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As a growing number of manufacturers compete to meet consumer demand for thick, tangy Greek-style yogurt, it's not only the yogurt that's getting strained.
The economy is really bad, Jay Leno told his "Tonight Show" audience in March.
Garage sales are for treasures. Museums are for the ages. Mayme Clayton spent a lifetime scouring one so her son could build the other.
The new HBO series “Hung” premiered this summer with scenes of abandoned Detroit factories and a voiceover lamenting how the city has gone to seed — along, we soon learn, with the life of the show’s protagonist, Ray Drecker.
Herman Joseph's eyes light up when he lists some of his favorite clothing lines: True Religion. Rock & Republic. 7 For All Mankind.
From the wow to the weird, Michael Jackson leaves a fashion legacy to rival his musical one.
A Wall Street firm loses billions of dollars, nearly destroying its business and crippling the nation's economy. But top executives still receive huge bonuses?
When word spread that Brazil was going to be the guest of honor at the Riyadh International Book Fair, a Saudi official had to reassure the public that the Brazilians wouldn't be dancing the Samba at the 11-day event that opened recently.
The young Afghan woman in a headscarf spends all day staring at other women's bodies and Hindu idols on her computer screen, then covering them up.
More than 25 years ago, a visiting small-town judge stashed a tape recorder in his cowboy boot and came away with shocking evidence of bribe-taking and bagmen in Chicago's courts.
Federal prosecutors' stunning allegations of corruption by Gov. Rod Blagojevich on Tuesday once again reminded the nation of Illinois' shameful history of crooked governors.
Washington Mutual Inc. is a feisty, tinier competitor to big, conservative JPMorgan Chase. But after WaMu collapsed on Thursday, JPMorgan Chase is the new owner of its banking assets. Here's a look at the two companies, which combined will make the nation's second-biggest bank:
Washington Mutual is known for its no-thrills, no-fees, unconventional banking with a hip, neighborly feel. Its nickname? WaMu. Its tag line? Whoo hoo!
Snowmobiles are good. NASCAR is very good. Football metaphors about God are better. "Sam's Club Republicans" are the salt of the American earth. Hollywood, the media and academics are suspect at best, subversive at worst. Though not as bad as European ideas.
Apparently, the warning applies to everyone, from college student Danielle Gonzales to Barack Obama’s adviser, Valerie Jarrett: Don’t walk and text at the same time. Gonzales, a 19-year-old sophomore at San Diego State University, admits she’s stumbled more than once while sending texts on the street. “I’ve definitely tripped over things sometimes like the little cracks in the ground,” she said. “I have to remember to look up.”
If you want a good glimpse of the multiracial experience in America, get inside Louie Gong’s skin.
It’s amazing the difference a well-placed conservatorship makes. In just a matter of months, Britney Spears has gone from the train-wreck spotlight to landing a recurring guest spot on a hit TV show, to hitting the gym regularly and, well, just staying out of trouble all together.
Israeli police on Tuesday broke up a Palestinian event meant to promote Jerusalem as the world's next "Arab Cultural Capital."
Even if baseball and the players union agreed to every recommendation in the Mitchell Report tomorrow, stemming the use of performance-enhancing drugs will be a long-term project with no easy solutions.
When people start talking about rappers and supermodels shunning the dollar, you know there's a problem.
Filmmakers and producers plan to document Mississippi Delta culture later this month.
At NASA, once again, the problem is its culture — a habit of dismissing the concerns of knowledgeable underlings.
From the dawn of the space program, America's astronauts have been treated like stars, saluted as red-white-and-blue heroes, and indoctrinated in NASA's can-do, failure-is-not-an-option ethos. Could that explain the downfall of Lisa Nowak, the astronaut accused of attempted murder? Were the expectations too high? The pressures too great?
Remember those in need Thanksgiving traditions can become routine, but however you celebrate today, don't take your circumstances for granted.
Culture (Not Just Genes) Drives EvolutionThe researchers found that most people in countries widely described as collectivist have a specific mutation within a gene regulating the transport of serotonin, a neurochemical known to profoundly affect mood.
Language is Power: Let Us Have OursOnce, while travelling through many remote communities on the Tanami Track, an old man said to me, "Come speak my language and I'll speak yours".
BBC News - Google to digitise artefacts at Iraq National MuseumThe internet search giant, Google, says 14,000 images of the precious artefacts kept in Iraq's National Museum will be available online from early next year. Google's chief executive, Eric Schmidt, said the world should see Iraq's rich heritage and contribution to culture.
I am well into the preparation of my household's Thanksgiving Feast (I mean that literally) and I thought I would take a moment to talk about this holiday. I love it!. This is the only Holiday we go all out for.
The Death of the HipsterThis struck me as a really interesting question: Is it that outsider groups are the only ones that make possible new forms of cultural capital? And thus hipsters are always necessary to the powers that be, that in an endlessly repeating pattern of co-optation hipsters serve as ag …
Prostitution & The Healthcare BillWe can thank the Drudge Report for directing us to ABC News reporter Jonathan Karl's brief but extremely important piece whose title "The $100 Million Health Care Vote?" calls to mind the truth that since antiquity, politicians have never had a single scruple against whorin …
Salute to Dell Hymes, Linguist and Anthropologist, 82Dell H. Hymes, a prominent anthropologist, linguist and folklorist whose work mined the rich, often overlooked territory where language and culture intersect, died on Nov. 13 in Charlottesville, Va. He was 82.
With all due respect, Mr President: he's big on respect, but...After respectfully bowing to the emperor of Japan last week, President Obama travelled on to China where both countries agreed that "the fundamental principle of respect for each other's sovereignty and territorial integrity" was at the core of China-US relations.
Complete Works of William Shakespeare ~ 197 Plays, Poems & SonnetsComplete Works of William Shakespeare ~ 197 Plays, Poems & Sonnets and it's only 99¢
The 'College City,' DefinedThe quintessential college town is lush and lined with quaint boulevards. It's Ann Arbor, Mich., Charlottesville, Va., and Boulder, Colo. It's dive bars and bookstores and movie theaters that still charge less than a meal.
What went wrong? Feminism and freedom from the prison of gender rolesI contend that most of the unnecessary suffering in human life, the suffering due to clinging, aggression, and bewilderment rather to birth, aging, sickness, and death, is due to the prison of gender roles, which is why freedom from that prison, not new reformed gender roles, is …
The Fear Of "Offending" Is Now A Threat To All Of UsDespite all the exhortations to report suspicious behavior in a post-9/11 world, we have seen the creation of a perilous climate in which the fear of offending has overtaken common sense even when lives are at stake.
Nothing Means What You Think It MeansHow do we find meaning, and what is the real significance of pop culture? This article touches on Michael Jackson, Claude Levi-Strauss, Ferdinand de Saussure, Noam Chomsky, and Terry Eagleston.
Five Things the U.S. Can Learn From China... The U.S. may be one of the world's oldest capitalist countries and China one of the youngest, but you couldn't blame Obama if he leaned over to Hu at some point and asked, "What are you guys doing right?"
When everyday expletives aren't good enoughA few alternatives to our most popular obscenity
Immigrants to get 100,000 kroner incentive to leave DenmarkThe Danish People's Party (DF) has strengthened its immigration stance by securing an agreement to pay 'anti-social' foreigners 100,000 kroner to leave Denmark.
The day my name got changedA good commentary on culture, balance and succeeding in the United States.
Is the internet stifling new music?The internet may have been a miracle for music fans, Duran Duran star John Taylor says, but instant access to decades of recordings and artists' inner thoughts is not all good.
An act of appalling cowardice We don't know why Faleh Hassan Almaleki came to this country in the mid-1990s, and it's unlikely he'll be able to tell us anytime soon. He's in jail in Maricopa County, Ariz., at this writing, in lieu of a $5 million cash bond.
First, I want to present one of the "Hardest Working Moms in Goth Metal Music": "LENNON" A Brief History Condensed From Her Own Words:
Gays are Going About it All Wrong Hey gays, I mean guys, can I talk to you for a minute? Last Tuesdays loss in Maine was a tough blow. 31 states have now shot down gay marriage. Here's the thing, you are going about it all wrong.
100 Things Restaurant Staffers Should Never Do (Part 1)By Bruce Buschel/ New York Times
Let Them Eat DogBy JONATHAN SAFRAN FOER Despite the fact that it's perfectly legal in 44 states, eating "man's best friend" is as taboo as a man eating his best friend. Even the most enthusiastic carnivores won't eat dogs.
Everyone in the world mistakenly believes they are seeing the same reality. In one sense, reality is a static situation but how it appears to us will depend on what we read into it, and that is decided by our individual perception.
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