Paris Hilton’s recent arrest for driving on a suspended license and now her recent court hearing and sentencing. Both Paris and her mother Kathy felt that the sentence Paris received was “Harsh and Cruel and Unnecessary”. How is getting 45 days in prison considered cruel, harsh and unjust? Then Kathy Hilton is quoted making a […]
SONNENBERG GARDENS, A TITANIC STORY
SONNENBERG: A VISIT TO A DIFFERENT TIME By Warren D. Jorgensen I took a break from a Finger Lakes wine tasting tour to visit Sonnenberg Gardens and Mansion, stepping into a reliquary of a gilded age, discovering a woman whose love of flowers may have saved her life. In 1857, Mary Clark, daughter of then-Governor […]
Michael Jackson. NOT A SCANDAL BUT AN INNOVATOR!!!
Michael Jackson Innovating Contemporary Performance Practices. We are witnessing, at the beginning of the XXI century, a comeback of the original concept of performance (defined as the representation of an artistic product before an audience), and, also, a return to the ancient performance model, mainly characterized by great spatial and temporal coordinates (ex. […]
Mohabat Khan Mosque:An elegant but neglected legacy
By Shaheen Buneri Mohabat Khan, the governor of Peshawar under Mughal Emperors Shah Jehan and Aurangzeb might have not thought that the elegant mosque that he built in the heart of Peshawar city in 1670 AD would be so brazenly neglected by the succeeding rulers of this region that it would lose its […]
OPEC
OPEC and High Gas prices OPEC and prices at the gas pump are hitting the headlines again. This should not surprise savvy news readers. Prices at the pump start bouncing around every year, just about the time Americans start making vacation plans. There is only one certainty when […]
My Second Life
In another universe, I am a woman. She only exists in a virtual world, as an "avatar" in an online game called Second Life. My avatar is currently an attractive, thin blonde woman who enjoys flying, undressing and standing still in the middle of empty buildings and changing her clothes. These aren’t really her hobbies, […]