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- Photo Essay: Locked in Seattle
I was in Seattle last week for a talk at a conference. The organizers were offering a cruise around the...
- Play Review: Opus Prodigiosus
I was in New York recently, and whenever I'm there I try to catch an off-Broadway play, or a decent...
- Photo Essay: Old San Juan, Puerto Rico
One section of the capital of Puerto Rico - San Juan - has cobbled streets, brightly colored buildings and beautiful...
- Buddha-Inspired Kitsch...
...or "the puckish humor of Pop Art [combined] with the serene and cerebral qualities of Minimalism" [link]...
- Fiction: The Elevator - Part One
"Goddamm piece of shit!" he muttered under his breath, but just loud enough for the man next to him to...
- Is Life Black and White, Or Are There Shades of Gray?
I'm a big fan of Emmanuel Derman. Both he and I are in the same field (quantitative finance)...
- Satire: Gere-ing Up For Shilpa: A Fervent Appeal
Actor Richard Gere has sparked protests in India after kissing Celebrity Big Brother winner Shilpa Shetty at an...
- Movie Review: The Namesake (2007)
Mira Nair's The Namesake follows the life of Ashoke Ganguli (played superbly by Irrfan Khan) as he goes to the...
- Crime, Sociopaths and Revenge: Asian Film At Its Finest
I just saw The Departed. A few months late and a few dollars short (thanks to Netflix) but it was...
- My Big, Fat Indian Fiasco
While most people were (wisely) watching the Law and Order marathon on TNT, the RXGeek and I went to an...
- Movie Reviews: A Scanner Darkly (2006) and 13 (Tzameti) (2006)
Imagine that you never know the real identity of the people you work for, or even what they look like....
- Movie Review: The Last King of Scotland (2006)
Meet Nicholas Garrigan. He’s rich, young, and charming. Fresh out of medical school in Scotland, he wants what every...
- The Art of Blogging
For the last half-decade or so, a slow but steady transition has been taking place: A part of the internet... - Concert Review: Roger Waters Undiluted
Shoreline Amphiteatre, Mountain View, CA. October 10th, 2006. As we walked into a packed, sold-out stadium, you could almost smell the...
- Movie Review: Little Miss Sunshine - Drugs, Death and Dysfunction
Grade: B Here's an interesting recipe. Combine: (a) a failing motivational speaker; (b) his heroin-addicted father; (c) his Nietzche-obsessed step-son; (d)...
- For Name's Sake: Ten Years Since Bombay Became Mumbai
What's in a name? That which we called Bombay By any other name smells just as bad. - The Great Ganesha Hey, don't...
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