by | Jul 7, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from WIRED JULY 16, 1965: MONT BLANC TUNNEL OPENS by Keith Barry 1965: After 19 years of planning and construction, the Mont Blanc Tunnel officially opens. The new tunnel stretches 7 miles, linking the French town of Chamonix and the Italian town of Courmayeur. Buried...
by | Jun 12, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The LA Times A history of California’s missions By CHRISTOPHER REYNOLDS 1542 Spanish explorer Juan Rodríguez Cabrillo sails into San Pedro Bay and claims the California coast for the king of Spain. 1697 Spanish Catholic missionaries from the Jesuit order begin...
by | Jun 11, 2018 | Bright Shiny News, Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The San Francisco Chronicle Publishers embrace, and ponder, audiobooks’ rise HILLEL ITALIE, AP NATIONAL WRITER NEW YORK (AP) — As the audiobook market continues to boom, publishers find themselves both grateful and concerned. The industry gathered over the...
by | Jun 10, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The Village Voice “Won’t You Be My Neighbor?” and Mister Rogers Insist Humanity Can Be Better Than This by LARA ZARUM If your cold, cold heart doesn’t melt at some point during Won’t You Be My Neighbor?, the documentary about Fred “Mister” Rogers, well, I don’t...
by | Jun 9, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from the LA Times via Bristol Herald Courier One of LA’s oldest community gardens thrived for decades. Then the water wars began By Joe Mozingo For more than 40 years, Italian, Mexican, Croatian, Filipino, Indonesian and Laotian gardeners have built productive...
by | Jun 8, 2018 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Preventable Tragedies By Andrew Solomon Anthony Bourdain was almost inconceivably high-functioning; the gap between public triumph and private despair is treacherous. Photograph by Mike Coppola / Getty The pattern of highly accomplished and...
