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Meaning of Jessica Ennis, the Face of the London Games By June Thomas Posted Monday, Aug. 6, 2012, Team GB’s Jessica Ennis shows off her gold medal. Photo by Alex Grimm/Getty Images for adidas. For all the excitement of Mo Farah’s Saturday night 10,000-meter triumph, and as impressive as it was to watch Bradley Wiggins…
First Images Of Mars Released
Gallery Going Gets Social: TechCrunch ?s ArtSpotter TechCrunch, the start-up news site, has a crush on ArtSpotter, the app that is meant to help gallery goers find works they like. The app has done a pivot, as they say out West, and become more social. The new focus is about discovering art through the…
Lots of powerful relationships are made at the Olympics. But perhaps none is more significant than the swimmers that together make Phelpte. Feel the love. 1. Relationships can develop a push-pull quality when partners are in the throes of an Olympic bromance AND fiercely competitive at the same time. Here Lochte may pull away, but…
One day when I was drawing a young girl, I suddenly noticed that the only thing that was alive was her gaze. The rest of her head meant no more to me than the skull of a dead man. One does want to sculpt a living person, but what makes him alive is without doubt…
Car Waiting There is a big difference between “shock and awe” and disruptive innovation. Shock and awe is a superficial and short-lived gut response. True disruptive innovation changes the course of the way we see, think or do things. The core of all art is expression of the deep self. If, in following your deepest…
Everyone loves smut, says Patty Marks of Ellora’s Cave, who turned kinky fiction into millions before E.L. James It might seem that women reading super-smutty romance novels is a new phenomenon, thanks to deafening buzz around the series whose name cannot be spoken. (Fine, “Fifty Shades of Grey.” There! I said it.) But to Patty…
Perhaps some Assange-bashers are envious. Despite his legal problems, he’s the host, director, and producer of a program that makes us care about his predicament—even if you’re not a full-fledged fan. We’re finally getting a chance to know this guy, through the questions he asks and the way he asks them Julian Assange prepares…
The sex on “Game of Thrones” has been the topic of much discussion throughout the first two seasons of the hit HBO series. It has sparked debate about gender roles and sexism on TV, inspired critic Myles McNutt to coin the term “sexposition” –- using sex as a backdrop for exposition about back story or…
NOTES FROM THE FIELD Date: June 6, 2012 Reporting From: U S A The big news out of New York City these days is Mayor Mike Bloomberg’s proposed ban on the sale of soda drinks over 16-ounces (about 1/2 liter) at restaurants, movie theaters, sports stadia, street carts, fast food chains, etc. Bloomberg stressed that we have a responsibility…