"When President Barack Obama took office, in 2009, he championed the cause of government transparency, and spoke admiringly of whistle-blowers, whom he described as “often the best source of information about waste, fraud, and abuse in government.” But the Obama Administration has pursued leak prosecutions with a surprising relentlessness. Including the Drake case, it has been using the Espionage Act to press criminal charges in five alleged instances of national-security leaks—more such prosecutions than have occurred in all previous Administrations combined. The Drake case is one of two that Obama’s Justice Department has carried over from the Bush years."
"Not content to have a mere three animated comedies on the Fox schedule, Family Guy mastermind Seth MacFarlane is developing a fourth ... and it's a doozy. Deadline reports that MacFarlane has gotten the green light to mount a new version of The Flintstones, the original prime-time cartoon. It's the result of years of negotiation, and MacFarlane intends for the show to potentially spawn movies, too. Considering the source, we expect Dino to suddenly get a lot more lines."
The Hit is a fun crime/road movie set in Spain with great performances by John Hurt, Tim Roth and Terence Stamp
Is vongole the best easiest to make dish? You almost can't mess it up if the clams are good. Yum.
cod3
bill, look out your window.
Guy saves his house from the White River flood.
great meal at blue hill nyc last night, i asked for a sub on the tasting menu lamb course "something vegetarian please" 
I was wonder why this had not happened yet....well its in the works.
Local impresarios Mike Thelin (one of the masterminds behind the 2010 IACP Portland conference and the 2010 Eater Awards) and Carrie Welch (who co-created, among other things, the New York City Wine and Food Festival) are the project's founders. According to Thelin and Welch (codename: Thelch), the festival will "tell the story of Oregon bounty" in a SXSW-like atmosphere that will focus the national culinary spotlight (chefs! media! industry peeps!) in on Portland. Early plans are to bring in national and international culinary talent — from Northern Spain, Copenhagen, Brooklyn, and Austin, among other places — in order to "showcase local talent in their rightful spot alongside their international peers," Thelin says. "We would only bring in chefs that highlight local chefs," Welch adds, "and hopefully create opportunities [for them] to create lasting relationships."
Though most food and wine festivals are luxury-focused, the goal for the PDX-based event — official festival name still pending — is to remain inclusive, embracing all of Oregon's culinary history, from Portland food trucks to James Beard's influence to highlighting winemakers and distilleries across the state. "The program will be tailored to the full range of eaters," Thelin says.
The festival's projected debut is scheduled for the fall of 2012, and in the meantime, Thelin and Welch are forming a local programming committee with both PDX- and nationally based advisers, securing sponsors, and seeking a charitable organization as a beneficiary.
Local impresarios Mike Thelin (one of the masterminds behind the 2010 IACP Portland conference and the 2010 Eater Awards) and Carrie Welch (who co-created, among other things, the New York City Wine and Food Festival) are the project's founders. According to Thelin and Welch (codename: Thelch), the festival will "tell the story of Oregon bounty" in a SXSW-like atmosphere that will focus the national culinary spotlight (chefs! media! industry peeps!) in on Portland. Early plans are to bring in national and international culinary talent — from Northern Spain, Copenhagen, Brooklyn, and Austin, among other places — in order to "showcase local talent in their rightful spot alongside their international peers," Thelin says. "We would only bring in chefs that highlight local chefs," Welch adds, "and hopefully create opportunities [for them] to create lasting relationships."
Though most food and wine festivals are luxury-focused, the goal for the PDX-based event — official festival name still pending — is to remain inclusive, embracing all of Oregon's culinary history, from Portland food trucks to James Beard's influence to highlighting winemakers and distilleries across the state. "The program will be tailored to the full range of eaters," Thelin says.
The festival's projected debut is scheduled for the fall of 2012, and in the meantime, Thelin and Welch are forming a local programming committee with both PDX- and nationally based advisers, securing sponsors, and seeking a charitable organization as a beneficiary.
Portland trivia buffs love to offer up the cool fact that we consume more ice cream per capita than any other American city, but our home-town scoop choices have been pretty limited. Kimberly Malek hopes to change that this summer with her new Northeast Alberta ice cream shop, Salt & Straw. The name is an homage to traditional methods of ice cream preparation, featuring pots of cream in a tin pail surrounded by hay and rock salt. While Malek’s team is taking advantage of modern technology that doesn’t require a barn, Salt & Straw will be a “farm-to-cone shop” using home-grown ingredients like Olympic Provisions charcuterie, Rogue Creamery Blue Cheese, and the best of Oregon’s fruits and vegetables. Yes, you read that list correctly.
Featuring creative flavors like Honey Balsamic Strawberry With Cracked Black Pepper, Brown Ale With Bacon, Pear With Blue Cheese, and Mimosa Sorbet, along with pumped-up versions of traditional favorites,
Featuring creative flavors like Honey Balsamic Strawberry With Cracked Black Pepper, Brown Ale With Bacon, Pear With Blue Cheese, and Mimosa Sorbet, along with pumped-up versions of traditional favorites,
Dribble is like twitter for graphic designers, where instead of posting short text messages, people post small images of designs they are working on. Pretty cool even for a non graphic designer lurker.
Elizabeth Wilson
1921-2007
Love you, Mother, still.
A Branch of May
May contain
Bobolinks!
Black on the bottom and white on top, it's the backward blackbird.
There were five in one tree at Calvert Vaux Park, and singing.
The bird is named for it's song, a bubbling ramble of crazy high-pitched, self-harmonizing notes; sounds like electronic music.
Recordings cannot do it justice...
Happy Spring.
May contain
Bobolinks!
Black on the bottom and white on top, it's the backward blackbird.
There were five in one tree at Calvert Vaux Park, and singing.
The bird is named for it's song, a bubbling ramble of crazy high-pitched, self-harmonizing notes; sounds like electronic music.
Recordings cannot do it justice...
Happy Spring.
vogue yarns
weakly world noose
more streamo-o-files.
im not going to suggest either of these are first rate comedies but wet hot american summer, a send up of movies like meatballs, has a minor cult following owing to its cast mostly members of the state comedy troupe among others while easy a, a contemporary take on john hughes type high school comedies has good performances by emma stone, patricia clarkson and stanley tucci.
Maybe there can be collateral benefit of cops infiltrating peaceful demonstrations.
Software engineer Kyle Conroy has compiled a list of how much money you would have today if, for example, instead of spending $5700 on a Apple PowerBook G3 250 when it was released on November 10, 1997 you'd spent that same amount on AAPL stock. The answer? Instead owning of a laptop that's probably worth all of twenty bucks today, you'd own $330,563 of AAPL stock.
Called Land Arts of the American West, the classes take place in a pair of heavy-duty Ford vans or wherever the vans and the camping gear they carry end up stopping during a 7,000-mile, two-month drive that a handful of participants — mostly architecture graduate and undergraduate students, but also artists, art historians and students recruited from other disciplines — make throughout the West.
