"The Fragile Bee" was exhibited at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA and is an outcry to the plight of the bees in relationship to the environment. Artist Nancy Macko established a garden for native bee-attracting plants so that she could document them throughout the year. The result was a series of photographs entitled "Botanical Portraits", which are written about an essay by museum director Kathleen Stewart Howe. In addition, a 12 x 36' billboard size mural, "Meadow", shot at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA, draws the viewer into the world of flora inhabited by the bees. Curator Stephen Nowlin writes about Macko's large scale installation, "Honey Teachings: In the Mother Tongue of the Bees", a 100 panel work depicting the reaction of the bees to the insecticides and pesticides on the plants they pollinate which causes them to experience confusion and disorientation - a form of memory loss and dementia. Contemporary art writer and curator Carole Ann Klonarides writes in depth about Macko's videos, "Lore of the Bee Priestess" and "Bee Stories" locating the work along the continuum of video art and discussing how Macko uses digital technologies as an art form integrating computer-generated images and audio experimentation with a sociopolitical message.

The Fragile Bee is an outcry to examine at the plight of the bees in relationship to their environment.For two decades artist Nancy Macko has worked with honeybee imagery and media. In 2009, her focus shifted to examining the flora they draw nourishment from and so carefully attend through the process of pollination. Their reaction to the insecticides and pesticides on the plants they are used to pollinate causes them to experience confusion and disorientation. In essence, the bees experience memory loss when they “disappear.” They can’t find their way back to the hive—they disappear. As the disappearance of the bees grows more and more dire, her sense of responsibility to saving them and all of us has also increased. The exhibition The Fragile Bee includes Botanical Portraits, archival digital prints; Meadow, a 12 X 36’ billboard sized image digitally output on vinyl for which the source of the images was a wildflower area at the Rancho Santa Ana Botanic Garden in Claremont, CA and the inserts are macro images of the flora that exist in that location; and Honey Teachings: In the Mother Tongue of the Bees, a mixed media installation of 100 wooden panels faced with digital images of flora and bee media that convey the plight of the bees. With essays by Kathleen Stewart Howe, Carole Ann Klonarides, Stephen Nowlin and an introduction by MOAH curator, Andi Campognone, this catalog accompanies the exhibition of the same name held at the Museum of Art and History in Lancaster, CA in 2015.

More American children recognize Super Mario, the hero of one of Nintendo’s video games, than Mickey Mouse. The Japanese company has come to earn more money than the big three computer giants or all Hollywood movie studios combined. Now Sheff tells of the Nintendo invasion–a tale of innovation and cutthroat tactics.

'Everyone has a little dirty laundry.' The darkly comic series about the secret lives of the ladies living on Wisteria Lane became an instant breakthrough hit for ABC. 21 million viewers tuned in for the first episode and this figure has steadily grown as audiences from around the globe have switched on to the shenanigans in suburbia. "Desperate Housewives" was subject to a backlash in America, where advertisers on the ABC network were lobbied by Christian groups and Parents' Associations. But the sponsorship withdrawal that resulted did little to dampen the enthusiasm of its legions of fans. Recipient of several awards including the People's Choice Award and Golden Globe for Best Television - Musical or Comedy, "Desperate Housewives" is a hit. "Reading Desperate Housewives" offers a critical response to one of the most talked about shows on contemporary television. Leading scholars and writers dissect the appeal of "Desperate Housewives", tapping into early reactions and controversy. They consider the American sex wars, contemporary feminism, Republican politics and the rise of the Right, gender and femininity, motherhood and marriage - and that Vanity Fair shoot. The book includes an episode guide tracing all those goings-on beyond that white picket fence.

THE SUNDAY TIMES BESTSELLER AS SEEN ON SUNDAY BRUNCH "GENIUS ... CHANGED THE WAY I'M GOING TO EAT FROM NOW ON ... THESE SANDWICHES ARE EPIC!" THE HAIRY BIKERS Max's Sandwich Book is the ultimate guide to creating perfection between two slices of bread. Max Halley owns Britain's most amazing sandwich shop. After working in some of the country's best restaurants, he realised that the sandwich, humanity's greatest invention, was due a renaissance. So Max decided to open his own place and reinvent the sandwich forever. Inside this book you will find: · Award-winning creations from his shop · Inspired variations on classic sandwiches · Brilliant, delicious ways to use your leftovers · Sandwiches for breakfast · Sandwiches for dinner · Sandwiches for dessert · And more than 100 recipes for making your own ingenious creations at home. Ham, Egg & Chips never tasted so good. Max is the owner of Max's Sandwich Shop in Crouch End, winner of the Observer Food Monthly Award for Best Cheap Eat in 2015. "Amazing" Russell Norman, author of Polpo "Max is a sensation!" Meera Sodha "The Ham, Egg & Chips is the best sandwich I've ever eaten in my life" Simon Rimmer, Sunday Brunch "Very, very good" Evening Standard

Today's moviegoers and critics generally consider some Hollywood products--even some blockbusters--to be legitimate works of art. But during the first half century of motion pictures very few Americans would have thought to call an American movie "art." Up through the 1950s, American movies were regarded as a form of popular, even lower-class, entertainment. By the 1960s and 1970s, however, viewers were regularly judging Hollywood films by artistic criteria previously applied only to high art forms. In Hollywood Highbrow, Shyon Baumann for the first time tells how social and cultural forces radically changed the public's perceptions of American movies just as those forces were radically changing the movies themselves. The development in the United States of an appreciation of film as an art was, Baumann shows, the product of large changes in Hollywood and American society as a whole. With the postwar rise of television, American movie audiences shrank dramatically and Hollywood responded by appealing to richer and more educated viewers. Around the same time, European ideas about the director as artist, an easing of censorship, and the development of art-house cinemas, film festivals, and the academic field of film studies encouraged the idea that some American movies--and not just European ones--deserved to be considered art.