John Silber, the bad-boy former president of Boston University, has a new screed out, a book entitled Architecture of the Absurd. It's an attack on the excesses of ego-crazy architects, who put up...
A visit from the Oberlin Baroque Trio to Town Hall Monday night underscored a strength of Seattle's musical scene as an "early music" city. Probably only Berkeley and Boston are the equals of Seattle...
I've written about so-called "nature deficit disorder" and the fact that old-fashioned summer camps – classic overnight camps that focus on nature and the outdoors – are becoming an endangered species...
Two different acquaintances recently e-mailed me links to Despair, Inc. I'm sure this is because I blog about quirky items, not a suggestion that I am the target customer for the Austin-based purveyor...
As the Internet behemoth introduces more online services, it's finding ways to gather data about you that are increasingly expansive, specific, and valuable. Is it time to get nervous, or should we...
