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Pirate Radio: Plot Overboard
Through the last fifteen years, British rom-com master Richard Curtis has proven himself a deft spinner of the screencraft, having wielded the pen behind such movies as Four Weddings and a Funeral, Notting Hill and the look-at-that-cast ensemble piece Love Actually. ... 364 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Hiroshima Charms with More Than Memorials
There is probably a weight of pilgrimage about Hiroshima that might make the decision to go there a mix of dread and obligation. Given its distance from Tokyo’s bustling glamour and the meditative calm of... 245 views | 31 recommendations | 4 comments
Culture War in Calgary?
With its western roots and oil wealth, Calgary has probably carved a unique place for itself among Canadian cities. Even nearby Edmonton, rival and provincial capital, seems to be a bit more at peace with itself than Calgary has during the summer of 2009. The flashpoints... The Media and MJ: News or Storytelling?
Since the death of Michael Jackson, the media has been investigating the intrigue, innuendo and grief that have surrounded his public life and sudden passing. There has been some discussion about the saturation coverage of all things Jackson over the last few weeks but... 152 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Calgary Airport's Grandiosity: White Elephant, Anyone?
Calgary City Council agreed to fund $90M of a proposed $287M required to construct a tunnel underneath a new runway to be built at Calgary International Airport. The city said it would also go to bat for the airport authority in the pursuit of other funding from the... 429 views | 0 recommendations | 0 comments
Calgary: Council's Weary Hamlet Act With Plan-It Vote
Despite being cited by urbanists near and far as how not to plan a city, or what happens when a city is not planned properly, there is still a great deal of uncertainty about whether or not the council will approve Plan-It, which calls for actions to be made to create greater... On the Eve of Post-Khamenei, Post-Twitter Iran
The futures of Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei are certain to be abbreviated in the aftermath of the street violence on June 20. Ahmadinejad and Khamenei have further isolated themselves from many of the clerics who hold their fate... Anxiety As All Eyes Turn to Tehran
A wave of green has washed over the avatars and wardrobes of the world in the last few days as attention becomes more sharply focused on the situation in Iran. After a week of Twitterers and their supporters trying to find a cyber-backdoor to get information out, one of... Calgary's Election Season Grows Longer
Newspapers and interest groups are issuing report cards, fundraising is kicking into gear, and a candidate for mayor has stepped forward, but it may take a September blizzard to get the voters involved. Tip O'Neill, eminent Speaker of the US House of Representatives once... 132 views | 11 recommendations | 0 comments
Khamenei Still in Retreat
Despite the best efforts to suppress the response to the reported results of the June 12th election, Supreme Leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei has still be forced to give ground. An inquiry into the election and a partial recount have both been called, but those carrots and... 93 views | 4 recommendations | 1 comment
Twitter as Public Domain
The social media/old media war continues both in Iran and in the west. Twitter continues to morph and respond to the events in Iran and perhaps even shape it while the Iranian government uses the state media...
created by Patrick Hanlon | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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350 views | 66 recommendations | 7 comments
Static Iran Headlines an Embarassment to CNN
CNN and the other major American news networks continue to provide muted coverage of the events in Iran during the Sunday am broadcasts of June 14. Even Fareed Zakaria's GPS, which CNN pitched as a source of... 219 views | 30 recommendations | 5 comments
