Researchers in Europe have coined the term “social jet lag” to describe the all-too common practice of following a different sleep schedule on weekdays versus the weekend. Our circadian rhythms are out of sync with our hectic work schedules, the theory goes, so each weekend we’re effectively flying back and forth between time zones without [...]
HENDERSON, Nev. $1.99 million A roughly 6,200-square-foot home with five bedrooms and five baths, on 0.37 acre, about 15 miles southeast of Las Vegas DETAILS: This two-story Mediterranean-style home, built in 2003, has a screening room and wine cellar in the basement and several fireplaces. There’s an inner courtyard, a pool and one-bedroom guest house. [...]
By LEE LAWRENCE Washington ‘Woven Treasures of Japan’s Tawaraya Workshop” fills two rooms of the Textile Museum with finely woven silks in a display so visually intense you could swear you feel the fabrics’ smoothness on your skin. On one length of silk, pairs of purple cranes woven into a white, patterned background fan their [...]
By HEIDI WALESON New York Der Ring des Nibelungen Remaining performances this season: Siegfried May 9; Götterdämmerung May 12 The Metropolitan Opera The stakes are always high for Richard Wagner’s “Ring.” There’s so much time commitment (18-odd hours) and so much history bound up in this four-opera odyssey toward apocalypse. It’s no wonder that fans [...]
Release Date: 03/19/2012Contact Information: Dawn Harris-Young, (404) 562-8421, harris-young.dawn@epa.gov ATLANTA – As a part of the celebration of Energy Star’s 20th anniversary, three organizations in Tennessee were honored by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) with the 2012 Energy Star award. This award was given because of their outstanding leadership and commitment to protecting America’s [...]
The obituaries for Hilton Kramer, the celebrated art critic who died last month, all made prominent mention of his devastatingly terse appraisals of those artists and institutions whose work he found wanting. It was Mr. Kramer, for instance, who dismissed the Whitney Museum of American Art’s biennial exhibitions as “funky, kinky, kitschy claptrap.” But he [...]
Carmageddon, a notorious video game from the late nineties, is attempting to raise crowd-sourced funding to make a return. The original, which sold over 2 million copies, was heavily criticised for featuring excessive violence Stainless Games aims to raise over $400,000 (£250,000) via Kickstarter. The UK-based firm has had to set up a separate company [...]
Release Date: 04/18/2012Contact Information: (Boston, Mass. – April 18, 2012) – EPA has issued an enforcement order to AVX Corp. to implement the ongoing cleanup work at New Bedford Harbor, including dredging PCB-contaminated sediment from the Harbor and disposing the dredged sediment to an appropriately licensed off-site facility, into a confined aquatic disposal cell in [...]
Harper A dark but droll story of strangers seeking refuge after a nearby train accident and refusing to leave. “The Uninvited Guests” by Sadie Jones (Harper, May 1) A dilapidated English country house, called Sterne, is the setting for this dark but droll story of strangers seeking refuge after a nearby train accident and refusing [...]
By JOE WALKER New college graduates may be entering the worst job market in decades, but there are still some majors that pay off—and all of them are in the applied sciences. A new report from the National Association of Colleges and Employers finds that eight of the top 10 best-paid majors are in engineering, [...]