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Taking You There: The Glory of Albert Bierstadt: ‘Among the Sierra Nevada, California’ Have you ever had a painting show up at different times in your life when you needed it most? At Penn State in 1967, in the auditorium for Professor Jim Lord’s art history survey class, a large screen spanned the width of the stage. He would flash up slides from different artistic eras—some older, then more modern pieces. Some of the abstract art with splotched canvases were forgettable. One day he put up a painting by Albert Bierstadt. It remained on the screen longer than the others, giving 500 st...

Various are the survival strategies — for when you go months without the local aqueduct bringing you water, AND for a medium that’s squeezed by tech monopolies. It helps when you see your little publication as a cause rather than a cash cow. Archive photo by Eric Jackson, from the time when his house and his neighbors’ houses went eight months without water. Google and Facebook, attacked from several directions, move to silence their critics by Eric Jackson Want to be NOT listed by Google as a news website? One of the easiest ways to do that is to neglect the insertion of code into your...

When Richard Nixon picked up the Sunday New York Times on June 13, 1971, he must have lingered on the smiling image of himself escorting Tricia – his “ethereal blond daughter,” as the paper described her – to her wedding in the White House’s Rose Garden. He was thrilled with the coverage. That “archive” soon became known as the Pentagon Papers – 7,000 pages of top-secret documents that exposed more than two decades of war-related deceit by four presidential administrations. A major scoop, indeed, but the public might have found it as yawn-worthy as the headline. Later that da...

"The apple doesn't fall far from the tree." So say our political families as they try to pass the torch on to generations of clunkers who dine out on the family name, even as the franchise rots.

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