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• in Entertainment
  Dark and Cruel, The Crimson Petal and the White Is Sensational British Costume Drama
  The Crimson Petal and the White, now on DVD, is based on the internationally best-selling novel by Michel Faber. It is a gorgeous production.
  by missbobetier / on Oct 8, 2012
• in Technorati Women
  What a $300 House Teaches Us About Big Business
  For-profit firms are going to help the poor afford housing, and that's a great thing.
  by notonesquareinch / on May 3, 2011

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “slums”

 

• Coming Soon to your Hispanic TV Screen: ‘Cumbia Ninja’

  
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  Cumbia Ninja is the story of a group of cumbia musicians and a Chinese ninja who live in some unnamed Latin American slum. What happens when an old Chinese ninja master meets a group of cumbia musicians living in a Latin American slum controlled by drug dealers? Well, I’m not really sure but we will soon find ...
  3 days ago

• Starbucks Hell, 90210

  
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  By Pauly Los Angeles, CA I found a rare empty seat at the Starbucks a couple of blocks away. Although I live on the wrong side of the demarcation line by a mere block, the Starbucks is on the right side of the tracks and considered Beverly Hills territory. I sat down opened up a book. It took a mere 90 ...
  1 week ago

• Design Students Create a Tool to Map Slums

  
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  Meagan Durlak and James Frankis, both students studying Transdisciplinary Design at Parsons New School for Design , have developed a mobile mapping tool to unveil the true dynamics of informal slum communities, as revealed by Metropolis Magazine . The system, called Mark , is being tested in the Heliopolis favela ...
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• Purple Haze and Pink Sunsets

  
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  By Pauly Los Angeles, CA I rolled over in bed on Thursday morning. The sky was purple. I had to do one of those dramatic eye rubs with both fists and dislodge any eye boogers to make sure I was seeing what I was seeing. The sky was purple with little bits of blue and orange on the fringes. The sky looked like ...
  2 weeks ago

• Three Empty Apartments

  
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  By Pauly Los Angeles, CA After the massive blow-up, I knew that was the last straw when the actress tossed her boyfriend from the apartment, he slammed the door, sped off and never came back. I heard her sobbing in the bathroom right after she left a long, rambling, incoherent message on his voice mail. ...
  2 weeks ago

• Photo of the day – walking barefoot through misery

  
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  A girl stands in a Haitian slum without shoes, without money, but full of pride: The image won the 2008 UNICEF photo of the year competition. Belgian photographer Alice Smeets is the youngest to ever come out on top in … Continue reading →
  2 weeks ago

• Bright Lights, Big City, Cafés, Guns, and Bollywood: Mumbai

  
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  Mumbai was unlike anyplace else I visited in India—such a different vibe than Delhi! Delhi was rooted, historical, the seat of the Mughal Empire. In contrast, Mumbai is a major financial center and the movie capital of the world, the center of the Bollywood film industry. It is reported that 14 million Indians go to ...
  2 weeks ago

• The Informal City Dialogues

  
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  The Informal City Dialogues is a year-long project supported by the Rockefeller Foundation and conducted by Forum for the Future. It homes in on six cities: Accra, Bangkok, Chennai, Lima, Manila and Nairobi. In each of these cities, it aims to foster a conversation about the informal urban realm, and how it can be ...
  2 weeks ago

• King of the Slums - Peel Session 1988

  
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  The complete session recorded by King of the Slums on 12 April 1988 for the John Peel show on BBC Radio 1 and broadcast on the 26th of that month. Tracklist: 1. Fanciable Headcase (0:07) 2. Leery Bleeder (4:49) 3. Venerate Me Utterly (7:51) 4. Big Girls Blouse (11:28)
  2 weeks ago

• Abod – tiny houses that can be built in a day

  
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  Abod One billion people of the world’s population lives in informal communities – sometimes known as shantytowns, tent cities or, if you’re really going for the jugular, slums. Doug Sharp, president and chairman of BSB Design, came up with a tiny, inexpensive home for slum dwellers that can be built in less ...
  2 weeks ago

• A business that remains in paper

  
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  Abhinav Gangumalla from ‘Hyderabad Goes Green’, and Renu Rao from ‘Deckle Edge’, a designer store, have recognised the “social enterprise” opportunity hidden in paper waste and worked together to build ‘WE Recycle—Women Empowerment thru’ Recycling’, which was launched on Earth … Continue reading ...
  3 weeks ago

• Polish TV to air film about Radio Free Europe and its contribution to freedom

  
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  Commentary by Ted Lipien Polish Television will air next weekend a five-part documentary film about the Polish Service of Radio Free Europe as a tribute to its message of freedom. Radio Free Europe no longer broadcasts to now free Poland, but the American taxpayer-funded institution is highly valued in the ...
  3 weeks ago

• Books by Sunlight

  
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  By Pauly Los Angeles, CA Sunlight. I prefer to read by sunlight. Ill find any location to read (on the subway, on the bench in a park, in a cafe in Amsterdam), but if I had to pick a light setting, I opt for the natural light of that  glowing star responsible for illuminating our universe. Im suspicious of ...
  3 weeks ago

• Broken Ikea Lamps, Ambushed by Sprinklers, and Westbrooks Knee

  
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  By Pauly Los Angeles, CA Sometimes you wake up and know right away if youre going to have a good or bad day. I fell asleep around sunrise. I had a rough time sleeping the last week especially. I think it has a lot to do with the fact I watched more "TV news" in the previous week than I had done all last ...
  3 weeks ago

• ‘We’ll throw you all out’ – Forced eviction threat for Haiti earthquake victims

  
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  Chiara Liguori and James Burke of Amnesty International’s Caribbean team are currently in Haiti to launch the report ‘Nowhere to go’: Forced evictions in Haiti’s displacement camps. “Be prepared, we will burn down your shelters, shoot you and throw you … Continue reading →
  4 weeks ago

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