America’s true past time is comedy. We might not have superior dramas, the scariest horrors, or the most tear-jerking love stories, but we know our comedy. If America’s true past time is comedy, then Dave Barry might be our Joe DiMaggio. The former syndicated columnist, whose work appeared in more than 500 newspapers, has long [...]
Performance review day—boss either criticizes past slip ups you can’t change, or gives vague, unhelpful praise. Sound familiar? UCLA business school professor Samuel Culbert believes most reviews leave subordinates feeling deflated—while managers give passing marks to underperforming employees to keep their own ratings from slipping. Culbert says we should shift to forward-looking performance previews, where [...]
Gay cowboys may be forever defined in pop culture by Brokeback Mountain, but the characters played by Jake Gyllenhaal and Heath Ledger in Ang Lee’s 2005 film aren’t as anomalous as they seem. For their current exhibit, The Autry National Center has mined its permanent collection, to profile gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgendered people in [...]
She’s known as NPR’s librarian, and her knowledge of literary works is so legendary that a librarian action figure has been modeled after her. Nancy Pearl is truly a “rock star” librarian—an author, bookseller, commentator and literary critic who transcends librarian circles to become a trusted voice on all matters of reading advice and critiques. [...]
After the conclusion of the broadcast, audience members asked questions of panelists, including how the Muslim Student Union and Anteaters for Israel can cooperate or collaborate at UC Irvine, and whether contention over Israel is a political or religious issue. Read the Full Story at KPCC Blogs
New research has doctors worried that more and more of us are deficient in vitamin D- a hormone our body produces when it’s exposed to sunlight. Could sunscreen be one culprit? While the smelly cream is essential to protect our skin from aging and skin cancer, some doctors say it is providing a barrier between [...]
Arguably the world’s most widely read Spanish-language author, Isabel Allende is back with a new book, this time bringing elements of her signature magic realism to bear on the violent birth of Haiti. <i>Island beneath the Sea</i> follows teenage slave Zarita (know as Tété) from her arranged marriage to a Frenchman to freedom in a [...]
The idea is to assure that the candidates with the greatest number of votes square off in state elections. Instead of having a Republican and a Democrat face each other, the system would allow for a slate of candidates and the two highest vote takers would battle it out on a general election ballot. Proponents [...]
Soon after graduating from Smith College and working as a waitress to try and find herself, Piper Kerman was smuggling drug money for a West African drug lord and in way over her head with what even the most liberal of parents would have called “a bad crowd” – ten years later those poor choices [...]
When DreamWorks was founded in 1994, it was the first new Hollywood studio in 60 years. Headed by director Steven Spielberg, music mogul Jeffrey Katzenberg, and ex-Disney executive David Geffen, the company set out to build a media empire dedicated to talent and where employees didn't have titles that was dedicated to talent. DreamWorks had [...]
