In Voting Booth, Race May Play a Bigger Role
The Ledger
Jesse Jackson’s senior adviser when he ran for president — and who worked in the civil rights movement in the 1960s and ... Obama might seize other issues — his age and level of experience, his positions on the issues, his cultural and ideo...
Things to do, places to go this weekend
The Star-Ledger
Festival Fall is here, and that means it's time for Chester's annual Harvest Festival today and Sunday from noon to 5 p.m. Events include a pet parade, an antique car show, a flea circus, a performance by Ballet Forte, live...
Master wordsmith
The Manila Times
Sionil José eases up on his chair smiling then waves the three of us to settle down. He greeted us with the warmth of an old comrade. Sionil José, who holds the distinction of being the Philippines most widely translated author is also an a...
China becomes "another planet" through reform
Xinhua News Agency
... changes, Hussain said, was Deng Xiaoping, who insisted over 30 years ago that "socialism does not means poverty," and his idea that the country should concentrate on economic development, not on political movement, as it did during the...
David Brooks: The class war before Palin
International Herald Tribune
Modern American conservatism began as a movement of dissident intellectuals. Richard Weaver wrote a book called, "Ideas Have ... As Fred Barnes wrote in his book, "Rebel in Chief," Bush "reflects the political views and cultural tastes of t...
60X60 highlights evolving cultural dynamics
Daily Times
60X60 highlights evolving cultural dynamics LAHORE: A project of Motiroti, 60X60, which explores the evolving cultural ... the South Asian Diaspora, 60X60 reveals a unique perspective on ‘home’ and boundaries in an age of migration and move...
Extreme athletes at LG Sports Championships will have rap/punk/alt ...
Seattle Times
Considered by many as the founder of the mash-up movement, DJ Z-Trip was recently named one of the top five DJs in the nation ... The Mayor's Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs is seeking to fill two City Hall gallery spaces in 2009. They ar...
The world needs the US to get over its cultural civil war - and fast
Guardian Unlimited
It is a cultural war, as critical to the kind of nation we will one day be as was the cold war itself." Later that year he ... as a battle between traditionalists ("T-Warriors") like himself and "the committed forces of the secular-progress...
Milken JCC hires new director; Heschel West receives US.gov award
The Jewish Journal of Greater Los Angeles
Paul Frishman, a 22-year veteran of the Jewish Community Center movement, has been tapped as the new executive director of The New JCC at Milken. He officially began Sept. 2.
4 more Yes The Filipino Can! awardees named
Philstar.com
Eleven Filipinos – men, women and institutions – will be recognized with RFM Corp.’s launching of the first “Yes The Filipino Can! Awards” tomorrow at the NBC Tent in Taguig.
August Wilson's 'Radio Golf' finishes cycle
San Francisco Chronicle
Written over 23 years and covering 10 decades of African American life, August Wilson's "Century Cycle" is an astonishing achievement. Not only is the 10-play cycle the most extensive accomplishment of its kind in American theater, but the ...