By KAREN WILKIN New York One version of the history of French art between the Declaration of the Rights of Man in 1789 and the establishment of the Second Empire in 1852 goes something like this: Just as the French Revolution deposed the irresponsible ancienne régime, Neo-Classical images of high-minded heroes replaced Rococo confections of [...]
Story By: by Heller McAlpin by Krys Lee Krys Lee was born in Seoul, South Korea, and raised in California and Washington. She was a finalist for Best New American Voices. Children bear the brunt of their parents’ misery in many of Lee’s stories. “Beautiful Women,” a series of short vignettes set in Seoul in [...]
On March 8 and 9, the streets in India will be painted in all hues with the colours of Holi. Traditionally a Hindu festival, over the years it has broken barriers and people of all religions participate in the festivities. The marketplaces and streets are strewn with vendors selling heaps of colours (abeer), multi-coloured pichkaris [...]
Story By: by Scott Neuman If you thought privacy settings on your iPhone, iPad or Apple desktop were keeping others from tracking your travels across the Web, think again. Google Inc. and some advertising companies have been bypassing the privacy settings of millions of people using Safari, the default Apple-supplied browser, The Wall Street Journal [...]
Chrysler Group LLC A hunk of America, a dash of Italy and a lingering hint of Germany combine nicely—for under $50,000. The Fiat and Chrysler merger is an astonishing gamble, a dangerously complex conjoining of product design and engineering, global logistics and manufacturing, finance and marketing, taking place even as the European currency crisis threatens [...]
By ANN MARLOWE AFP/Getty Images The 17th-century Saraya al Hamra, or Red Palace, which has housed Libya’s National Museum since 1988. Tripoli, Libya ‘Now we have to hurry to do everything we want. Everyone from his place. Me, from this museum.” Fatheia al Howasi, the director of Libya’s National Museum since 2007, is soft-spoken, determined, [...]
By CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN Cheryl Tan on Lunch Break discusses how to plan a romantic Valentine’s Day dinner like a professional, using tips from James Beard Award-winning chef Michael Schwartz. After 14 years of marriage, what chef Michael Schwartz wants to give his wife, Tamara, on Valentine’s Day is the gift of time. “It’s more [...]
Story By: All Things Considered Oscar-nominated documentary Undefeated follows a season of an inner-city high school football team in North Memphis, Tennessee, profiling its coaches and players’ stuggles on and off the field. Melissa Block talks with co-directors T.J. Martin and Dan Lindsay about the film.
We’re still waiting for the US-spec Honda Civic Coupé to arrive on our shores, bringing with it a 140bhp 1.8-litre i-VTEC lump and, who knows, maybe even the new six-speed automatic transmission. As things stand though, we just might see Hyundai’s Civic-rival actually get here first, as the Korean carmaker has released information of its [...]
Mazda North American Operations With Mazda’s SkyActiv fuel-saving technology, all that’s missing from the driving experience is that last ‘e.’ Climb inside my head a moment: The scene is a drive in the country in the new Mazda3 with something called “SkyActiv,” a suite of fuel-saving technologies with an apparent aversion to the letter “e.” [...]