Great chefs don’t mean great websites The first thing that pops up when you visit the website of the San Francisco restaurant Fleur de Lys is a nearly full-screen animation of celebrity chef Hubert Keller’s autograph. That makes sense—when I’m choosing a restaurant, the first thing I want to know…

Opinion Top row from left: Marie Curie, Albert Einstein, George Washington Carver and Betty Friedan. Bottom row from left: Charles R. Drew, Germaine Greer, John Maynard Keynes and Marshall McLuhan. Neal Gabler is a senior fellow at the Annenberg Norman Lear Center at the University of Southern…

At a time when traditional news organizations are struggling to reinvent themselves in a new world, the century-old library is emerging as a digital leader. NEW YORK -- Two massive lions flank the steps of the New York Public Library's flagship building on Fifth Avenue. Crafted out of pink Tennessee…

Op-Ed Contributor Omaha OUR leaders have asked for “shared sacrifice.” But when they did the asking, they spared me. I checked with my mega-rich friends to learn what pain they were expecting. They, too, were left untouched. While the poor and middle class fight for us in Afghanistan, and while most…

I no longer live in London. I've been transplanted to Los Angeles by a combination of love and money; such good fortune and opportunity, in both cases, you might think disqualify me from commenting on matters in my homeland. Even the results of Britain's Got Ice-Factor may lay prettily glistening…

Daniel DelaneyBrian August demonstrating his iPhone app that will place an outline of the twin towers, where they once stood, within a new photograph of the city. Brian August stood on the roof of a building on the Greenpoint, Brooklyn, waterfront on Thursday, facing Manhattan and squinting at his…

‘Don’t write crap.” That was what Julia Gillard, the Australian Prime Minister, offered recently as a contribution to the debate on the responsibilities of journalism. Since all pages of newspapers ar

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You’ve heard the news by now, surely, the cat having been let out of its proverbial bag. As reported by ESPN on Wednesday, the Toronto Blue Jays are sign stealers; the Toronto Blue Jays are cheaters. I found the report deeply disturbing. Don’t get me wrong, I’m not troubled by the undeniable facts…

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Portland is a city practically dedicated to bicycles and bicyclists. Anybody who has driven down N Williams at 5 p.m. on a weekday and has seen the line of bike commuters stretching practically from the river to Northeast Portland can tell you that. With a diverse community of dedicated cyclists…

Looking to buy your next phone, laptop, headphones, or other tech gear? Or maybe you just want to know all of the details about the latest products from Apple, Samsung, Google, and many others. The Verge Reviews is the place for all of that and more. Whether you’re looking for buying advice, how to…

These recent nights have felt like nights of the living dead, the darkness – and sometimes the daylight – grotesquely animated by people who appear to care for nothing and no one. What a lot of them there turned out to be – far too many for the police, initially, to contain. These people have…

The Political Scene August 8, 2011 Michele Bachmann’s world view has been shaped by institutions and people unfamiliar to most Americans.Illustration by BARRY BLITT The transformation of Michele Bachmann from Tea Party insurgent and cable-news Pasionaria to serious Republican contender in the 2012…

The phone-tapping admission of Clive Goodman, royal editor of the News of the World, has not done much for the image of investigative journalism. His downfall follows repeated exposures of the murky ways in which Goodman's NoW colleague, the "fake sheikh" Mazher Mahmood, sets out to entrap his…

What are libraries for? To the generations that have grown up with free access to local public libraries, this may seem like a stupid question. The recent library closures in UK and USA have generated heated debate on both sides of the Atlantic. Should we forget about libraries now that we have the…

The best take on Aaron's case, if you aren't familiar with it, was from @mariabustillos http://t.co/OxtDzvIw

Yesterday, another columnist decided to suggest that Toronto should revisit bicycle licensing . Blogger Robert Kirsic suggests that a licensing fee of $200 for individuals and $500 for bicycle-servicing businesses would improve safety and compliance, and promote Toronto as a bike-friendly city. Do…

Opinion Drew Westen is a professor of psychology at Emory University and the author of “The Political Brain: The Role of Emotion in Deciding the Fate of the Nation.” Atlanta IT was a blustery day in Washington on Jan. 20, 2009, as it often seems to be on the day of a presidential inauguration. As I…

Image by sukisuki via Flickr I’ve given a lot of talks over the past few years, and in virtually every one (along with quite a few of the articles I’ve written), I’ve rhapsodized about the Espresso Book Machine (EBM) from On-Demand Books (ODB, a truly unfortunate acronym for a bookseller). I’ve gone…

When Mayor Gregor Robertson brought separated bike lanes to the downtown core last year, he initiated a change that over the long run will have a profound and positive impact on the city. In the short term, however, he may pay a political price for it. A "honk if you hate Gregor" campaign hasn't…

Let me tell you a little about the truck driver you just flipped off because he was passing another truck, and you had to cancel the cruise control and slow down until he completed the pass and moved

A billboard went up at the approach to Montreal’s crumbling Champlain Bridge earlier this year that captured the public mood. “Say your prayers,” it read. It was a cheeky message from the Catholic Archdiocese, drawing attention to an annual collection drive, but even for secular Quebeckers it struck…

August 4, 2011 | by | Features Ad posted to Vancouver, BC craigslist > for sale / wanted > bicycles Ryan looks a young 30 or so, aside from the missing teeth. His face is fresh and kind, bearing none of the open wounds one typically associates with crystal meth. As we walk, his backpack jingles with…

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