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David Berkeley: Some Kind of Cure

These new songs suggest travel and transience, as if he’s trying to captures fleeting moments of stillness and stability. “Homesick is hard when you don’t know just where it is that you call home,” he sings on the starkly acoustic “Homesick.”  read more

The Self-Serving Wine Machine: Go Green and Get Tipsy at the Same Time

For this, Bacchus smiles upon France....  read more

Quelle Tragédie! McDonalds to Open at France's Louvre Museum

Ah, McDonald's: Those golden arches are the ubiquitous symbol of cheap, convenient American grub. Or perhaps the universal symbol for high-fructose corn syrup? And with the U.S. market saturated (fun fact: the furthest you can get from a Mickey Dee's in this country is 107 miles), their fast-food empire has spread overseas, becoming a reliable shorthand for the ever-creeping tentacles of globalized consumerism. Case in point: McDonald's has just announced that they've cracked a market that was previously thought to be nigh-unassailable: the Louvre museum in Paris....  read more

Poetry Above the Clouds

A group of foreigners sneaks into the World Trade Center. Some are dressed in suits, others disguised as construction workers. They’ve got some bulky equipment with them—ominous and ambiguous—and they bring it to the top of the building, evading the security...  read more