Author Archives: Ralph

If You Think This Is Your Average Beach Resort, Look Closer. Because This Is Pretty Insane.

Looks can be deceiving, even for something as big and as seemingly obvious as a beach. What you see below is NOT a well manicured tourist beach in Japan. It’s something much different. If you like going to the beach, but don’t fancy going into the water (because that’s where the sharks live), then there…

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How To Break Bad News

Dumped by his activist girlfriend when he won’t commit to her brand of idealism, reporter Scott Thomas sets out to prove his own dedication to do-gooding. He goes undercover at a fast-food Mexican restaurant where he hopes to lay blame for workplace abuses on the chain’s owner, the next secretary of labor. But instead of…

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Living on a Dollar a Day

Shares the lives of the poorest people in the world, highlighting their experiences and struggles and acting as a clarion call to those who aim to break the cycle of global poverty. GBS_insertEmbeddedViewer(“omPJnQEACAAJ”, 500,400);

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Ten Thousand Nights

Esteemed scholar and theater aficionado Marvin Carlson has seen an unsurpassed number of theatrical productions in his long and distinguished career. Ten Thousand Nights is a lively chronicle of a half-century of theatre-going, in which Carlson recalls one memorable production for each year from 1960 to 2010. These are not conventional reviews, but essays using…

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Hugh Jackman gets skin cancer diagnosis, shares important advice [pic]

http://twitter.com/#!/_gCook/status/403635669534113793 Hugh Jackman recently got some scary news, revealing a photo on Instagram: http://twitter.com/#!/RealHughJackman/status/403584376975683584 Jackman’s full message accompanying the photo: Deb said to get the mark on my nose checked. Boy, was she right! I had a basil cell carcinoma. Please don’t be foolish like me. Get yourself checked. And USE sunscreen!!! Amen! http://twitter.com/#!/Giovanni__Marco/status/403632786311221248 In…

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