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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Once you remove the pixie dust of female camaraderie, contemporary New York emerges as an essentially pre-feminist society in which the courtship rituals are strikingly similar to those depicted in the novels of Jane Austen. Women are second-class cit…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Last year, one of my friends asked pairs of strangers in a bookstore to pick out their favorite books, which he then purchased so they could exchange them. My brother gave his hundred to a friend so he could make the most “tricked out guitar pedal in …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFrom Superdome to Superlove”Few people know that New Orleans is the vagina of America. Few would suggest it. “It is fertile. It’s a delta. And everyone wants to party there,” explains Eve Ensler, activist, feminist icon - and the author of The Vagi…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“ONE OF New York’s primary sources of pride, for at least a century, has been its superabundance of small book, music, and art shops, which have done so much to keep the city’s cultural life close to the street. These little palaces of culture have…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking” The Digital Monument to the Jewish Community in the Netherlands is an Internet monument dedicated to preserving the memory of all the men, women and children who were persecuted as Jews during the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands and did not surviv…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Everyone loves the idea of the libraries: they are the “envy of the world”. The many endowed by Andrew Carnegie at the turn of the century have frequently been cited as the inspirational and practical source of both culture and education for many, and…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingK-Heads & K-Cramps”The K-hole has been described as an endless dimension to explore, and that’s exactly what it is. Space, time and language either have no meaning or become ridiculously distorted. It can seem as if you are travelling through time …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Consider the condition of the stranger in mid-18th-century America. “Public authority,” writes Sandoval-Strausz, “was deeply invested in policing people’s comings and goings.” Innkeepers were often required to notify officials when strangers…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Humans have always migrated and travelled, without necessarily living nomadic lives. The nomadism now emerging is different from, and involves much more than, merely making journeys. A modern nomad is as likely to be a teenager in Oslo, Tokyo or subur…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Freemales’ - manless women who are happy to remain so for the present at least - are now a force to be reckoned with and are overturning the dated Bridget Jones image of the lonely woman staring despondently at an empty Chardonnay bottle. They are too…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“The total collapse of Gabriel Torres’s life and career has distressed the few people in the AIDS Establishment aware of his plight. “It’s just one of the biggest tragedies I’ve ever seen. This is a guy who had absolutely everything going for h…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“They work long hours, often to exhaustion. Many are paid by the piece — not garments, but blog posts. This is the digital-era sweatshop. You may know it by a different name: home. A growing work force of home-office laborers and entrepreneurs, armed…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Visiting my mom’s office building as a child, I often found small birds with freshly broken necks in the hedges outside, lying compacted and still, like sleeping babies. One hundred million birds are killed each year in the United States by collisio…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Visiting my mom’s office building as a child, I often found small birds with freshly broken necks in the hedges outside, lying compacted and still, like sleeping babies. One hundred million birds are killed each year in the United States by collisio…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe Helsinki Complaints ChoirFinnish artists Tellervo Kalleinen and Oliver Kochta-Kalleinen collected the pet peeves and angst-ridden pleas of people in Helsinki and then composed this choral work around the list of complaints. Music composed by Esko G…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Perhaps becoming aware that this attempt to portray her bedtime routine as boringly normal may not strike a familiar chord with happily married people everywhere, Madonna tries to paint her CrackBerry habit as an essential aspect of Being Madonna: “I …
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“Whose was this extraordinary idea? Tony Wright’s–the 47-year-old manager of Ron Eager House. “If,” he said, “you’re a rough sleeper, to get benefit they make you go through hoops because you have no address. You’re ten minutes late, you don’t get it….
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I was quickly to become weary of my encounters with celebrities, which were endless. There tended to be remarkable similarities in the breed. On the whole, celebrities, I discovered, have large craniums - literally big heads (if you took a…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingEkow EshunCreative director of the ICACan you judge a man by his manbag?Increasingly so - urban man can be divided between those with a bag, and those without. I would ask questions about a man without a bag - I don’t know how he could manage.Dermot O’…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingA Modest Proposal To Save New York Cool “Has the hipster killed cool in New York? Did it die the day Wes Anderson proved too precious for his own good, or was it when Chloë Sevigny fellated Vincent Gallo onscreen? Did it vanish along with Kokie’s, I…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingThe EntourageMme Sarkozy will not be the only member of the President’s entourage adding glamour to the visit. The party staying overnight at Windsor Castle will include France’s Secretary of State for Justice, Rachida Dati. The second of 12 children o…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“State and federal prisons are packed with victims of the drug conflict. A new report by the Pew Center shows that 1 of every 100 adults in the U.S. — and 1 in 15 black men over 18 — is currently incarcerated. That’s the world’s highest rate of imp…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“On my first weekend last fall, I eagerly shut it all down on Friday night, then went to bed to read. (I chose Saturday because my rules include no television, and I had to watch the Giants on Sunday). I woke up nervous, eager for my laptop. That forbi…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“I see this tendency to ignore the social and political struggle in the works of wildly popular writers such as Eckhart Tolle, who has repackaged Vedanta for the masses. In Tolle’s recent book, A New Earth, he writes: “We are coming to the end not …
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingFunsultants & Funcilitators”Any Genesis subscriber knows that hard toil was originally conceived as a curse. God broke the news to Adam that he’d be forced to stop lounging naked while snacking on fresh fruit—that meals would now be served by t…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingSizing Up Cultural Intelligence”Here are sample statements used to measure cultural intelligence. Subjects are asked whether they strongly agree, agree, disagree or strongly disagree. A) I am good at understanding other people’s feelings. B) I accept d…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingIt’s Not About Britney”“It is not going to be called the ‘Britney Spears Law,’ I am not going to give her credit for that because it is not about Britney Spears, it’s about the paparazzi violating everybody else’s rights, freedoms and privile…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingNYMag: Spring Fashion 2008: The Technicolor SeasonThe Anti-Anna: Profile French Vogue editor Carine RoitfeldLindsay as Marilyn: a failed attempt by Lohan to recreate The Last Session of Monroe by Bert Stern; the 36 year old Marilyn looks remarkably you…
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from Lou @ Moving and Shaking“MUSIC has the power to delight the listener, improve well-being and uplift the soul. But sounds have more malign uses too. The beauty of the music produced by the Sirens of ancient Greek legend drew unwary sailors to their doom on the rocks. And in Br…
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from Lou @ Moving and ShakingPolice are hunting an armed robber aged up to 70 years old who held up a post office in Manchester. The woman, believed to be …
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