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Flash Activism: Bank of America ATMS Converted to Automated Truth Machines
By Sarah Jost On the night of January 12, Rainforest Action Network (RAN) activists converted all 85 Bank of America ATMs in San Francisco into Automated Truth Machines. Special non-adhesive stickers designed to look just like Bank of America’s normal … Continue reading
Posted in Environment, Politics & Global Issues, Sarah
Tagged ATMs, Automated Truth Machines, bailout, bank of america, bank of america atms, Bankrupting America, bonuses, Charlotte, coal, flash activism, foreclosure, global carbon emissions, jobs, new york city, Rainforest Action Network, san francisco
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3rd Annual Urchie Award Nominations, Part 1
As actors, writers, politicians, and musicians everywhere anxiously stare at their phones hoping for calls from their agents, we’re here to announce the 2012 Urchie Award Nominees. In a year when political and environmental stakes were higher than ever, artists … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Film & Television, Literature, Music, The Urchies, Travel, Urchin Eats
Tagged a separation, armie hammer, artist of the year, atlas cafe new york city, berenice bejo, Best Actress, best bookstore, Best Restaurant, best television show, Book of the Year, Briton of the Year, brooklyn, canada, carey mulligan, catherine middleton, Citizens of London, city lights, daniel radcliffe, Destination of the Year, dilettante, downton abbey, elizabeth warren, film of the year, gary oldman, green in the new red, greenlight bookstore, j. edgar, joan didion, john steinbeck, lonely boy, lynne olson, Meryl Streep, New Zealand, nicki minaj, northshire bookstore, Octavia Spencer, perfect couples, peru, Peter Jon Lindberg, peyman moadi, philippe cousteau, portugal. the man, san francisco, st vincente, super bass, Taos Pizza Outback, the artist, the black keys, the chicago diner, The Daily Show, The Help, The Iron Lady, tinker tailor soldier spy, travels with charley, tune-yards, Will Potter, writer of the year
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A New York City Guide to Small Business Saturday, 2011
By Geo Ong After you’ve immobilised yourself with food this Thanksgiving, you may want to treat your body to a nice stroll around the city to burn some of those extra calories. We all know about Black Friday, but the … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Holidays, Politics & Global Issues
Tagged 26 november 2011, babycakes, brooklyn, chicago, fort greene, greene grape, greene grape annex, greene grape provisions, independent business, lower east side, manhattan, new york city, paper magazine, san francisco, small business saturday
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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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My Time at the Coffee House and Karen Tei Yamashita’s ‘I Hotel’
By Geo Ong I had a good feeling about I Hotel, a novel by Karen Tei Yamashita, right from the start. In the first pages, before the copyright and title page, was printed the mission statement of Coffee House Press, … Continue reading
Posted in Geo, Literature
Tagged art as social revolution, books, cafes, civil rights movement, coffee, coffee house press, coffee houses, coffeeshops, fiction, i hotel, inspiration, international hotel, karen tei yamashita, minneapolis, nonprofit, novels, publishing companies, san francisco, sixties, social movements, tea, yellow power movement
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The New Urchin Bookshelf – Eat Your Heart Out, IKEA!
Here are the books we’ll be burying ourselves inside in the coming months. Our bookshelf has everything from classics revisited to contemporary fiction, from histories to drama, from the women of the twentieth century to the objects in your cellar. … Continue reading
Posted in Collaborative, Literature
Tagged a short history of nearly everything, anton chekhov, at home, Bill Bryson, books, Chinatown, contemporary fiction, day out of days, dreamers of a new day, england, feminism, fiction, i hotel, karen tei yamashita, london, Mrs. Dalloway, nonfiction, novels, play, russia, sam shepard, san francisco, sheila rowbotham, sixties, the cherry orchard, urchin bookshelf, virginia woolf, western, wild west
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