The Carnatic Tradition
Both North and South Indian Classical music gained popularity in the states during the fifties and sixties and can still often be heard in such easy-to-find places as Indian restaurants.
TV IN MY BONES at Theater for the New City
From August 9th to August 13th Tribes' very own Phoebe Mar put on a wonderfully entertaining collection of sketches. TV IN MY BONES, Produced by A Gathering of the Tribes and written by C.S. Hanson sold out Theater for the New City for its limited run. Enjoy some of the production photos of the hilarious production!
Andrzej Zulawski’s L’Important C’est d’Aimer
Polish filmmaker Andrzej Zulawski’s most highly acclaimed film was recently screened for several weeks at the Quad Cinema here in New York City.
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Some say a sad poem is slightly better than a bad poem. I had the habit of writing both.
Geography of a Broken Dream
The Cambridge Companion to Sam Shepard opens with a transcribed interview between Matthew Roudané, the collection's editor, and Shepard himself. The dialogue, like its subject, waxes and wanes across a hundred subjects, painting a picture of a man drenched in American myth.
What We Talk About When We Talk About The Answers
Meet Mary. She’s in extreme bodily pain, with neither explanation nor prognosis. She’s got one friend, who is about to leave her life forever.
The Most Concrete Imaginary
I always drink cranberry juice on flights.
They say it washes out your insides.
The Most Concrete Imaginary
Our acknowledged and unacknowledged tragedies
just underfoot.
All ground might be hallowed ground.
I want to go everywhere, but how do I trod?
A Choir of Two Angels
At 9:42 PM on June 29, 1975, 28 year old singer Tim Buckley, blue and unresponsive, was rushed to the Santa Monica hospital in Los Angeles.
The Most Concrete Imaginary
I always drink cranberry juice on flights.
They say it washes out your insides.
An Artist’s Life: A Review of Thaddeus Rutkowski’s Memoir, Guess and Check
The son of a Polish-American father and Chinese immigrant mother, Thaddeus Rutkowski, along with his brother and sister, grew up in rural Central Pennsylvania.
Kuso by Flying Lotus
If you've never heard of Kuso an independent film by rapper turned movie maker Flying Lotus, you're not alone. The movie is a niche film that has become a gross fascination for independent film lovers and free spirit creatives
The Other Side of Nature’s Consciousness
As I gazed the length and breadth of nature’s creations,
i saw the upper and lower identities of its limitation.
Mumbo Jumbo: a dazzling classic finally gets the recognition it deserves (The Guardian)
America, wrote Ishmael Reed in his 1972 novel Mumbo Jumbo, is “mercurial, restless, violent ... the travelling salesman who can sell the world a Brooklyn Bridge every day, can put anything over on you”.