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Casting about for the truth of 9/11: Don DeLillo's Falling Man
Posted by Sandyenglish
Parts of Falling Man are moving, and one can learn something about the reactions of a particular social layer in New York at the time. The novel, though, does not succeed as a unified work of art. It falls short of the significance of the events themselves.
Mexico’s Famed Monkey-Boy is Back, Black and on Wal-Mart Shelves
Posted by Shemuses
Mexico's favorite monkey-boy, Memin Pinguin, may now find an audience in the U.S. That's because Wal-Mart has decided to carry the reissued comic books series, first released in the 1960s. There's just one problem. Memin Pinguin isn't simply a monkey-boy but referred to in the series as a "Negro."
A Few Words About Golf With Condoleezza Rice - D.C. Sports Bog
Posted by rani from Washington Post
I'm sick of politics - time for summer pursuits! I think it's fascintating that Condi plays golf, though not as well as she plays the piano: http://www.nytimes.com/2006/04/09/arts/music/09tomm.html?pagewanted=1
George Carlin, Splenetic Comedian, Dies at 71 - Obituary (Obit) - NYTimes.com
Posted by Frankenstein from New York Times
Where would we be if not for George and his seven words you can't say on television?
Paying tribute to Octavia Butler
Posted by Shemuses from Los Angeles Times
Nikki Giovanni and other African American writers will honor the late novelist at the second annual Leimert Park Book Fair on Saturday. Jobs are scarce. Water is even scarcer. Pollution, racial tensions and general poverty have transformed Los Angeles into a dystopian wasteland dotted by pockets of privilege. Sounds like a page right out of 2008, except for the fact that it was written back in 1993, as the setup for Octavia E. Butler's science fiction novel "Parable of the Sower," set in 2025.
Arts elite attacks Australian PM Rudd over images
Posted by senselessthing from The Age
The handpicked cultural advisers of prime minister Kevin Rudd have confronted him over his attack on Bill Henson's photographs of naked teenagers, and have warned that the Melbourne artist potential prosecution damages the Australia's cultural reputation.
Palestinian Youth Express Themselves Through Hip-Hop
Posted by Shemuses
May 2008 marks the sixtieth anniversary of the Nakba - Arabic for catastrophe, the expulsion of the Palestinian people and creation of the state of Israel. However, the Palestinian Diaspora decided to commemorate it with a different image: sharing and performing hip-hop. A commemoration concert was recently held here at the Civic Center Plaza and it was free and open to the public. Performers were male and female. They ranged in ethnic backgrounds -from Palestinian and other Arab nationalities, to African American, Mexican and Caucasian. They had come from across the United States, Canada, the West Bank and Israel.
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