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
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
Pre-Implantation Diagnosis: An Inevitable Quest for Human Perfection?
by Siavoche Siassi With the rapid progress of modern-day medicine, one would be hard-pressed to find a scientific advent that has not brought with it a number of far-reaching implications for society as a whole. Recent developments in the human genome project have yielded a number of scientific procedures which only half a century ago would have been considered outlandish. A … [Read more...] about Pre-Implantation Diagnosis: An Inevitable Quest for Human Perfection?