Nineteen-year-old Jake Fragua and his compatriots Rose B Simpson, Mike Schweigman, Douglas Two Bulls, Cougar Vigil, Hoka Skenandore and Watermelon 7 make up a collective called Chocolate Helicopter. Their group incorporates a band of intertwining members, busting out with soulful, sometimes blues-based songs, meant to twist your melon with a skill and introspection that's shocking considering CH's youth-but don't call them just a band. And, though each Chocolate Helicopter also is either an IAIA student or someone affiliated with the school, don't call them just artists either. Chocolate Helicopter believes types of artistic expression cannot be categorized, and each form of artistry interlocks and interweaves with the same fluidity as the members of the collective itself. I spoke with ...
That's why much of the political rhetoric of the past two years may prove not only illusory but counterproductive. So, with much talk of change and hope in the air, now is the time to articulate an authentic sense of hope, one that is realistic. If there is to be a decent future for humanity- indeed, any future at all- we must face painful realities with intellec- tual honesty and moral strength. We can cel- ebrate the victories we achieve along the way but it's just as crucial that we stay focused on what remains to be understood and accomplished. * Given this likely trajectory of the coming decades, more of our political organizing should focus on what comes after this collapse (recognizing that a "collapse" will not be a neatly defined process that unfolds in a clear and bounded time...
Davis reviews Pound for Pound by F. X. Toole, The Wonder House by Justine Hardy, Winter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell, The Driftless Area by Tom Drury, The Possibility of an Island by Michel Houellebecq and translated by Gavin Bowd, and The Road by Cormac McCarthy.
[Martha Colburn]'s animation Don't Kill the Weatherman! at the Rosenbach Museum and Library is a music video with medieval chops. Using scans of an apocalyptic 15th-century French manuscript mixed with gas-guzzling, eco-destroying 21st-century imagery, the artist blurs history. Her point is that apocalypse then (floods, famines, plagues, earthquakes, fires) is much like apocalypse now. The difference is then they thought God unleashed the plagues, while now we know we're largely doing it ourselves. Weatherman!, projected large and high on the wall in the Rosenbachs French room, feels somewhat out of place in the treasure-box mansion with its antiques and rare books. Yet something about Colburn's parade of oddball characters is reminiscent of Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak, ...
Connecticut's Democratic Attorney General Richard Blumenthal is taking heavy fire for a series of statements he made over several years in which he either explicitly or implicitly claimed to be a Vietnam veteran, when in fact he is not. His defense is that he misspoke - using the word "in" instead of "during" the war, according to a spokesman. This implies that he repeatedly made an innocent and unconscious mistake. But anyone watching the video of him in 2008, touching his heart when he earnestly says "we have learned something very important since the days that I served in Vietnam," cannot conclude he didn't know exactly what he was saying. The scandal doesn't depend on what the meaning of the word "in" is. Mr. Blumenthal not only did not serve in Vietnam, he systematically avoided an...
For Hollywood's forthcoming film version of Cormac McCarthy's post-apocalyptic novel, The Road, the movie- makers should have done their location scouting here in California's Butte County. If you've read the novel, you'll recall that it describes the journey of a man and his son, two of the survivors of a calamity that has left the planet nearly devoid of life. There's a big chunk of real estate in my back yard that looks like that right now, with ghostly ashshrouded trees haunting the ridgelines and the buttes burnt black, one after the other. The first of our local fires prompted an evacuation of the town of Paradise and created a state of persistent fear for thousands of people who know that a shift in the winds could bring fire to their rooftops. Now, fire has returned, fire from t...
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Maybe you don't have to worry about those car payments or your 30- year mortgage after all. On Dec. 21, 2012, the ancient Mayan "Long Count" calendar ends. Some have concluded this means that the earth will be struck by a mysterious Planet X, now hurtling through the cosmos toward us.
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