What Really Happened At Hiroshima

140,000 people died instantly when the bomb on Hiroshima was dropped. Most, if not all, of the photos you seen growing up in America are of ruined buildings and scarred countryside. It depersonalized the tragedy because we didn’t see bodies. A Japanese photographer took such photos and they were found in a [...]

“Rising Down” - The Roots CD Review

“When Things Fall Apart” was released in 1999 it didn’t take much to figure out that the album was an allusion to Chinwe Acheba’s classic book by the same title. “The Tipping Point,” released in 2004, likewise was an allusion to a book popular at the time by Malcolm Gladwell. “Rising Down” refers [...]

Is Your Daily Life Enslaved by the Electronic World?

“This morning on a crowded bus I counted six people within my immediate view, texting, talking on the cell phone, checking e-mail, listening to iPods. In other words, they were trying to keep the bus from being their only space, their only reality. And what was I doing? I recorded what I observed in my [...]

From The “Wierd” File - Mariah and Nick Cannon?

“Nick Cannon is cast as Mariah Carey’s lover in her new video — but has the superstar diva given the young actor a considerably bigger role in real life?
“According to several published reports, Carey, 38, married Cannon, 27, on Wednesday. Neither Carey’s publicist nor Cannon’s manager returned requests from The Associated Press for comment.
“If the [...]