May 2012
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On Spanish comics artist Francesc "Max" Capdevila →
Writer Paul Gravett on the history of Spanish comics artist Francesc Capdevila. Great stuff, and I’m sorry to have missed this exhibit in Madrid while I was there.
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“Simply put, the use of drones and the vocabulary by which they are justified,...”
– “Drones and the Theatrics of Power,” Rafkia Zakaria, Dissent
Today, the second CIA drone strike since yesterday in Pakistan killed ten civilians.
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“Monk’s tunes weren’t sweet like marshmallows, but they sure were...”
– “Not So Misterioso,” Robert Christgau, Barnes and Noble Review (2009). The Concord remaster of Thelonious Monk’s Misterioso is available as of May 15th. Watch Monk live in Copenhagen, Denmark in 1966 at Open Culture (via @openculture).
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Hemingway in Toronto
The Toronto Star has established a beautiful website to host The Hemingway Papers Project, an archive of “the writer’s work from the 1920s” as well as commentary from the Star’s reporters.
In four years of writing for the Star, from 1920 to 1924, in Toronto and in Paris, (Ernest Hemingway) travelled extensively — “10,000 miles” in one year, he wrote to his family,...
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“While it is a crime to bribe a police officer in London, it is perfectly legal...”
– “The Real Mad Men: Following the Money Behind TV Political Ads,” Amy Goodman, Truthdig
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She Smiled Sweetly
Revered rock photographer Gered Mankowitz has work on display at the The Morrison Hotel Gallery on Prince Street in SoHo, NYC. The exhibit spotlights Mankowitz’s Rolling Stones portfolio, as it’s part of “The Rolling Stones 50 Years in Photography” show, which the gallery deems its “most extensive show ever presented.” It runs until May 31st. Details here. The...
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The U.S. Media: Bored with Occupy Wall Street
An important analysis from Fairness & Accuracy In Reporting.
As mentions of “Occupy Wall Street” or “Occupy movement” waned in early 2012, so too have mentions of “income inequality” and, to an even greater extent, “corporate greed.” The trend is true for four leading papers (New York Times, Washington Post, USA Today, L.A. Times), news programs on the major networks (ABC, CBS, NBC), cable...
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“With a homicide rate ranked the worst of the country’s 10 biggest cities,...”
– “How Two Photojournalists Are Taking on the City’s Gun Crisis,” Tara Murtha, Philadelphia Weekly
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Requesting respirators would "look bad in media... →
Antonia Juhasz writes in The Nation about the health crisis that festers after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill unleashed “an estimated total of 210 million gallons” of oil “plus 500,000 tons of natural gas” into the Gulf of Mexico in 2010. An affidavit released on April 24th “suggests that BP knew more oil was coming out of the well in the early days after the...
