“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind”From Fly by Night Press
Chavisa Woods
“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind”
$14.95 195 pages available for order on amazon.com and at any Bookstore in the U.S.A.
Links to reviews
Go Magazine
The Brooklyn Rail
www.lovedoesnot.com
“Love Does Not Make Me Gentle or Kind” is a collection of short stories focusing on the formative and tumultuous moments in the lives […]
New York and African TapestriesFrom New York to Uganda, England to Chin, Sydney to Africa, Juanita Torrence-Thompson’s poems lead us on a mother-daughter journey, each separately finding her own way in the world of women, searching for the human sparks that unite us all.
Reveiw of Alex Ross’s The Rest is Noise by Aaron HayesNew Yorker music critic Alex Ross’s recently released book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) is an in-depth and entertaining study of 20th century classical music. It describes the lives and work of composers from Mahler and Strauss all the way to contemporaries such as Kaija Saariaho, […]
Ben Ratliff’s Coltrane by Aaron Hayes There is a general sense that, even after a hundred years of jazz, no one really has completely figured it out. We could hide behind the esoteric “if you don’t know by now, you won’t ever know” mentality, but only thereby avoiding the challenge which comes with every calling of […]
Review of Dreams from my Father, by Maryanne RaphaelDreams from my Father, A story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama, Three Rivers Press
In Dreams From My Father, Obama wrote of his efforts to understand his family, the leaps through time and the collision of cultures hoping to shine light on the question of identity and race in the American experience.
He described the […]
Conversation with Ilana Shamoon by Nina ZivancevicConversation with Ilana Shamoon,
a chief curator at the Fondation Cartier
by Nina Zivancevic
I am sitting with Ilana Shamoon on the fifth floor of the Fondation Cartier,
one of the major Parisian centers for contemporary art. For over twenty years, Cartier has been developing a highly individual style of patronage through his Foundation. Since moving to Paris in […]
Review of Witness This ‘Trash’: Eve Packer’s Playland: Poems 1994-2004 by Brynn SaitoWitness This ‘Trash’: Eve Packer’s Playland: Poems 1994-2004
by Brynn Saito
Yes, trash—but not in the pejorative. By “trash” I mean what Eve means: that “glitter- / soaked rain- / wet orange / day-glo” stuff of stretch marks, pebbles and rainstorms, not “garbage,” for, according to Eve Packer, “garbage is
bits of
stink broccoli.
fleas in the
litter, urine-
stained
daily […]
USE TROUBLEA poem in memoriam of Jacob Armistead LaLawrence, 1917-2000
You told this to the children
when they confessed their works
were incomplete your dignity grace
a mapped space for trouble
your migration series at 23
synaptic code for having nothing
as you built off the backs of the poor
your symmetries where paint was talk… (more)
epic transiti never saw your back before the sun…
Reflections on John Cage by Aaron HayesThe first time we encounter John Cage, we think that he is somewhat interesting.
Teaching a music appreciation class to a small group of high school students, I performed 4′33″ for them one day outside. About 30 seconds into the first movement, one of them said, ‘oh, I get it.’ Still, I think there is […]
Reflections on Monk’s 90th by Aaron HayesEven an especially accommodating definition of what jazz is will not place its beginnings much before the first few years of the 20th century, and so this world of music, this hallowed tradition which constitutes an entire paradigm of musical practice, is barely one hundred years old. Among many implications of this, one is that […]
Obama’s speech on raceNPR link
Being in a Lone Space, Surbone & Ross at TRIBES(Also available on artreview.com, Yahoo Video, and blip.tv)
April 30th, 2008 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Events, Features | No Comments »
May 8, 2008 - June 5, 2008
(card / pdf)
It is not known who made the first clock nor when. The same can be said for works of art.
What is the relationship between clocks and art? Both are signposts of temporal distance.
The title, “Platonia” references a controversial theoretical physicist, Julian Barbour whose ruminations on the nature […]
April 15th, 2008 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews | No Comments »
New Yorker music critic Alex Ross’s recently released book, The Rest is Noise: Listening to the Twentieth Century (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, $30) is an in-depth and entertaining study of 20th century classical music. It describes the lives and work of composers from Mahler and Strauss all the way to contemporaries such as Kaija Saariaho, […]
April 15th, 2008 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Essays, Features | No Comments »
The first time we encounter John Cage, we think that he is somewhat interesting.
Teaching a music appreciation class to a small group of high school students, I performed 4′33″ for them one day outside. About 30 seconds into the first movement, one of them said, ‘oh, I get it.’ Still, I think there is […]
April 15th, 2008 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Book Reviews, Reviews | No Comments »
There is a general sense that, even after a hundred years of jazz, no one really has completely figured it out. We could hide behind the esoteric “if you don’t know by now, you won’t ever know” mentality, but only thereby avoiding the challenge which comes with every calling of […]
April 15th, 2008 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Essays, Music Review | No Comments »
Even an especially accommodating definition of what jazz is will not place its beginnings much before the first few years of the 20th century, and so this world of music, this hallowed tradition which constitutes an entire paradigm of musical practice, is barely one hundred years old. Among many implications of this, one is that […]
April 10th, 2008 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Events, Features | No Comments »
LAST CALL FOR ENTRIES
Dear Editor,
In another two weeks we invite tenders to participate in our art festival ARTRMX COLOGNE VOL. 01! Artists worldwide are called to apply and be part of our art off show in Cologne at August 2008. We would be very pleased, if you publicise the last call for our open tender […]
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Dreams from my Father, A story of Race and Inheritance By Barack Obama, Three Rivers Press
In Dreams From My Father, Obama wrote of his efforts to understand his family, the leaps through time and the collision of cultures hoping to shine light on the question of identity and race in the American experience.
He described the […]
April 8th, 2008 A Gathering Of The Tribes Posted in Essays, Features | No Comments »
Directions for being Colored, Asian/Female
Sample Dialogues & Exercises
Levels: Beginning to Advanced
1. Basics
(Repeat as many times as necessary.)
* “Where are you from?”
“L.A.”
“No, where are you really from?”
“L.A.”
Note: The inquisitor wants and expects answers like Taipei, Shanghai or Hong Kong. Any American city confuses them; not that they are really interested in any of the locations. They cannot wrap their minds around the notion that you could be from anywhere else less foreign […]