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Monthly Archives: August 2011
High Noon Urchins
This week’s theme: Easier said than done. Ninja Dave Margaret Geo Jeannette Sarah Next week’s theme is A Clean Conscience. Send us your morally upstanding photos by Saturday to be featured on next week’s High Noon.
That’s What He Said
Man’s heart, away from nature, becomes hard; [the Lakota] knew that lack of respect for growing, living things soon led to lack of respect for humans too. – Luther Standing Bear
Posted in Environment, Margaret, That's What They Said
Tagged environmental injustice, fracking, fracking cancer, luther standing bear
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Film Forecast… Not as Grim as Expected
By Margaret Hedderman There was a time when I made a point of watching a new release every week. I could tell you who was in what, who was supposed to be in what but pissed off the director and … Continue reading
Contemporary Profiles: Portugal. The Man
by Geo Ong Amidst a music industry so often preoccupied with nearly everything but music, Alaskan band Portugal. The Man has meanwhile released their seventh full-length studio album, In the Mountain in the Cloud. Like any band fortunate enough to … Continue reading
City Lights Booksellers & Publishers
By Sarah Jost City Lights Books in San Francisco is independent bookstore and publisher founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. The bookstore spans three cosy floors of a 1907 building in the city’s North Beach neighborhood and is stocked … Continue reading
Posted in Literature, Sarah, Travel
Tagged Allen Ginsberg, charles bukowski, City Lights Books, howard zinn, North Beach, sam shepard, san francisco, Will Potter
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Worldly and Well-Read: Books from Europe to New York and Everywhere In Between
by Geo Ong For many readers and lovers of literature, the Penguin Classics series has long acted as a canon for books of cultural importance. Whenever I’m inside a used bookstore, thrift store, or charity shop, I usually scan the … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged alina bronsky, books, boris pasternak, emmett grogan, europa editions, francisco coloane, letters summer 1926, marina tsvetayeva, new york review of books, nyrb classics, penguin classics, publishers, publishing, publishing companies, publishing imprints, rainer maria rilke, ringolevio, the hottest dishes of the tartar cuisine, tierra del fuego, tonga books, translations, world literature
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Art for Your Heart
Pot holders from European flea markets by Anu Tuominen Anu Tuominen is a Finnish artist with an eye for colour and form and the magical ability to turn everyday objects into beautiful works of art. I picked up a postcard … Continue reading
High Noon Urchins
This week’s theme: In a pickle. Geo Ninja Dave Margaret Next week’s theme: Easier said than done. Show us what you’ve gotten yourself into! Send your own High Noon to UrchinMovement@gmail.com by Saturday to be featured in next week’s post!
Posted in Collaborative
Tagged Geo Ong, High Noon Urchins, in a pickle, margaret hedderman, Ninja Dave, sarah jost
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That’s What He Said
That state of deprivation though, is of course, the condition that many of those rioting endure as their unbending reality. No education, a weakened family unit, no money and no way of getting any. JD Sports is probably easier to desecrate … Continue reading
Posted in Politics & Global Issues, Sarah, That's What They Said
Tagged london riots, Russell Brand
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London Architectural Highlight: Don’t Burn These!
We love London. It is our favourite place in the world. Over the past week, it has been so heartbreaking to see images of London’s beautiful old buildings, as well as the storefronts of hardworking Londoners, burnt to the ground. … Continue reading
