| February 14th, 2013 |
This post comes to you from Ashden Directory Kellie Gutman writes: Chasing Ice a film about National Geographic photographer James Blalog’s quest to document the melting glaciers, has received an Academy Award nomination for Best Song. The film, directed by Jeff Orlowski, chronicles Blalog’s three-year project setting up time-lapse cameras to
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| January 31st, 2013 |
talking withBrooklyn Museum employee Peggy Johnson
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Wallace Heim writes: In New York last week, Mierle Laderman Ukeles, artist in residence since 1977 for the New York City Department of Sanitation, conducted a series of live interviews with Brooklyn
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| January 16th, 2013 | Comments are closed 
Bronze-winged jacana. Photo: India nature watch
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Kellie Gutman writes:
The state of Orissa, located in east-central India, was once known for having six seasons. Not only were there six, Grishmar (summer), Barsha (rainy), Sarata (autumn), Hemanta (dew), Sisira (winter), and Basanta (spring),
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| December 31st, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Kellie Gutman writes: OVERVIEW is a short documentary with near-constant views of the earth from space interspersed with comments form astronauts, philosophers and writers. The word “overview” is used to refer to the astronauts’ views of the earth. It was released December 7th,
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| December 23rd, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory Wallace Heim writes:
Theatre critic Kate Abbott in today’s Guardian joins Michael Billington in reporting a life-changing experience watching Ten Billion at the Royal Court.
Like the facts that Stephen Emmott presented, Abbott can recite the well-polished
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| December 19th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Stephen Emmott in Ten Billion
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Michael Billington in today’s Guardian nominates Ten Billion as the ‘most momentous theatrical performance’ of 2012. The show was a lecture by Stephen Emmott, at the Royal Court
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| December 6th, 2012 | Comments are closed
Melting Glaciers in the Himalayas (Credit: top-10-list.org)
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Kellie Gutman writes: Unable to pass up the opportunity to submit an “Environmental Turkey of 2012” in the form of a limerick, to the Nicholas School of Environment contest at Duke
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| December 2nd, 2012 | Comments are closed
Eve Mosher: High Water Line
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The Talk of the Town in the New Yorker last week was all about Sandy. Elizabeth Kolbert framed her piece on the impossibility of flood protection around an artwork by
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| November 5th, 2012 | Comments are closed This post comes to you from Ashden Directory
Kellie Gutman writes: With War Horse coming to the end of its run in Boston, the theatre critic for the Boston Globe, Don Aucoin remarks on the dearth of war dramas on stage. He writes:During a decade when the United States was mired
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| October 24th, 2012 | Comments are closed
Celeste and Joey, courtesy the Boston Globe
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Kellie Gutman writes:
War Horse opened in Boston on October 10 for a two-week run. The traveling Broadway production, which originated at the National Theatre a few
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