This week, skipping through npr, I found an article called “Capturing the Dark Side of Ellis Island.” It basically described a photo project conducted by Stephen Wilkes documenting the forgotten spaces of Ellis Island. The photos and essay along with it seemed straight out of an American nightmare. The signifier of the “melting pot”...
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Following the death of her husband, Julia DeForest Tuttle decided to sell the iron foundry and leave Cleveland for good. She’d visited Florida once and thought it would be a good place to raise her two kids. In 1891, she bought 640 acres of southern Florida around Biscayne Bay and took the steam-train down...
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Meschiya Lake was unknown to me until I heard her tunes coming over the speakers at the relatively hidden upper-east-side arts club, Fair Folks & A Goat. Fair Folks has a twin space in New Orleans, and through this umbilicus of arts and culture, Meschiya and her band, The Little Big Horns was to...
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I called the 800-number to inquire about the signage for sale. Could I purchase the letter K in exchange for a story? No, said the woman on the phone. They were all about to be sold. What kind of person was the buyer? Did he own a Blockbuster? What were his intentions with the...
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Note: this post was meant for last week’s theme, and failed to go live due to technical difficulties. Appended to the end is a poem selected for the current week’s theme. Gramsci used this phrase to characterize his attitude during his time as a political prisoner under Mussolini. He did not come up with...
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Featuring Lané Jo, and the makeup and hairstylings of Lauren Marler. Music (“Paris 4 AM”) by The Legendary Pink Dots. Location courtesy of Hotel Congress. . . . . .
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“Sit and contemplate your navel.” A Flash movie featuring Phototapestries 1–79, in chronological order. All artwork and music copyright © 2002–2009 Michael Lujan. (Please wait for a few moments for the movie to load.) . . . . . . . .
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I. To Hell With It Coming from a religious background largely influenced by Buddhism in recent years, the concept of an eternal hell has been, for me, one of the most difficult to swallow during my recent return to my childhood Christian faith (albeit via the Eastern Orthodox Church, rather than the Catholic Church...
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The only thing that performance studies scholars can agree on when they talk about performance seems to be that “performance” is an essentially contested concept. The fact that we can call just about any action a performance can lead to some pretty stupid conversations. Are you performing when you’re asleep? Who gives a flying...
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