Gleanings: Videos from Virginia, Cooks from New Orleans, Film Festivals From San Francisco…
- NBC’s controversial airing of excerpts of Cho Seung-Hu’s video confession before killing 33 people at Virginia Tech last week.
- World Changing: Why Earth Day has served its purpose and must be put to rest.
- Salon.com: A group of Southern Chefs is raising money to rebuild the New Orleans house and kitchen of Willie Mae, the queen of Creole cooking.
- Times Online: Will the May 5 release of Spiderman 3 be the salvation Sony needs (via Arts Journal)?
- New Statesman: Is there such a thing as “authenticity in popular music? (via AL Daily).
- Variety: Last week, Dave Chappelle performed a 6-hour stand-up comedy set, the longest in the history of the Laugh Factory, where the feat took place (via Kottke.org).
- A short history of the pocket hankerchief (via AL Daily).
- Information Week: Rolling Stone magazine is planning a social network (via Largehearted Boy)
- The 50th San Francisco International Film Festival begins this week