Archive For "May, 2010"

Volume 5, No.2 – By Ramón Bannister When I began the series about street musicians in Boston, I thought that the musicians weren’t appreciated very much by passersby. I have since discovered that people really do enjoy the live music despite the hustle and bustle of urban life. The appreciation likely results because of the hustle and bustle urbanites experience daily. The first story about Prescott Blackler suggested you buy CDs if the musician has [...]

Volume 5, No.1 – By Ramón Bannister The idea behind this series was inspired by the experiment conducted by Washington Post journalist Gene Weingarten and world famous violinist Joshua Bell. Bell was strategically positioned near a metro station in Washington D.C. He played classic works from composers such as Bach and Schubert using a $3.5 million Stradivari violin. It was fascinating to learn that such a great musician would be ignored by most passersby. When [...]

Kena Cubed™ is happy to announce the addition of an author/contributor to its roster! We are thankful to have him. He has his own blog and we want him to be as successful as Kena Cubed™. Please help us in welcoming Harvey the Turtle and his newly launched blog, harveytheturtle.com! Harvey will occasionally offer his perspective on Kena Cubed™. Harvey, we wish you the best for your own blog, and thank you for being a [...]

As I consider other topics for this news magazine/blog, I wanted to address another issue that might be on my readers’ minds. One of my readers recently told me that he/she used this website as a source for a class assignment (college level).  Though I was happy to hear that, he/she also told me that the professor asked what I believe to be a very good, intelligent question. “How do you know you can trust [...]

Volume 4, No.1 – By Ramón Bannister When the huge earthquake of 8.8 on the Richter scale took place in Chile near the city of Concepción, the media reported it having been 500 times more intense than the one in Haiti. There was ample video and photographic evidence, at least 1-2 days after the incident, of the destruction the earthquake caused. Journalists were quick to label this one of the biggest seismic events in recorded [...]

Volume 3, No.3 Robotech Movie In Production – By Ramón Bannister In mid-February, 2010, we published a story announcing the sudden end of a Robotech project being produced by U.E.G. Productions. Kena Cubed™ wanted to find out what happened between Harmony Gold USA and U.E.G. I was able to contact an official Robotech representative, Tommy Yune. Tommy Yune was the director of the newest feature-length animated Robotech film, Shadow Chronicles, which helps to revive the [...]

Volume 3, No.2 Promising Project Ends – By Ramón Bannister On February 1, 2010, Kena Cubed™ published a story about a promising, exciting fan-based project. It was to be a new Robotech series entitled, “Robotech Genesis.” U.E.G. Productions had almost finished the first episode when it abruptly stopped production. Recall (from the archived story) that the project was a non-profit production that would have been distributed for free online. I had asked whether U.E.G. Productions [...]

Volume 3, No.1 Editorial Note: The following story is about a project that is no longer in production, for reasons that will be explained in the 2nd and 3rd Robotech news stories. The purpose of re-posting these stories is to transfer them to the new website design. __________________________________________________________ Robotech Genesis: Project Looks Promising – By Ramón Bannister Disclaimer: The images used in this story were first published with the permission of U.E.G. Productions. U.E.G. Productions [...]

Volume 2, No.5 – By Ramón Bannister This is another interview of an immigrant, but the difference with this person is that she eventually acquired citizenship. She prefers to be unnamed, so I’ll call her María. She describes what it’s like to cross the border and the hardships she still experiences. I translated the interview from the original Spanish. All interviews were recorded and can be provided online as evidence that the interview took place. [...]

Volume 2, No.4 – By Ramón Bannister The previous stories in this series focused on the Minute Man Project. Now we will hear from an undocumented immigrant who is not shy about sharing her name. She is Angela Perez, a woman who has been in the United States for more than ten years. As we spoke, she prepared bags of food at the Tucson Soup kitchen run by Brian Flag – food that would go [...]