by Adam | Monday 29 November 2010
, the Prime Minister of the Palestinian Authority, has some compelling words for a Western audience. We need to support this guy. It's the best hope we're going to get in this generation. Often, people come to the conclusion that...
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by Adam | Saturday 27 November 2010
I dedicate this post to TFR reader Albert who recently confessed to reading my blog despite it being "gay." If Jay-Z can find meaning in Annie, I think anything is possible. The rapper Jay-Z on convincing composer Charles Strouse to...
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by Adam | Tuesday 23 November 2010
It was Wednesday and I met my girlfriend uptown at the doctor. Stop right there. It’s not that kind of story. The city has a way of stiffing one’s neck to the point that requires a professional intercession. The...
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by Adam | Friday 19 November 2010
Here is something I wrote for the Huffington Post in the haze following my trip to Oregon. It was composed in a fever dream and the sentiment died upon awakening. ENJOY! Thus, if offered the chance to finally dispel the...
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by Adam | Wednesday 17 November 2010
In Chandler Country | by Dana Gioia California night. The Devil's wind, the Santa Ana, blows in from the east, raging through the canyon like a drunk screaming in a bar. The air tastes like a stubbed-out cigarette. But why...
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by Adam | Saturday 13 November 2010
Your intrepid reporter has gone rogue, quite literally, in the Rogue Valley of southern Oregon to work on a story about America's next grape crush: the marijuana harvest. My meals have been two all-you-can-eat buffets (Asian and breakfast, no...
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by Adam | Wednesday 10 November 2010
Tony Judt (RIP), whose work I never agreed with, wrote this fantastic piece about New York for the NY Times. And yet, New York remains a world city. It is not the great American city — that will always be...
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by Adam | Friday 5 November 2010
My most recent contribution to HuffPo: Fifteen years after Rabin, the Palestinian Authority, led by Prime Minister Salam Fayyad and President Mahmoud Abbas, has finally passed its Altalena moment. The West Bank, which for over four decades had been a...
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by Adam | Monday 1 November 2010
From my HuffPo piece on the Rally to Restore Sanity and/or Fear: They arrived on buses from nearby city centers and faraway small towns. There was Brooklyn and Philadelphia, but there was also Boise and Purdue. They flew in from...
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