This post is part of a series titled "Who's Complaining in Korea": The Expattes Compleynte The Iri Yeok Explosion, and the Iksan Landfill Crisis NCC-1492 and The Good Ship Daehan This is part three in a series. You may wish to read the above links. If you don’t: Part 1 discussed reasons why so...

Sweep the Leg Johnny takes the stage at San Francisco's legendary Bottom of the Hill club; sanctuary of the uberground scene, showcase for the best that local music's rotting underbelly has to offer, and haven to the truly subterranean and seriously unwashed. On this autumn evening the Chicago fours...

Life was very different when Edna Washington was born to black Baptist parents in 1897. The third of eight children, Edna was born with a statistical life expectancy of 49, during an era when half the total population was under 22 years of age. Health care was yet to be organized, vaccines were in t...

Vitamin A Vitamin A was the first vitamin to be discovered. It is a fat soluble vitamin found to be useful in preventing eye disorders. It includes a family of compounds: retinol, and the carotenoids. Retinol can be found in animal foods and these are ready to be used by the body. Carotenoids are a ...

BLACK TO COMM BACK ISSUE UPDATE! I haven't posted one of these back issue come ons in over two years, and then again I haven't had any orders sent to me in two years either! Maybe this new 'un (spurred on by a dream I had last night where I found a boxfulla the now-o.p. issue #15 in my closet!) will...

The BREATHE campaign - organised by Channel 4's 4Talent, Cancer Research UK and the Department of Health (DoH) - asked aspiring directors to send in their compact cinematic ideas about smoking.The movies can be viewed on Youtube: A girl coughs up a lung. A wild party and the aging girl. Slaughterhou...

Filed under: Cosmetics, Kids and Babies If anyone deserves a little something to boost her up, it's a new mom. The long nights, interrupted sleep, and crazy hormones drag you down, and those dark circles would make anyone feel less than pretty. Of course a crying baby means no time for elaborate mak...

When I asked about the different types of cleansers you wanted reviewed here, the first few things I got from reading your comments were that you were interested in anti-aging cleansers, and most of you wanted to know about drugstore cleansers. Well, looking at my shelf, staring at me front and cent...

Are you one of the 40 million American women going through menopause? If so, the good news is you can sail through this transition feeling great if you take the appropriate measures now. Yes- there are lifestyle tips that you can apply immediately. Did you know... that some foods can strengthen and ...

Newsweek has a fascinating article about a woman who makes her living as psychic to the corporations: When Seagate Technology, the $11 billion-a-year maker of hard drives for the Playstation 3 and Microsoft Xbox, went searching for a consultant to run one of its management workshops in the fall of 2...