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Ulrich Seidl Begins His Paradise Trilogy with Lonely Love

BBC's One Life Unveils (and Anthropomorphizes) Nature's Wonders

Is This the End of the Culture War? Nah -- Too Much Money In It.

Recently at The Week, rightwing author Michael K. Lewis penned a provocative column called "The culture war is over, and conservatives lost." He was echoing what many rightbloggers have been saying since the recent election -- that after two consecutive victories by the Kenyan Pretender, conservativ ... More >>

Dinesh D'Souza's 2016: Obama's America: The Five Most Hilarious Lowlights

Leave It to Palin to Brighten Up Your Saturday with Dogs and Cocaine

It's been almost four years since Sarah Palin made her way onto the national stage at the Republican National Convention. But, since the defeat of her and McCain in the election, we have been gifted with the constant recurrences of the Alaskan personality. Yes, we DVR'ed Game Change, too.At fir ... More >>

Ice Cream Love and Tomorrow's 10 Best

Like most kids, I grew up eating ice cream. I also kept detailed, running lists of new flavor ideas, played between the lines of an ice cream factory during production, and made bets with my brother who could stay the longest in the walk-in freezer (bad, bad, terrible idea).

Afterbirthers Assemble! Rightbloggers Accuse Obama of NOT Being Born in Kenya

Remember the birther craze, based on the notion that Barack Obama was really born in Africa, and was therefore ineligible for the Presidency? Well, it's back, baby -- in mutant form. Someone found an old agency promo booklet for Obama's first, never-published book. The bio described him as "born in ... More >>

The Wall Street Journal Gets Africa Wrong

There's an interesting story in The Wall Street Journal about how we should get ready for a "Nigerian P.F. Chang's" because African food is the next big thing.There is only one largely unexplored continent left -- and it isn't Antarctica. With the exception of North African and Ethiopian cuisine, th ... More >>

VISIONS OF AFRICA

New cinema from the continent

Free Will Astrology: January 18 through 24, 2011

80 Arrested Saturday In Occupy Wall Street Protests; Second Avenue Subway Gets Graded; Marathon World Record Set

Nick Pinto​Approximately 80 were arrested Saturday in connection with Occupy Wall Street, according to the NYPD's press office. Throughout yesterday afternoon Occupy Wall Street used Twitter to chronicled arrests and various acts of force being used by the NYPD against protesters. They say at ... More >>

Luke Clark Tyler, Who Lives in a 78-Square-Foot Apartment, Tells Us Why

Luke's place. All of it.​Luke Clark Tyler has the claim to fame of being "that crazy guy" who lives in what may be New York City's smallest single apartment. He doesn't have a kitchen or a bathroom (of his own), but he does have 78 very well organized square feet. As the general New York City ... More >>

Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali Unveil Their New Gay Ice Cream Topping: Interview Part 2

Photo courtesy Takashi InoueCouples that cook together, stay together, like Takashi Inoue and Saheem Ali.​ Yesterday we spoke with Taskashi Inoue and Saheem Ali, partners and business partners at Japanese restaurant Takashi. They told us about how they met at the Roxy and gave us the lowdown ... More >>

The True Story, and False Uplift, of One Man's Quest to Read in The First Grader

Barack Obama Didn't Remove Ground Zero American Flag With His Freedom-Hating Hands

​"One minute to air and they decided to take the flag down from the live shot!" ABC News reporter Jake Tapper tweeted yesterday from Ground Zero, along with the image to the right. It was just after President Barack Obama's visit to New York City to celebrate the killing of Osama Bin Laden, so ... More >>

Kings of the Jungle get the March of the Penguins Treatment in African Cats

Geoffrey Mutai Runs Fastest Boston Marathon Ever

Mutai​The fastest Boston marathon ever has now been run by Geoffrey Mutai, who crossed the finish line while you were lazily sitting in front of a computer in your pajamas, or perhaps passively taking part in a PowerPoint presentation, or possibly commuting. Mutai finished his 26 miles and 385 ... More >>

A Handsome but Cursory Portrait of Animal Rescue in Born to Be Wild 3D

Is White America Going Infertile? The Tea Party Frets.

​Right Wing Watch alerts us that the Tea Party Nation sent out an e-mail blast this morning with a message from Rick Swier, who warned that the "The White Anglo-Saxon Protestant (WASP) population in America is headed for extinction and with it our economy, well-being and survival as a uniquely ... More >>

GOLDEN TICKET

A night with two young lit stars

Taking Altruism at Its Word in A Small Act

White America Has Lost Its Mind

The white brain, beset with worries, finally goes haywire in spectacular fashion

Nine Cuisines Missing from NYC

positiveictafrica.wordpress.comA typical Kenyan meal featuring the staple starch called ugali and fried fish​Morgan S. asks: I've been told you can get every cuisine in the world in New York City. Is that true? Dear Morgan: Well, almost. We've got at least 80 distinct cuisines by my estimate, ... More >>

Rightbloggers Stick It To The Man With Groovy Rightwing Revolution

Psst, brother! Are you down with the revolution? No, we don't mean the revolution of the Sixties -- though some of the star players in this one do dress like Paul Revere and the Raiders (and most of them are old enough that -- who knows? -- they may have have gotten stoned and marched on the Penta ... More >>

What I Eat: Around the World in 80 Diets by Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio

Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio​In 2006, Peter Menzel and Faith D'Aluisio wrote Hungry Planet: What the World Eats, a gorgeous book made up of portraits of families from all over the world pictured with the amount of food they eat in a week. Each chapter also included a family recipe and a br ... More >>

The Early Word: Kickstand Coffee, Williamsburg's First Coffee Bike

Mackenzie SchmidtKickstand sets up shop at McCarren Park.​In our many caffeinated years, we've committed every crime known to coffee--making old hot coffee into iced, reheating in the microwave, and mixing vintages (making new coffee over yesterday's lingering leftovers in the pot). We're not ... More >>

Orly Taitz, Top Birther, Cites a "Suspected Assassination Attempt," Applies for U.N. Protection

​Having had no luck in U.S. courts getting President Obama thrown out of office because he was born outside the United States, alpha birther Orly Taitz is applying to the United Nations for "urgent action under the mandate for human rights defenders." Taitz, who claims to have "been the victi ... More >>

Major Obama Birther Suit Thrown Out

​Top birther Orly Taitz has had her request to remove President Obama from office because he's from Kenya denied. Dave Weigel provides the decision. It is full of lovely passages in which we may imagine U.S. District Judge David Carter using the studiously patient tone with which David Letterm ... More >>

Is Obama Not a Natural-Born Citizen?

​The low-level debate keeps raging on as to whether President Obama was really born in Hawaii, or in Kenya, where the "birther" movement" of wacky cultists swear he actually derived. Well, it's not exactly raging on--it's actually sputtering out, with me giving it one last gasp of semi-credib ... More >>

Quick Hits

From the White House Flickr stream. Thanks, Camille! Oh crap: Sarah Palin has a Twitter feed. Couple caught having sex on lawn of Windsor Castle. It is not known whether the Queen was in residence. "It was going on for about 10 or 15 minutes," says a witness, "which is quite a long time, conside ... More >>

Will Run for Food

Based in the Bronx, some of the most successful athletes you've never heard of live to run away with your club money

Catholic League Defends Palin's Anti-Witchcraft Blessing

Interview: Sudanese 'Lost Boy' Rapper Emmanuel Jal

Toumast's Ishumar

African rebels fight intolerance with guitars

Kenyan Unrest, Jersey Style

Kikuyus, Luos, and Kisii in Jersey City nervously watch events in Nairobi

Breast Intentions

The Brooklyn Museum surveys the world's female artists

Gasoline Alley

Love Thinks: Intelligent Rom-Com a Deft Look at Race in L.A.

Rack Focus

ABCs in Africa: Dubious Doc Follows Inner City Kids to Kenya

Whodunit: The British Consulate Bomb

Nobel-Winning Wangari Maathai on Democracy

Amid frenzied talk of freedom, a seasoned voice from Africa

Remote Control

Caroline Link's African Odyssey

Coma Chameleons

Everyone Knows This Is Nowhere

Sibilant Siblings

Floor-Through Apartment Over Store

Giving It Away

An American Pharmaceutical Giant Offers to Donate an AIDS Drug to South Africa

Part 5: Death and the Second Sex

Pomegranate Dobson's Diary