Skip to: Content
Skip to: Site Navigation
Skip to: Search

October 13, 2008 10:44:10 AM CDT

Learn about Newser Points »

Stories related to: culture

Stories

Stories 21 - 28 of 28

<< Prev 1 2
  • October 2007

    • Tech Wraps Growing Web Around World

      PC World  |  Oct 8, 07 1:40 PM CDT

      Tech Wraps Growing Web Around World

      (Newser) - Global cellphone and computer usage is up dramatically as inequalities in technology drop. Cellphone ownership has grown 20% in the US, where 80% of the population uses computers, third in the world behind Sweden and South Korea. Computer usage is up in 26 of 35 countries in a new Pew survey, PC World reports, and even 6% of Tanzanians log on. More »

      Tags

      Russia  • environment  • cell phones  • technology  • computer  • Nigeria  • culture  • Tanzania  • developing world

  • August 2007

    • Letting It All Hang Out? Bill Would Put It All Back In

      Atlanta Journal-Constitution  |  Aug 23, 07 12:14 PM CDT

      Letting It All Hang Out? Bill Would Put It All Back In

      (Newser) - Young men will want to hike up their sagging pants, and women cover up bra straps and exposed thongs if Atlanta’s City Council adopts a proposal to amend the city’s indecency laws, the Journal-Constitution reports. The measure, which would fine violators for exposing boxer shorts, thongs and bras, is discriminatory and won't stand up in court, the ACLU warns. More »

      Tags

      Louisiana  • hip-hop  • Atlanta  • culture  • First Amendment  • ACLU  • indecency  • pants  • dress code  • Delcambre

    • Spanish TV Channel Nixes Live Bullfights

      Guardian (UK)  |  Aug 21, 07 12:45 PM CDT

      Spanish TV Channel Nixes Live Bullfights

      (Newser) - Spanish state television will not show any live bullfights this year, bowing to restrictions on gore on daytime TV but disrupting a time-honored tradition. Televised bullfights had been a viewer magnet for public-TV station TVE, and fans are seeing red, the Guardian reports. "It is obvious that watching bullfights on the television does not traumatize children," says one politician. More »

      Tags

      television  • children  • Spain  • culture  • bullfighting

    • Quirk Is the New Kitsch (Sigh)

      Atlantic Monthly  |  Aug 16, 07 5:13 PM CDT

      Quirk Is the New Kitsch (Sigh)

      (Newser) - Quirk is the “ruling sensibility” of today’s culture—random narrative, “mannered ingenuousness”—and it’s become exhausting, writes the Atlantic 's Michael Hirschorn. “This American Life” has been the standard-bearer, but the quirk it purveys hasn't held up well in expanding from radio to TV. More »

      Tags

      culture  • Generation X  • This American Life  • Talking Heads  • Wes Anderson

    • Antiwar Band Tours Mideast With State Dept. Backing

      Los Angeles Times  |  Aug 1, 07 6:17 AM CDT

      Antiwar Band Tours Mideast With State Dept. Backing

      (Newser) - In an effort to bolster its image in Muslim countries, the US is sending a group of Los Angeles musicians to the Arab world as cultural ambassadors. The band Ozomatli, whose members frequently bash Bush administration policies and the Iraq war, is touring the Mideast on the government's dime, drawing appreciative crowds and fielding questions about US foreign policy. More »

      Tags

      Iraq war  • music  • Middle East  • entertainment  • culture  • image

  • June 2007

    • Photos That Changed the World?

      Slate  |  Jun 19, 07 8:31 PM CDT

      Photos That Changed the World?

      (Newser) - Slate and Magnum Photos team up to present 31 photos that over the past 70 years have "informed the world" and "capture(d) the political and cultural zeitgeist of our time."  The iconic photos in this slide show range from a soldier falling in the Spanish Civil War to a soldier falling in the Iraq War. More »

      Tags

      Iraq war  • history  • photography  • culture  • photo  • picture  • world

    • Barker Tapes His Final 'Price Is Right'

      Associated Press  |  Jun 7, 07 11:35 AM CDT

      Barker Tapes His Final 'Price Is Right'

      (Newser) - Bob Barker taped his final episode of "The Price is Right" yesterday after 35 years hosting the long-running game show. He treated it as just another day, signing off with his usual admonition to spay and neuter pets, but after the cameras stopped rolling, the 83-year-old legend thanked the studio audience profusely for his 50 years in TV. More »

      Tags

      television  • entertainment  • America  • culture  • Bob Barker  • The Price Is Right

  • April 2007

    • Don't Call Them Chefs

      Los Angeles Times  |  Apr 4, 07 12:53 PM CDT

      Don't Call Them Chefs

      (Newser) - Culinary school degrees are suddenly leading to careers outside the kitchen, reports the LA Times . In our food-obsessed culture, beer sommeliers, cheese affineurs (aging experts) culinary philanthropists and even food consultants for historical films are increasingly finding outlets for their unique talents. Specialists say their jobs beat working in restaurants, "being shouted at by mean chefs." More »

      Tags

      food  • culture  • chef  • cooking  • organic food  • organic  • cook  • culinary school

Stories 21 - 28 of 28

<< Prev 1 2

Today's Most Popular

Loading...

Premium Articles from HighBeam

Find more articles like this

What is Newser?

2008 Codie Finalist

Newser gives you more news in less time. We search for the best and most important stories all over the web, read them for you, and deliver concise and sharp summaries—along with links to the full text. Newser provides a way to stay on top of an ever-expanding horizon of news and opinion—politics, sports, business, trends, technology, personalities, crimes, and controversies. Newser keeps you not just better informed, but, with our signature graphic interface and smart condensed format, more enjoyably informed.

Learn more »