5. "Black Friday," Steely Dan
This single from Steely Dan's Katy Lied album contains all the hallmarks of classic Dan: complex though warm chord progressions, eye-opening musicianship, and a lyric that betrays modern urban anxiety.
4. "Friday Street," Paul Weller
Former Jam and Style Council main man Paul Weller's "Friday Street" arrived on 1997 Heavy Soul LP, [...]
By John Curley
The shortlist for the 2010 Barclaycard Mercury Prize was announced this past Tuesday, July 20th, at The Hospital Club in London. BBC 6 Music DJ Lauren Laverne did the honors. The Mercury Prize is an annual event that honors an album picked by a committee of music-business people as the top album [...]
Stylist Rachel Zoe fielded a range of questions on a conference call on Tuesday and she ended up discussing everything from "Mad Men" to Karl Lagerfeld to fall trends. Zoe admitted that she hardly sits down in front of the television but that if she had to style one series it would, in fact, [...]
Don Blankenship, whose Upper Big Branch coal mine had been cited hundreds of times for safety violations before it blew up in April killing 29 workers, came to the National Press Club on Thursday to face the Washington press corps -- but not in order to express contrition.
Oh, no. There was none of that.
Instead, the [...]
In 2005, Harvard University president Lawrence Summers got himself into hot water. Speaking at a national conference on "Diversifying the Science and Engineering Workforce," the former Clinton treasury official suggested that the relative scarcity of women in science careers might be explained--at least in part--by a gender difference in intrinsic aptitude for the sciences.
Summers [...]
When's the last time you got something in the mail that wasn't a bill, advertisement, general flyer or catalogue? Even more to the point, when's the last time you received a personally addressed, hand-written envelope, containing nothing other than Love? When did you receive your last Love Letter?
Mail carriers around the world are toting [...]
HAGATNA, Guam — Authorities in the U.S. territory of Guam have turned away a ship after thousands of spiders overflowed from its cargo.
The Guam Department of Agriculture said hundreds of large spiders and thousands of smaller ones were seen when stevedores began offloading insulation and beams for housing units from the ship, the M.V. [...]
The controversial website WikiLeaks collects and posts highly classified documents and video. Founder Julian Assange, who's reportedly being sought for questioning by US authorities, talks to TED's Chris Anderson about how the site operates, what it has accomplished -- and what drives him. The interview includes graphic footage of a recent US airstrike in Baghdad.
You [...]
VEGETABLE torte was not in my repertory until recently. I thought there was something a wee bit fussy about it, something a bit ’80s. But I kept encountering these non-pastry cakes and enjoying them, so it was time to make one of my own.
Getting it right takes a little time. You really must grill [...]
Unfortunately, proponents of an empathic science must endure the perennial charge from critics that they seek to denature science, destroy its objectivity, and hold it hostage to the emotional whims of sloppy investigators. What do philosophers such as Goethe, or psychologists such as Kohut and Maslow, know about doing science? The criticism can be vehement. [...]