What’s up with California Republicans and all the Obama-watermelon references? Dean Grose, the white, Republican mayor of Los Alamitos, California, has apologized to a local black businesswoman, Keyanus Price, to whom he sent an email depicting the White House lawn planted with watermelons. The picture included the caption, “No Easter egg hunt this year.” (via The Huffington Post) And [...]
Archive for February 25th, 2009
What’s Wrong with this Picture?: Obama’s White House Watermelon Garden
Posted in Obama, Politics, Race on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
No Respect?: Why Can’t a Woman Write the Great American Novel?
Posted in Book Reviews, Books, Literature, Race, Sex & Gender, Writers & Writing on February 25, 2009 | 2 Comments »
“Every few years, someone counts up the titles covered in the New York Times Book Review and the short fiction published in the New Yorker, as well as the bylines and literary works reviewed in such highbrow journals as Harper’s and the New York Review of Books, and observes that the male names outnumber the [...]
Brooklyn’s New Culinary Movement
Posted in Brooklyn, Business, DUMBO, Food & Wine, New York City, U.S. Travel on February 25, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
“These days, with a kitchen and a bit of ambition, you can start to make a name for yourself in Brooklyn. The borough has become an incubator for a culinary-minded generation whose idea of fun is learning how to make something delicious and finding a way to sell it. “These Brooklynites, most in their 20s [...]
