Tag Archive for the term: youth

Here’s a great video from the very addictive Ted talks. In this talk, we meet Dave Eggers, the founder of independent publishing house, McSweeney’s, who along with publishing great contemporary novels also put out The Believer magazine, Wholphin DVD series, Voice of Witness, and the McSweeney’s Quarterly. All of these publications are unique in their […]

I’ve got plans to head over to the park later tonight for a picnic with some friends. Before I leave, I thought I’d share these videos of Amy Winehouse. This is not an ironic, “I love to hate Amy” post. Rather it’s an attempt to present the part of her that is musical.
There are hundreds […]

Sunday evening I was doing some reading at Casa and slowly found tables and chairs being pushed aside and buffet trays and boxes of books carried in for the launch of Yalla, a book published as “A Youth Response to the Israeli-Palestinan Conflict”. More than willing to have an excuse to put down my “Book […]