Archive for June, 2010

What is the Cruelest Food You’ve Ever Eaten?

Posted By Zócalo On June 30, 2010

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Our strong appetites for every fish from tuna and salmon to orange roughy and monkfish are upsetting ocean ecosystems and polluting the seas, as Jonathan Gold discussed at a Zócalo event. We asked five food lovers Kogi Chef Roy Choi, photographer Charlie Grosso, Teenage Glutster Javier Cabral, Eater LA’s Kat Odell, and Artbites’ Maite Gomez-Rejón – to tell us: What is the cruelest food you’ve ever eaten? Read their answers below.

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The Lark

Posted By Zócalo On June 30, 2010

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by Timothy E. Bartel

Two unasked ornaments—we receive them
Christmas morning from our father:
A cardinal, crimson for my

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Does Europe Work?

Posted By Zócalo On June 29, 2010

Europe's Promise, by Steven Hill

Europe’s Promise
by Steven Hill

The Europe Steven Hill describes in Europe’s Promise sounds like a terrific place….

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Should Non-Profits Act Like Corporations?

Posted By Zócalo On June 29, 2010

Small Change, by Michael Edwards

Small Change: Why Business Won’t Save the World
by Michael Edwards

Anyone who has worked in the nonprofit sector, with big or small organizations, has likely felt pressure to think about markets and quantify outcomes in a corporate style. Michael Edwards’ Small Change does much to explain and challenge this kind of corporatization of the nonprofit world.

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The Vital Function of Constant Narrative

Posted By Zócalo On June 27, 2010

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by Marlys West

If the world is but a place of language, at last
I know wherefore I talk too much.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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