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“Maybe we just want too much,” one of the characters says in Zach Braff’s riveting realtime comedy/drama All New People. ” We want the million dollars and the kid robot. But isn’t the million dollars enough? I mean, we have our lives, isn’t that enough?” Apparently not, especially in light of this week’s most recent tragic loss of yet another gifted artist, Amy Winehouse. Apparently, as human beings, we want a lot

This week we had the great pleasure of making a dinner with writer/chef Samin Nosrat (formerly of Chez Panisse) at the famed Tartine Bakery. The bakery is not normally a restaurant, but once a month it closes and Samin throws a dinner party of sorts. For this “after hours” event, we harvested ingredients from three farms: Riverdog Farm, Sunny Slope Orchard, and Pluck and Feather — A diverse group of growers that showcase the bounty of the bay area.
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Munson Steed has more than just a unique name. He has developed an original “blueprint” to change the way Madison Avenue looks — from a cultural perspective. And that’s not the easiest thing to do given Mr. Steed’s busy

One of the great tales of Hollywood “censorship” remains little known today, nearly 65 years after it transpired. And who was right at the center of it? None other than President Harry S. Truman. He even got rid of the actor playing him in the MGM movie.
The 1947 MGM film, The Beginning or the End, deserves special review, however, as its filming overlapped with the suppression of the only film footage shot in Hiroshima and Nagasaki by the

As President Obama continues to push for an ambitious deficit-reduction deal in advance of the August 2nd deadline for raising the debt limit, one thing is clear: Medicare reform will be a critical part of any budget agreement — now and in the future.
And while essential to curbing our government’s rising spending, reform must be done in a way that protects policies and programs that work while eliminating or avoiding policies and programs that prove both costly and ineffective.
For conservatives, Independents and a growing number of Democrats, the Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB) that was created with the passage of last year’s health care law represents the worst of health care reform. IPAB would allow an unelected board to singularly enact spending cuts in the Medicare program through binding recommendations to reduce Medicare spending.
Last weekend,

Herding cats is easier.
That’s the sole lesson to date from our debt ceiling cliffhanger. The center is less than solid.
Some analysts have wrongly concluded that we have a leadership crisis. If President Obama or Speaker of the House John Boehner, their argument goes, would only threaten to either hold their breath until they turn blue — or threaten dire physical harm to those who voted wrong — then the majority would fall into line and resolve the issue.
That’s wishful thinking at best. The system hasn’t worked that way for

We asked dessert experts to recommend their favorite eco-friendly ice cream, so you can cool your palate and the planet at the same time.
LISA CLARK owns Petunia’s Pies and Pastries, a sweet shop in Portland, Oregon, that uses local ingredients in its high-end vegan desserts.
JAI KENDALL is the corporate pastry chef at Rosa Mexicano, a bicoastal chain of Mexican restaurants.
TAFF MAYBERRY is the executive pastry chef at Olivia in Austin, Texas. An ice cream connoisseur, he makes his own with all-natural ingredients.
“I’ve always loved the ever-expanding chest of flavors from Ben and Jerry’s. Their ecofriendly practices, like using non-rBGH-treated dairy cows and cage-free farm eggs, only bolster my affinity for them. I’ve always been a chocolate guy, and their Chocolate Macadamia flavor is supercreamy and rich and made with fair-trade-certified cocoa

Chocolate or vanilla? Are you kidding me? Milkshakes are the latest classic comfort fare to get a foodie-fied makeover, and we’re liking what we see. From bacon and bourbon to sweet potatoes and cereal, these creative innovations from chefs and bloggers around the country would make your grandmother’s milkshakes blush.
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Let’s nominate Bill Clinton for Treasury Secretary.
It’s an idea — a bigger one than usual, because, in many ways, Clinton as Treasury Secretary is a life-saver. Let me give you the case, although I think merely the thought of it is enough to make that case.
The former president spends an hour a day right now trying to grasp the economic challenges facing our country and the world. He does it as a thoughtful person who realizes the old campaign slogan of his, “It’s the economy, stupid,” is more vital than ever.
Here’s a man who presided over a fabulous economic period in American history, before there was the disastrous Bush policies that brought us the catastrophe in 2008. Long before there was the current job poor recovery, we saw

Every organization has a diverse group of personalities that respond differently to particular management styles. The creatives of an organization are often the group that stands out and may be misunderstood. How are creatives perceived in your company? What is the nature of the creative type, and how can they best be managed for the purposes of achieving innovation?
First, let’s describe what creatives are like. Highly charged creative types may act out or resist when they feel restricted by the confinement of corporate

News sources indicate that France has agreed to let Qaddafi remain in Libya if he cedes power. Qaddafi’s acquiescence notwithstanding, this is the best decision made by the Western powers so far in the Libyan conflict, not only because the offer presents a reasonable alternative to continued bloodshed in Libya, but because by discarding the politics of revenge for one of pragmatism, France may have created a powerful tool for negotiating with tyrants in other war-torn countries of the Middle East.
For many Muslim countries, successful revolutions lead to an endless quest for revenge on the ousted tyrant and his allies, which forestalls progress in the best case and begets new tyrants in the worst case. Egypt has not progressed since the removal of Mubarak, because a great deal of revolutionary energy is spent debating whether to hang Mubarak and his son, what to do with imprisoned cabinet members and other officials, and how to locate the fortunes stashed away by Mubarak and his

Washington DC — The political theatre surrounding debt talks took a strange twist this weekend at the White House when Republicans stormed out of the meeting, accusing President Obama of having the cooties.
With both the broad outlines and specifics of the debt ceiling negotiations having been settled for weeks, both Republicans and Democrats faced a common challenge: how to sustain audience interest until the last minute when the deal would be signed.
The original script for “Epic Clash” (as the mini-series became known inside the The White House) called for increasing levels of acrimony with a series of strident accusations and “disconnects” leading to dramatic break offs in the talks. But when Republican House Speaker John Boehner stormed out of talks last Friday, and ratings of the series plummeted, a script rewrite was the only real option, especially with the unfolding News Corp hacking scandal diverting audience attention. Even the carefully choreographed performance of a “visibly angry” Obama at his “hastily called press conference” failed to engage viewers who already had started settling into their weekend rituals of beer and baseball. Suddenly, the White House script writers knew they needed a game changer to revive audience

So, you love tweeting? Me too. But since we’re still in the wild wild west of Twitter, allow me to share a list of helpful suggestions for what NOT to tweet about. You’ll thank me later.
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When I heard about the passing of singer and songwriter Gil Scott-Heron last month, I was in Japan. It was mid-morning there, and late-night in New York when a few of my music-tweeting friends and acquaintances issued their RIPs to the man who coined “the revolution will not be televised.” I happened to be in Ishinomaki, the Japanese city worst hit by the March 11 tsunami. Staring at an iPad in the back seat of a parked car, I had been reviewing a series of amateur television clips of waves gulping up houses and cars, tossing boats like corks.
This natural disaster felt revolutionary, I thought. And it was being televised, again and again.
The earthquake and tsunami came at a time of unprecedented cell phone penetration in

For many years now in California we’ve witnessed an extremist Republican minority in the legislature hold the state budget hostage through manipulating the “two-thirds rule” that allows a legislative minority to dictate to the majority whether any new revenues can be raised. The debt ceiling gambit that Republicans in the House of Representatives have used to tie the U.S. government in knots in recent months is simply the California GOP’s tactic writ large.
Like Governor Jerry Brown and the Democratic leadership in Sacramento, President Barack Obama and the Democratic leadership in Washington will capitulate (after many paralyzing months of hopes for “compromise”) and enact an all-cuts budget with no “shared sacrifice” in the form of higher taxes imposed on the rich and

One of the problems that the Congress is encountering as it tries to raise the debt ceiling is that a significant number of Republican and Tea Party Members of Congress apparently hold the view that there actually would not be consequences for global markets or the US economy if we defaulted. This view is, of course, absurd — but it illustrates a larger problem.
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My mom recently asked me about meditation. I had three minutes to communicate this practice to her, over the phone, in a way that would both serve AND inspire her to continue a practice on her own. I was nervous and had no plan, but this is what I shared, and it feels right to share it here.
Lightning-fast meditation to balance your head and your heart — an actual, factual balance. Right now, as you read, feel how much energy it’s taking to read and process these words in your

After recovering from brain tumour and a life less ordinary, Rick Genest became increasingly fascinated by the frontiers between life and death. A performer and host at his own carnival sideshow, ‘Lucifer’s Blasphemous Mad Macabre Torture Carnival’, the artist-cum-model started Canada’s – and perhaps the world’s – most tantalising freak show. Crane.tv took some time to meet up with Rick Genest aka Zombie Boy.
The moment Nicola Formichetti spotted Genest through his Facebook page was

An 1893 article by the critic Arsne Alexandre described the art of Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec as “very spontaneous in its execution, yet very calculated in its conception.” Lautrec’s dazzling portrayals of Jane Avril contributed significantly to the reputation of the flamboyant dancer, who was nicknamed La Mlinite after a powerful explosive; she wrote in her memoirs: “It is more than certain that I owe him the fame that I enjoyed dating from his first poster of me.”
One of Lautrec’s posters of Avril, advertising an appearance at the Jardin de Paris, is among the most celebrated of all images of Paris’ famous dance halls. She is shown with her kicking right leg suspended in mid-air, her orange skirt billowing, her whole figure framed by the enlarged and distorted neck of a double bass in the foreground, as the hair of the musician playing it flies upward, as if carried away by the sheer energy of the enormous notes flowing across the sheet music visible just beyond his instrument. In a current exhibition at London’s Courtauld Gallery, a Lautrec gouache of Avril in precisely the same pose hangs beside the famous image — obviously a preparatory study for the poster, demonstrating clearly the truth of Alexandre’s claim that Lautrec’s art was “very calculated in its conception.” The nuanced colors and visible brushstrokes of the gouache disappear in the simplified image of the poster, which is characterized by the flat fields of color and strong, expressive lines that made Lautrec an early master of the fine art lithograph.
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Jane Avril, 1899
Colour lithograph, 56 x 38 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection, 1953.6.137
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Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec (1864-1901)
Jane Avril, 1899
Colour lithograph, 56 x 38 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington, Rosenwald Collection, 1953.6.137
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The Courtauld exhibition, Toulouse-Lautrec and Jane Avril: Beyond the Moulin Rouge, has nine of Lautrec’s painted images of Avril, and another five prints. All of his portrayals of Avril emphasize the grace and fluidity of her willowy body, and the dramatic poses and colorful costumes that she used to show it to best

President Obama did not say anything particularly new in his unprecedented deficit address to the Nation on Monday night. The most significant moment came not in an original announcement or last-minute proposal, but in the President’s request that Americans actually get up, get involved, and ask Congress to lay off the insanity.
“I’m asking you all to make your voice heard,” the President said near the end of the address.
“If you want a balanced approach to reducing the deficit, let your Member of Congress know,” Obama continued, “If you believe we can solve this problem through compromise — send that message.”
Even for a politician who ran on his (brief) history as a grassroots organizer, that is unusual. It may really help – there were reports of Congressional websites crashing from traffic spikes on Monday night, according to Huffington Post’s Howard Fineman.
The potential problem, however, is that while Obama admirably walked through the facts on deficits and default, he did not offer a clear, single, final offer for would-be supporters to rally around.
This was a speech that talked about the roads not taken as much as the road

As I write, there is still no deal in the debt ceiling impasse between Congressional Republicans and the president, so we can’t say who “won.” But we can definitely say who lost: America.
Even if we ultimately get the touted “Grand Bargain,” and even if it’s satisfying to both sides — the “Win-Win” Unicorn that Obama is always fantasizing about — it’s not going be grand for anybody who correctly identifies unemployment and our economy’s anemic growth as the biggest crises we’re facing.
Indeed, no version of the Grand Bargain we’ve heard so far will have any impact on the real problems that are affecting people’s lives right now, or even in the foreseeable future. After the champagne has been uncorked and lots of backs have been slapped in DC, the lives of regular Americans will not be better — indeed, they will almost certainly be worse. President Obama likes to say, as he did during his Twitter forum in early July, that “everything is on the table.” But that was never true, because jobs and growth never even made it close to the table.
What’s more, these extended, deadline-pushing theatrics are utterly unnecessary. There was no reason an agreement on the long-term deficit had to be coupled to raising the debt

President Barack Obama and House Speaker John Boehner held dueling prime time addresses to the nation and even disagreed on whether there was a stalemate over the debt ceiling. That is the problem in a nutshell.
President Obama, for the most part, was cordial while speaking from the White House East Room. He laid out the debt ceiling crisis facing our nation’s economy and called for compromise and a balanced

Last week’s independent review of the BBC’s science coverage was a major setback for climate denialism, concluding as it did that the BBC has given far too much weight to unsubstantiated claims. But one point has been largely overlooked in the extensive news coverage and commentary about the report: climate denial activists had actively campaigned for the investigation in the first place. That campaign has clearly backfired.
The review was announced in early 2010 as a response to heated public debates on the coverage of controversial issues such as climate change, genetically engineered foods, and the MMR vaccine. In particular, the BBC’s coverage of the 2009 email hacking scandal known as “climategate” sent denialists into fits of apoplexy, charging that the BBC had not given the story the prominence they believed it deserved.
Unlike other mainstream British media corporations, whose political leanings if not overt biases are well understood, the BBC is expected to be

One might imagine that a young adult who blogs for the Huffington Post and attends New York University would end up with a summer job. I don’t blame the extremely competitive job market for my unemployment. There are fatal flaws that I made, ones that I will be correcting next summer when I return to California from school.
My first mistake was aiming too