Category: Arts & Culture
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Bahrain Uncensored
“Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark” directed by May Welsh Al Jazeera, 50:56, free online (streaming) The award-winning documentary “Bahrain: Shouting in the Dark” consists of eye-opening images, interviews, and testimonies of members of the opposition who overcame their fear and sacrificed their security for the sake of their democratic rights. In a country ruled by…
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Nina Simone
Nina Simone was born Eunice Kathleen Waymon in Tryon, North Carolina during the Great Depression. Simone’s mother, Mary Kate Waymon, was a Methodist minister and housekeeper and her father, John Divine Waymon, worked as a handyman and part-time minister. At three years old, Eunice displayed musical talent by playing the piano by ear. At seven,…
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A Unicorn of Color Mourns the Day After the Boston Marathon
The day after the Boston Marathon my newsfeed is full of red and pink equal signs next to posts from national press about the bombing. In a way, these are the same love: government-sponsored ways of expressing our empathy. Boston is a rallying point for independence. The marathon is a rallying point for independence.…
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Boston Love
The randomness of the streets laid out as they grew, organically, in this Neighborhood City. Home of the Midnight Ride; small enough to bike anywhere; the Walkable City. And first in North America: the T, where every language is spoken, and which originally had Rapid in it’s name–until a rider sued on the grounds that…
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NOS4A2: A Review
Like father, like son, some people say. Joe Hill is Stephen King’s son and the apple didn’t fall far from the tree. As a matter of fact, this apple is even sweeter if you like your books tinged with tales of horror and love. Joe Hill slips you quickly into his world like slipping a…
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Sights of the City Haiku
Boston winter night— streetlight caught in the glass rim of a sun-catcher. Dark birds float to a bare tree. Underneath pages of newspaper blow. A young man reads poems by Lorca on the train, lips moving, body still. Sky of milk and slate— the sails below are whiter, the river bluer. Vs of geese fly…
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Mary McIntosh: Founder of Feminist Review
Mary McIntosh was an intellectual, a socialist and a feminist activist. She was a woman of strong principles, combined with an abundance of personal kindness. She occupied a pioneering role in many social movements of the late twentieth century, in particular the Gay Liberation Front and the second-wave feminist movements of the 1970s. Mary was…
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Remembering Odetta
Odetta Holmes was born in Birmingham, Alabama during the Great Depression to a poor, working-class African-American family. At an early age, Odetta demonstrated a love for music, singing in church and at school. It was an elementary school teacher that noticed her singing and recommended to her mother that she begin vocal training. Odetta’s father,…
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Olivia Pope & the Scandal of Representation
On April 5, 2012, Shonda Rhimes premiered yet another television drama that would entice millions of viewers to their couches weekly to watch her newest production – Scandal. In case you haven’t seen it, this drama purportedly centers on protagonist Olivia Pope (Kerry Washington), a “professional fixer,” and her efforts to make political problems go…
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Jose Mateo's "How Do I Love Thee" Reviewed
I went to the Jose Mateo Ballet Theatre on a Saturday night, February 23rd, and was really taken back not only by the performance, but also by the complementary atmosphere of the theatre. I personally have never been to a ballet before, aside from some of my sisters’ small recitals I involuntarily attended as a…