by Sam Winston

I know I’m not the first one to say how pathetic it is that New Orleans can’t get its basic recycling program together. However, living in one of the world’s leading recycling countries in Germany, New Orleans looks especially sad. And wasteful.

Yet New Orleans city officials already know what I’m talking about! They were here to see first hand what it means to take recycling seriously. In Germany, companies (see video) and governments lead by example, with the people following. New Orleans seems to be the opposite. Read the rest of this entry »

I don’t know if it is ingenious or insulting, the number of American films which are the remakes of a very recent foreign film incarnation. It became most obvious with all of the Asian horror films being adapted to English-speaking counterparts with Mega-movieplex stars such as Sarah Michelle Gellar (The Grudge, a remake of Ju-on) and Naomi Watts (The Ring, a remake of Ringu). Most of the time, the original foreign version had just made it to our local Blockbuster, even though it had been released at least a year before. Read the rest of this entry »