Santiago Calatrava’s Space of Alienation
The Oculus at World Trade Center in New York is a genuine, honest-to-god tourist attraction, at...
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Month: August 2019
Fever Ray — Live at Troxy
Fever Ray is Karin Drejier, a Swedish artist who first came to fame as one half of The Knife, with her brother, Olof…
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Greenland and the Reactionary Mind
One might have though that President Trump’s idea to purchase Greenland from Denmark would be one...
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Morrissey, WTF?!?
Dear Morrissey, Listen, we need to talk. I can’t sit idly by anymore –and by the way I’m not the...
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King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard — Infest the Rats’ Nest
King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard might one of the most prolific bands in the world. Infest the Rats’ Nest is their 15th album, to go with two extended plays, since they formed in 2010…
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Parody and Pastiche in FKA USA
King is not interested in telling a story, so much as reframing and reconfiguring cultural artifacts. He is not creating anything new, so much as pushing around detritus in the junkyard of post-industrial, late-capitalist America.
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Iowa College Lecturer Fired for Left-Wing Views
An adjunct lecturer in the English Department at Kirkwood Community College in Williamsburg, Iowa has been forced to resign for his political views. The college removed Jeff Klinzman from the classroom…
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Classic Album: Joe Jackson — I’m The Man
I came to Joe Jackson by chance. It was the summer of 1980, and I was in the passenger seat of my big brother’s forest-green Plymouth Barracuda…
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Buffalo Baristas Vote to Unionize
BUFFALO, NY – Employees at Spot Coffee, the grande dame of Buffalo’s independent coffee shops...
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Ride — This Is Not A Safe Place
This Is Not A Safe Place is Ride’s second album since reforming in 2014. By now, we should all be familiar with their back story: inventors of the shoegazer scene…
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An Introduction to Fred Wah’s “Tree”
Photo courtesy of Fred Wah. © I met Fred Wah at the University of Calgary around 1992. At the...
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