… and to keep a strong leader in the fight against climate change in the battle: We need to unite and spread the word! Photo by Todd Wilson For a week, my friend Denyse Dookie, had planned for a group of us to go to the Film Forum (here in New York) to see The [...]

Movie of the End of the Weekend, numéro 4, January 22nd 2012 Angels in the Dust (2007) – Director: Louise Hogarth Filmmaker Louise Hogarth’s documentary Angels in the Dust chronicles one of the most uplifting yet unsung stories of our time: that of the Botshabelo Orphanage outside of Johannesburg, South Africa. Founded by Marion and [...]

Movie of the End of the Weekend, numéro 2, January 8th 2012 Network (1976) – Director:Sidney Lumet For our second week, let’s have a look at the movie that offered gorgeous Faye Dunaway her Academy Award. Here she is, amazingly stylish, the day after receiving her Oscar. While watching Network, (not to be confused with [...]

After all the New Year’s Eve festivities, let’s take a moment to look back at 2011: In the midst of all it brought to us, a few things popped out to our editors as their favorite 2011 discoveries, check them out! Diana Cenat The film Drive and 90.7 WFUV “What can I say about Drive? [...]

The UN treaty on climate change — our best hope for action — expires next year. But a greedy US-led coalition of oil-captured countries is trying to kill it forever. It’s staggeringly difficult to believe: they are trading short term profits for the survival of our natural world. The EU, Brazil and China are all [...]

The Kenyan environmentalist who began the Green Belt movement to reforest her country by paying poor women a few shillings to plant trees in 1977, and who went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, past away on Sunday. We want to honor her life, work and dedication to [...]

Who: Malia Mills What she does: Honolulu born, New York city based, Swimwear designer Where she is: At her W38th street studio, NYC Photos by Britt Kubat What’s on her mind today: Looking forward to a late lunch with my sisters, visiting from the west coast. What she is currently working on: Sorting through the [...]

Jane Evelyn Atwood was born in New York and has lived in Paris since 1971. In 1976, with her first camera, Atwood took as her first subject the universe of the street, on the rue des Lombards, after her encounter with Blondine, a prostitute of the neighborhood. For over a year, she spent evenings and [...]

My Little Princess opened yesterday in the french movie theaters. The semi-autobiographic film by Eva Ionesco, starring Isabelle Huppert and introducing striking Franco-Romanian Anamaria Vartolomei, depicts the troubled mother daughter relationship Ionesco went through as a kid, while being her mother’s fetish model. In her debut feature, initially presented during Cannes Critics week, last May, [...]

Air France-KLM has announced that it will start flying planes in September using a blend of kerosene and used cooking oil. More than 200 flights between Paris and Amsterdam will be the first to embrace the alternative fuel. The fuel, produced by Dynamic Fuels while it’s served across by SkyNRG, doesn’t warrant any changes in [...]

1 Refugee without Hope is too many Crowded into camps built to house 90,000 people that are now “home” to more than 300,000 Somali refugees in Dadaab, Kenya, urgently need additional assistance and more shelter. Photo courtesy of ©Nenna Arnold/MSF, Kenya 2011 New arrivals are surging as well, walking from neighboring Somalia, 80 kilometers [48 [...]

Following up on yesterday’s post on the announcements of the Global Commission on Drug Policy, let’s look into some potential solutions. The commission said decriminalizing certain drugs would help nations “safeguard the health and security of their citizens.” It said this recommendation applies especially to marijuana. So far, due to the United States and the [...]

Following on Mia’s Blog post about Lucy Siegle’s book To Die For: Is Fashion Wearing Out The World?, posing us all the question “where do our clothes come from?” , let us do a quick focus on one of the issues: Child Slave labor in cotton production: This happens all over the world: Just some [...]

One of Amnesty International’s greatest achievements in its 50 years of human rights work has been to bridge the gap between people whose human rights are violated and those people who are prepared to campaign on their behalf . Just only in its second year of existence, in 1962, British journalist and lawyer Louis Blom-Cooper [...]

Our fellow brooklyner took over “la croisette”, the famous promenade in Cannes, during last week’s film festival. Theophilus had more than one reason to be excited about Flying Overseas to the film festival: For one, his unique sound was introduced to a large audience in France through the very popular canal+ program, Le Grand Journal. [...]

The City of Seoul appears to be on the verge of canceling one of the debut events of its glitzy new culture center built on floating islands in the Han River – the June 2 global launch of the fall and winter line of the Italian fashion house Fendi. “We have received complaints from animal [...]

In Louisiana, since 2008, teaching creationism in science class of the Public Schools is legal. Most of times this teaching go hand in hand with teaching climate change denial. All scientists, as well as most liberal Protestants, the Roman Catholic Church and even a minority of conservative Protestants, accept either theistic evolution or naturalistic evolution: [...]

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How do kids react to the knowledge of being in the 11th hour? Well, some take action! Photo (c) Tom Giebel On may 5th, sixteen year old Alec Loorz filed a lawsuit against the United States of America, for allowing money to be more powerful than the survival of the next generation, and for making [...]

In this beautiful track, PJ Harvey explores themes of war and conflict between nations over a jumpy xylophone riff. In an interview earlier this year with the AV Club, she discussed her writing style and the inspiration for her album Let England Shake. “I wanted to tap into the emotional quality [of war],” she said. [...]

Last month, Egyptian blogger and activist Maikel Nabil Sanad was sentenced to three years in jail for insulting and publishing false news about the military. His crime was writing a recent blog post that criticized the lack of transparency in the military. This month, more than 800 participants from around the world are converging in [...]

Mark your calendars, on June 21, Sufjan Stevens‘ label Asthmatic Kitty will release Scott Ogden and Malcolm Hearn’s documentary MAKE on DVD. It takes us on a journey into the lives of American self-taught artists: Prophet Royal Robertson, Hawkins Bolden, Judith Scott, and Ike Morgan. All consumed by obsessive art making, their interwoven stories reveal [...]

President Obama just spoke from the white house to confirm this breaking news: “Last week, I determined that we had enough intelligence to take action and authorized an operation to get Osama bin Laden and bring him to justice,” Obama says, looking straight into the camera. “Today, at my direction, the United States launched a [...]

Discover the latest video for Lykke Li’s “Sadness Is a Blessing”, from the BNM’d Wounded Rhymes. The clip was directed by Tarik Saleh, an Egyptian-Swedish television producer, animator, publisher, journalist and film director, who in early 90s was one of Sweden’s most prominent graffiti artists; and features Swedish actor Stellan Skarsgård (Good Will Hunting, Mamma [...]

Any band named after a short story by Leo Tolstoy’s great-grand-niece is bound to intrigue us. “Okkervil River,” by Tatyana Tolstaya, follows the plight of a middle-aged bureaucrat and his obsession with an obscure singer. When the vocalist turns out to be a timeworn shell of her former self, the story becomes a meditation on [...]