by Minter Dial | May 5, 2008 | Entertainment, Politics
Music Within – Film Review 4.0/5 stars Directed by Steven Sawalich (second feature film after Sunday in the Park with George and Phil in 2000), Music Within is a film much less to do with music (as much as all the wonderful 1960s hits strike the nostalgic...
by Minter Dial | May 3, 2008 | Politics
Boris Johnson has won a most interesting and widely publicized London mayoral race. Congratulations Boris! And, perhaps, fittingly, it was a May Day [2008] victory. This “Observers” article [removed] pitting a pigeon-on-his-head Ken Livingstone (Labour)...
by Minter Dial | Apr 19, 2008 | Politics, Travel
Manifestations and strikes are a regular part of the Paris landscape–especially if you live in the 6th arrondissement. Paris doesn’t have a monopoly on the topic, but, when I lived abroad, I remember feeling, when flying into Paris Roissy Charles-de-Gaulle...
by Minter Dial | Apr 16, 2008 | Entertainment, Marketing, Politics
Lions for Lambs Watched Lions for Lambs (released Nov 2007) on a recent long-haul flight and have to say that, although the film is clearly lacking in overall finesse, I was nonetheless interested in the political stance of the film. The film touches on lots of great...
by Minter Dial | Apr 1, 2008 | Podcast, Politics
Herewith, the good news for those of you who bought Leopard for your Apple Computer(s) in order to get the parental controls system. It turns out that the issue is that it doesn’t work well with Mozilla Firefox. But, it does work with Safari… So, in the...
by Minter Dial | Mar 21, 2008 | Politics
Read this story from the BBC this morning: Romania Caught Short in Loo Row. With the NATO summit next month in Bucharest, to be held at the Romanian Parliamentary palace, built by the former dictator Nicolae Ceauşescu, in Bucharest, preparations are well under way....