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My journey in the movement has been one of critical engagement with the status quo, my peers, and my assumptions. Strategy sessions, marches, actions, speeches, lobby meetings, countless emails and googledocs, rallies, conversations, books, and periods of reflection have constructed the vantage point from which I write today. This is a lengthy post. In it, I will recount personal experience and observations, present the bones of a theoretical framework for redirecting our movement, offer a critique of current strategies, and begin a conversation on what would constitute an effective strategy. It's probably a bit much for one blog post, but I hope that you will take the time to read it and offer your perspective on the topics at hand. I write out of love and respect for the many amazing people who have shaped me and my work to this point.
In August 2007, I participated in the Sierra Student Coalition's annual leadership gathering, Shindig. At Shindig, I connected with dozens of inspiring youth leaders from around the nation. Leaving that week I saw myself as one person in a network of groups and individuals leading the way to a carbon-free future. I knew that by organizing our fellow students and communities to demand clean energy from the powers-that-be we could secure a sustainable and prosperous future. It was with this conviction that I returned to Michigan and threw myself into my new role as student coordinator of the Michigan Student Sustainability Coalition on the eve of Power Shift 2007.
On an unusually warm November 5, 2007 afternoon I stood with thousands of young people on the capitol lawn in Washington DC. Proudly, we wore prop green hardhats and waved "no new coal" signs as we listened raptly to the rousing speeches of Carol Browner, Edward Markey, Van Jones and others. Following the rally, the hundreds-strong Michigan contingent marched to the office of the aging John Dingell, who's chairmanship of the House Energy and Commerce Committee was identified as a barrier to progressive climate legislation. One-hundred-and-fifty of us packed a room with his staff and voiced the urgent need for climate solutions and investments in greening Michigan's decrepit industrial infrastructure. Despite the energetic optimism of the day, I boarded the bus back to Michigan asking myself "what if all of the organizing effort channeled into creating that weekend had been channeled into transforming our communities?" and was troubled by a thought I was unable to articulate at the time: by organizing Power Shift 2007, our movement invested more energy in projecting the image of young people demanding change, than it did in actually creating change. I was entirely complicit.
A period of burnout followed. Thankfully, with burnout comes questioning and reflection. As I learned more about climate change and the physical and social infrastructure at its root, my old assumptions crumbled, making room for the emergence of new understandings. My definition of the crisis our movement must address expanded to the ecological crisis, of which climate change is one intensifying variable. The ecological crisis, however, is facilitated by the exploitative flow of power within society and the greater biosphere. These power dynamics emerge from cultural relationships of alienation, which in turn stem from consciously-and-unconsciously-held collective metaphysical assumptions about the nature of ourselves, our fellow humans, and our biosphere. Together, these construct the foundation of systemic exploitation between humans and of the biosphere.
This introduction has presented glimpses of catalyzing moments and ideas that led to the formation of the backdrop upon which I work today. In the following section I ask: if this is the crisis we face, where does it point us? What are practical considerations for the path ahead? In answering these questions, I will discuss the operation of cultural relationships and collective metaphysical assumptions and strategies for changing them. This however will bring us to a dilemma: cultural relationships and metaphysical assumptions change over a long timescale, while averting the worst of the climate and ecological crisis requires swift action. I will attempt to resolve this dilemma by forwarding a new approach to movement strategy which emphasizes tactics that halt destruction of the biosphere and reshape the flow of power in society.
A Primer on Collective Metaphysical Assumptions, Cultural Relationships, and Flows of Power
An example of a metaphysical assumption is "I am separate from the biosphere." Whether or not it is consciously articulated, such an assumption is reinforced on a daily basis – chasing success in an office building, finding pleasure on a TV screen, and enjoying "nature" because it exists apart from the "real world" of modern life. When such an assumption is commonly held, it becomes a collective metaphysical assumption: "We are separate from the biosphere."
Cultural relationships reflect collective metaphysical assumptions. The alienating collective metaphysical assumption of separation from the biosphere is reflected in our cultural relationship to the biosphere – exploitation and domination. In turn, this is manifested by the flow of power between society and the rest of the biosphere: systemic physical degradation and liquidation of ecosystems for resources. This is not to say that all members of our culture seek to dominate the biosphere, but that on the whole our culture exploits the biosphere because of alienated collective metaphysical assumptions.
Cultural relationships and collective metaphysical assumptions form and change in response to persistent conditions. Our culture creates its own persistent conditions, such as a constant electricity supply, which shape and produce new collective metaphysical assumptions. Thus, collective metaphysical assumptions and cultural relationships reinforce one another as they co-evolve.
It is also important to think of interactions between assumptions, culture, and power in terms of race, gender, class, and other oppressive expressions of hierarchy.
The Conundrum of Transforming Cultural Relationships and Metaphysical Assumptions
The purpose of transforming cultural relationships and metaphysical assumptions is to create a world in which the wrongs of the past are unimaginable. Many political movements have stated cultural change as a goal; some have created it. The abolition, feminist, and civil rights movements all achieved measures of equality, but have not fundamentally altered the flow of power in society. Branches of the environmental movement seek to foster cultural changes such as increasing conservation, or environmental awareness. While noble goals, these too fall short of transforming cultural relationships or the metaphysical assumptions that facilitate systemic destruction of the biosphere. I have seen calls for deep cultural transformation in our movement, but few discussions of how to bring it about.
Perhaps the sparsity of "how to"s on cultural transformation is indicative of the cultural transformation conundrum: there is no recipe for the cultural transformation we seek. If someone tells you there is one, don't trust them. The best we can strive for is to create conditions from which non-alienating metaphysical assumptions can emerge to create cultural relationships that shape mutually empowering flows of power in society. It is up to us to imagine the conditions under which such a transformation could occur.
Attempts to transform culture without altering the persistent conditions that create and reinforce metaphysical assumptions will fail. Such is the fate of utopian movements. The hippie movement sought to bring about a cultural revolution of peace and harmony, but aside from its persistent drug use, did not employ tactics to alter the persistent conditions that shape people's lives. The daily experience of reality is a far stronger force than the idealistic messages, whether from the mouths of hippies or youth climate activists.
To begin the conversation of what conditions could spur the emergence of non-alienating metaphysical assumptions, I'll offer two ideas. First, the most important units of social organization could be federated neighborhood-sized communities. The cultivation and preparation of food is a part of every person's daily routine. Both of these ideas would emerge not from a movement's utopian ideals but as adaptive strategies to changing conditions; in this case the adaptations would be in response to the decline of nation-states and industrial food production.
The Urgent Long Term Change Dilemma
Clearly, creating the conditions for the emergence of non-alienating collective metaphysical assumptions is a long term endeavor – perhaps measured in centuries – but climate change and ecological collapse are happening now. We are in a dilemma. By focusing solely on long term transformation we will miss our window of opportunity to avert the worst of the ecological crisis. By focusing on short term mitigation, we will only slow the ecological crisis and fail to address the flow of power in society. As a movement, we must adopt tactics that directly halt destruction of the biosphere and create momentum towards reshaping the flow of power in society.
Three Critiques
Such a focus would entail a radical departure from our current movement strategy. Our movement has three fatal flaws in our strategy for bringing about sustainability. Each merits in depth discussion, but at this juncture I will only identify them.
1. Our movement has focused on mobilizing a small constituency of socially conscious people with privilege (like me) for whom the status quo promises shelter from the worst of the ecological crisis. There is no urgent impetus for them to affect revolutionary change.
2. Alchemy, a predecessor of the scientific method, was a medieval practice in which people tried impossible feat of transmuting common materials into valuable minerals, such as led into gold. Our movement structures its strategy around alchemical assumptions about the interaction of advocacy and power. For example, if our goal is an ambitious and binding climate treaty and we gather 25 million petition signatures, generate 5 million phone calls, thousands of press hits, hold citizen lobby weeks, wine and dine key climate champion senators, publicize studies on green jobs, release green job video advertisements, and hold photogenic citizen day of action, there is still no reason to think it will produce the desired result. A leap of faith stands between our tactics and our goals.
3. The dominant economic and political institutions create the ecological crisis. Yet our tactics, such as legislative advocacy, consistently legitimize the institutions, flows of power and assumptions that produce the problem in the first place! Even if by chance our alchemical metaphysical assumptions proved true, and we brought about the creation of an ambitious and binding climate treaty, the result would be the mere slowing of climate change and the ecological crisis. We base our tactics on utopian dreams of what the state and economy could be rather than holistic assessments of what they are and how they act in the world.
Each of these flaws will prevent us from reaching our near term goals of mitigating climate change and staving off the worst of the ecological collapse and fail to put us on the path to long term transformation.
As a movement, we must develop adaptable long term strategies to halt destruction of the biosphere and reshape the flow of power in society by exploiting vulnerabilities in the physical and cultural infrastructure that maintains the status quo. I hope that this essay can spark discussion on what such a strategy would entail. Lets start with direct action.
The term direct action is often misunderstood as illegal actions. While direct action can at times fall outside of the realm of state-sanctioned actions – such as a blockading access roads for equipment on strip mines – but what distinguishes direct action from indirect action is the way in which the action uses power. Direct action is when an individual or group uses its own power to affect their desired change. Indirect action is when an individual or group tries to influence power they do not control (such as activists trying to influence state power) to affect the change they want. One can ask their grocery store to carry organic foods (indirect) or one can grow their own (direct).
Direct action strategies can combine economic development projects that increase a community's capacity to meet its needs with its own resources and power with actions that physically reduce dominant political and economic institutions' capacity to expand the exploitative flow of power and destruction of the biosphere. If effectively employed and proliferated such a direct action strategy has the potential to profoundly alter the flow of power in society.
It is important to note that our movement is not necessarily the most powerful engine of change in the time ahead. Indeed, today we are a blip on the political radar. We make it look sort of democratic. Don't get me wrong, I love us, but with love comes honesty. From the Tea Party Movement to the World Trade Organization, many are actively planning the world of the future. In addition to these institutional forces, we know that the centuries ahead will be characterized by increasing climatic variability and geopolitical destabilization. In developing strategies for bringing about favorable conditions for non-alienating metaphysical assumptions, we must consider the dynamic interplay of state and non-state actors seeking to expand or maintain power in the face of an increasingly inhospitable world. The shifting terrain ahead will bring challenges and opportunities for direct action interventions and our movement and we must be poised to make the most of them.
A Caveat
To abandon all indirect action strategies would be FOOLHEARDY in the extreme. Current strategies to end mountaintop removal, which combine direct and indirect action tactics, seem to be gaining ground and moving dominant institutions towards a ban on mountaintop removal. However, strategies such as those employed by the mountaintop removal abolition movement must be better oriented towards building momentum towards our ultimate goals, otherwise, we'll find that the draglines are right back at it come the next political cycle.
Risk Inversion: A Cogintive Barrier
I use the term risk inversion to convey the following observation. It feels safer to use ineffective tactics that keep us on track towards ecological collapse than it does to use tactics that have the potential to reshape the flow of power or directly halt destruction of the biosphere. Guaranteed loss feels safer than taking a chance at victory. In order to create and employ a direct action strategy, we must dismantle this cognitive barrier. Lets start a conversation on where this barrier comes from, how it operates to persistently disempower change agents, and how we can incorporate practices for overcoming it in our organizing.
There is much more to be said and considered about each of the topics discussed in the post. Please join the conversation, online here, or email me firstname.lastname@example.com.


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So it's Root, Root, Root for the Cubbies!
How the typical 2003 Cubs fan watches a game at home:
Preparations needed:
Begins by putting Wrigley Field atmosphere in living
room: Purchases beer and snack food sold at the classic
ballyard (Old Style or Bud/Bud Light for beer; peanuts,
licorice rope or cracker jack for snacks; Goodyear tire
byproducts for hot dogs). Drapes Ivy on curtains. Imitates
the scoreboard and manually changes the channel rather than
use remote control. Drinks five beers before the first inning.
Brings in local college sophomores with no idea what baseball
is, but are fully aware that they look hot in a tank top.
Buys newspaper. Ignores the news, politics and business
sections and heads straight for the sports section.
Cubs fan doesn't need to know what's going on in
Liberia. He's a Cubs fan: he wouldn't understand even if
he did read it.
Checks the standings. Did the Astros win last night?
The Cardinals? Any chance those scores could be a misprint?
Perhaps those games occurred in alternate universe, and
you're reading some sort of strange other-dimension newspaper.
Pours through the Cubs stories, immediately seeking
out the strange Dusty Baker racism quote of the week. "Baker
said he prefers to shop at Jewel because they're butchers
cut meat in the more 'black prefered' style."
Turn the pregame on:
Listens intently as your announcers likely
the venerable Steve Stone and the strangely pre-pubesent
looking Chip Caray -- provide the keys to the game: Solid
pitching, yes. Patience at the plate, certainly. No fielding
mistakes, of course. Chip has facial hair, surprising.
Stands for the singing of our national anthem. Millions
of brave men and women died fighting for this country. The
least you can do is stand.
But don't sing along.
And resist the temptation to drink beer to get through
the anthem, no matter how long it feels.
The first pitch is thrown:
Feel the buzz, that-anything-can-happen excitement
of the first pitch.
Temper your emotions as the opposing team hits it
out of the ballpark: it's only 1 to 0,
It's only 2 to 0.
3 to 0. There's no "only."
Resist temptation to go back and read Liberia story.
Bottom of the First Inning:
The Cubs mount a comeback: A single. A walk.
Two men on, no one out, and Slammin' Sammy Sosa is
up to bat! One of the greatest home run hitters in the history
of baseball: More 50 homer seasons than anyone but Ruth.
Ahead of Ted Williams on the all-time homerun list. He'll
tie up this game!
One out.
Top of the Third inning:
Have you ever actually watched a baseball game all
the way through?
It's pretty boring, isn't it?
Seriously, it's just repetition. Nothing really happens.
A pop up, a strike out, a line drive. It all looks the same,
doesn't it?
But Cubs fan is devoted to this game because there's
the chance the Cubs could win. And if the Cubs win today,
and then the next day and the next and put a streak together,
well, then by God it's time to buy World Series tickets!
And your imagination sends you into a frenzy: suddenly you're
standing in line on a cold October morning with thousands,
no millions! of other fans just hoping to buy a seat no
matter what the cost to anywhere in the ballpark, even if
that means five grand so some sherpa can hike you to the
upper deck where a telescope to see the view of other telescopes
watching the game. But that won't matter, because you'll
be there to see, to feel it, to just maybe behold the Cubs
taking the World Series. To be surrounded, hugged and wrapped
in that electricity. That once-in-a-lifetime-I-was-there-can-you-believe-it-I-understand-the-meaning-of-life-euphoria!
6 to 0.
Bottom of the Fourth inning:
Sammy swings and we have flight! Sammy hops! The
ball is screaming, it's frightened, it wants to come downit's
never been this high before. Baseballs weren't designed
to survive in this kind of altitude! Nevermind the cork.
Sammy is still our hero, our superman with the "S"
on his chest who can do anything, just with a wave of a
bat like it's a toothpick he will take us to promised land.
6 to 1.
Bottom of the Fifth inning:
The ultimate Cubs killer, God, must be in the bathroom
because the Cubs put runners on and now there's a double
to the gap, and two runs score! Let's keep this going! Rally!
God is back. Double play.
6 to 3.
Bottom of the Seventh inning.
God gets a phone call. The Cubs charge. A solo shot.
6 to 4. A walk. A double. The runner scores. 6 to 5.
We can take the lead: man on second. No outs. A walk.
Another walk. Bases loaded! No outs!
There is no wait till next year! We can come back
from anything. This is our year. We come back from
this, and I can begin standing in line tomorrow for those
World Series tickets.
Sammy's up, the "S" on his chest glowing
in the afternoon sun. He can break the game open with a
Strike one. But that's cool to wave at a pitch thrown
into the stands. It happens to the best of us.
Strike two. Don't know why you were swinging at a
pitchout, Sammy, but hey, maybe you're trying to strike
fear into the pitcher. "If I can get close to hitting
a pitchout, just think what I can do when you throw a strike."
The pitcher throws a strike. It's right down the
One out.
Alou's up! Alou is our new he...
Two outs.
Lenny Harris?
Top of the Eighth inning.
Still anyone's ballgame: 6 to 5. One run is so easy
to score.
But God is back, and he is angry. But God, no, why
you'd put the devil on the mound for the Cubs?
Pitch after Antonio Alfonseca pitch comes dangerously
close to being within three feet of the strike zone. A walk.
A single. The nation pleads for a strike. Congress calls
an emergency session: the government votes to pull Alfonseca.
A special rider is added: ship him to Guantanamo for three
terrorists and a player to be named later.
Baker doesn't hear about the vote. One run scores.
Alfonseca looks horrible, looks disgusted at himself.
There is only so much suffering one man should be asked
to take. And Alfonseca must be pretty sad, too.
The camera falls on Dusty Baker. Surely he will take
Alfonseca out. But Dusty looks like he's listening to a
Bob Denver song.
Another run scores.
A walk. A double. Two men in.
Oh look: a re-run of Three's Company is on. It's
the one where Mr. Farley comes up with the name of Jack's
Restaurant. "Why are you guys having such a problem
naming Jack's bistro!?" and the episode ends.
Just classic.
Oh hey, remember the episode and boy this
must have been late in the show where the critic
comes into Jack's Bistro, and the antics and the mishaps,
and the critic eats two bites of Jack's food? Two!
Another run scores. Somehow, just standing there,
Alfonseca gains another five pounds.
And Jack writes that angry letter telling the critic
to get bent. Two bites! But he wants to take it all back.
So he tries to slip into the office to get it back. Hijinks
ensurethe very definition of hijinks ensue. And Jack
gets caught red-handed trying to steal the letter. And there's
that moment of dreadJack's gonna get arrested!
God is laughing. He is up in heaven, wearing a Cardinals
jersey. He is a fat, balding God that worships Skoal tobacco
and wonders why he made cigarrette butts inedible.
But the critic, see, that's what he does at a restaurant
he gives good reviews to: He eats just two bites.
Two more runs score.
Stupid fucking critic.
Stupid fucking God.
Ninth inning:
Been meaning to index my CD collection for awhile
now, but should it be done alphabetically or chronologically?
If it's alphabetical, is it by album title or singer? Same
question for chronological.
Do I need watermelon at the store? Maybe I should
make a list.
13 to whatever.
Seriously, just fucking whatever. Just fucking nevermind.
You stupid fucking team. How could you blow this fucking
goddamned game? You stupid motherfuckers.
Tomorrow's an afternoon game:
Yeah, but I gotta work so I'll be listening to it
on the radio.
-Brandon Stahl
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Originally Posted by jnanian
nope the emoticon -->
too much junk food, carmel corn and soda
I see the word "munch" on my phone with : marks on either end.
But I assume it's that popcorn eating guy, lol
Be careful or you won't fit in your darkroom anymore!
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Former 'I Love New York 2' suitor Jamal Trulove convicted of murder
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Tiffany Pollard is showing off her "New York" attitude.
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VH1 has announced New York Goes to Hollywood, a spin-off of the network's I Love New York reality dating series that will follow Tiffany Pollard as she heads to Tinsel Town to become an actress, will premiere Monday, August 4 at 10PM ET/PT.
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Temple News
Guest in the Pulpit
Dr. Yassin El-Ayouty
will offer the lecture
"Islamism vs. Secularism: The Fight for the Soul of the MIddle East"
Friday evening,
May 30, 2014 at 7:30pm
Dr. El-Ayouty served the United Nations as a member of the International Secretariat for 32 years, retiring as Principal Officer. He continues to serve the UN as a consultant. He is a Fulbright Scholar with a Ph.D. in international organization and international law from NYU, and a JD from Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law; he has been adjunct professor at Cardozo School of Law and is professor emeritus at SUNY Stony Brook. Currently, he is adjunct professor at Fordham University School of Law, Cairo University Faculty of Law and Saint Francis College in Brooklyn. The author of numerous books and articles on the politics of the Third World, more recently, he founded and serves as president of Sunsglow, an organization that seeks to reach across borders, time zones and language barriers to train Third World nations in the rule of law.politics.
All members of the community are invited to attend the Sabbath Eve Service.
Temple Emanuel of Great Neck is located at 150 Hicks Lane..
Call 516.482.5701 for information.
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Scott Coulter & Co. in "The Music of the Brill Building "
Sunday afternoon,
June 8, 2014 at 3:00pm
The Emanuel Series concludes the 2013/14 season with The Donna Levien Memorial Presentation in Music, "Love Will Keep Us Together"—The Music of the Brill Building, on Sunday, June 8th at 3:00 p.m.
In the heart of NYC's Times Square sits the Brill Building, 1619 Broadway. The music of America in the 50s and 60s, considered by many to be some of the greatest music ever written, emanated from its halls and offices when the Brill Building was home to Carole King, Neil Sedaka, Lieber & Stoller, Neil Diamond, and Barry Mann & Cynthia Weil, among others. The songs they wrote: Breaking Up Is Hard To Do, Where the Boys Are, Will You Still Love Me Tomorrow, You've Lost that Lovin' Feelin' and On Broadway, all came from the famed music factory. The writers continued to climb the charts decades after their Brill days, but it was the building that brought them all together. Award-winning Scott Coulter and a company of three vocalists will take you through the music and the stories of the singers and the songs that defined a generation.
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Admission is $15/person or $25/couple.
This lecture is part of The Emanuel Series, Cultural Arts for the 21st Century.
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18 Jun 2007
Leipzig Bachfest explores early opera
When opera is the subject, there's an uneasy embarrassment at Leipzig's annual 10-day Bach Festival, for opera is a genre that the city's most famous musical son never embraced.
The second day of the Richard Strauss weekend at the BBC Proms saw Richard Strauss's Elektra performed at the Royal Albert Hall on 31 August 2014 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, with Christine Goerke in the title role. Felicity Palmer was Clytemnestra, Gun-Brit Barkmin was Chrysothemis, Robert Kunzli was Aegisthus and Johan Reuter was Orestes. The concert staging was by Justin Way.
The second day of the Richard Strauss weekend at the BBC Proms saw Richard Strauss's Elektra performed at the Royal Albert Hall on 31 August 2014 by the BBC Symphony Orchestra, conducted by Semyon Bychkov, with Christine Goerke in the title role. Felicity Palmer was Clytemnestra, Gun-Brit Barkmin was Chrysothemis, Robert Kunzli was Aegisthus and Johan Reuter was Orestes. The concert staging was by Justin Way.
Triumphant! An exceptionally stimulating Mahler Symphony No 2 from Daniel Harding and the Swedish Radio Symphony Orchestra, BBC Prom 57 at the Royal Albert Hall. Harding's Mahler Tenth performances (especially with the Berliner Philharmoniker) are pretty much the benchmark by which all other performances are assessed. Harding's Mahler Second is informed by such an intuitive insight into the whole traverse of the composer's work that, should he get around to doing all ten together, he'll fulfil the long-held dream of "One Grand Symphony", all ten symphonies understood as a coherent progression of developing ideas.
The BBC Proms continued its Richard Strauss celebrations with a performance of his first major operatic success Salome. Nina Stemme led forces from the Deutsche Oper, Berlin,at the Royal Albert Hall on Saturday 30 August 2014,the first of a remarkable pair of Proms which sees Salome and Elektra performed on successive evenings
On August 9, 2014, Santa Fe Opera presented a new updated production of Don Pasquale that set the action in the 1950s. Chantal Thomas's Act I scenery showed the Don's furnishing as somewhat worn and decidedly dowdy. Later, she literally turned the Don's home upside down!
At a concert in the Cathedral of Saint Joseph in San Jose, California, on August 22, 2014, a few selections preceded the piece the audience had been waiting for: the world premiere of Dolora Zajick's brand new composition, an opera scene entitled Roads to Zion.
By emphasizing the love between Sun Yat-sen and Soong Ching-ling, Ruo showed us the human side of this universally revered modern Chinese leader. Writer Lindsley Miyoshi has quoted the composer as saying that the opera is "about four kinds of love." It speaks of affection between friends, between parents and children, between lovers, and between patriots and their country.
In light of the 2012 half-centenary of the premiere in the newly re-built Coventry Cathedral of Benjamin Britten's War Requiem, the 2013 centennial celebrations of the composer's own birth, and this year's commemorations of the commencement of WW1, it is perhaps not surprising that the War Requiem - a work which was long in gestation and which might be seen as a summation of the composer's musical, political and personal concerns - has been fairly frequently programmed of late. And, given the large, multifarious forces required, the potent juxtaposition of searing English poetry and liturgical Latin, and the profound resonances of the circumstances of the work's commission and premiere, it would be hard to find a performance, as William Mann declared following the premiere, which was not a 'momentous occasion'.
Santa Fe opera has presented Carmen in various productions since 1961. This year's version by Stephen Lawless takes place during the recent past in Northern Mexico near the United States border. The performance on August 6, 2014, featured Ana Maria Martinez as a monumentally sexy Gypsy who was part of a drug smuggling group.
Sir Mark Elder and the Hallé Orchestra persuasively balanced passion and poetry in this absorbing Promenade concert. Elder's tempi were fairly relaxed but the result was spaciousness rather than ponderousness, with phrases given breadth and substance, and rich orchestral colours permitted to make startling dramatic impact.
Although far from perfect, the performance of Berio's Sinfonia in the first half of this concert was certainly its high-point; indeed, I rather wish that I had left at the interval, given the tedium induced by Shostakovich's interminable Fourth Symphony. Still, such was the programme Semyon Bychkov had been intended to conduct. Alas, illness had forced him to withdraw, to be replaced at short notice by Vasily Petrenko.
Handel's Rinaldo was first performed in 1711 at London's King's Theatre. Handel's first opera for London was designed to delight and entertain, combining good tunes, great singing with a rollicking good story. Robert Carsen's 2011 production of the opera for Glyndebourne reflected this with its tongue-in-cheek Harry Potter meets St Trinian's staging.
On August 7, 2014, the Santa Fe Opera presented a double bill of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart's The Impresario and Igor Stravinsky's Le Rossignol (The Nightingale). The Impresario deals with the casting of an opera and Le Rossignol tells the well-known fairy tale about the plain gray bird with an exquisite song.
Utah Festival Opera and Musical Theatre has gifted opera enthusiasts with a thrilling Barber, and I don't mean . . . of Seville.
In typical Proms fashion, BBC Prom 28 saw Stravinsky's Oedipus Rex performed in an eclectic programme which started with Beethoven's Egmont Overture and also featured Electric Preludes by the contemporary Australian composer Brett Dean. Sakari Oramo,was making the first of his Proms appearances this year, conducting the BBC Symphony Orchestra, BBC Singers and BBC Symphony Chorus.
Santa Fe Opera presented Beethoven's Fidelio for the first time in 2014. Since the sides of the opera house are open, the audience watched the sun redden the low hanging clouds and set below the Sangre de Cristo mountains while Chief Conductor Harry Bicket led the Santa Fe Opera Orchestra in the rousing overture. At the same time, Alex Penda as the title character readied herself for the ordeal to come as she endeavored to rescue her unjustly imprisoned husband.
Best of the season so far! William Christie and Les Arts Florissants performed Rameau Grand Motets at late night Prom 17.
Twelve years after Opera Holland Park's first production of Francesco Cilea's Adriana Lecouvreur, the opera made a welcome return.
The Italianate cloister setting at Iford chimes neatly with Monteverdi's penultimate opera The Return of Ulysses, as the setting cannot but bring to mind those early days of the musical genre.
Once again, we find ourselves thanking an unrepresentable being for Welsh National Opera's commitment to its mission.
When opera is the subject, there's an uneasy embarrassment at Leipzig's annual 10-day Bach Festival, for opera is a genre that the city's most famous musical son never embraced.
True, in the St. Matthew Passion Bach composed one of the great music dramas of all time, but the opera house itself was an arena alien to him. In Bach's Baroque age opera was largely a courtly concern, and the Saxon court was down the road in Dresden. Leipzig, mercantile, middle class and Lutheran laced had neither time nor taste for the excesses of entertainment staged in the Catholic capital.
Bachfest 2007, which brought 50,000 Bach fans to Leipzig, corrected this oversimplification of music history."From Monteverdi to Bach," the theme of the season, brought a new view of the situation — and with it new music — to light. Indeed, Leipzig had — or had had — an opera, but it folded in 1720, three years before Johann Sebastian Bach arrived as Thomaskantor, the man responsible for music not only at historic St. Thomas Church, but at other churches in the city as well. That opera, nourished at its outset by talent "imported" from Dresden, was founded in 1693 and soon became a venue for young composers who had come to Leipzig to study.
Foremost among them was George Philipp Telemann (1681-1767), who, born four years before Bach, outlived him by another 17. And, as the world well knows, it was only because the then more popular Telemann turned down the job at St. Thomas that Bach was hired. Although Telemann made written reference to 20 operas in his catalogue, until recently only half a dozen arias documented his efforts in the field.
Now, however, an ambitious Michael Maul has proven that some 40 arias in a Frankfurt archive were from Telemann's "Germanicus," which was given its modern premiere at the Bachfest '07 on June 11 by Gotthold Schwarz and the Saxon Baroque Orchestra. Written in 1704 and revised six years later, "Germanicus" is a tale of love, lust and political intrigue based very loosely on events during the first-century occupation of Teutonic territory by the Romans. Since only arias survive, for recitatives Maul substituted a tongue-in-cheek narrative wittily delivered by actor Dieter Bellmann. Through facial expression and a minimum of gesture a youthful cast made a strong case for the quality of Telemann's youthful opus. Unusual for that day, librettist for "Germanicus" was Christine Dorothea Lachs, a woman with close connections to musical circles.
Leipzig is the heart of a region rich in music history, and to take advantage of that the Bach Festival stages outings, several of which include recitals on organs from Bach's day. The season's focus on Monteverdi took visitors to the tiny 1803 theater in near-by Bad Lauchstädt, designed in part of Goethe and recently restored to his designs for its interior.
On June 12 it was the setting for Monteverdi's 1640 "Return of Ulysses to his Fatherland" staged by Christophe Rousset, who conducted his early-music ensemble Les Talens Lyriques from the harpsichord. As Penelope and Ulysses Hilary Sommers and Jan Kobow headed a cast of almost 20 amazing singers, who left one wondering how after this highly dramatic achievement Handel could have abandoned himself so completely to routine da capo arias. Rousset founded Les Talens Lyriques in Paris in 1991.
June 16,the penultimate evening of Bachfest '07, brought the Yorkshire Bach Choir and Baroque Soloists to the Michaeliskirche for a performance of Henry Purcell's "Dido and Aeneas" with veteran soprano Emma Kirkby as the tragic heroine. Kirkby, a major presence in early music since her debut in 1973, has a voice magically beyond the reach of time. Her Dido remains of adolescent tenderness and touching innocence. (And, by the way, it is now Dame Emma.)
Bass Stephen Varcoe was — even if a cad — a noble Aeneas, and Helen Neeves a devoted Belinda.
Conductor Peter Seymour, founder of the Yorkshire ensembles, included on the program Daniel Purcell's "Again the welcome morn we sing" and "Mark how the Lark and Linnet sing" by John Blow, making this concert a generous sampling of English opera in Bach's day. The above — concert performances all — were accompanied by period-instrument ensembles that documented both the quantity and quality of such players in Europe today.
Most unusual staging of the season was Steffan Schleiermacher's updated version of "The Combat of Tancred and Clorinda," Monteverdi's setting for solo voice of a key scene from Tasso's "Jerusalem Liberated." Composer-pianist-conductor Schleiermacher, an outstanding figure on Germany's crossover music scene, is a man well versed in early music, and his "Mackie Messer" approach to this dramatic confrontation, played on the second stage of the Leipzig Opera, was gripping.
While baritone narrator Christopher Jung told the story amid modern instruments — the accordion dominated — the ill-fated lovers were portrayed by dancers who appeared as if marionettes on strings. Schleiermacher paired the brief work with Peter Maxwell Davies' single-soprano "Miss Donnithorne's Maggott" under the title "Lost Battles of Love."
To further underscore the dramatic impulse brought to the arts by the Baroque the Leipzig Opera staged the first-ever German performance of Jean Georges Noverre's 1763 ballet "Jason and Medea." Danced by the opera's superb ballet ensemble and directed in Leipzig by Jean Paul Gravier and Claude Agrafeil, the production, which premiered on June 9, was a revival of a 1992 Strasbourg staging by Sweden's grand old man of the dance, Ivo Cramer.
Jean Joseph Rodolphe's original score was arranged by England's Charles Farncombe. In the title roles Martin Chaix and Kiyoko Kimura stressed the grace of dance before ballet went on its toes, and in the fire and fury of Medea's dance of revenge Kimura made this blood-curdling story the direct antecedent of Samuel Barber's score on the subject written almost 300 years later.
All Leipzig Opera performances are distinguished by the playing of its pit band, the esteemed Gewandhaus Orchestra. For this performance on 9 July youthful Vincent de Cort conducted with vigor. "You are a Prometheus!" Voltaire once wrote to Noverre. "You form humans and breathe life into them." In like manner this recreation was a truly Titanic achievement.
Increasingly aware of the importance of outreach programs, the Bachfest this year devoted an entire day to events for children and families. High point of the day was a one-hour reduction of Monteverdi's "Orfeo" by Taschenoper Lübeck. The "pocket opera" production featured a mere six musicians, some of them doubling as vocalists and instrumentalists.
Founded in 2005 by students at the Lübeck Conservatory and dedicated to "big opera for little people," the talented ensemble brought kids on stage as extras and stage hands, and the entire audience was rehearsed to appeal to Pluto for the release of Euridice. (Moved by their apprentice musicianship Pluto pulled out a handkerchief and wept openly in response.)
While the "this-isn't-going-to-hurt" approach that often puts classical music on a par with a visit to the dentist at American kiddie concerts, there was here no talking down to the audience — six is the stated minimum age for admission — nor was there any slapstick. Yet the kids that packed the small Schille – Theaterhaus just minutes from St. Thomas Church were mesmerized by the simple staging that depended on the music — not on carnival-of-the-animals gimmicks — for its magic. Indeed, so fine are these young singers that adults in the audience would have welcomed a complete "Orfeo" by the troupe, whose enthusiasm held listeners in its spell.
The production marked the 400th anniversary of "Orfeo," the oldest opera in the extant repertory. This impressive cross-section of early opera documented the spectrum of musical expression in the early Baroque, while other performances stressed Bach's role in bringing the age to its fullest musical flower. And having suggested that the composer's St. Matthew Passion qualifies as music theater, an "extra" of Bachfest '07 was a master class, in which Peter Schreier worked with four young tenors on the role of the Evangelist in the score. Schreier, now 72, was the world's top performer in this role during the final decades of the 20th century.
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Beyond Tax Incentives: How to Make Solar Attractive to Universities
Like the rest of Los Angeles, UCLA has plenty of buildings and gets plenty of sun. Given the University's interest in sustainability and innovation, you'd think all those buildings would be covered with high-tech solar panels sucking up all that sun. However, UCLA has only one installation, on one rooftop, which generates only two percent of the building's power supply. The reason behind the dim figures? Price.
The government incentives—rebates, tax credits, bonds, and loans— that make solar photovoltaic systems affordable to businesses and homeowners are for the most part unavailable to institutions of higher education like UCLA. The majority of financial incentives are available in the form of tax credits. Most institutions of higher education, including UCLA, are tax exempt, which makes tax rebates meaningless for them. Without incentives, UCLA and other institutions are often forced to pay upfront installation costs, about 30 percent more per unit than the current price to private consumers.
The sticker shock is understandable, but it's not all bad news. There are several potential opportunities to help institutions including UCLA drive down the cost of solar PV and expand solar power on campus.
Alternative financing: Colleges and universities across the country are creating new ways to fill the gap left by unavailable government incentives. So far, green revolving funds and student "green fees" appear to be two of the most effective ways universities are closing the price gap.
Purchasing power: Large institutions such as colleges and universities are powerful customers. If these competitive organizations can set aside their differences to invest in solar collaboratively, they could use their massive purchasing power to drive down cost through economies of scale and increased negotiating power with solar PV manufacturers. Working together also allows schools to spread the risk, as well as share in the savings.
Rethink how solar fits into university plans: Even though most institutions of higher education exist in perpetuity, they tend to plan for the short-term. Most schools' master plans only account for four years. In any four-year window an investment in solar is a huge expenditure, and this short-term view does not take into account the benefit of reduced energy bills over the longer term. Even if spending $10,000 on a system now could save $50,000 dollars over the next 10 years, the net gain is invisible to school budget officers.
I am working in partnership with Focus the Nation and the UCLA Department of Urban Planning, to better understand the barriers that put solar PV out of reach at UCLA and to explore ways to change that through better financing, cooperation and planning. Whether or not UCLA ultimately decides to go with increased solar power, this research will make it easier for all colleges and universities to access solar PV. You can find out more about the research at Focus the Nation's project page.
This month, challenge a neighbor to GOOD's energy smackdown. Find a neighbor with a household of roughly the same square footage and see who can trim their power bill the most. Throughout February, we'll share ideas and resources for shrinking your household carbon footprint, so join the conversation at good.is/energy.
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Migration by Numbers The Most Diverse Cities in the World From Tokyo's modest 1.7% of foreign-born residents, to Dubai's whopping 87%, in this infographic we take a look at the dynamic landscape of city demographics around the world.
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If More Couples Smoked Weed, Would There Be Less Domestic Violence? Spouses who smoke weed are less likely to inflict physical, sexual, or psychological harm on their significant other.
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Last week I was awakened suddenly in the night by the piercing of my spirit by a singular and concise burst of living information: "The Great Awakening". That was it. Lord, they/I've been showing this to me/them for a while from afar/inside. Classic procession of Aeons fare. Occultism 101. Everyone of the mystical persuasion (or otherwise, let's face it) thinks their time is going to be the one where we all collectively blink out in unison. I've never seen it. I don't even understand what an apocalypse is supposed to mean. It could be defined a billion different ways. I could see a lot of us dying for sure, but there's no way you could snuff us all to oblivion. Everyone waking up into a divine collective epiphany? Yeah, not buying that either. I was forced to reconsider when the hypnagogic downloads started. Then the phantom voices, the choirs of beatific smoke.… Read the rest
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Grant Morrison – Perdurabo
The ruthlessly eloquent condemnation of Grant Morrison, unleashed by Alan Moore earlier this year, still seems to be ringing through the mediasphere. Dangerous Minds sums it all up quite succinctly with "Alan Moore really hates Grant Morrison's guts."
One of the more enchanting rhetorical spells Moore casts against his fellow scribe, taken from Pádraig Ó Méalóid's interview, is when he refers to Morrison's "herpes-like persistence." Which he intends as an insult, one would assume, but unfolds as an illuminating insight into what makes Morrison's work resonate.
Persistence! Through all manner of obstacle and difficulty. It reminds me very much of Aleister Crowley's magical motto: "Perdurabo" a latin word which is generally translated as "I will endure to the end."
I for one would like to express my sincere gratitude for Grant Morrison's herpes-like persistence, long may it endure!
Alan Moore, of course, still totally rules, and I very much look forward to his participation in Daisy Eris Campbell's dramatic adaptation of Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger.… Read the rest
Neşe Lisa Şenol: Psychedelics in the Humanities
Neşe Lisa Şenol gives a brilliant thirty-five minute lecture on the importance of psychedelic research in the social sciences and humanities. Neşe makes some avid points, such as riding the "Psychedelic Renaissance" to infiltrate academia, and finding a precedent for psychedelic studies in Queer Studies.
"Queer is whatever is at odds with the normal, the legitimate, the dominant," she quotes from David M. Halperin's Saint Foucault.
Grant Morrison's Supergods even gets an honorable mention.
KALI-YUGA: An Interview with Graphic Novelist Benton Rooks
I digitally "sat down" on my flight from LA to interview Benton Rooks, an old friend and author of the exciting new indie graphic novel, KALI-YUGA:
"KALI-YUGA is an epic dark fantasy/sci-fi graphic novel trilogy concerning the fate of the heroic, time traveling wizard named Abaraiis, who is born as a 500 year old man."
As the name suggests, Benton's artistic directions implicitly explore esoteric and mythological dimensions of our time. I wanted to hear more about how these ideas played into the creation of KALI-YUGA.
Here is our conversation.
Note! My readers should also see Benton's Kickstarter campaign for KALI-YUGA. If the spirit so moves you, consider donating a little something to support this fantastic indie art project:
JJ: How do you situate yourself, as an artist, in a hyper-mediated, rampantly technologized time? From the looks of it, KALI-YUGA explores both mythology and some epic-sized science fiction.… Read the rest
Grant Morrison's 'Doom Patrol': Mr. Nobody: a Savior, a Monster, an Act of Sacrilege, Dada
One of the major players in the realm of comic books has been the United Kingdom, and one of its most important periods occurred in the late 1980's and early 1990's with the British Invasion of American comics. This period saw the influx of British creators, most of whom initially worked for DC Comics, creators such as Neil Gaiman, Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Simon Bisley, Dave McKean, Peter Milligan, and Scottish writer Grant Morrison. It is Morrison and his work that we will be sampling in this post, specifically, the brilliant and explosive introduction of Mr. Nobody - "the spirit of the twenty-first century" – which occurred in Doom Patrol #26. The issue was published in 1989 during the beginning stages of Morrison's epic run in the series (#19-63).
Superman is a Rocker: Robert Pollard and the Third Mind
About six months ago, I spontaneously started contemplating the nature of using the cut up technique popularized by William S. Burroughs and Brion Gysin to tap into what they referred to as the "third mind". This automatic introspection occurred while I was perusing through the incredibly brilliant re-assembled art books of Robert Pollard. Anyone who knows me knows that I've been a Guided By Voices nut for quite some time, but I've never honestly written about this particular obsession or where it stemmed from before, and so I had an idea of combining these two things into one utterly bizarre piece of music writing.
Vivian, the editor of Redefine didn't really get it, and neither did I consciously, but it was something I felt compelled to hash out nonetheless. Truth be told, I just don't think any other writer did the band's 2012 reunion albums justice, or had accused them of practicing a sort of unconscious witchcraft for that matter.… Read the rest
Contacting Extra Dimensional Forms of Intelligence Through Sex Magick
The other day I got yet another question about the nature of sex magick on the Facebooks (friend me) and it occurred to me, you know, if I had a quick guide I could refer these people to that'd make my life easier, and hell, not everyone's going to ask me questions on Facebook (or follow me on twitter @Thad_McKraken) so I might as well just get it out there. As a matter of fact, I actually directed this person to an article Jason Louv just did on the topic, but I'm not super comfortable with that either, mainly because I completely rejected a lot of the supposed fundamentals of that protocol regarding sigil design years ago. I didn't choose magick, magick chose me (long story and you'll have to wait for my book), and maybe a part of the reason magick chose me is because I'd revise the narrative on the subject of what sex magick is and what it does.… Read the rest
Grant Morrison on the Death of Robin
Long-term friend of disinformation Bryan Young interviews comics legend Grant Morrison for Huffington Post:
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Grant Morrison killed Batman and Robin.
Batman came back, but it seems as though this Robin is dead for good. There have been a few different deaths of Batman's greatest ally, but none have been as meaningful to one single writer as this one has. For those not following along, comics superstar Grant Morrison created Damian Wayne, the son of Bruce Wayne and Talia al'Ghul, who took to the role of Robin with arrogance and, in the end, humbly sacrificed himself as a hero.
By fans, he was hated at first, then loved, and now the tears over his death are many.
In honor of the passing of this most recent Robin, I was given the opportunity to talk to Grant Morrison about his landmark run with Batman and Robin.
Bryan Young: I've read that your original plan was to kill Damian after just four issues?
2013 – Year of the Witch (Phantasmaphile Edition) – Interview with Pam Grossman
"They" Told Me to Write This
Who are "they"? Good question. Grey Aliens? Beings from the Sirius star system? Harvey the white rabbit? Fuck if I know. They appear to refract differently through the nervous system of everyone who comes into contact with them. I actually started referring to them as hynagogic light entities after they started showing up in my peripheral sleep states. The whole scene started crackling right after I began performing magick. I summoned them and they came, rebuilding the structure of my soul on a near nightly basis—which often felt like computer updates being rapidly downloaded into my psyche. Seriously, that's how it went down from my perspective, I started doing magick and they started installing the sorcerer software pack into the very fiber of my being.
This went on for months before they finally finished. They showed me what they'd been working on and of course I didn't understand it even remotely, but they seemed quite proud of themselves.… Read the rest


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Arkansas authorities arrest a man wanted in connection with a murder in Tennessee. Trevein Reed, 21, was arrested around 3:15 a.m. Monday along I-30 near the five-mile marker in Miller County. He's a suspect in a Dyersburg, Tennessee murder. Arkansas State Police says the U.S. Marshal's office told them that Reed was suspected to be on a commercial bus passing through Southwest Arkansas. Authorities say Reed was taken into custody without incident. Arkansas State Troopers along with officers of the Texarkana Police Department and deputies of the Hempstead County Sheriff's Department made the arrest. He's currently being held for Tennessee authorities in the Miller County Detention Center.
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Travelfish correspondent Vanessa Workman
Born in Florida Vanessa Workman spent her formative years on the beaches of the Florida Panhandle and Jacksonville, Florida. While studying in Florida she received a Bachelor's Degree In Fine Arts and a degree in Respiratory Therapy. She relocated to San Francisco in 1990 where is continued her medical career as a Respiratory Therapist and pursued her passion for art, graphics and web design.
After a contract job in a Singapore hospital, she based herself in Langkawi, Malaysia and settled into the island lifestyle. From Langkawi's centralised location she continues her exploration of Malaysia, Burma, Thailand, Laos, Vietnam, Indonesia, Hong Kong and other destinations on her 'to-do' list.
Through engaging in the world of social media she started a website, The Island Drum, originally as an island based information source for Langkawi. However, The Island Drum's networking soon spread to through Malaysia and beyond.
The Island Drum has gone from a simple Facebook Group to a busy and informative website and continues to challenge Vanessa to seek out new people, places and cultural experiences.
Website: http://theislanddrum.com/
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Getting around in LangkawiFirst published: 08 Jan 2013
Although Langkawi is a relatively small island, hoofing it on foot will only work in certain areas and public transportation is not an option. So you're left with getting around the island via taxis, rental cars, motorbikes and for the hearty souls, bicycles. Prices tend to vary throughout Langkawi as much as the weather, so … read the full post
Langkawi's Kompleks Kraf (Craft Complex)First published: 02 Jan 2013
If you're looking for a bit of Langkawi and Malaysian culture, Kompleks Kraf (Craft Complex) on the remote north side of Langkawi should fit the bill with its collection of small museums. The complex is a sprawling group of uniquely designed buildings set in well-landscaped grounds overlooking the Andaman Sea. Upon entering the main reception … read the full post
Review: Tubotel, LangkawiFirst published: 27 Dec 2012
Hands down the most unique accommodation choice in Langkawi is Tubotel, whose catchphrase is, "Don't be square!" Located just north of the entrance to Pantai Cenang at the end of Jetty Pelancongan Cenang, this colourful curiosity has a prime waterfront location offering rooms at guesthouse prices. The rooms are cocoon-like structures made from large diameter … read the full post
Christmas in LangkawiFirst published: 24 Dec 2012
Christmas in Langkawi is usually marked by the annual Pondok Keladi Christmas Charity Bazaar, an event that initially emerged in the season of giving to become these days the local ringer-in of the holiday season. But other big signs of Christmas are usually isolated to hotels and the local malls. It may have been that … read the full post
Langkawi Night MarketsFirst published: 20 Dec 2012
Night markets are a regular occurrence across Langkawi, with these culinary venues being scheduled every night of the week in various parts of the island. They usually start hopping at 17:00 and continue late into the night or when vendors sell out. The vendors are consistent in their appearances, being in tune with what's popular … read the full post
Getting from Langkawi to Ko LipeFirst published: 11 Dec 2012
The island of Ko Lipe is open year round, but due to seasonal rains and currents, getting there directly from Langkawi is only possible from roughly October through April. The absolute quickest route is taking the high-speed boats from Telaga harbour for 128 ringgit one way. Two departure options are available daily from the Telaga … read the full post
Review: Sheela's Restaurant and CafeFirst published: 04 Dec 2012
If in Langkawi some of your party wants to try local Malay cuisine and others are wanting a taste of the West, Sheela's Restaurant and Cafe is a good spot to try in Pantai Tengah. The atmosphere alone is worth it just to sit and have a beer, because it's truly a little garden paradise. … read the full post
Review: Airport Corner, LangkawiFirst published: 20 Nov 2012
With increasing numbers of direct international flights into Langkawi, happy travellers could find themselves killing up to three hours in a rather entertainment-limited airport. Eating is an effortless time killer, but as we all know airport prices tend to be a tad high, especially when it comes to food and drink. But within a five-minute … read the full post
Langkawi wet marketsFirst published: 13 Nov 2012
Langkawi's wet markets can be superb resources for the budget traveller. Sometimes guesthouses on the island come with kitchen availability or access, and while Langkawi does indeed have grocery stores and minimarts, shaving a few ringgit from your food budget by shopping at wet markets on the island is worth the effort. Anything from freshly … read the full post
Watersports in LangkawiFirst published: 06 Nov 2012
Tropical islands tend to embrace water sports and Langkawi is no different. The sailing is excellent and contrary to popular belief, clear water snorkelling and scuba diving are available as well. But the two most popular beaches in Langkawi, Pantai Cenang and Pantai Tengah primarily tout no licence-needed, fun-in-the-sun activities; you'll find an abundance of … read the full post


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Bardel Collaborating with Frank Saperstein
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'Strange Hill High' Gets Season 2 OK Ahead of Premiere
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First Look: 'Futurama' Returns This Summer
Comedy Central has unveiled a sweet mash-up video of clips from the second half of Futurama season 7, set to begin airing this summer. All of Matt Groening's beloved Planet Express ... Continue Reading →
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Barta's 'Toys' Leave the Attic, Plus More Toon DVDs!
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'Phineas and Ferb' Celebrates Platypus Day
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Written on: 20/02/2008 by BillieBoy (4 reviews written)
Good Points
Clear screen, good sound, easily navigation.
Bad Points
Sometimes the map is not very clear of when to turn so sometime turn too early, maps are sometime incorrect.
General Comments
I would buy their new sat nav systems, but their old ones are very hard to use.
Written on: 22/02/2008
I've been able to play about with Garmins, Tom Toms and Navmans and find the Navman menu system the easiest and most "intuitive". I've got an N20 but my previous sat nav was the F20 Europe. I also agree with the maps not being 100% accurate.
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