Here’s some of our top picks for stories in culture:
Fast Comapny: The Lowline, New York’s Revolutionary Underground Park, Says Let There Be Light – The Kickstarter-funded project to open a park in an abandoned underground trolley terminal takes a step closer to reality this weekend, as the organizers debut amazing tech to bring enough sunlight underground to grow plants”…Continue Reading
Salon: Venezuela’s tribe massacre mystery – CARACAS, Venezuela “” A couple of weeks ago, the world’s press took a swipe at Venezuela for its failure to properly investigate a massacre of indigenous people in the dense Amazon jungle.”…Continue Reading
AP: Latest Developments in Protest of Anti-Islam Film – Here’s a look at protests across the Middle East on Thursday, three days after crowds angry over an anti-Muslim film began assaulting a string of U.S. embassies in the region”…Continue Reading
Food & Wine: F&W’s Masters Series: Lessons from Cake Experts Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito – Bundt cakes, layer cakes, whoopee pies, brownies and chocolate chip cookies””classic American desserts never had advocates like Matt Lewis and Renato Poliafito. The co-founders of widely beloved New York City bakery Baked have also authored two immensely popular baking books, with a third out this fall called Baked Elements: Our Ten Favorite Ingredients. A fourth is even in the works, inspired by””what else?””vintage American cake recipes. Here they talk everything cake-related: the ideal ratio of cake to icing, what defines a perfect icing and why our country would be better off with no more cupcake shops”…Continue Reading