Years ago, I was bemoaning the difficulties of starting an Internet radio station: the royalty fees for broadcasting music online make it a difficult proposition for all but the most well-funded media organizations. Read more »
On any given day you can tune into a renovation show on TV and find instructions on how to personalize your home. More and more the market asks us to go beyond a well-built dwelling in a good location. Read more »
We’re over a decade into the digital music revolution, and there’s a million ideas of how to compensate artists in a post-label world, but no sure bet. Read more »
I am thinking about signing up for Bicing again. Forgive and forget, that’s my motto. Two years ago, I dropped my membership in a moment of frustration. Read more »
Think of that organic, fair-trade chocolate from Bolivia you buy regularly, or a beautiful hand-woven sweater you got from a collective in Peru. Read more »
Once a month on a Tuesday night, people convene at a Spanish dinner theater in the Silver Lake neighborhood of Los Angeles, but not just for the tapas and drinks. For the stories. Read more »
Before he invented the safety razor, King Camp Gillette was a futurist. In 1894, he published plans for a porcelain, hexagonal city with transparent sidewalks. Read more »
The domination of the American landscape by the car is so complete that it is difficult to envision cities and towns where bicycles form more than a token part of the transportation backdrop. Read more »
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