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- Wave of Violence Against Mexican Musicians
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  The violent deaths of two Mexican singers this weekend raise the number of these killings to at least nine in the last two years, reports Spanish-language La Opinión. The two slain musicians, Sergio Gomez, 30, and Zayda Peña, 28, played "grupero" music, a popular genre with songs often about drug trafficking and organized crime.
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- Tamayo Masterpiece: From The Trash Bin To The Auction Block | Orato | True Stories, Citizen News
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  I am a senior vice president and one of the directors of the Impressionist and Modern Art Department here at Sotheby’s. I’m also an auctioneer. I have studied the works of Rufino Tamayo and was involved in the recovery of his long-lost work, ‘Tres Personajes,’ which was found in the trash in New York by a woman named Elizabeth Gibson. The piece is going to be on the auction block on November 20, 2007 and is expected to sell for $750K to $1 million.
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- Obituary: Grace Paley and political culture
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  Grace Paley, the American short-story writer and political activist, died on August 22, aged 84. She described the lives of ordinary New Yorkers in the postwar period more ably than almost any other writer of her generation. She wrote in an ironic tone that implied, at its best, that there were historical processes latent within the travails of daily life.
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- A fighter for Marxism in America James P. Cannon and the Origins of the American Revolutionary Left
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  The publication of a biography of James P. Cannon, one of the leading figures of early American Communism and the founder, in 1928, of the American Trotskyist movement, is a major event.
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- The Indie City
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  Why Portland is America's indie rock Mecca.
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- Venice Film Festival 2007 - Telegraph
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  Venice Film Festival 2007
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- Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?
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  In Blind Mountain director Li Yang takes a frank and angry look at sex slavery in rural China. The practice of buying wives was abolished following the Chinese revolution in 1949. By the late 1980s it had revived to the extent that many tens of thousands of women are annually sold as wives.
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thedude comments on:
Film: Where is Osama bin Laden?

Morgan Spurlock never ceases to impress me… i just saw Super Size Me, which was amazingly insightful, and now he’s making a documentary that investigates the war on terrorism? well done indeed

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Edinburgh Film Festival: Solitary fragments or part of social experience?

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Faces from the edge of the Earth - OregonLive.com

This article could do with some more images of her work.

http://www.gwennseemel.com/paintings.htm

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Kristy comments on:
Faces from the edge of the Earth - OregonLive.com

Full disclosure: the artist is a friend of mine from high school… :)

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Jeff comments on:
Tough titties | Salon Life

Kristy – methinks you’ll like this story from Rome

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10:59 pm 4/23/07

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