Here’s some of our top picks for stories in culture:
Fathom: Pantelleria: Italy’s Anti-Capri – PANTELLERIA, Italy ““ Somewhere in between Sicily and Tunisia, there’s an obscure Italian island of black rock and caperberries, where you’d really only go to drop a dead body or hide from real life. It’s called Pantelleria, and I just spent a week there wondering what in the world was (rather, was not) going on”…Continue Reading
The Telegraph: Saudi’s fearless female artists – Manal Al Dowayan is amazed. She has just finished a conversation with one of the lecturers at Goldsmiths art college in London and is reeling. ‘She told me that she didn’t dare email me because I was such a celebrity!’ she hoots. ‘She thought I would be too busy. It blows my mind'”…Continue Reading
Time: Why India’s “˜Muslim Rage’ Is Different from the Middle East’s – On Thursday, thousands of protesters marched toward the American Center in Kolkata, demanding a ban and an apology for the Innocence of Muslims film trailer that has sparked anti-American protests around the world. It was one of the larger spasms of unrest that have erupted in India since the storming of the U.S. embassy in Cairo on Sept. 11, with Muslim protesters taking to the streets in Kashmir and the southern city of Chennai earlier in the month as well”…Continue Reading
Serious Eats: Beer Events Worth Checking Out in October – In craft beer circles, October means two things: It’s time for the Great American Beer Festival and it’s time for purists to admit that it’s seasonally acceptable to drink pumpkin beer. GABF, craft beer’s Oscars and Mardi Gras rolled into one beer-soaked Colorado weekend, is long sold out, but there are plenty of other events to check out across the country this month, gourd or no gourd. Here are our highlights”…Continue Reading
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