Mike Pauls

Mike Pauls

Mike Pauls learned cynical melancholy from the experts, growing up in Cleveland. Now residing in southwest France, he has spent most of his life writing cultural guidebooks to Italy, France, Spain, Turkey and sometimes Greece (Cadogan Guides). He also runs a website devoted to American urban issues and urban design, www.recivilization.net.

Martin Boyce

Art Shams and Political Scams

Right as fashion photographer Mario Testino was about to announce the winner of this year’s coveted Turner Prize, a beefy brute in a pink tutu and sensible black socks materialized from nowhere and launched himself into a graceful belly flop on the stage. As the black-clad forces of artistic ...

Obama’s Eight-Ton Lemon

The Beast’s arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus’ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the Avatars. Mandeville wrote in his Travels about how in the pilgrimage procession worshipers would throw themselves under its ...

Obama’s Eight-Ton Lemon

The Beast's arrival in Europe brought comparisons to the Hindus"€™ Juggernaut, the giant sacred conveyance that carried the idol of Jagannath, transcendental cause of the Avatars. Mandeville wrote in his Travels about how in the pilgrimage procession worshipers would throw themselves under its ...

Schmidt’s Demon

Eric Schmidt has seen the future, and he's been kind enough to share it with us. In a recent interview with the Telegraph, the Google boss gets all dewy-eyed and breathless over the search engine's future. "€œI can only describe this now as a "€˜wow"€™ moment,"€ he says, "€œthe beginning ...

The Ghosts of November

Now comes the morning after, and a surly nation sweeps up its mountains of badges, posters, and lies before carting them all off to the curb. It wasn"€™t much of a party, but we know we"€™ll probably do it again in a couple of years. We can"€™t help ourselves. We can"€™t. Political ...


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