A good looking town w/ a creek on it is for sale in California. With 83 green acres. bbc View full entry
The developers of Gulf Coast Town Center had more than just shopping in mind when they designed a regional mall in San Carlos Park. They want visitors to enjoy a meal, watch children play and stroll past fountains. Keeping neighboring Florida Gulf Coast University in mind, they even created a... View full entry
Felix Gonzalez-Torres , a Cuban-born American artist who died in 1996, has been chosen to represent the United States at the 2007 Venice Biennale. NYT View full entry
As its name suggests, the United Kingdom is a supposedly integrated old thing made up of the nations England, Scotland, Wales, and Northern Ireland. But since 1997 the shape of the country has been shifting. That's when Tony Blair and the Labour government began the process of... View full entry
Richard Cohen: Boring Al Gore has made a movie. It is on the most boring of all subjects -- global warming. It is more than 80 minutes long, and the first two or three go by slowly enough that you can notice that Gore has gained weight and that his speech still seems oddly out of sync. But a... View full entry
Harry Frankfurt, author of On Bullshit, shoots the poo with some guy about his theory of contemporary humbug. | watchit | readit -------------------extract--------------Chapter 1 One of the most salient features of our culture is that there is so much bullshit. Everyone knows this. Each of us... View full entry
The new data, based on Belarus national cancer statistics, predicts approximately 270,000 cancers and 93,000 fatal cancer cases caused by Chernobyl. Via Greenpeace. And don't go walking there. Also, Reuters View full entry
Nancy Spector writes on art's construction of narratives in the cultural landscape through the work of Francis Alÿs, Aleksandra Mir, Pierre Huyghe, and others. | frieze | related View full entry
The Times-Picayune daily of New Orleans and The Sun Herald of Biloxi, Mississippi, shared the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for excellent coverage of hurricane Katrina on Monday.more... View full entry
This week there are a number of local Architecture for Humanity chapters that are putting events on either in regard to Hurricane Katrina, the Kashmir earthquake and the anniversary of the SF quake. On the 20th Reed Kroloff, John Norquist of the the New Urbanists, ULI and co-founder Kate Stohr... View full entry
Tyler Green/MAN reporting: "Dada," at the National Gallery, is an exhibit about war, about how artists respond to seeing death, dismemberment, gassing, debilitating mental illness, and more death. View full entry
Vancouver in western Canada is the world's most pleasant city in which to live, according to a survey of 127 destinations published today which assesses factors such as risk, infrastructure and goods and services. Read View full entry
With an estimated 10,000 underground military installations in the world, "most, no doubt, are crude ammo dumps, but some are literally subterranean fortresses." On Bunkers and Bunker-Busters, military technology developed to penetrate the earth. Harpers View full entry
"I started with the idea that spam was becoming such an object of hate, and I thought maybe it could be made into something more enjoyable. I played with it for a while and thought that the best way to display it was with porn as the vehicle," he says. "It's kind of like the idea of taking shit... View full entry
A billion people ”” one in every six on Earth ”” are believed to receive some help from cash earned by workers abroad. Are these remittances beneficial or detrimental to the communities they affect? Part 1 of 4.LA Times View full entry