See the Burning Man festival through the eyes of Catherine Bailey in our photo essay.It begins as a pilgrimage of light inching its way across the Nevada desert. Thousands of cars, vans, RVs, painted buses and mutant art vehicles carrying inside them the minions of “The Man.” They are some 50,000 strong: ...
See expanded guidelines to start your own Conversation Café.I didn't ask anyone if I could start Conversation Cafés. There was no one to ask. No one is in charge of conversations in cafés or at bus stops or in grocery lines. The potential for rich, fun, meaningful, enlivening conversations in such locations ...
When I play the Bach suites for cello on city streets, I am acutely aware of both my freedom and yours. Music-making becomes my meditation. My spontaneous response to the music flows freely, and I offer that experience to you, the listener. You have the freedom to respond any way you like. We have no ...
On the fourth anniversary of the invasion of Iraq, San Francisco Bay area activists locked themselves to barrels in front of the world headquarters of Chevron. They were there to draw attention to the link between climate change and war, and specifically to the oil law before Iraq's parliament that would ...
PHOTO ESSAY:PETE AT HOME VIDEO:SEE INTERVIEW FILM:POWER OF SONGPete Seeger has been a presence in my life since the time I was growing up in the Hudson Valley of New York. My family was among the scores who went to see him perform at a run-down little park on the Hudson with his sloop, the Clearwater, ...
Taking digital photos can be effectively maximized using the following techniques:
1. Compose better pictures: use the rule of thirds. It is dividing your screen into nine equal parts and composing your subject off center within the "divided" screen. This will create drama around ...
One could probably read as many metaphors about the transformative power of fashion in the silver-sequined, elaborately padded Chanel gown that Anna Wintour wore to the Costume Institute gala on Monday night as one could in Superman’s cape, which happened to be hanging in a gallery down the hall. ...
The Daily Show with Jon Stewart tells viewers “it's even better than being informed.” And each night more than 1.5 million people agree—not to mention numerous judges for the Emmy and the Peabody awards. The satirical news show takes a critical yet hilarious look at government, current affairs, media, ...
HOMEGROWN: Engaged Cultural Criticismby bell hooks & Amalia Mesa-BainSSouth End Press Collective, 2006, 145 pages, $15.00reviewed by Patrisia GonzaleSIn my great-great grandmothers' era, black Muscogee Indians found refuge in our ancestral Kickapoo lands in Mexico. In my great grandparents' time, Indians ...
Documentaries have been
gaining steam over the last few years. Filmmakers are working with
activists, advocates, and organizers to give new and exciting meaning
to the term cinema verité.
A week before the 2006 mid-term elections, I found myself in a room
full of strangers, packed like sardines ...
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