February 2012
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Bob Chisholm’s Lost and Found Photographs
Bob Chisholm has been taking photographs for decades, but didn’t display them until a 2011 show at The Popular Workshop gallery in San Francisco, Forgotten and Undisturbed. In fact, the gallery writes, most of “the work in the show was discovered in a crawl space in a home in Northern California, left untouched for more than a...
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The Quintessential American Burger Joint
The folks who’ve been working at New York City’s Prime Burger for decades say it’s a little like the mafia — once you’re in, you don’t leave. The restaurant has been in business since 1938, and the staff are in it for the long haul. This documentary is one in a series of short films, This Must Be the Place by Lost & Found Films,...
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Mohandas Gandhi: Life For A 21-Year-Old In Homs,... →
newsweek:
This is happening:
Maras, 21, awoke yesterday morning at 6:00 a.m. to the sound of bombs falling on his neighborhood.
In his world, the Bab Amro neighborhood of Homs in central Syria, this was not the part of his day that shocked him most. This was how it had been for the…
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“Nobody is telling male reporters to stay home despite the fact that they have...”
– Lauren Wolfe, journalist and director of Women Under Siege, in an interview with Torie Rose DeGhett. (via thepoliticalnotebook)
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The Daredevil Ingenuity of the All-American Soap Box Derby
This documentary about the national soap box derby of 1936 in Akron, Ohio, was sponsored by an assortment of newspapers and General Motors. Via the Prelinger Archive.
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I Am James Fallows. AMA →
James Fallows, our long-time national correspondent and former speechwriter for President Jimmy Carter, is diving into Reddit for a Q&A in r/IAMA. Ask him a question!
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“A year ago, Ohio ranked 48th in job creation. We trailed only Michigan and...”
– Ohio Gov. John Kasich, in his 2012 State of the State address. (h/t Emily Steiger for the submission)
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“I have occasionally acted as a kind of interpreter helping to bridge gaps of...”
– In which we learn Douglas Dong-Moon Joo, chairman of the Washington Times newspaper, has been “functioning as an informal emissary between the Bush administration and the despotic [North Korean] regime of Kim Jong-il.” (via newsweek)
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“We’re delighted to hear that Rep. Fleming is a regular reader of America’s...”
– The Onion editor Joe Randazzo • In response to the Republican Congressman who mistook an Onion article for the real thing. source (via • follow)
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