By MARSHALL ECKBLAD Poultry companies that spent decades breeding top-heavy birds to satisfy America’s craving for chicken breasts are hunting for solutions as consumers cluck for more dark meat. Demand for legs and thigh cuts is climbing as diners tire of white meat and TV cooking shows tout dark meat’s richer flavor and softer texture. [...]
Story By: by NPR Staff Eli Pariser (left) and Siva Vaidhyanathan argued that “When It Comes To Politics, The Internet Is Closing Our Minds.” Evgeny Morozov (left) and Jacob Weisberg argued the Internet isn’t closing our minds when it comes to politics. Evgeny Morozov is the author of The Net Delusion: The Dark Side of [...]
Story By: by Mark Memmott Former Vice President Al Gore. In an interview with CNN’s Wolf Blitzer, according to a transcript posted by the cable news network, Gore said that “during my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet. I took the initiative in moving forward a whole [...]
Story By: by Bill Chappell Days after it was acquired by Facebook for $1 billion, reports have emerged that Instagram now has more than 40 million users in its photo-sharing community. The gain, which was derived from the service’s API, represents a spike of 10 million Instagram users added in the past 10 days, according [...]
While Olivia Harrison was going through drawers recently at Friar Park, the mansion she shared with Beatles legend George Harrison, she found a digital picture frame, still new in its box. When she turned it on, she was startled to hear the voice of her late husband say, “Hello, magic mirror frame.” Enlarge Image Close [...]
By CORINNA DA FONSECA-WOLLHEIM New York In the summer of 2009, cellist David Finckel and his wife, pianist Wu Han, were in Prague, visiting the Lobkowicz palace that is nestled inside the castle. As concert musicians and presenters—they are the artistic directors of the Chamber Music Society of Lincoln Center—the name was familiar to them. [...]
By TOM L. FREUDENHEIM Spies in the House of Art Metropolitan Museum of Art, through August 26 Playing House Brooklyn Museum, through August 26 *** New York ‘Artists are the secret constituency of museums.” That’s the opening textual salvo in the Metropolitan Museum of Art’s incoherent photography exhibition “Spies in the House of Art.” It [...]
Story By: by Nancy Shute In the United States, you get the extra salt for free. Want extra salt with that fast-food meal? Then buy it in the United States, where chicken dishes, pizzas, and even salads are loaded with far more salt than in Europe and Australia, according to new research. The McDonald’s Chicken [...]
By DAVID A. ANDELMAN SIME/eStock Photo ON TRACK | Ganden monastery in Mongolia The Trans-Mongolian Railway leaves in the dead of night. It departs from an ornate station in Irkutsk, Russia, where wooden houses built by exiled 19th-century intellectuals mingle with blocky Soviet-era buildings. It winds past Russia’s vast Lake Baikal, traverses the Mongolian grasslands [...]
Story By: Tell Me More The 19th New York African Film Festival kicks off Wednesday, with a wide selection of films exploring ideas of home and homeland. Guest host Viviana Hurtado speaks with the festival’s founder Mahen Bonetti, and documentary filmmaker Laura Gamse, who is showing her film The Creators about South African artists.