Word: staggering
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...educated, less interested in meaningful debate than the "village" it mocks. (At its best, it is a source of clever and well-informed anti-Establishment commentary.) Indeed, it resembles nothing so much as that other, more populous hamlet, the right-wing Fox News and Limbaugh slum. Hilariously, as we stagger from one awful decade into the next, there has been a coagulation of these extremes - a united front against the turgid ceremonies of legislative democracy, like compromise, and disdain for the politician most responsible for nudging our snarled checks and balances toward action, Barack Obama. The issue that has brought...
...PURI, INDIA Bring Your Own Film Festival A beach in India's Orissa state is hardly the French Riviera, but this alternative gathering of barefoot filmmakers has managed to stagger through to its ninth year. While the Pink House Hotel is the official venue, screenings and happenings are also held in outdoor tents. As the name implies, BYOFF is an all-embracing affair: for a small registration fee, anyone can submit a movie, in any format and about pretty much anything, and there are no juries or awards. At the time of writing we were unable to confirm dates...
...return to North America after a sojourn in Italy in 2006. No need to unpack the cold-weather clothes, because four months later, in the midst of winter in the southern hemisphere, will be the FIFA World Cup in South Africa. Ever since the International Olympic Committee decided to stagger the Summer and Winter Games after 1992, the frozen sports have been played in the same year as the World Cup, giving fans two major events to watch...
Kong — Hello, intrepid traveler. You’ve been out doing it big with your idiot host and his roommates, and now you want to finish it the right way, with some sketchy Chinese food. Stagger on over to the Hong Kong on Mass Ave, ignore the bouncers at the door (you’re not trying to drink more, for God’s sake, just get some freaking food.) Then cram youself in and order up some beef with broccoli. This place stays open right through...
...Tomorrow you will go to a comedy show, an a cappella jam, more info meetings, and another ice-cream social. You will stagger home, chastened and broken in spirit, pursued by incessant e-mails from organizations you signed up for in a frenzy induced by three hours of 1920s jazz standards...