Fearless Freaks, a documentary about Oklahoma City's finest rock band, The Flaming Lips, is a serious film about professional pranksters. Eric Waggoner writing in Detroit's alt weekly, Metrotimes, in May of 2005 says: Let me be direct: I'm a fan of the Flaming Lips,...
I'm loving Frontline's "News War" multipart documentary. Watching a 90-minute installment the other night on my local PBS station afforded me the opportunity to hear from John Carroll. Carroll, now at Harvard, was the editor of the Los Angeles Times and prior to that,...
Anna G. Arutunyan, an editor at the Moscow News, writing about the Russian blogosphere for The Nation, reports that 700,000 LiveJournal users post in Cyrillic, making them second only to English speakers. The LiveJournal community in Russia is known as Zhivoi Zhurnal,...
Jude Rogers from The Guardian crossed the pond and made her way to one of the more musical cities in middle America, Denton, TX. She writes, "Denton, like Nashville, Memphis, Seattle or Portland before it, is fast becoming an American musical heartland where something...
World Changing takes a close look at news that a consortia backed by Airtricity has committed to the construction of a 345-kilovolt transmission loop in the Texas Panhandle. The $1.5 billion Panhandle Loop will bring 4,200 megawatts of wind energy to more than one...