(** Attn U.S. Readers: The Yellow Sea is currently playing at select theaters in NYC, NJ, Skokie (IL), Cupertino (CA) and Los Angeles) ******************************* Yellow Sea Cast & Crew Director – Na Hong-jin Story/Screenplay – Na Hong-jin Actors – Jung-woo Ha, Yun-seok Kim ******************************* Given our insatiable lust for Korean crime films, it was preordained […]
You can’t sing to the flower without including the bud and stem and the root, even the mud around it, too. – The mad woman Clare in The Wedding by Sallie Bingham, p.172, Source: Mending – New and Selected Stories (Sarabande Books, 2011)
There is no such thing as “Indian food.” It’s a fabrication of the West. Each state has its own regional cuisines: Maharashtra, Gujarat, Bengal. And then even the states have subcategories — there’s coastal Maharashtrian, inland Maharashtrian, Muslim-influenced. Sadly, what most of the world knows today as Indian food is bastardized, trivialized — tandoori chicken, […]
If we’ve said it once, we’ve said it a million times. When it comes to smartphones, Apple’s iPhone is King of the Heap. All the other vendors (HTC, Samsung, Blackberry/RIM etc) are merely playing catch up. Market researcher Nielsen put out a report today and the numbers show Apple iOS ahead of its nearest platform […]
We just subscribed to the iPad version of Encyclopaedia Britannica for a princely sum of $1.99 a month. Well, what do we think we did first. Yes, schmucks, yes. We searched for our Bollywood stars on the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Guess what? There are some surprises here. Real big surprises! We found separate profiles for trash […]
In the free Wikipedia age, are there people who’d care to pay for the Encyclopedia Britannica? Although the jury is still out on that question, we’re inclined to believe that the answer is No given the masses’ disinclination to pay for online content. But that doesn’t mean the folks at Encyclopaedia Britannica are easily conceding […]