Santee Alley, where the rents are said to exceed those on Santa Monica's bustling Third Street Promenade, lies in the heart of a once-industrial downtown district that, like New York's garment center, has been undergoing a transformation in recent years. NYT View full entry
What do Michael Elmgreen and Ingar Dragset think? Kulture Flash, Greg.org, and Obrist get the low down and the ho'down. l via KF l related l View full entry
"Soaring more than 60 feet high and spreading a football field wide, the mound of corn behind the headquarters of West Central Cooperative here resembles a little yellow ski hill. 'There is no engineering class that teaches you how to cover a pile like this,' Mr. Fray, the company's executive... View full entry
Writer John Fowles, author of The Magus and The French Lieutenant's Woman, has died at the age of 79. His 1969 book, The French Lieutenant's Woman, made John Fowles a best-selling author on both sides of the Atlantic. bbc / John Fowles' literary contribution View full entry
"More than two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein, 10,000 artefacts looted from the National Museum of Iraq are still missing. Archaeological sites across the country have been plundered. Kim Sengupta reports from Baghdad on the desperate struggle to protect a priceless heritage." View full entry
This is the perfect time-waster for the next time you're waiting in line to pass through the airport security checkpoint. Break out your cell phone and play Airport Insecurity (via): a clever game of inconvenience and tradeoffs whose rules are based on government reports of airport security... View full entry
A man has just flown his ultralight plane "more than 4,375 miles from Montreal to Michoacán State, following [Monarch] butterflies at low altitude. He logged more than 90 hours of flying over 72 days, averaging about 60 miles a day... in a feat of aviation meant to call attention to... View full entry
For all our love of maps, navigating the city is an empty experience if you never let yourself get lost. But "most of the ways people lose themselves have little to do with the bodily experience of not finding one's way." A review of Rebecca Solnit's "taxonomy of loss" in The Nation View full entry
On Nov 9 (Wed), you'll get to run around the city with bloodhound-robots that sniff out pollution. It's all part of Social Tapestries, a community mapping project by the think tank, Proboscis. More about their mapping platform: Guardian View full entry
Denver woman selling her house to the highest bidder and she is included in the deal. She is good looking too. submit your bid here View full entry
This article looks at Connecticut's plan, or perhaps lack of plan, for mass evacuation in case of disaster. But, again, disaster plans and directive control falls mercy to conflicts between dualing state and local municipal authorities. While some towns feel prepared, there is no overarching... View full entry
"With the virtual collapse of the state, rules have fallen away and the city seems almost to have caved in on itself in an egocentric free-for-all. Drivers shove past one another under broken traffic lights. Policemen gesture frantically to try to control them. And while in other capitals a... View full entry
CTheory has a new installment of their online critical theory wire by Jean Baudrillard titled the Mask of War View full entry
Media theorist Lisa Parks is interviewed by Geert Lovink about the implications and ideas in her book Cultures in Orbit. via reBlog View full entry
Whether electronic or actual the world loves a good protest, especially in Argentina where the Summit of the Americas and the presence of our dear leader have spawned a hardy call to "Get out!" Guardian View full entry