I have been involved had a school slut, or, …

I will no longer tell my children to stop fidgeting: The most detailed study ever conducted of mundane bodily movements found that obese people tend to be much less fidgety than lean people and spend at least two hours more each day just sitting still. The extra motion by lean …

It is so easy to be carried along in the slipstream of writing, editing, commenting, etc., here that it’s takes special effort to just top and smell the bird of paradise already lodged in your nose. As of about NOW, Blogcritics is an official functioning Google News source, which is …

On December 10, 2004 the Supreme Court agreed to hear the entertainment industry’s case against two file-sharing services, Grokster Ltd. and StreamCast Networks Inc (Morpheus), through which millions of people swap music and movies online, a decision that could decide the future of digital copyright rules and related technology for …

One of the most important and insightful jazz writers alive, Gary Giddins, whose most recent book is Weather Bird – Jazz at the Dawn of its Second Century, a collection of his Weather Bird columns from the Village Voice, will be chatting live with all comers tomorrow, Wednesday January 26 …

I am sad to report the end of Cynthia Webb’s excellent tech and Internet column, Filter, for Washington Post.com. She said farewell on Friday: The tech sector has come along way since this column began two-and-a-half years ago. In 2002, pink slips were more common than initial public offerings, venture …

Who is the greatest American ever? Discovery Channel and America Online have teamed up to answer that question with a campaign that combines original television and online programming with interactive online features. The initiative, which kicked off January 13, will give Americans a chance to determine who will be named …

Michael K. Powell, 41, will step down in March as chairman of the Federal Communications Commission after almost four years as the government’s top media and telecommunications regulator, he announced today. Poor Michael Powell, the son of Colin Powell, was in over his head as major domo of the FCC. …

There are an estimated 300,000 blogs in China, with thousands being added daily. The government is stepping up efforts to control their content. The OpenNet Initiative — a partnership of the Citizen Lab at the Munk Centre for International Studies, University of Toronto, the Berkman Center for Internet & Society …