In 2005, Joksimovic paired with the Bosnian singer Dino Merlin for a duet, Supermen. Joksimovic composed the song, his words as expressed in the video present a tour of the spectacular countryside.
Over the years, some movie scenes were successful in dissuading me from eating meat. I share a few of those scenes today. Whatever Happened to Baby Jane tops the list.
This band is hardly new—they have created buzz among the Persian disaspora and music afficianodos since they were founded in a Tehran basement in 2003. The buzz is pretty strong in Iran, too, apparently. Just don’t let the wrong person hear you play Kiosk’s tunes.
Move over Joan Crawford and the old decadent Hollywood days! The Green Production Guide offers its users a searchable database of vendors with information about their green products, services, their production experience, and locations they serve.
In September 2008, we visited Montevideo, Uruguay, for a couple days during a trip to South America. After visiting the cemetery where my great-uncle is buried, we asked the taxi driver to drop us off at one of the most special places I have ever encountered during my travels.
Yesterday, on a warm Sunday afternoon, we joined a few hundred people who walked to remember Dr. Marc Abrams. The Walking Man of Silver Lake passed away last week unexpectedly at a very young age of 58.
Dr. Marc Abrams unexpectedly passed away Wednesday at the age of 58. A successful physician who was a lover of history and classical music, he was known in these parts—affectionately—as the “Walking Man of Silver Lake.” Every day he walked about 14 to 20 miles, along Hyperion, Rowena, Silver Lake Boulevard, and Sunset.
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While South Africa celebrates being the world’s stage, the event is offering some interesting attempts at showing that a mega-event can have a reduced environmental impact.
Have you been shamed by someone who mocked you for buying goodies at Trader Joe’s, therefore buying from an old codger billionaire German? Got glum looks because you love watching Glee, which broadcasts on the evil empire called Fox? You’ve been C-A’d. Someone subjected you to what Andrew Potter calls “conspicuous authenticity.”
This is tonight on PBS: thanks to a GGP reader who kindly passed it on!
I saw Garbage Dreams, a documentary at Turning the Tide, a great conference put on by the Institute at Golden Gate, the think tank for the National Parks Conservancy. It is about the Zabaleen people of Cairo, they collect and recycle [...]
Sitting through tonight’s show, I realized that by improving the lives of millions across the globe, we will be ending much human misery, the consequences of which cannot be quantified.
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