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I had the pleasure of spending some time with the good people during unfortunate times in Gibson, Georgia
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“We’re always a little bit sick…” say’s A.J. as he clear his throat. It’s midnight, below freezing and we are huddled inside an empty truck container in downtown Salt Lake. He leans forward and lights a cigarette and a ball of orange light explodes and softens around his face for two short seconds.
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It was a most gruesome end, and the sight will shock even the coldest of hearts. There she was on the hard floor, her badly battered body lying in a pool of her blood. Her entire face was coated with clotted blood, with a few bones irreverently sticking out of her broken remains
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Now flash-forward to the late 1990s, New York City. I had become friends with the then 91 year old Theodore Gottlieb, better-known as the infamous dark comedian Brother Theodore, a big influence on Eric Bogosian, Lydia Lunch and Spaulding Gray, who had been performing his totally insane one-man show at the tiny 13th Street Theater for ages and was a frequent guest on David Letterman’s show during the 1980s. No exaggeration to say that Theodore had been around forever. He was delivering lines like “The only thing that keeps me alive is the hope of dying young” long before I was born. What was a great gag when he was, say, 50 years old, and then to STILL be delivering a line like that at the age of 93, as he did on my UK television series, well that existential tension is what made his nonagenarian performances so incredibly spell-binding.
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In exclusive interview with the Guardian, writer David Simon expresses fears for newspapers’ future and accuses media owners of contempt
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Theatergoers will have barely settled into their seats at “Reasons to Be Pretty,” which makes its Broadway debut this week at the Lyceum, before they will be jolted by the profanity-laced rant of a young woman directed at her passive boyfriend all because he told a friend she had a “regular” face. The entire play hinges on this seemingly innocuous comment, which is why the billboard outside the Lyceum describes it as “a love story about the impossibility of love” written by “Neil LaBute, playwright and provocateur.” LaBute’s plays are, in fact, so provocative that some past audience members have walked out midplay or screamed out “kill the playwright” or slapped an actor’s face after a performance. And that makes a side of LaBute happy. “It’s part of my makeup,” he says, “to ruin a perfectly good day for people.”
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Right about this same time last year (it’s 70th anniversary) I found an incredible paragon of throw-down urban journalism resting on the counter of my local 7/11 store. To say The St. Louis Metro Evening Whirl is unlike any newspaper printed and distributed in the United States would be giving it so little credit it’s not even funny.
in Journalism
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The work included in this exhibition demonstrates not only the hand of a talented artist, but also that of an obsessive collector. Each piece is an assemblage of street advertisements meticulously hand-collected by the artist over the course of many years. Layered deep in each work is a visual topography of the vibrant ethnic neighborhoods of New York City that collectively drive its pulse and frenetic energy.
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“I do this as a regular pastime,” says Susana Raab of her practice of seeking funding for her personal projects. Her “Consumed” series, which documents America’s fast food culture and was featured in “Exposures” in March, has been supported by grants from The Puffin Foundation and the White House News Photographers’ Association.
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Foto: Elyse Butler
Ein tiefer Atemzug am Strand der Channel Islands in Californien.
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In photography, it’s hard to define what an “outsider artist” would be. After all, we’re all photographers! Cameras are ubiquitous. Of course, not everybody is an artist. But still, what would a true “outsider photography artist” look like?
in Books
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The kidnappers have reportedly sent a list of demands insisting that People magazine print a half-page feature on Hutton’s New York restaurant venture P.J. Clarke’s, provide them with a suitcase containing $500,000 in unmarked bills, and include the actor “without fail” in the next People.com “Who Looked Hot?” web column.
in Journalism
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The National Press Photographers Association has announced that Andrea Bruce of the Washington Post has been awarded second place in the International News Story with her photo essay on a young girl in Kurdistan being circumcised.
Readers of this blog will recall reading the reasons for my revulsion at this photo essay
in Ethics
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As I sit there, dreaming of this new Noctilux, I get an e-mail from none other than SEAL. Not only is he an accomplished music artist with a career spanning almost 20 years (his new CD “SOUL” is brilliant), but he is also a talented photographer who is lucky enough to own some of the best glass in the world, including the new Noctilux as well as the Leica 24 1.4 Summilux.
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