By Steve
Wednesday July 21, 2010
- COMIC-CON 2010: San Diego insiders share their survival tips (and ninja tricks) (LA Times)
- Teen disconnected from technology — and liked it (Boston Globe)
- Miracle grow: The teen brain is a marvel of smarts. It’s just not all filled in (yet). (Boston Globe)
- Uuuuuke! Little instrument makes a big showing (Boston Globe)
- Young horns, bending tradition. New Orleans shaped their musical sensibilities, but for Troy Andrews, aka Trombone Shorty, and Christian Scott, it’s time to move beyond the Big Easy. (Wall Street Journal)
- When Hollywood had a song in its heart (NPR)
- WHO: 5.2 million people on AIDS drugs in 2009 (AP)
- Man arrested with 18 monkeys at Mexico City airport (CNN)
- Manuscript found in Ethiopian monastery could be world’s oldest illustrated Christian work. A manuscript found in a remote Ethiopian monastery could be the oldest illustrated Christian work in the world, experts have claimed. (Telegraph)
- Denver woman named America’s top world-changer under 25: Do Something Awards reward her with $100,000 for African school (Denver Post)
- Bob Dylan, Hop Farm Festival, Kent, review. At 69, Bob Dylan sounds more comfortable performing songs from later in his career. (Telegraph)
- In the land of Mao, a rising tide of Christianity (NPR)
- Cracking the Plato code, it’s all maths and music (Sydney Morning Herald)
- Professor dired for teaching Catholic belief in a Catholic class (The American Culture)
- Stop picking on Lindsay Lohan: Why do some people rejoice in the unraveling of a life and career? By Rebecca Macatee (Wall Street Journal)
- Following Christ at a p*rn convention: At Exxxstasy 2010, we didn’t encounter ‘p*rn stars’ but real women with real names by Dawn Herzog Jewell (Her.meneutics)
- Our abandonment of self-denial (Just Thomism)
- Odd jobs: Trinity Church’s bell ringers (Wall Street Journal)
- Live Aid wasn’t a fantastic concert. But it didn’t need to be by Neil McCormick (Telegraph)
- Bicycle Thieves: Bicycle Thieves is a quasi-Dickensian portrait of a city, and a tense and heartbreaking warning about the corrupting effects of economic despair. (Telegraph)
- Skateboarding glides into new phase (NY Times)
- Ian McShane takes another evil turn: The former ‘Deadwood’ star plays a scheming medieval bishop in ‘The Pillars of the Earth’ on Starz. (LA Times)
- The technocracy boom by David Brooks (NY Times)
- The performance: John Ventimiglia: ‘The Sopranos’ Artie Bucco sheds the Mafia-type roles for that of a vampire in ‘Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Undead.’ (LA Times)
- Back to work for ‘Mad Men’ (NY Times)
- Obama’s man of faith has dual roles: Joshua DuBois melds his higher calling with one to help the nation’s highest office: He bridges religious groups and sends the president his daily BlackBerry devotional. (LA Times)
- Calling indie brides and D.I.Y.-ers (NY Times)
- Five leadership secrets of the Trappist monk by Stephen Martin (Washington Post)
- Drones in U.S. skies – to keep eye on us? By Nat Hentoff (WND)
- The good Christian girl: A fable. What heeding a decade and a half of dating advice can mean by Gina R. Dalfonzo (Christianity Today)
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