An Array of Utopian Flowers
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Pauline Oliveros and her Beautiful Canopies of Sound
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Los Angeles Steps Up Transition Toward 100% Renewable Energy
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12 Reasons to Try Elliott Abrams in the International Criminal Court
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Ecological Amnesia: Life Without Wild Things
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Coup Redux in Venezuela: ‘The Revolution Will Not Be Televised’
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Pablo Picasso: Dangerous Art and Political Posturing in Paris
Posted on February 25, 2015 | 2 Comments"Art is never chaste," said Pablo Picasso. "Art is dangerous." One of the 20th century’s greatest painters was born in Málaga, Spain, but Jonathan Jones argues he came into his own amid the sleaze and bohemianism of Paris – the only city that could have matched his peerless imagination.
The Ongoing Reconsideration of Pier Paolo Pasolini
Posted on August 30, 2014 | No CommentsChampion of the disinherited of postwar Italy, Pier Paolo Pasolini's masterworks prefigured his country's fall to a consumerist Heart of Darkness, an uncompromising vision that may have led to his own wretched death. A biopic by Abel Ferrara that premiered at the Venice biennale reconstructed the last hours of the Italian film director, who was murdered in 1975.
Sen. Ted Cruz: Over the Cliff Like Thelma and Louise
Posted on October 11, 2013 | No CommentsThe colossal Misadventures of Freshman Senator Ted Cruz from Texas: Brainiac ego meets humongous hubris and everything goes off the cliff.
This Country’s Going to Socialist Hell – By Jerry Collamer
Posted on August 24, 2013 | 1 CommentJerry Collamer on the state of the nation's political dialogue ongoing in BlondCounty and at a diner near you.
Pier Paolo Pasolini: A Subversive Champion of the Disinherited
Posted on March 11, 2013 | 3 CommentsAlmost forty years after his violent death, Pier Paolo Pasolini, filmmaker, poet, journalist, novelist, playwright, painter, actor, and all-around intellectual public figure, remains a subject of passionate argument. Best known for a subversive and difficult body of film work, loaded with Renaissance and Baroque iconography, he championed the disinherited and damned of postwar Italy, mingling an intellectual leftism with a fierce Franciscan Catholicism.
Diego Rivera and the Fall and Rise of Detroit
Posted on September 12, 2011 | 4 CommentsViewed today, Rivera's "Detroit Industry" murals might have prefigured Detroit's downfall, but also envision a renaissance. It harkens to the earth, the races living and working in harmony, where much of the city has been cleared of slums and allowed to regrow with food crops, grasses and trees.
