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A Gamer’s World, but a Dramatist’s Sensibility

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THE producer Jerry Bruckheimer likes to say that he can make a movie from almost anything. In his long and box-office-friendly career, he has conjured movies from books (“Black Hawk Down”), from magazine articles (“Coyote Ugly” and “Top Gun”), from the real-life story of a woman who was both a welder and a stripper (“Flashdance”), from a notion tossed around the office (“Hey, let’s make a movie about submarines!” which led to “Crimson Tide”). Most famously, and most lucratively, he has made not just a movie but a franchise, “Pirates of the Caribbean,” from a theme-park ride.

By that standard, Mr. Bruckheimer’s newest picture, “Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time,” which is directed by Mike Newell and stars Jake Gyllenhaal and Ben Kingsley, doesn’t seem much of a stretch. “Prince of Persia,” which opens Friday, is based on a popular video game. You could even argue that video games are what most Bruckheimer movies yearn to be: nonstop action, without the distractions of too much plot or complicated characters. But except for the two “Lara Croft” movies, which may owe their success more to Angelina Jolie than to their Tomb Raider provenance, the track record of movies based on video games is not uplifting. “Street Fighter” was notoriously unwatchable. The official Nintendo magazine said of the film based on Super Mario Brothers: “Yes, it happened. Let us speak no more of it.”

If “Prince of Persia” does buck the odds then part of the credit should go to Jordan Mechner, who created the video game on which the movie is based and wrote the first draft of the screenplay. Mr. Mechner is also a blogger, with his own Web site (http://jordanmechner.com/), and a graphic novelist, with two books coming out at roughly the same time as the movie: “Solomon’s Thieves,” illustrated by LeUyen Pham and Alex Puvilland, the first volume in a projected trilogy about the Knights Templar; and “Prince of Persia: Before the Sandstorm,” illustrated by several different artists, which is a prequel to both the film and the game that inspired it.

He is a sort of a nerd’s nerd, in other words — a Renaissance man in the overlapping worlds of games and comics and now movies. He is the first video game creator to be involved in a subsequent movie version, and he pitched the project to Mr. Bruckheimer by showing him a “trailer” he had put together of clips from PlayStation 2 game footage: lots of wall-jumping and ledge-walking interspersed with shots of a scantily clad princess. Keith Boesky, a video game agent and intellectual property lawyer who helped broker the deal with Mr. Bruckheimer, said recently, “Everybody these days is talking about transmedia, but Jordan is the first guy to actually do it.”

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Tastings With Craft Beers

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Rebecca Boyles, co-owner of Beer Revolution in Oakland, Calif.

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Published: May 30, 2010

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YOU could be forgiven a bit of indecision when ordering a drink at Beer Revolution in Oakland, Calif. While its coolers glisten with bottles of the world’s choice beers, the bar offers a list of exquisite and rare brews that changes daily — it could take an enthusiast months (or a visit to a potentially far-flung brewery) to catch some of them again.

Painted a deep red appropriate to its name, Beer Revolution (464 Third Street; 510-452-2337; beer-revolution.com), which opened earlier this year, is the latest in a growing number of tasting bars in northern California and Oregon that combine a hyperactive tap list with an exhaustive selection of bottled craft beers that patrons can sample in-house or take away. “There’s a huge craft brewing movement — every month there’s a new small craft brewery opening,” said Rebecca Boyles, a co-owner of the shop with her husband, Mark Martone, who is known as Fraggle. “There’s literally a beer revolution going on,” Mr. Martone said.

Hillary Safarik, a local who was enjoying a bottle of Wipeout — an India pale ale from Port Brewing Company in San Marcos, Calif. — at a table on the shop’s sun-baked deck, agreed. “It used to just be guys at a bar drinking some gross beer, lagers and stuff,” she said. But things have changed, she added, “Beer has become the new wine.”

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Portugal Old, New and Undiscovered

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The guest house at Quinta do Vallado, overlooking one of the property’s many vineyards.

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Published: May 30, 2010

“SEE these olive trees?” said Celso Pereira as his pickup truck slalomed down a road flanked by thousands of them, their pale, pointy leaves glistening faintly, their limbs wretched and magnificent with age. “They make the most wonderful olive oil.”

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“And those orange trees?” he added, pointing to a small grove. They brimmed with bright, ripening fruit. “The oranges are amazing.”

The tiny restaurant ahead? “Phenomenal,” he said. The dark soil in the vineyard to the left? Incomparable. It wasn’t thickly accented English he spoke so much as the language of local pride — exultant and, truth be told, hyperbolic. I had tasted the olive oil: lovely, not life-changing. And the oranges: perfectly fine.

But there was one soaring superlative with which I couldn’t quibble. “This drive,” he said as the truck dropped like a roller coaster into the valley below. “It is the most beautiful, no?”

Yes. Oh yes. And that heady conviction had only a little to do with the wines that Mr. Pereira, a vintner in this enchanted region of northern Portugal, had just had me sample. All around us mountains undulated into the distance. The slopes in the foreground were a precipitous, mesmerizing patchwork of greens, reds, browns and grays, the earth alternately craggy and lush, terraced and cleanly diagonal, as if some grand hand had fashioned it into a tutorial on all that nature and agriculture can do.

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Dennis Hopper's strange, brilliant career

The late actor dared to play dangerous, damaged men, while off-screen he remained a fascinating Hollywood outsider

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Actor and director Dennis Hopper

Before Dennis Hopper, who died Saturday of prostate cancer, became a rebel filmmaker or a generational symbol or a legendary debauchee or a Hollywood aesthete and Renaissance man (or a George W. Bush Republican and then an Obama voter), he was an actor. I'm inclined to believe that all the roles Hopper played across 74 years of life and more than 50 years of moviemaking were aspects of his acting career, of his passionate interest in the mysterious fusion of being, imagining and pretending that allows you to be yourself and someone else at the same time.

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at a civil rights meeting, Nesbitts Funeral home, circa 1954, Elizabeth New Jersey

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The Leap

Next week, Teddy Graubard would have graduated from Dalton—a brilliant teenager, with a mild form of Asperger’s, whose path seemed almost limitless. So what led him to the window?

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Teddy stood before the eleventh-story window. Other than figuring out how to fold his large body through its small opening, what was he thinking? A family friend would later say he was “probably trying to measure the speed of the wind or the angle of the shadows,” as if the whole thing were just an experiment gone awry. People naturally defaulted to explanations from physics because Teddy was a physics prodigy, having taught himself the subject from a college textbook in eighth grade. In math, too, he was the one who could always find the quickest solution to a problem. But what was the problem he was trying to solve by jumping?

When 17-year-old Teddy Graubard landed on the sidewalk in front ofWhat Led Dalton Student Teddy Graubard to Commit Suicide? -- New York Magazine

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ari Ward • Re-Presence" to open at Nerman Museum

05/19/10

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"Nari Ward • Re-Presence" to open at Nerman Museum

Nari Ward
Radha Liquorsoul, 2010,
10.5 x 2 x 2.5 feet
Metal and neon sign, PVC tube with artificial flowers, shoelaces and shoe tips
Courtesy of the Artist and Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, NY

OVERLAND PARK, Kan. - Celebrated New York artist Nari Ward will open an exhibition Nari Ward • Re-Presence from 6-8:30 p.m. Friday, June 4, in the first-floor galleries of the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art at Johnson County Community College. A lecture by Ward begins at 7 p.m. in the M.R. and Evelyn Hudson Auditorium on the second floor of the museum. The exhibition will be on view through Aug 29. The opening reception and lecture are free and open to the public. Additionally, a free concert by The Good Foot will take place at 8 p.m. on the museum lawn.

Nari Ward
Airplane Tears, 2005,
16 x 39 x 2 feet
Found TV backs and handkerchiefs
Courtesy of the Artist, New York, NY

Nari Ward
Riot Gate Skull (front view), 2010,
76 x 53 x 5 inches
Stencil ink, metal gates, shoe tips
and laces, 3 mil vinyl with images
Courtesy private collection,
Puerto Rico

Born in St. Andrews, Jamaica, in 1963, Ward has been included in the 2008 Prospect.1 New Orleans Biennial, 2006 Whitney Biennial in New York and in Documenta XI in Kassel, Germany in 2003. Ward is currently working on a solo exhibition to be presented at Mass MoCA next year.

Known for dramatic sculptures made from discarded materials found in urban neighborhoods, Ward's works most often comment on issues related to consumer culture, poverty, race and, most recently, support for those with physical and mental illness. Using a sense of irony and irreverence, he suggests a point of view, poses a question or tells a story. Writers have compared him to a modern archeologist who uses salvaged materials - television sets, plastic bags, liquor signs, grocery carts, oil barrels and fake luxury goods - to interpret the history and emotions attached to those "recycled" elements.

Since 2000, Ward has lived and worked in Harlem, collecting the neighborhood's discarded clothes and trash for use in his work. Included in Re-Presence are various signs that Ward has gathered and repurposed. A Chase Bank banner is morphed into AfroChase, replete with hair picks and cowrie shells. Massive neon signs that originally promoted "LIQUORS" now glow with a single pronouncement - SOUL. And a monumental installation Airplane Tears utilizes wall-mounted

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Jacob Lawrence (artist)
American, 1917 - 2000
Street to Mbari, 1964
tempera over graphite on wove paper
overall: 56.5 x 78.4 cm (22 1/4 x 30 7/8 in.)
Gift of Mr. and Mrs. James T. Dyke
1993.18.1
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From the Tour: African-American Artists: Collection Highlights
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In Street to Mbari, Jacob Lawrence captures the flurry of a busy outdoor market in Nigeria. Shops line either side of the street while a maze of vendors awaiting discovery fills the distance. The viewer becomes part of the scene amidst a crowd of people, young and old, buying and selling. One can almost hear babies crying, chickens squawking, and people chattering as they discuss fabrics and produce. A cacophony of primary colors heightens the sense of commotion. Rolls of fabric show off different patterns and color combinations. Strips of corrugated iron in varying sizes and colors form the shops' roofs and create a visual rhythm across the top of the painting.

Lawrence first studied African art as a young man in New York during the Harlem Renaissance. In 1962 he traveled to Nigeria on an invitation to exhibit his work. In describing the trip, he said, "I became so excited then by all the new visual forms I found in Nigeria—unusual color combinations, textures, shapes, and the dramatic effect of light—that I felt an overwhelming desire to come back as soon as possible to steep myself in Nigerian culture so that my paintings, if I'm fortunate, might show the influence of the great African artistic tradition." It was during a second trip there that Lawrence completed Street to Mbari.

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sd345 UK, May 31, (Pal Telegraph) Israeli attacks are crimes against Humanity

The Palestinian Return Centre (PRC) in London condemns the Israeli piracy attacks against the civilians on boards of Freedom Flotilla.

PRC, a co-founder of European Campaign to End Siege (ECESG) which is a partner in the freedom flotilla suggests that Israel reached the top stage of state lawlessness regarding International law.

Majed al zeer, General Director of the Palestinian Return centre expressed his deep anger towards the heinous crime of Israel.

“Israel is being encouraged by International community to continue its crimes against humanity. A number of UN reports since the start of the Palestinian plight passing by Jenin massacre in 2002 and lately Goldstone Report have been all rejected by the state apartheid of Israel. This pushes Israel reach a degree of madness to commit more crimes as it will never be held accountable” said al zeer

PRC condemns Israel Crimes against “Freedom Flotilla”

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¿y tu abuela, donde esta?

13 03 2010

ok, so. in clearing out my myspace page so that i could delete it (don’t judge me for having one to begin with), i found this essay-blog type joint that i’d written probably in 2006. it’s definitely a throwback, but no less relevant today. especially after the sammy sosa skin lightening debacle, and so on.

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La Vazquez: Puerto Rican Can Be "BLACK" Too!

Jan 21 | by Natasha

LaLa Vazquez wrote a personal note addressing all the drama that tends to ensue when people discuss her (and other Boricuas' for that matter) racial background. She says that while both of her parents are Puerto Rican, that makes her Puerto Rican. But she also says that doesn't mean she's not "black" as well. LaLa explains that black and Puerto Rican are not always mutually exclusive...and she schools people on her Latina heritage and what she teaches her son Kiyan. Her words when you read the rest...

A lot of people don't realize that I'm Latina, which is fine. One thing about being Latina is that there isn't one look that comes with the territory. I don't expect people to know my cultural background just by glancing at me. I do, however, expect that when I tell people my family is from Puerto Rico, that I will be believed and not accused of trying to be something that I'm not. It usually goes something like this: a person having a conversation with me discovers one way or another that I'm Puerto Rican and fluent in Spanish. That person then expresses their shock over these realizations for any number of reasons--common responses are, "You don't look Latina" and "I thought you were black!" I never said I wasn't black. And since when does being black and being Latina have to be mutually exclusive? In my experience, people tend to have an uninformed and rather narrow view of what it means to be Puerto Rican. For me, not looking like some people's idea of a typical Latina has been challenging and often painful. I constantly find myself trying to justify who I am, and why should I? I'm proud of my heritage and my family. Both of my parents are from Puerto Rico. They raised two kids in Brooklyn and later in New Jersey, where we ate arroz con gandules and pasteles and listened to salsa music. I feel just as at home in Puerto Rico, where I still have tons of family, including aunts, uncles and cousins. Puerto Rico is in my blood. And that has nothing to do with the color of my skin. I'm not angry with anyone who doesn't understand the complexities of race and culture. And I'm also not interested in having long, drawn out conversations about how it's possible for me to look like this and speak Spanish. In fact, sometimes I make it a point not to mention my parents' birthplace because I don't always feel like having the inevitable discussion that follows. Instead, I let people look at me and come to their own conclusions. As I start to get my feet wet in Hollywood, I already know that there are certain parts I won't even be considered for. The character can be Puerto Rican and speak Spanish just like me, but Hollywood defines Latina as Jennifer Lopez and Sofia Vergara. As beautiful as they are, we're not all one race in Latin America. But I don't go to auditions so that I can give history lessons to film executives. I'd rather skip the entire process. I'm raising my son to understand who he is, and it's my hope that he'll never let others define him. It reflects poorly on us when we don't educate ourselves about the rest of the world and what it looks like. I encourage people who are interested to learn more, do research and ask informed questions. If you're lucky enough to visit various countries in Latin America, you'll be baffled to see the blackest of the black and the lightest of the light living together. And I dare you to ask one of them to prove their latinidad.

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Costa Chica of Oaxaca

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La Costa Chica of Oaxaca (or Oaxaqueña) is a region of more than 50 municipalities on the extreme northwest coast of Oaxaca. Historically it has been tied culturally and economically with the corresponding region in the state of Guerrero and with Acapulco, in particular, rather than with the city of Oaxaca.^[1] The two principal reasons for this is that the coasts of Oaxaca and Guerrero states share a common history, and the construction of Federal Highway 200, which connects the coasts of both states. ^[2] The people are a mix of Mixtecs, Amuzgos, Afro-Mexicans and mestizos. ^[1]

Escaping slavery, many Africans came here to settle in this region, which at the time was isolated and relatively inhospitable. Perhaps for this reason, the region is well known for its independent streak and joy of life. Important towns/municipalities include: Pinotepa Nacional, Pochutla, Puerto Escondido, Puerto Ángel, Juquila, Santa María Huatulco, Jamiltepec, Tututepec, Pinotepa de Don Luis, Cacahuatepec, San Pedro Jicayán, Santos Reyes Nopala, San Gabriel Mixtepec, Loxicha, and Pluma Hidalgo.^[2]

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Afro-Mexican

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Afro Mexican
Total population

Notable Afro Mexicans: Vicente Guerrero • José Maria Morelos • Melvin Brown • Giovani Dos Santos • Pío Pico • Kalimba
2 million ~1.8% of the Mexico population^[1]
Regions with significant populations
Costa Chica of Guerrero, Costa Chica of Oaxaca, and small communities in Veracruz
Languages
Spanish
Religion
Christianity (Predominantly Roman Catholic, with a minority of Protestants, and African tribal religions)
Related ethnic groups
African people, Afro-Latin American, Afro-Brazilian and Mexican people

Afro Mexican (Spanish: afromexicano) is a term used to identify Mexican people of African ancestry or African descended people with Mexican ancestry. African Mexicans, now largely assimilated in the general population, have historically been located in certain communities in Mexico. They are currently found, most notably, along two coastal areas of Guerrero and Oaxaca called Costa Chica, as well as in small parts of Veracruz, Campeche, Quintana Roo, and Yucatán.

The term Afro-Mexican, as used in this article refers specifically to black African ancestry. The term is not widely used in Mexico outside of academic circles. Normally Afro Mexicans are called "black" (in Spanish negro).

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Please give me the history of the slang word "guinea" for an Italian immigrant.

The use of guinea as an extremely offensive ethnic slur directed against Italians or those of Italian descent is only one of several uses of this word.

The Mavens' Word of the Day

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Beachcomber-inspired buggy set for production, bosses confirm, classic Moke name likely to be used

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By Nick Gibbs

24th May 2010

The Moke is back! MINI bosses have given Auto Express strong hints that the buggy-inspired Beachcomber concept will be sent down the production line.

Designed to show off the new Countryman crossover, the stripped-down Beachcomber proved a massive hit when it was revealed at the Detroit Motor Show in January.

So much so that MINI is close to giving it the green light. Head of brand management Dr Wolfgang Armbrecht said: “We will come back to this to see if there

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Bugatti on the charge!

Sparks fly as 800bhp electric car is readied, promises amazing pace and zero emissions

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By Dan Strong

21st May 2010

It’s the shock new machine that looks set to change the way we think about electric vehicles… Bugatti has built an 800bhp battery-powered supercar, Auto Express can reveal.

The working prototype, believed to be based on the chassis of a Bentley Continental GT, features an advanced lithium-ion battery pack and two enormously powerful electric motors – which deliver an awesome 2,200Nm of torque from 0mph.

But while the existence of the newcomer has been confirmed to us by a high-level Bugatti source, it’s still not clear whether the car will ever be displayed to the public.

Insiders at the company have suggested that the model is being prepared solely to demonstrate the technology, and allow engineers to explore the ultimate performance available from electric cars.

According to one driver close to the project, the battery-run Bugatti delivers “absolutely unbelievable” acceleration, way ahead of that provided by other roadgoing vehicles. The problem the company faces is managing the huge amounts of energy discharged during acceleration and required to keep the batteries fully topped up. If the car is used to its maximum performance potential, the charge lasts “a matter of minutes”.

It’s not the first model from the firm to run on battery power. Founder Ettore Bugatti built an electric model called the Type 56, which he used to drive around the factory in Molsheim, France.

The Type 56 was never intended for production, but customer demand forced Ettore to reconsider and build it.

Few examples have survived, although Bugatti’s current president, Franz Josef Paefgen, did bring a copy of the car to the Frankfurt Motor Show last autumn. He drove it on to the stage ahead of the ultra-limited-edition Veyron Gran Sport Sang Bleu, to celebrate Bugatti’s involvement in building electric cars – and possibly pave the way for more in the future.

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Cook the Book: 'Recipes from an Italian Summer'

Posted by Caroline Russock, May 31, 2010 at 1:00 PM

Summer in Italy is truly a thing of beauty. Markets overflow gorgeous seasonal produce and the Italians really know how to take advantage of it. Recipes from an Italian Summer is made up of warm-weather recipes culled from The Silver Spoon, perhaps the most comprehensive volume on regional Italian cooking available.

The recipes have been selected based on their summer friendliness, nothing that involves sweating over a hot stove, just simply prepared dishes that make the most of a bounty of beautiful summer produce.

The dishes collected in Recipes from an Italian Summer are taken from popular Italian vacation regions including the beaches of Sicily and Sardinia and the picturesque countrysides of Tuscany and Campania. The book is illustrated with not only mouthwatering photos of the dishes but also photos of the regions where they originate that are enough to make you seriously think about an Italian summer vacation.

Everyday this week we'll be sharing ideas for light summer meals from Recipes from an Italian Summer such as a Farro and Shrimp Salad, Sea Trout stuffed with Almonds and Yogurt, and an intriguing Strawberry Risotto.

Win 'Recipes from an Italian Summer'

Thanks to the generous folks over at Phaidon, we are giving away five (5) copies of Recipes from an Italian Summer this week. All you have to do is tell us about your favorite Italian inspired summer recipe in the comments section below.

Five (5) people will be chosen at random among the eligible comments below. We're sorry, but entry is only open to residents of the U.S. and Canada. Comments will close Monday, June 7 at noon ET. The standard Serious Eats contest

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Market Scene: Chicago Green City Market

Posted by eataduckimust, May 31, 2010 at 4:00 PM

SLIDESHOW: Market Scene: Chicago Green City Market

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Over the weekend we enjoyed some nice 83-degree weather at the Green City Market in Chicago. City folks and chefs alike were out doing their daily shopping. For the 2010 season, there are approximately 55 vendors including new vendors Becker Lane and Dietzler Farms. And while you shop, bring your dull knives to Sharpening by Dave until June 19 to have them sharpened.

If you're an early riser, I recommend arriving soon after they open at 7 a.m. to find the best pick. Who knows, you might even run into Rick Bayless (he frequents the market). By 9 a.m., the market was already bustling with people shopping for local produce and meat, and enjoying the free chef demos. Check the Green City Market calendar for upcoming events. And before you do your shopping at the market, be sure to read these 10 tips on shopping at the farmers' market.

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About the authors: Alice and Jared are a husband and wife photography team that loves cooking, eating, traveling and documenting it all at www.EatADuckIMust.com.

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700-Hour Silent Opera Reaches Finale at MoMA

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Marina Abramovic in the MoMA atrium. In her performance piece “The Artist Is Present,” visitors sit in a chair silently facing her. More Photos »

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During that time her routine seldom varied. Every day she took her place just before the museum doors opened and left it after they closed. Her wardrobe was consistent: a sort of concert gown with a long train, in one of three colors (red, blue and white).

Always her hair, in a braided plait, was pulled forward over her left shoulder. Always her skin was an odd pasty white, as if the blood had drained away. Her pose rarely changed: her body slightly bent forward, she stared silently and intently straight ahead.

There was one variable, a big one: her

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Louise Bourgeois, Artist and Sculptor, Is Dead

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Louise Bourgeois, the French-born American artist who gained fame only late in a long career, when her psychologically charged abstract sculptures, drawings and prints had a galvanizing effect on younger artists, particularly women, died on Monday at the Beth Israel Medical Center in Manhattan. She was 98.

The death was reported by Wendy Williams, the managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio.

Ms. Bourgeois’s sculptures in wood, steel, stone and cast rubber, often organic in form and sexually explicit, emotionally aggressive yet witty, covered many stylistic bases. But from first to last they shared a set of repeated themes, centered on the human body and its need for nurture and protection in a frightening world.

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An estimated 25,000 people marched in Dallas, Texas, USA, in support of Immigration reform on Saturday, May 1, 2010. Perhaps 12 to 20 million people are living in the United States illegally...and a majority are from Mexico and other Latin American countries. To over-simplify the issue, it could be said that one side wants to lower the legal barriers for immigrants to come to, and stay in, the United States and provide a speedier route to citizenship. The other side, however, wants to deport people who are in the U.S. illegally, tighten border security, and toughen penalties on employers who hire illegal workers. Of course, the real issues are not that simple.

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The late actor dared to play dangerous, damaged men, while off-screen he remained a fascinating Hollywood outsider

The Leap

Next week, Teddy Graubard would have graduated from Dalton—a brilliant teenager, with a mild form of Asperger’s, whose path seemed almost limitless. So what led him to the window?

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Beachcomber-inspired buggy set for production, bosses confirm, classic Moke name likely to be used

By Nick Gibbs

24th May 2010

Bugatti on the charge!

Sparks fly as 800bhp electric car is readied, promises amazing pace and zero emissions

By Dan Strong

21st May 2010

Cook the Book: 'Recipes from an Italian Summer'

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