Archive for June, 2009

  • #MichaelJackson

    #MichaelJackson

    What more can be said about this?

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  • White Light/ White Heat by Richie Unterberger

    White Light/ White Heat by Richie Unterberger

    Last week I joined the scores of enthusiasts crowded into the basement of the Park Branch Library in San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury to listen to Rock and Roll obscurist Richie Unterberger drop some knowledge. Unterberger curates screenings of rare concert footage and lectures every other month, and if you haven’t been, you’re missing out. This particular [...]

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  • Urban Pigeon Racing, Current

    Urban Pigeon Racing, Current

    Check out piece by Current on pigeon racing. The pacing is excellent, and the deft storytelling highlights the engaging techniques that make Current a leader in journalism’s tech-transition. I have to say I’m a little peeved at Current. For a news organization that is supposedly a groundbreaking alternative to the MSM, Current has been remarkably [...]

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  • Sotomayor, Obama, and the divide on racial politics

    Sotomayor, Obama, and the divide on racial politics

    Poster by Favianna Rodriguez It’s altogether unsurprising that racial politics have dominated the discussion of  President Obama’s nomination of Sonia Sotomayor to the Supreme Court. Mr. Obama is the nations first Black president, and Sonia Sotomayor would be the first Hispanic to serve on the Court. The language of “inspiring stories” and “empathy”, discussions of [...]

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