Salon in Denver: Three minutes with Ed Rendell
Joan Walsh checks in with Pennsylvania Gov. Ed Rendell at Salon's Denver party.Continue Reading...
View ArticleSalon in Denver: Pre-show at the Pepsi Center
Rebecca Traister tours Denver's Pepsi Center on the eve of the Democratic National Convention.Continue Reading...
View Article“Happy Hour for Hillary”
DENVER -- The young men in the McCain T-shirts who had spent the afternoon passing out fliers for last night's RNC-hosted "Happy Hour for Hillary" didn't seem too interested in mingling with...
View ArticleFired up for party unity
DENVER -- We almost missed it. While trying to enter the hall for Hillary Clinton's speech last night, we crossed paths with Michelle Obama. After her entrance (and in preparation for Clinton's) the...
View ArticleObama delegates ready to celebrate
DENVER -- Outside of the Pepsi Center on Wednesday evening, I checked in with the sleep deprived, but still giddy Obama delegates after a week of free food, handshakes and history. You can see the...
View ArticleMammals strut their stuff
There's something honest about making clothes by hand. Although each outfit trotted down the runway at New York's Bryant Park will eventually be reproduced many times, the single piece custom-made to...
View ArticleChecking in with the Wasilla Project
A team of filmmakers calling themselves the "Wasilla Project" visited Sarah Palin's hometown. They spoke with citizens, policymakers and people familiar with the V.P. candidate to try to get more...
View ArticleBargain gifts for the outdoor adventurer
Fill the adventurer's soft, cozy wool hiking sock ($19.95) -- er, stocking -- with eco-friendly supplies, like Burt's Bees' chemical-free sunscreen and travel kits ($13-$30). Send your favorite beach...
View ArticleMidrange gifts for the outdoor adventurer
Solio's solar-powered chargers ($99.95) will keep campers' cameras clicking and ice climbers' iPods humming. They also sell a range of useful chargers, cases and adapters to make any outlet-free...
View ArticleLuxury gifts for the outdoor adventurer
Help your sledder graduate from a snow tube ($89) to the Hammersled ($349). The sled has a strong aluminum frame and mesh seating for a comfortable ride. The skis are changeable to maximize performance...
View ArticleLive! Nude! Puppies! The year in viral video
Among other things, 2008 will be remembered as the year that professionally produced Web video finally trumped amateurs with webcams. Although YouTube continued to attract a huge number of viral video...
View ArticleChip Kidd tours New York Comic Con
The New York Comic Con is sold out and is packed with fans. Video games blare near the entrance, celebrity artists sign sketches under giant DC and Marvel banners. Small press publishers and original...
View ArticleThis is the guy who writes the Oscars?
Remember when Jack Palance did a one-armed push-up at the Academy Awards? It was a funny moment and host Billy Crystal riffed on the 73-year-old's virility for the remainder of the broadcast. Those...
View ArticleWill growing pot grow our economy, too?
As noted in our earlier post on the online town hall President Obama's holding today, a fair amount of the most popular questions submitted to the White House Web site were about drug policy and...
View Article“The Real World’s” Ryan speaks
It's hard to take reality TV seriously, especially the granddaddy of them all, MTV's "The Real World," which pulls together an attractive crew of 20-somethings cast to clash in pretty predictable ways....
View ArticleIsn’t the torture debate over?
It’s unfortunate that President Obama is being pitted against the former vice president as if there’s a country-wide debate raging between them.Earlier today, Dick Cheney in a televised speech tried to...
View ArticleThe dark side of the moon
Today’s science fiction usually features big stars, big budgets and big explosions, but a small independent film with only one star has found a place in the summer release schedule. “Moon,” starring...
View Article“I’ve spent the last five days crying in Argentina”
During Mark Sanford's strange, addled press conference Wednesday, he explained his sudden disappearance from South Carolina by admitting he hadn't been hiking the Appalachian Trail after all but had...
View ArticleObama talks personal responsibility to NAACP
If, somewhere, there's a rating system for coincidences -- a scale ranging from the ordinary to the almost miraculous -- then the one that played out when President Obama spoke to the NAACP on on...
View ArticleWhat Joe Jackson knows about Michael
Larry King interviewed Joe Jackson last night, and it took several strange turns. (Read the whole transcript on CNN). Jackson and his son, Michael, were clearly estranged (Joe admits he was barred...
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