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...more than a year now, we have been treated to a p.r. campaign for our side of the tracks. There is what the world sees in Obama, and then there is what we see. Words like hope, change and progress might seem like naive campaign sloganeering in a dark age. But think of the way those words ring for a people whose forebears marched into billy clubs and dogs, whose ancestors fled north by starlight, feeling the moss on the backs of trees. The sight of the Obama family onstage that first night in Denver was similarly mind-blowing...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: For Blacks, a Quiet Question: What if Obama Loses? | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...Biologists have long known that some sea creatures glow in the dark. Shimomura, who now resides in Falmouth, Mass., asked a surprisingly simple question—how do different organisms produce light...

Author: By June Q. Wu, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Harvard Alumni Win Nobel Prize | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...longest death ever!” with her last syllable nearly cut off by a rapid scene transition.The low budget effects were equally as charming, especially in scenes where the other nun-witch-sister, Margaret, gets revenge on those responsible for killing her mother. Her newfound dark powers enable her to kill anyone by kissing them, but instead of her victims simply dying, they immediately become skeletons—skeletons with hair.But the heart of the movie lies in its sex scenes, of which there were many. I’m pretty sure Kathleen—that?...

Author: By Jeffrey W. Feldman, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: Nunsploitation in the Brattle Grindhouse | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

Things look dark. Today, the whole globe faces a food crisis, an energy crisis, and a climate crisis. As the American “slow-motion train-wreck,” as Harvard Business School Dean Jay O. Light termed the Wall Street emergency, accelerates toward derailment, we now also face a financial crisis. Most dangerous, and inextricably connected to the credit crunch, is the penumbra of one more cataclysm: the “development crisis...

Author: By Raúl A. Carrillo | Title: Out of the Shadows | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

...labeled “mutiny” to a furry unicorn and a comely bear reveal the ultimate literality of this video; the plot sequence sticks closely to the lyrics, like a child’s storybook, though the video is made more complex and obscure by a puckish dark-humored whimsicality. Collectively, these elements are fitting for a New Pornographers’ video. A.C. Newman’s power poppy voice can either draw you in and make you want to have your own weird little party or else repel you by being just a tad too chipper...

Author: By Natalie J. So, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: POPSCREEN: The New Pornographers | 10/9/2008 | See Source »

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