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Friday music blogging: Jenny & Johnny

If there's any dreamy chanteuse that indie boys crush on more than She & Him's Zooey Deschanel, it's Jenny Lewis, late of Rilo Kiley and more recently of a string of critically beloved solo albums. Now she's out with a new album, a collaboration with her boyfriend Johnathan Rice (also a solo artist) under the moniker Jenny & Johnny. It's called I'm Having Fun Now.

Water for a Wife

In parts of the West African nation of Ghana, water has become so scarce that young women ask suitors about the distance to sources of clean water in their communities before accepting marriage proposals. Where water is hard to find, food is also often scarce, so girls are interrogating potential husbands about their ability to […]

Friday music blogging: Wisco

This is neat -- a Wisconsin label gathered together a bunch of bands from the state to pay tribute to one of the finest albums from one of the finest bands ever to come out of the Midwest: Wilco's 1999 Summerteeth.

The right’s climate denialism is part of something much larger

Denialism has come roaring back -- like everything reactionary -- with the economic downturn. What should we make of Rush Limbaugh's army of deniers?

Adirondack Adventure–No Bats, One Rabid Fox

Crossposted from Biodiversivist The above Animal Planet video shows a man trying to fend off a rabid fox …with a loaf of bread. I just spent a week with my family in a cabin on the shore of Brant Lake in the Adirondacks. While walking along a main road my wife and I were met […]

Oil-platform explosion in the Gulf. Yes, another one.

It's unclear whether the platform is in danger of sinking or whether the explosion may had set off underwater oil leaks. The platform, 20 miles west of the massive April explosion and leak, wasn't actively producing oil at the time of the accident.

Moving beyond oil [TRANSCRIPT]

Our expert panel discusses if, when, and how we might transition to cleaner, safer sources of energy.

New Grist Author Blogs Launch Today

Grist launches new Author blogs today.

Friday book review

Perhaps you are going on one last vacation before the end of summer (if so, you are not from San Francisco, where summer never even started) and are thinking of a beach book.  May I make a suggestion?  If you havent read the Girl With the Dragon Tattoo, or its siblings, don’t.  I realize that […]

Friday music blogging: Blitzen Trapper (again)

I've written about Blitzen Trapper before, but their new album is so good they warrant a repeat appearance.