Hidden Track Interviews HeadCount Founders
Over at Hidden Track, Scott Bernstein interviews HeadCount founders Andy Bernstein (no relation) and Marc Brownstein about HeadCount’s new What’s Your Issue? campaign, staying engaged beyond elections, and bringing the HeadCount message to a larger community. MB: It’s interesting that you mention Bonnaroo, Andy. In following the model of Bonnaroo in terms of starting with…
Nice People Take Drugs
That’s the message of a new British advertising campaign for drugs policy reform. And I suspect it’s a phrase we’ll be hearing more about in the coming months as marijuana legalization, or at least pot decriminalization, reaches a tipping point here and abroad. The campaign is sponsored by Release, “the national centre of expertise on…
Two American Journalists Sentenced to 12 Years’ Hard Labor in North Korea
Current TV reporters Laura Ling and Euna Lee were sentenced by North Korea’s Central Court to twelve years’ hard labor for “committing hostilities against the Korean nation and illegal entry,” according to the New York Times. The reporters, who were on assignment for the San Francisco-based company co-founded by former vice president Al Gore, have…
Five Questions For Bonnaroo Sustainability Coordinator Laura Sohn
What’s your role with Bonnaroo and how did you come to hold this position? I’m the festival’s Sustainability Coordinator. The festival has had a long commitment to greening and sustainability and worked with outside consultants for years. As the greening efforts grew they realized the importance of having someone involved in the day-to-day, year-round operations…
Barack Obama’s New Beginning Speech in Cairo
Watch it below or read it here. For human history has often been a record of nations and tribes — and, yes, religions — subjugating one another in pursuit of their own interests. Yet in this new age, such attitudes are self-defeating. Given our interdependence, any world order that elevates one nation or group of…
Introducing… HeadCount Festy Food Reviews
While attending a festival, my friends spend a lot of time critiquing, analyzing and dissecting. They talk about the music sometimes, too. Mostly though, serious analysis is reserved for food. We share important information, like Spicy Pie going up to $6 a slice (and still burning the roofs off everyone’s mouths) or that some quiet…
How to (Not) Read ‘The Economist’
Bet you can’t guess what the world’s most profitable magazine is. It’s The Economist, London’s dry yet essential highbrow standard bearer of news, analysis, and opinion. And with even celebrity journalism a non-starter in the era of Gawker and TMZ, it’s become the magazine American newsweeklies such as Time and Newsweek most aspire to emulate….
Carlos Santana’s Architects of a New Dawn
One of the country’s most socially active musicians, Carlos Santana is probably know best, at least philanthropically, as the founder of the Milagro Foundation, which provides grants to not-for-profit community organizations working with children in education, health, and the arts. Santana’s latest nonmusical project, Architects of a New Dawn, neatly combines his passions for the…
Remembering Tiananmen Square?
In China, the only people who apparently remember the Tiananmen Square massacre are the olds and the police. According to the New York Times, “China blanketed Tiananmen Square with police officers Thursday, determined to prevent any commemoration of the 20th anniversary of a military crackdown on pro-democracy protesters that left hundreds dead.” But as James…
HeadCount Seeks Conan O’Brian Twitter Tracker Love
HeadCount has a lively new Twitter feed, which we encourage you to subscribe to here. With any luck, Conan O’Brian’s Twitter Tracker will snag it on the “Tonight Show.” via Boing-Boing