Art & Culture

Consider this: In a survey earlier this year, 64 percent of Americans say they spend more time with their computer than with their significant other. Meanwhile, 84 percent said they were more dependent on their computer than they were three years ago.
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Saturday evening’s edition of Kaminari Taiko’s Festival at Miller Theatre, Houston, was a heck of a show with pretty good attendance in spite of vaguely threatening weather. – More pictures here.
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On Thursday morning, a male festival participant was found dead, hanging from the inside of a two-story tent, according to Mark Pirtle, special agent in charge for the Bureau of Land Management, the federal agency that awards the use permit to Burning Man and oversees law enforcement duties. The apparent suicide would be the...
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Raw Story reports: “Chanting, ‘No more Iraq war,’ and ‘Impeach Cheney first,’ protesters gathered outside the Teton Pines Country Club, where Cheney typically spends the month-long August recess. They brought along a 10-foot-tall paper-mache sculpture that featured Cheney holding a fishing poll in one hand and an oil well in the other. “In video...
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“The success of ‘The Bourne Ultimatum’ is not about the action,” writes Chicago Tribune cultural critic Julia Keller in “It’s (pant) not just (pant) a chase movie (whew!).” “People may be drawn to the film by the promise of thrilling chase scenes, but what makes it deeply satisfying are three words of dialogue. The...
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