British scientists spearhead a global "Moon watch." Observers anywhere in the world are able to log onto a web site and report when they see the moon. The scientists hope the information will help refine the Lunar Calendar and also help establish the start of some religious festivals. Listen on... View full entry
Something is rotten in the state of Shakespeare scholarship. Two academics say they have discovered the "real" William Shakespeare, the never-before-identified Henry Neville, whipping up a tempest of debate among the Bard's followers who have had to defend him against a host of pretenders.Link View full entry
Exiled from Greece, Iannis Xenakis worked for the architect Le Corbusier before devoting the rest of his life to creating music as a kind of aural sculpture. The Daily Telegraph View full entry
The Irish Architecture Foundation has been appointed to co-ordinate and support Ireland's entry at the 2006 Venice Biennale, which opens next September. The foundation is launching a competition to find a curator to work with in order to develop a concept for next year. The theme of next year's... View full entry
KultureFlash displays the Prada Marfa project by Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset in issue 138. previous View full entry
Social historian Studs Terkel talks about Jazz, New Orleans, and his journey as one of the greatest interviewer/historians of all time. DemNow View full entry
Hombroich, an ex-NATO missile base near Cologne, Germany, has been turned into a public art and architecture park. And in the demilitarized zone between North and South Korea, a design-driven subdivision blossoms. The answer to post-military landscapes seems to be contemporary architecture... View full entry
For those of you in the LA/Silverlake area, Blaine Brownell will be speaking about Transmaterial, his material research newsletter (turned book) at Materials & Applications tonight at 7pm. View full entry
From Berlin to Boston to Tokyo, William Bright has created free subway maps adapted to your iPod. Although he is undergoing some 'licensing' heat from New York and San Francisco, the idea is a useful one. yahoo | ipodsubwaymaps View full entry
Joey Kane , photographer, was there during the gestation years of hip hop and urban music culture in the Bronx 1970s. Check it. View full entry
Thomas Kelly, author of "Empire Rising," joined Gotham Gazette's Reading NYC Book Club on September 28 for a wide-ranging discussion about the Empire State Building, political corruption, Irish immigrant in New York and writing about New York City. Read View full entry
Yahoo is taking on Google with its own digital archive of books, audio and video. As part of the Open Content Alliance, Yahoo will help digitise 18,000 works of American literature plus material from national and European archives. The information to be digitised will include books, speeches... View full entry
With apologies to the readers for not mentioning this sooner, but it's the end of the Krens era at the Guggenheim. Take a moment. The former director was "the producer" of the Bilbao branch of the museum, a milestone reference in architecture history. From that belly a slew of "destination"... View full entry
"Our communal spaces are being overrun with ads. Train stations, streets, squares, buses and subways now scream one message after another at us," writes the Seoul-born, New York-based artist Ji Lee. The Guardian View full entry
This site features an expanding collection of essays from the social sciences "addressing the implications of the tragedy that extend beyond "natural disaster," "engineering failures," "cronyism" or other categories of interpretation that do not directly examine the underlying... View full entry