Author: Trent

  • Kenya pressed on Rwandan genocide suspect

    Kenya pressed on Rwandan genocide suspect

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    Guardian: Felicien Kabuga was indicted in 1997 by the international criminal tribunal for genocide and other crimes against humanity as the “main financier” of extremist Hutu political groups and their armed militias which led the massacre of an estimated 800,000 Tutsis. The US has placed a $5m (£2.7m) reward on his head. Mr Kabuga is…

  • Europe Raising Its Voice Over Radical Islam

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    LA Times: “It’s a fear of brutality, and you submit to that brutality,” said Henryk M. Broder, whose book “Hurray, We Capitulate” is a polemic on what he sees as Europe’s submission to Islamists. “It’s surrender to an enemy you’re deathly afraid of…. Europe is like a little dog on his back begging for mercy…

  • CBGB Brings Down the Curtain With Nostalgia and One Last Night of Rock

    CBGB Brings Down the Curtain With Nostalgia and One Last Night of Rock

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    NYT: After a protracted real estate battle with its landlord, a nonprofit organization that aids the homeless, CBGB agreed late last year to leave its home at 313 and 315 Bowery at the end of this month. And Ms. Smith’s words outside the club, where her group was playing, encapsulated the feelings shared by fans…

  • For God and Country

    For God and Country

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    Former US Attorney General, John Ashcroft, in the NYT Magazine: Have you ever smoked a cigarette? No. I puffed on a cigar one time, and it just made my mouth feel like someone had shot a cobweb all inside my mouth. If you felt temptation for another woman, what would you do? Call my wife.…

  • Blush, Sweat and Tears

    Blush, Sweat and Tears

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    NYT Magazine: Since the 70’s, Lee Friedlander has been intermittently documenting Americans at work: employees in a Cleveland steel mill, telemarketers in an Omaha calling center, M.I.T. technicians staring into their computer monitors. A few weeks ago, Friedlander encountered some very different production values when he turned his eye to the glamour factory otherwise known…

  • Journalist Kidnapped In South Afghanistan

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    Washington Post: Italian photojournalist Gabriele Torsello was seized by five gunmen on the highway from Lashkar Gah, the capital of Helmand province, to neighboring Kandahar province, the independent Pajhwok news agency quoted Torsello’s traveling companion, Gholam Mohammad, as saying. Pajhwok said its call to Torsello’s mobile phone was answered by a man saying: “We are…

  • Andrea Modica & Newsweek

    Andrea Modica & Newsweek

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    Alec Soth: But Modica wasn’t the only one assigned to the story. The much more prominent full-page intro has the following photo illustration: This use of photography brings the medium down to the lowest common denominator. What is the point? If anything it pushes me away from reading the story. I understand that weekly news…

  • Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

    Rock ‘n’ Roll High School

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    Richard Hell, NYT: On practically any weekend from 1974 to 76 you could see one or more of the following groups (here listed in approximate chronological order) in the often half-empty 300-capacity club: Television, the Ramones, Suicide, the Patti Smith Group, Blondie, the Dictators, the Heartbreakers, Talking Heads, Richard Hell and the Voidoids, and the…

  • Taking stupid seriously

    Taking stupid seriously

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    LA Times: BORAT’S interviews fall into roughly two categories. He seeks out self-consciously genteel, almost impossibly schematic “life coaches” of one kind or another — people whose job it is to tell others how to date, tell jokes, find work, etc. — and barrages them with questions, requests and opinions that, despite being completely outrageous,…

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  • D*Face

    D*Face

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    London based street artist D*Face, via SocialPest: Clocks ticking… Thursday… Be there or…well… don’t be. Here.

  • Shawn Whisenant

    Shawn Whisenant

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    Shawn Whisenant Art and Design: Well We’ve Reached The End Of 2005 And Moving On To The New Year.I Just Got Off A Huge Line Up Of Show’s The Last Couple Of Month’s.The Guava Skateboard Show In Maimi Featuring Myself,Barry”Twist”Mcgee,Kaws,Neckface,Space Invader,Futura Was A Awesome Event And I Was So Honored To Show My Work Next…

  • Horror chamber

    Horror chamber

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    The Daily Sun, Nigeria’s King of the Tabloids: However, narrating his own side of the story, Alhaji Mustapha told Daily Sun that he brought his children to the witchdoctor when he noticed their poor performance in their school work. “I brought them to her for assistance when I noticed that their academic performance was unimpressive.…

  • This Roadie's Life

    This Roadie's Life

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    LA Weekly: Do you have a Brit-humor-obsessed friend who pesters you to get in line and admit once and for all that Steve Coogan is a comedy god? Maybe he’s shoved one of Coogan’s Alan Partridge videos in your hands to get you up to speed on the egomaniacally obnoxious, socially inept talk-show-host character that…

  • THE GRINDHOUSE TRAILER IS UP

    THE GRINDHOUSE TRAILER IS UP

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    What Would Tyler Durden Do: Finally a trailer for the Quentin Tarantino / Robert Rodriguez movie “Grindhouse”. I think I read it’s a remake of “Sense and Sensibility”, but that might not be right. Rose McGowan plays a stripper with a gun for a leg, Kurt Russell plays a maniac killer and I play an…

  • How Do You Photograph the Amish? Let Us Count the Ways

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    CJR: The AP’s Carolyn Kaster appreciates this approach but has a slightly different philosophy: whenever possible, do no harm. “You can go through this business and try to make pictures of impact and importance but if an image is to have a journalistic purpose, to communicate something, if you can communicate it in a different…

  • In a Risky Place to Gather News, a Very Familiar Story

    In a Risky Place to Gather News, a Very Familiar Story

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    NYT: Russia is unquestionably a dangerous place for journalists — less so than only Iraq and Algeria, according to the Committee to Protect Journalists. Thirteen of them have been killed since Mr. Putin came to power in 2000, a little more than two a year on average. The killings — and the failure to solve…

  • Across Europe, Worries on Islam Spread to Center

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    NYT: In Austria this month, right-wing parties also polled well, on a campaign promise that had rarely been made openly: that Austria should start to deport its immigrants. Vlaams Belang, too, has suggested “repatriation” for immigrants who do not made greater efforts to integrate. The idea is unthinkable to mainstream leaders, but many Muslims still…

  • In a Battered City, Gravestones Tell the Story of a New Russia

    In a Battered City, Gravestones Tell the Story of a New Russia

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    LA Times: At least, Yudin said, there is the sound of birds chirping in the trees. During most of 2004, when a toxic plume from the plant killed off many gardens in Karabash and some of the surrounding countryside, the town was eerily silent. Even the butterflies left. Yudin laughed. “It’s funny that birds are…

  • Suing Over the CIA's Red Pen

    Suing Over the CIA's Red Pen

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    Washington Post: “I just told him I’m preceding. I wasn’t going to back down,” Berntsen said in an interview last week. “It was very awkward.” Berntsen resigned, wrote his book and, as required, submitted “Jawbreaker: The Attack on Bin Laden and Al Qaeda: A Personnel Account by the CIA’s Key Field Commander” to the CIA’s…