The Nation, Mother Jones, NPR, and CIR: The Non-Profit Business ModelRE: The Nation, Mother Jones, NPR, and CIR: The Non-Profit Business ModelIt is great for us outside the US to be able to listen to NPR and read the Nation on their websites. Go global!Informative ArticleThis is great and informative...
When I agreed to write about school lunches for the magazine Mother Jones, conventional wisdom tying junk food to childhood obesity was so rampant that I could have produced a serviceable story with very little research. Reading newspapers and talk When I agreed to...
Last night, here in New York City, the National Magazine Awards were announced. Among the usual suspects (The New Yorker, National Geographic, Vanity Fair, Atlantic, Rolling Stone) were several winners with an alternative business model. The non-profit Mother Jones won the award for general excellence in...
FOOD AND BEVERAGE CLOSE-UP-8 June 2009-Slow Food Nation Scheduled for Labor Day Weekend in San FranciscoC2008 - CloseUpMedia - newsdesk@closeupmedia.com Slow Food Nation, the largest celebration of American food in history, will take place in San Francisco over Labor Day weekend, August 29 to September...
"Boys are born but men are made" is the subtitle of "Equinox," a film that's an Oakland product. That makes the two-hour film by Baayan Bakari appropriate as the opening feature for the Oakland International Film Festival that begins Thursday and runs until Oct. 16. The film...
A CYCLIST has raised more than pounds 1,000 for charity after a gruelling 140-mile trip. Kevin Jones took part in the coast-to-coast event to collect money for the North Tyneside branch of the Alzheimer's Society. He said: "The Alzheimer's Society kindly funded a respite break for...
LUSBY, Md. -- Child-sized human remains uncovered in a basement freezer were those of two girls that had been there for months, their adoptive mother told investigators. Authorities said Monday they believe she is responsible for their deaths. Sheriff's deputies were investigating an abuse complaint regarding a...
Abortions in the United States fell 33 percent between 1974 and 2004, but sizeable differences among racial and economic groups continue to exist as to who gets an abortion, a new report says. While the number of abortions among teens has also dropped dramatically, down 50 percent, abortion rates are...
A GROUP of women are celebrating after they completed a relay swim across the Channel to raise money towards building maternity clinics in Afghanistan. The six women, who range in age from 26 to 64, arrived on the French coast near Calais after setting off from Dover. Clare Doyle, 64,...
Criminal Procedure Waiver of counsel BOTTOM LINE: Circuit court's failure to advise criminal defendant as to one charge, upon his waiver of counsel, did not require reversal where defendant was not convicted of that charge and was properly advised as to charge of which...
Prior to Sunday morning service, churchwarden Philip Turner read a letter from Parish Priest, the Rev Jim Hunt, explaining how his holiday on Iona was disrupted by news of a stroke affecting his mother-in-law Joyce Horsfall. Joyce will be laid to rest tomorrow at St Paul's Hanging Heaton and friends...
She can bring home the moose, fry it up in a pan, and never, ever let you forget that she's the No. 2 Republican. OK, so when is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin going to pull ofi those librarian glasses and expose her Supermom suit, or reveal that...
JONES, Frewin. The lost queen. (Book Two of the Faerie Path.) HarperCollins, Eos. 335p. c2007 978-0-06-087107-9. $8.99. JS To quote the review of the hardcover in KLIATT, September 2007: Anita Palmer/ Tania, Princess of Faerie returns to the mortal world on a quest: to find her Faerie mother,...
GAIMAN, Neil. Coraline. Adapted & illus. by P. Craig Russell. HarperCollins. 192p. illus. c2008. 978-0-0608-2543-0. $18.99. hardcover. JSA* Coraline Jones lives in an old house with her parents. She's bored--it's raining, her mother is grouchy and school doesn't start till next week--so when she opens the bricked-up door...
You could almost see the smoke coming out of Mayor Nutter's ears all the way from Denver. "This is outrageous!" Nutter said last night during a phone call from the Democratic Convention. "It is a disgrace!" What got Nutter fuming - yet again - was yesterday's filing of a class-action...
Deep Cut Traverse Theatre, Edinburgh Last chance to catch this tightly woven piece of verbatim theatre about the deaths of four young recruits at Deepcut barracks. Ends Sun Hamlet Courtyard Theatre, Stratford-on-Avon David Tennant is captivating as Shakespeare's complex hero in...
Obama's choice The Nation USA *Obama needs a running-mate with foreign policy "stature". That's not a governor, and it's probably not Evan Bayh - whose record of accomplishment in the Senate can best be summed up as "Democrat from Indiana". So that leaves Joe...
Closet expert and style maven Melanie Charlton Fascitelli has always had this thing about fashion and being organized. And she's fairly certain where the influence came from. "My mother, who was born and raised in Pittsburgh, was the great organizer and gave me my...
Maybe it's a compliment for gun-control groups to have been spied upon by so formidable an adversary as the National Rifle Association. That doesn't make it any less despicable, though, for an active volunteer in the gun-control movement in Pennsylvania and elsewhere to work as a paid spy for the...
Is Shia LaBeouf the next Lindsay Lohan? The ex-Disney (and “Indiana Jones”) star already had a drunken shopping spree in Walgreens last year, and his recent DUI got so much ink, it was like Paris was headed back to jail. LaBeouf’s pickup truck hit a car that reportedly ran a...
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