(many) winters in vienna. theatre, dance, poetry. and some politics.
Atrios – Edited Comments on the Election Lost: Everything Points to Diebold If voters can be challenged, why can’t the machines be challenged? With all
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Leave a Commentthis is the view from the Urania hotel (Viennale film festival centrale). you are looking at stephansdom – the central cathedral in catholic austria –
Leave a CommentThe Intellectual Charms of Women The older I grew the more I became attached to the intellectual charms of women. With the sensualist, the contrary…
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Leave a CommentBig news in Austria over the last week has been the awarding of the Nobel Prize for literature to their citizen Elfriede Jelinek. A controversial writer even in Austria, this is a brave and forward-looking decision from the Stockholm-based jury.
Jelinek is no New York Times bestselling author. But not content with their president’s failed commandeering of the United Nations, many Americans would like to put the Nobel prize jurors in their place and assure a more level playing field for American writers.
Leave a CommentApparently all is not well in the world of Blue Note fans. The worst thing to happen to them were the Grammies that Norah Jones…
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