Nov 11 Philippine city of Tacloban at the center of typhoon devastation By Larisa Epatko Typhoon Haiyan swept across the Philippines in November 2013, wiping away houses and leaving survivors in search of food and water. View photos of one of the hardest hit cities, Tacloban, on the eastern coast. Continue reading
Nov 06 Lost masterpieces from a supposed Nazi Trove of Art By Victoria Fleischer Hidden for decades, a fraction of the paintings, etchings and drawings belonging to an art trove uncovered by German authorities last year, was revealed to outside eyes at a press conference in Augsburg on November 5. Some 1,400 works of… Continue reading
Nov 02 Beyond Banksy: Two street art experts take you on a world tour By Kristin Miller Steven P. Harrington: Editor in Chief and Co-founder BrooklynStreetArt.com and Jaime Rojo, Editor of Photography and Co-founder are contributing writers for The Huffington Post Arts & Culture. They've been documenting street art around the world for years and have witnessed… Continue reading
Oct 23 Student Poets in Detroit answer the question ‘Where does poetry live?’ By Victoria Fleischer InsideOut brings writers to Detroit public schools to encourage students to express themselves. Writer Peter Markus asked his class at Marcus Garvey Academy, a K-8 school in east Detroit, the same question that U.S. poet laureate Natasha Trethewey and the… Continue reading
Oct 12 Art in exile: Nicky Nodjoumi from Tehran to Brooklyn By Kristin Miller Nicky Nodjoumi’s artwork walks a fine line between art and politics. After the ousting of the Shah in 1979, the new Khomeini regime began strictly regulating artistic expression. Nodjoumi was exiled after a Tehrab exhibition in 1980."They saw the show… Continue reading
Oct 08 Children of Zaatari By Extra DA This collection of photos from the World Food Programme (WFP) shows life inside Zaatari, the largest Syrian refugee camp. The camp, which houses over 100,000 Syrians in Jordan, has challenged organizations like WFP to provide enough resources. Continue reading
Oct 05 The Price of Precious By Kristin Miller In these images from the October 125th anniversary issue of National Geographic magazine, photographer Marcus Bleasdale documents child labor in camps that extract not blood diamonds, but tin, tungsten and tantalum -- minerals used in electronic products. © Marcus Bleasdale/National… Continue reading
Sep 20 How to Live Micro: Home Life in Under 350 Square Feet By Kristin Miller While more and more people are living alone, the costs of rent and real estate are soaring. So cities like New York and Vancouver are trying to get the most out of some of the apartment space they do have,… Continue reading
Sep 17 Life at the ‘Top of the World’ By Mike Fritz At 330 miles above the Arctic Circle, life has never been easy for those brave enough to call Barrow home. The population currently hovers around 5,000 and about half of the residents are native Inupiat Eskimo, indigenous people who have… Continue reading
Sep 15 FDR’s Green Dream: The Quoddy Dam Project By Kristin Miller In 1935 construction started on a massive New Deal project proposed by FDR in Passamaquoddy Bay. The Quoddy Dam Project would have stored the rising tide behind multiple dams and then slowly released the water through turbines, producing electricity. But… Continue reading