Andreas Tzortzis writes in the NY TImes about the new reader/photographers offering shots to newspapers around the world. “Bild’s Leser-Reporter, or reader-reporter feature, introduced during the World Cup, brought its audience daily photos of celebrities, politicians and soccer stars — taken from the cellphone cameras of quick-thinking passers-by and sent […]

Ron Gardner, of Boise Idaho, has one of those radio voices. The kind that just booms out at you, solid, unwavering. He was full of enthusiasm last week talking about a visit to Boise. .I had called him after seeing a story in the recent National Geographic Adventure magazine, and […]

I am lucky to have a good woman in my life. Men often let things slide, and that’s why we need to have good women in our lives to set us right. Cindy reminded me, gently, that I needed to get back to the doc to renew a prescription. Without […]

Turkey has always fascinated me, and it is on our list of places we want to go. Today’s NY Times had a feature on the seaside village of Bodrum, which they compare with St. Tropez.As house and R & B music pulsated from open-air bars, moneyed couples in Chanel double-C […]

Last night we went to the big city, big Northampton, for dinner and a movie. It was time we had a proper date; so it was Thai food and “Little Miss Sunshine” at Pleasant St. The streets were packed on this warm summer night, it made us glad we bought […]

Reading today’s Recorder in the cafe, I came in to open and so far just a dribble of customers. So I had time to read about Steve Wilson. It’s a sad story, dateline Warwick, MA. For fifteen years, the store in this sleepy Western Massachusetts town has stood empty. Wilson, […]

Bob Herbert recounts a tale of bitter irony–beginning on 9/11, when Abdallah Higazy was evacuated from the hotel he was living in across the street from the World Trade Center. He was a student at Brooklyn Polytech, and waiting for housing. He fled, like everyone else, then three months later […]

I love my iPod but now where it’s made: according to a recent report by the UK’s Daily Mail entitled “iPod City,” indentured servitude might not be a bad description of the working conditions inside the city-size Chinese factories that assemble the iPod nano and Shuffle, where the employees reportedly […]