To Mother on Mother’s Day, 2016
Max Reif commemorates the hidden grief and love that fill the universe through our mothers in this lovely poem.
Transforming the Politics of Makeup
Umber Ghauri considers the path of drag in reclaiming identity.
Sunday Comics
Sunday Comics Special Mother’s Day Edition*. *May or may not indicate actual Mother’s Day content.
That Time: Piffaro’s Back Before Bach Concert at Town Hall
Modernism via Bach: Omar Willey discusses the latest concert of Piffaro The Renaissance Band.
The Crime of Speech
A new Electronic Frontier Foundation report maps legal threats to free expression from around the Arab World.
Transforming finance can help to tackle the biggest problems of society
The current financial system is part of the problem, not part of the solution. So what’s to be done? Chris Hewlett writes.
Stokley Towles and Kehinde Wiley: Re-contextualizing the Mundane and the Oppressed
Nathan Vass on two artists, Stokley Towles and Kehinde Wiley, who take seemingly mundane subjects and put them through the filter of an artistic disciple in order to either expose us to oft-ignored realms or correct past oversights.
May 4, 1969: Hit the Highway, Freeway
On this date in 1969, one of Seattle’s most successful citizen activist campaigns gathered crucial force in the Washington Park Arboretum. Jeff Stevens remembers avidly.
Motion From Emotion: Karin Stevens Dance’s re(MOVE) : re(TURN)
Omar Willey considers the Chinese Wu Xing and the dance of Karin Stevens in his latest review.
How an underground hip hop artist and his book club threaten Angola’s regime
Since the days of Fela Kuti, Africa’s long-serving demagogues have been threatened by music. This time it’s Angola’s turn. Phil Wilmot discusses.
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