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Editorial
JEAN BAUDRILLARD: Hystericizing the
Millennium
France’s greatest living philosopher
contends we are turning the past into a commodity -- conspicuous
consumption gone awry.
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Essay
BUYING DREAMS by Michael Albert
Has Mike gone too far left wing?
“New kinship forms must overcome the possessive narrowness
of monogamy.”
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Essay
ROBERT J. LEWIS: THE VIRUS OF IMMIGRANTITIS
Switzerland joins the chorus in let’s blame the immigrant
for every woe on the block.
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Film
Review
DIRTY PRETTY THINGS reviewed by
Cynthia Fuchs
Passports, visas and the why and
who get sucked into trafficking body parts.
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Retrospective
A HOAGY CARMICHAEL INTERVIEW
With the arrival of Rock & Roll,
Hoagy had to take a standing 8-count – One Morning in
May.
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Memoir
HALF-HIDDEN ROAD by Al Billings
As she lay dying, the dysfunctional
son was driving – into the twilight of a masquerade.
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Short
Story
NABEELA SHEIKH: True Romance
The long day and night of an edible
bride, unfit to be tied – me up tie me down.
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Poetry
Robert James Berry's THE OCEAN
In the hands of the best poets, the
lines seem to draw -- “the crab excavates itself from
burial, hoists an appalling claw.”
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Art
Review
The Art of KAPIL HARNAL by Sarah
M. Bagnall &
Marissa Consiglieri de Chackal
The Queen of Spades or high art?
An artist who deals in flesh-tones and guilded thrones.
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Music
SIX DEGREES OF BLUES with Emanuel
Pordes
Chocolate Genius (Marc Anthony Thompson)
sings American Splendor (from film) challenging the
not-so-great-divide between interpretation and creation: the
blues as truth.
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Michael
Jackson
SLEEPING WITH THE ENEMY
"Every man must descend into
flesh to meet mankind." Chesterton.
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