From the Boston Globe a book group with a difference. Read From a rare friendship, a book club for the homeless is born and watch the video.
It’s five people in a book group, not 5,000 people fed, but it’s five people I can pull aside and talk to,” Tibbetts said
by Jeanine Baker
‘Sense of community’ will become the key currency of sustaining urban communities ~
..” the sustainable city of the future will depend precisely on commitment and long-term residents. It also will rest on the revival of traditional institutions that have faded in many of today’s cities. Churches—albeit often in reinvented form—help maintain and nurture such communities. Similarly, extended family networks will be critical to future successful urban areas. As Queens resident and real estate agent Judy Markowitz puts it, “In Manhattan people with kids have nannies. In Queens, we have grandparents.”
~from “The Luxury City vs. the Middle Class” in The American by Joel Kotkin
From Gary Huswit director of Helevetica comes Objectified. “Objectified’s opening weekend ticket sales at the IFC Center theaters in New York made it the top grossing independent film in the country on a per-screen average”. 
“Bad design is where the customer thinks it’s their fault that something doesn’t work…” Check out the full quote from the film on his blog and the trailer here.
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