Jose Padua: And This is Where We Lived When We Lived in the City
He used to panhandle on Dupont Circle in the early 80s. That was where I’d get off from the subway at the end of the day when I worked at … Continue reading
Michael Simms: A Parable about Publishing
A man in a hot air balloon realized he was lost. He reduced altitude and spotted a woman below. He yelled: “Excuse me, can you help me? I promised a … Continue reading
Video: Neil deGrasse Tyson — A Brief History of Everything
Neil deGrasse Tyson gives a brief but fascinating explanation of the origin and history of the universe.
Video: Head Over Heels
It’s not often that a student film gets nominated for an Oscar, but such was the case with Head Over Heels, the graduate film of animator Timothy Reckart that went … Continue reading
Jeff Biggers: Call It What It Is: A Global Migration Shift From Climate, Not a Migrant or Refugee Crisis
Hundreds more died off the coast of Libya this week, on the heels of 71 deaths of migrants trapped in the back of a truck near Vienna, Austria. At the … Continue reading
Video: Masters of Photography — Imogen Cunningham
Imogen Cunningham was born on April 12, 1883, in Portland, Oregon. She began taking photographs in 1901, when she enrolled in a correspondence course in photography while she was a … Continue reading
Djelloul Marbrook: Against Strunk and White
The Elements of Style by William Strunk Jr. and E.B. White is a grammatical manifesto that has dominated American literature almost from the day of its Jazz Age publication in … Continue reading
Doug Anderson: On Risk and Compassion
Constant irony, constant obliquity, perpetual hipness, constant skipping the stone over deep water, afraid to speak, afraid to stand up for something, afraid to expose the heart, afraid to mean, … Continue reading
Vanessa German: Being Awake
We are talking about being whole artists. about being awake and having seeing eyes and feeling eyes. we are talking about not having to know everything. focusing on both the … Continue reading
Smart Chickens, Playful Pigs, Social Cows, Feeling Fish
Smart Chickens Like all birds, chickens are smart animals with complex and meaningful social relationships. In fact, their intelligence is so advanced that a recent study by the University of … Continue reading
Philip Terman: The Frackin’ Poem
Scarlet tanagers, thrushes, warblers, hawks, spotted salamanders, skunk and possum, all the invisible insects— . the native shrubs, the wild flowers, all the trees cut down, the altered light patterns, … Continue reading
Video: Malcolm X at Oxford (1964)
In the closing remarks of Malcolm X’s speech at Oxford in 1964, we hear his trademark claim that liberty should be attained by “whatever means necessary,” including force, if the government … Continue reading
Leonard Gontarek: Dangerous
1 Gimme some red birds falling into place, flocks of noise, dangerous & cooperative. Gimme some tiny leaves falling & getting smaller. Gimme some night falling like spirits past the … Continue reading
Chris Hedges: Amnesty International — Protecting the ‘Human Rights’ of Johns, Pimps and Human Traffickers
The decision by Amnesty International’s decision-making forum, the International Council Meeting, to call for the decriminalization of prostitution is another in a long line of triumphs for heartless neoliberal economics … Continue reading
