Archive for the ‘spirituality’ Category

Bring on Lama-Palooza

Thursday, April 10th, 2008

Lama-Palooza's man behind the curtain is a driven entrepreneur named Dan Kranzler, a Charles Foster Kane for children and early learning (better that than, say, politics or yellow journalism). Kranzler is a Bellevue-based wireless executive who founded Mforma, a mobile-entertainment company, in 2001.Read the full story

Music Review: Shahram & Hafez Nazeri The Passion Of Rumi

Monday, January 28th, 2008

What's amazing is that there has actually been any sort of connection established that establishes even the tiniest beachhead of understanding amidst all this mutual recrimination. In the last few years there has been a growing fascination among people in the West for the poetry of the Persian Sufi mystic ...

The Dalai Lama’s Succession Rethink

Saturday, November 24th, 2007

The 72-year-old Nobel Peace Prize laureate indicated that he and his aides were considering several methods that could replace the tradition of searching for a reincarnation of the Dalai Lama among Tibetan boys whose birth coincides with the previous incumbent's death.Read the full story

The Cult of Chris McCandless

Wednesday, November 7th, 2007

15 howling Alaska winters and 15 brief frenzied summers, and the ancient bus on the Stampede Trail still rusts in the wilderness, almost exactly as Chris McCandless left it...Read the full story

Violent Crackdown Launched in Myanmar

Wednesday, September 26th, 2007

Security forces in Myanmar opened fire Wednesday on demonstrators, and witnesses said police beat and dragged away dozens of Buddhist monks. The government said at least one person was killed, while dissident groups and media reported up to eight dead. Read the full story

Bush Apologizes to Wiccan Soldier’s Widow for Meeting Slip-Up

Saturday, September 1st, 2007

When she heard about the exclusion from her mother-in-law, Stewart said, she concluded that it was done because of her public fight to force the federal government to engrave the symbol for the Wiccan faith on her husband's marker on a memorial.Read the full story