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I can't remember the last time I flew US Airways, but I recently received notification from them out of the blue urging me to spend my f...

Hal Hartley makes no secret of his fondness for Godard, and this is what makes his films so interesting (and so out of step with virtually e...

Lately I've been puzzling over consumer-behavior theory, and James Duesenberry's notion of the "demonstration effect" in p...

Mark Kingwell's article on architecture in Shanghai in the most recent Harper's started me thinking about how commercial imperative...

I edit music features for a Web site called PopMatters.com and this morning I got a query e-mail for a piece inspired by the recent arrest ...

I was walking through Time Square, which is far from pleasant and makes me wonder why tourists flock there. It's the least characteristi...

The unfathomable problems created by a subway-control-room fire (allegedly it will take five years to fix the damage -- five years?) has lot...