By Lindsay Meyer If you don't let the trucks and traffic and sprawling, rude, mayhem of Los Angeles drive you insane, you can actually find some pretty serene places. The Office in Santa Monica is one I have recently discovered. Okay, let me set the geographical technicality to rest: Santa Monica and LA are not one and the same. But San Vicente and 26th Street, The … [Read more...] about Inspiration with Caffeination
Archives for 2008
The Farmer’s Market: New Crowd, Old Cham
By Kathy Brenneman Rodeo Drive, Hollywood and Highland, the Sunset Strip-such glitzy hotspots are the habitual playgrounds of L.A.'s trendiest. What attraction, then, could a neighborhood market hold for this chic young crowd? In a mysterious departure from their world of glamour, these youthful Angelenos have begun congregating at the Farmers Market on the corner of 3rd and … [Read more...] about The Farmer’s Market: New Crowd, Old Cham
Objectivity in Television War Coverage
By Matt Seuferer "Only the dead have seen the end of war." -Plato The epigraph of Black Hawk Down (2001) sits boldly on the screen, announcing its anti-war contention. Fade into almost dreamlike, slow-motion shots tinted blue to emphasize despair. Powerful images of a country in the grip of civil war and forced into famine bleed into each other: starving children with … [Read more...] about Objectivity in Television War Coverage
A Return to an Ethical Analysis of Free Trade
By Carolyn Davidson Adam Smith is often credited for prescribing unrestricted trade as an economic policy to improve societal welfare. Such ideas now dominate economic policy as over one hundred regional free trade agreements exist. However, the modern day neo-liberal manifestation of free trade would have surprised Smith; as such capitalist ideas have no ethical foundation, … [Read more...] about A Return to an Ethical Analysis of Free Trade
Electornic Elections: Who and What Can We Trust to Count the Votes?
By Dylan A. Tredrea Following the contentious 2000 presidential election, politicians scrambled to solve the embarrassing national public problem of the outdated voting machines still in use throughout most of the country. Realizing that state and local election officials were under-managed and often under-funded, Congress quickly passed the Helping Americans Vote Act … [Read more...] about Electornic Elections: Who and What Can We Trust to Count the Votes?