Ambivalent News

Sookie attracts ab-tastic men on ‘True Blood’

Sookie attracts ab-tastic men on ‘True Blood’

Yeah, there was a little women’s soccer game this Sunday — better luck next time, USA — but more importantly there was “True Blood!”

Published Jul 18, 2011.
Read more: MSNBC

The Triumph and Tragedy of Counter-Cultural Judaism

The Triumph and Tragedy of Counter-Cultural Judaism

‘Holy Beggars” is a much anticipated account of San Francisco’s House of Love and Prayer, which served as an important home of the Jewish counter-culture from 1967 to 1971, and its spiritual leader, Rabbi Shlomo Carlebach. It is a courageous book. It is also a tragic book, tragic because it exhibits through the lens of one life how this great counter-cultural Jewish experiment could not fulfill …

Published Jul 13, 2011.
Read more: The Forward

Yankee Stadium, Citi Field Not Ranked Among MLB’s Best Stadiums

Yankee Stadium, Citi Field Not Ranked Among MLB’s Best Stadiums

Seems like nobody likes the new version of Yankee Stadium. For that matter, people are pretty ambivalent about City Field, home of the New York Mets, too. At least, according to ‘research’ done by Nate Silver of the New York Times . Silver did not exactly do an exhaustive study. Rather, he went to the review site Yelp.com and figured out how reviewers on that popular site ranked baseball stadium …

Published May 31, 2011.
Read more: SB Nation