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CLAIM TO FAME Rather than envision a final product, the Johannesburg-born furniture designer focuses on experimenting with materials. Frank's eco-sensitive collection is inspired by the contrast of nature and urban deterioration, corrosion and decay. "I grew up in Africa with big open spaces and came to London, where the bridges and canals are over 100 years old and the buildings are recycled, reclaimed and patched up," he says. "This city has just enhanced my desire for nature...
...thinking behind the 10 songs on Roberts' latest release, Chemical City, out on Tuesday, is urban decay. If that sounds heavy, fear not: the CD features much of the cool, '70s-style guitar work fans will remember from Roberts' last album and the smash single of 2002, Brother Down. Chemical City is great summer music: catchy, energetic, never abrasive...
...glaciers, it turns out, can move with surprising speed, and so can nature. What few people reckoned on was that global climate systems are booby-trapped with tipping points and feedback loops, thresholds past which the slow creep of environmental decay gives way to sudden and self-perpetuating collapse. Pump enough CO2 into the sky, and that last part per million of greenhouse gas behaves like the 212th degree Fahrenheit that turns a pot of hot water into a plume of billowing steam. Melt enough Greenland ice, and you reach the point at which you're not simply dripping meltwater...
...four plays: “Fuck life.” While the plays were discomfiting, they were all interesting, even when it was hard to know exactly what to make of them. They hung together surprisingly well, partially because they all dealt with themes of loss, isolation, decay, and circularity, and partially because the transitions between plays were seamless, to the extent that nobody clapped after the first or third plays because it was difficult to pinpoint the moment that the first play became the second and the third the fourth. While the performances were universally strong, some effects...
...successful in my career? Sometimes we need a push to leave what we are doing and find something that we can be more successful at. But a focus on individual ambition and financial success is not healthy. If we ignore civility and empathy, we only exacerbate social decay. Our role models should be those whose ambition and success brought about the betterment of the whole society, not just themselves. Robert Pitts, Jr. San Ramon, California...