http://www.flypmedia.com/issue-rss RSS for individual Issues en http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/bFo8ZMN-7m8/cupids-sweetheart <strong>As Jennifer Lopez gears up for the next phase of her career, the ultimate LATINA icon shares lessons on love and reveals what it will take to win an academy award. </strong><br><p>Jennifer Lopez is one confident chica. Even when she falls, she gets up faster than the blink of an eye. Watching her 20-month-old twins Max and Emme draw on paper in the spacious guest house of her husband Marc Anthony's french chateau-style home in Bel-Air, Calif., you can't help but wonder if the kids inherited some of Lopez's drive. On this warm afternoon in October, they color with the same fierce determination their mami is known for.</p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/plus/26'>Read</a><br><a href='content/cupids-sweetheart'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/cupids-sweetheart#comments FLYP +: Cupid&#039;s Sweetheart Create LATINA Magazine&#039;s Mimi Valdés Photographs by Nino Muñoz music movies j lo j-lo jennifer lopez latin Latina singer Fri, 15 Jan 2010 21:51:32 +0000 Photographs by Nino Muñoz 939 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/cupids-sweetheart http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/5nJ84icjR_M/life-underground <strong>Deep below New York City’s bustling streets lies a dangerous world inhabited by “sandhogs.” Photographer Gina LeVay offers a portal into their domain.</strong><br><p> The men show up for work every day in rain slickers and rubber boots with steel tips; they typically have a flashlight, cigarettes, folding rulers and knives, among other things, stashed in their pockets. To get to their work site, they take a 4 minute-long elevator ride down an access shaft bored into the rock underlying Midtown Manhattan. Before the day is out, they will have risked being crushed by falling rocks as big as subcompact cars, stuck in a flooded tunnel, trampled by speeding railroad cars or blown up by wayward explosions. </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/plus/25/#1/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/life-underground'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/life-underground#comments FLYP +: The Life Underground Create Lindsey Schneider art City Water Tunnel No. 1 City Water Tunnel No. 2 City Water Tunnel No. 3 Department of Environmental Protection Gina LeVay infrastructure New York City photography Powerhouse Books Sandhog Project Sandhogs tunnel boring machine Thu, 19 Nov 2009 19:59:40 +0000 Lindsey Schneider 937 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/life-underground http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/87rf1OCfJz0/paterno <strong>He’s 82. Has the career-wins record. Isn’t it time to quit? Bite your tongue. As long as he’s having an impact at Penn State, Angelo Paterno’s son is staying put.</strong><br><p> <b><br /> </b>Angelo, look at the way your son’s eyes darken now. </p> <p> Look how he balls up his fists and uncrosses his legs as if he’s uncomfortable, as if he suddenly remembered someplace he needs to be. Someone is asking Joe Paterno about the wins record. </p> <p> <i>Again</i>. </p> <p> &nbsp; </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/plus/24/#1/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/paterno'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/paterno#comments FLYP +: Paterno Discover Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated sports Adam Taliaferro Angelo Paterno Bobby Engram Bryan Scott Dan Connor football football coach George Paterno Joe Paterno Kareem McKenzie Levi Brown Nittany Lions Penn State Sports Illustrated Mon, 26 Oct 2009 16:10:02 +0000 Joe Posnanski of Sports Illustrated 932 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/paterno http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/Wg_iVXzSQVs/powering-green-planet <strong>Two scientists offer a radical plan to achieve 100 percent clean energy in 20 years.</strong><br><p> In December, leaders from around the world will meet in Copenhagen to try to agree on cutting back greenhouse gas emissions. The most effective step to implement that goal would be a massive shift away from fossil fuels to clean, renewable energy sources. </p> <p> If leaders can have confidence that such a transformation is possible, they might commit to an historic agreement. We think they can.</p></p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/plus/23/#1/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/powering-green-planet'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/powering-green-planet#comments FLYP +: Powering a Green Planet Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi Think environment carbon footprint clean energy COP15 global warming hydroelectric power photovoltaic renewable energy Scientific American solar power wind power wind turbines Tue, 20 Oct 2009 15:38:50 +0000 Mark Z. Jacobson and Mark A. Delucchi 930 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/powering-green-planet http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/MNDFtxv4x2Q/hungry-wolf <strong>After selling 50 million records and performing for millions of fans in every corner of the globe, the Colombian-born singing, dancing, charity-founding dynamo Shakira is back with a new persona and a new album.</strong><br><p> Don’t let the gyrating hips, flat stomach and platinum blonde mane fool you—Shakira knows what is going on. </p> <p> Unlike many of her blissfully unaware pop-star contemporaries, the Colombian-born Shakira is firmly in touch with reality. She knows how hard everyday people are struggling these days and wants to help—by getting them on the dance floor. </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/plus/22/#1/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/hungry-wolf'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/hungry-wolf#comments FLYP +: Hungry Like a Wolf Create Drew Stoga music ALAS Dónde Están Los Ladrones Hips Don’t Lie Latina Marc Baptiste Oral Fixation Pies Descalzos pop music Shakira She Wolf Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:54:30 +0000 Drew Stoga 928 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/hungry-wolf http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/XmvBGkxqu30/end-alchemical-animation <strong>Jeff Scher unites his graceful paintings with unorthodox animating techniques to produce startlingly colorful short films.</strong><br><p> <a href="http://fezfilms.net/" target="_blank">Jeff Scher</a> is a New York City-based filmmaker and artist whose work is not easily described except to say what he does: He paints, then animates, turning individual works of art into short films. </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#11/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/end-alchemical-animation'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/end-alchemical-animation#comments 35 Create FLYP Staff art movies Animated Life animation experimental film film Hans Richter Jeff Scher Oscar Fischinger painting rotoscope Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:14:23 +0000 FLYP Staff 922 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/end-alchemical-animation http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/q2y7wuIC234/riffing-giants-0 <strong>After turning Al Gore into a climate-change rock star, director Davis Guggenheim takes on the real thing.</strong><br><p>In the brief six months that it took to make his Oscar Award-winning documentary An Inconvenient Truth, director Davis Guggenheim barely left Al Gore’s side. Gore intimates will tell you that the former veep and now icon in the fight against global warming is a funny dude. “You are working with Al Gore,” Guggenheim says, “and you are laughing your ass off the entire time.”</p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#10/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/riffing-giants-0'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/riffing-giants-0#comments 35 Create John McAlley music movies Al Gore An Inconvenient Truth Charles Guggenheim Davis Guggenheim documentary Elisabeth Shue It Might Get Loud Jack White Jimmy Page Led Zeppelin Robert Kennedy The Edge The White Stripes U2 Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:13:50 +0000 John McAlley 921 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/riffing-giants-0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/a4VGLJtnqHs/planet-sound-dirty-dozen-brass-band <strong>To commemorate the 25-year anniversary of their classic debut release, New Orlean’s biggest brass band is taking fans on a trip down memory lane.</strong><br><p> Twenty-five years ago, the Dirty Dozen Brass Band burst onto the New Orleans music scene with their debut album, <i>My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now.</i> Blending elements of R&amp;B and rock with more traditional New Orleans jazz, their seminal release helped define the modern sound of New Orleans brass bands. </p> <p> To commemorate their silver anniversary, the Dozen is re-issuing the album and hitting the road for a series of concerts in which they will perform the record in its entirety. </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#9/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/planet-sound-dirty-dozen-brass-band'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/planet-sound-dirty-dozen-brass-band#comments 35 Create Drew Stoga music brass band Dirty Dozen Brass Band Ephram Towns Gregory Davis Hurricane Katrina jazz Kevin Harris My Feet Can’t Fail Me Now New Orleans Roger Lewis Terence Higgins Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:13:23 +0000 Drew Stoga 920 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/planet-sound-dirty-dozen-brass-band http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/QlqsyX22U8w/magicians-table-cafe-edison <strong></strong><br><p> One of New York City’s most magical attractions can’t be found in any theater on Broadway. Yet it takes place, same time every week, right in the heart of the theater district. </p> <p> On Fridays at half past noon, a dozen or two veteran and inveterate performers meet at the Café Edison on 47th and Broadway for matzo ball soup. Any given Friday, you might find George Schindler, who made Woody Allen’s mother disappear in the movie, <i>New York Stories</i>, talking card tricks with Eric DeCamps, one of the best “close-up magic” pros in the business. </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#8/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/magicians-table-cafe-edison'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/magicians-table-cafe-edison#comments 35 Create Vickie Karp Bob Friedhoffer Café Edison card tricks close-up magic Eric DeCamps food George Schindler Harry Houdini Jerry Oppenheimer lifestyle magic magicians Magicians’ Table New York Stories Society of American Magicians Tom Klem Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:12:53 +0000 Vickie Karp 919 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/magicians-table-cafe-edison http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/F4oROSXxJTE/best-face-forward-0 <strong>Master photographer Dan Winters caps an award-winning career with a collection of his life’s work.</strong><br><p>In the shallow waters off a Fijian beach, photographer Dan Winters carries Sandra Bullock over his shoulder.</p> <p>He sets her down on a rock while Winters’s wife and son get ready with a reflector and lighting equipment. Bullock stands patiently, adorned in an elaborately stitched purple and gray gown and self-styled hair and make-up, waiting for the water to rise.</p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#7/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/best-face-forward-0'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/best-face-forward-0#comments 35 Create Matthew Schaeffer &amp; Tara Kyle art Americana Aperture Foundation celebrity portraiture Dan Winters Denzel Washington entomology Periodical Photographs photography portrait photography Sandra Bullock Scott Dadich Wired Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:12:25 +0000 Matthew Schaeffer & Tara Kyle 918 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/best-face-forward-0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/d-AKu1BfaXQ/portrait-working-marriage <strong>Designer Liz Diller and architect Ric Scofidio enact a transformative vision of America’s public spaces in the very private space of their relationship.</strong><br><p> <b>Diller and Scofidio live in a world of blurred boundaries. </b>Married to each other and their work, they overlap the worlds of art and architecture, theory and practice, ivory tower and construction site. </p> <p> Among their missions is to soften the borders and invade the privacy of public space, a project that won them a MacArthur "genius" Prize. Their relationship is a laboratory and their studio is its home.</p></p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#6/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/portrait-working-marriage'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/portrait-working-marriage#comments 35 David A. Ross Live design Alice Tully Hall architecture Diller Scofidio + Renfro Friends of the High Line Liz Diller MacArthur Prize Para-Site Ric Scofidio Robbert Hammond The High Line Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:11:56 +0000 David A. Ross 917 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/portrait-working-marriage http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/W1Uza-lieto/foresight-28 <strong>Events that will matter.</strong><br><p><i>Sept. 22</i><br /> <b>Smart Money</b><br /> The annual MacArthur “genius” grants, which celebrate the creative individual in American society, will be handed out today. The 25 winners of the award will receive $500,000 over a five-year period with “no strings attached.” Last year winners included astronomer Adam Reiss and saxophonist Miguel Zenon. </p> <p><i>Sept. 22</i><br /> <b>Hot Talks</b></p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#5/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/foresight-28'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/foresight-28#comments 35 Discover FLYP Staff baseball climate change COP15 European Union International Monetary Fund International Olympic Committee Ireland LCROSS Lisbon Treaty MacArthur Award NASA Olympics regular feature World Bank World Chicken Festival Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:11:29 +0000 FLYP Staff 916 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/foresight-28 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/_jOAxnGPCME/science-project-make-your-mind-0 <strong>Two new studies show that when it comes to making decisions, the trouble starts when we think too much.</strong><br><p> Every day, you make thousands of decisions. </p> <p> These range from unconscious acts—turning on hot water instead of cold in the shower—to momentous choices, like what house to buy or who to marry. </p> <p> Everyone knows all decisions aren’t created equal; the really hard ones require really hard thinking. But two new studies challenge this conventional wisdom. They suggest that thinking too consciously—really deliberating—might be the wrong way to make big choices.    </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#4/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/science-project-make-your-mind-0'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/science-project-make-your-mind-0#comments 35 Create FLYP Staff science decision making human brain unconscious Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:11:00 +0000 FLYP Staff 915 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/science-project-make-your-mind-0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/c01cQlSwOoc/under-sea-0 <strong>Biologist and deep-sea explorer Dr. Edie Widder has invented the first camera designed to capture images of the never-before-seen creatures that inhabit the ocean’s depths.</strong><br><p> Since 1997, Dr. Edie Widder has been struggling with the limits of deep-sea exploration. </p> <p> “I’ve done over 250 dives in submersibles with bright lights and loud thrusters,” Widder explains. “They scare everything away. I was frustrated by the way we explore the ocean, so I developed a new way.” </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#3/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/under-sea-0'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/under-sea-0#comments 35 Amy Van Vechten Discover science deep sea Edie Widder Eye in the Sea ocean photography sharks shrimp squids Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:10:29 +0000 Amy Van Vechten 914 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/under-sea-0 http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/IssuesRss/~3/u7h7hZ8WuEM/flypside-granny-ok <strong>Health care evokes passionate debate because so much is at stake—which makes the possibility of failure all the more tragic.</strong><br><p> The passions, real and staged, that President Barack Obama’s health care proposals have ignited should not have surprised anyone. </p> <p> It’s partly the dollars: health care spending is expected to account for almost 18 percent of the economy this year. That translates into $2.5 trillion, more than $8,000 per person. The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services forecast that spending will hit at least $4.3 trillion within ten years. That’s before the $900 billion President Obama says his reform plan would cost. </p> <br><a href='http://www.flypmedia.com/issues/35/#2/1'>Read</a><br><a href='content/flypside-granny-ok'>Read text version</a> http://www.flypmedia.com/content/flypside-granny-ok#comments 35 Alan Stoga Think Barack Obama politics Blue Dog Democrats health care health care reform health insurance Karl Rove Lyndon B. Johnson Medicaid Medicare public option Steven Hill Thu, 10 Sep 2009 22:09:57 +0000 Alan Stoga 913 at http://www.flypmedia.com http://www.flypmedia.com/content/flypside-granny-ok