Dude, You Are So (Not) Obama

 
(NY Times)
By Douglas Quenqua

LAST week, if you wanted to use the latest slang to tell a friend he was cool, you could have called him “Obama,” as in: “Dude, you’re rocking the new Pre phone? You are so Obama.”
This week? Best not to risk it.
The sudden shift in meaning has nothing to do with the [...]

The Lincoln Center Fountain Is Being Taught Some New Moves

(NY Times)
By Robin Pogerebin

In the new Lincoln Center fountain, the rim has become a thin but strong band that is suitable for sitting.
Preservationists who have voiced concern over the changes being made to Lincoln Center in its redevelopment may be alarmed to learn about one in particular: The centerpiece of the performing arts complex, its [...]

Oasis: is it really over?

(The Guardian)
By John Harris
Oasis are finished, says the rumourmill after they suddenly cancel a concert. But it’s just business as usual between Liam and Noel Gallagher as the two fall out (again)

Liam and Noel Gallagher in concert in Milan in November.
For thousands crowded into a field near Chelmsford, Sunday’s news must have been deflating, to [...]

Bob Dylan’s satnav would take us to Desolation Row

(The Guardian)
By Mark Beaumont
Dylan’s career has taken some strange directions. Perhaps that’s why he’s been asked to voice two satnav systems

How many roads must a man walk down … to avoid the works on Upper Street?
The question of precisely how many roads a man must walk down before you can call him a man has [...]

Speed Dating

Event information
Tagline:15 dates in one weekend
Host:Ali J.
TypeParty – Cocktail Party
Time and place
Date:30 August 2009
Time:19:00 – 21:30
Location:Le Little Saigon
Street:No. 141 Jiu Gulou Dajie Yi, 旧鼓楼大街乙141号
Neighbourhood:东城区(Dongcheng)
Phone:1591 0908 891
E-mail:speedatingbj@gmail.com
Description: Do you have a date this weekend?
How about 15 mini-dates?
Then why not let us speed you through 15 dates on the rooftop of Le Little Saigon overlooking Gulou?
You’ll be [...]

Hao Yun – “There is sound in this city”

Event information
Tagline:Listen to the music of this city
Host:Fan Yiqiang
TypeMusic – Concert
Time and place
Date:27 August 2009
Time:20:30 – 0:00
Location:Yugong Yishan, 3-2, Zhangzizhonglu, Dongcheng District
Street:愚公移山 北京市东城区张自忠路3-2号（段祺瑞执政府旧址西院）
Neighbourhood:东城区(Dongcheng)
Description: Listen to the music of this city
Beijing is a city full of sounds. With so many buildings, cars and people, the buzzing melodies they create collide and invade our ears. For those [...]

Shanghai Metro’s New Operation System

By Stephen Woods, English Teacher, Shanghai Dianji University
The newly introduced public information service system on the Shanghai Metro uses LCD screens as a vehicle to adhere to the city’s drive for informatization and the desire to immerse the public in an electronic media environment 24-7.
Greater access to city-wide digital information and the profusion of LCD [...]

Are Americans China’s New Migrant Workers?

By Paul Bacon
There was a recent New York Times article about American graduates heading to China in search of new opportunities. It was a pretty interesting piece, but, at first, it had me wondering. “What’s the big deal?” I asked myself, “Surely, Americans have been coming to work in China for years?” This certainly is [...]

China’s Big Political Picture Writ Small For Business

I am not generally a fan of extrapolating the way a country conducts its politics to the way its enterprises conduct its businesses even in China where so many businesses are government owned. I am not saying it cannot be done, but I generally find it too complicated for too little value. David Dayton, a guy [...]

China: Where East Eats West.

Whirlwind China entrepreneur and friend Sam Goodman has a great and blissfully short book out on how to do business in China. I say blissfully short not because I did not like his book (because I did), but because its shortness is one of its strengths. Most people wanting to learn the ins and outs [...]