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The Broadway sensation Hamilton received a record 16 Tony nominations this week leaving the John Jay Society seething in resentment. All of this raises the question of which of today’s current policy and political figures will inspire musical tributes two centuries from now? We’ll take your suggestions even as we try to explain why you […]
Some weeks the world can be especially disorienting. As we continue to reconcile ourselves to a world without Prince, a fall election featuring Donald Trump and a Seattle Mariners team in first place, we still find time to take a passage to India, wonder about Moore’s Law of Mad Scientists and ponder where the part-time […]
Many years ago I was traveling to Melbourne, Australia for work and brought gifts for some of the people we would be meeting with. Unbeknownst to me, the gifts–glass art work made by local artists–contained plants pressed between the glass. Australia is very rigid about plants and animals coming into their isolated continent and my […]
Journalists from more than 15 countries covered Kobe Bryant’s last NBA game last night. Chinese journalists were prominent among this flock (or is it a murder?) of journalists. Kobe is huge in China. So as we bid adieu to Kobe’s long career, we examine just how safe his money is in a Chinese bank, pull […]
We were just returning from making a withdrawal from one of our offshore accounts when we realized we are deeply underpaid compared to aclassical cellist of the St. Petersburg orchestra.Still, we carry on and remind ourselves that Japan is not as bad as you think, face the changing look of death squarely in the eyes, […]
As we place our iPhone in a dark corner far from prying FBI eyes, watch a campaign manager get charged with literally twisting arms, and gaze upon 10% of the Cuban population rocking out with Mick, Keith and the gang, we cast glum eyes on the wreck that is Russia, worry about the long-term health […]
As we said last week, International Need to Know fled to New Orleans for a week of music, mirth and food. We have only just returned and are still recovering from seeing the legendary George Porter Jr jam at the Maple Leaf, gorging on fried chicken at Willie Mae’s and hanging with Dr. John watching […]
Merrick Garland is in the new Indiana Jones movie and Harrison Ford has been nominated to the Supreme Court. Or have I gotten my old men mixed up? Apparently March Madness reigns supreme on the court and at the court. But even as International Need to Know escapes the madness for New Orleans–the only city in the […]
We averted our eyes this week from the solar eclipse, presidential debates and the latest episode of The People Vs. O.J. Simpson just in time to provide the long awaited write-up on Mexico’s underrated economy, tell you which country is most at risk to a robot attack and provide the latest on man vs. machine […]
International Need to Know ditched the winter blues to see the funk, hip-hop, neo-jazz New Orleans band, Galactic, at a local club and discovered in the opening band, Con Brio, a rising star full of youthful rhythm and blues vigor (the lead singer is known to do an occasional backflip when performing). But even a […]
