Brooklyn-based rap duo Das Racist can be impossible to write about.
Not only because they toss references to post-modern theorists, fast food, 80s bands, 70s commercials, and too many others to [...]
Opening a set in 2008, Lola Okusami introduced the song “Burning Bridges” with a laugh-line. “I wrote this sitting at my computer at work and wondering ‘Why am I here?’” she said, smiling. As she started singing, her face went suddenly serious. And that voice — huge, deep, round, hinting at power beneath the surface — belted out the lyric “Can someone please tell me where I belong?… What would you say if you had this case study on your face?” You could feel her pain, you could feel a story lurking back there somewhere.
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Last month, we brought you the terrifying story of two Iranian music journalists, who were pulled out of their office at one of Tehran’s hippest review mags, Farhang va Ahang, [...]
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When New Moon came out, we remarked on the cultish clan of moms who love Robert Pattinson as much as their teen daughters do. I was always embarrassed by my [...]
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Photo journalist Dan Chung was assigned to shoot the same thing everyone else was assigned to shoot: the 60th anniversary parade China put on at Tiananmen Square last week. But [...]
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North Korea’s official news agency is reporting that Euna Lee and Laura Ling, the two American journalists who have been detained since March and stood trial last week for illegal [...]
Tags: Change, Current Events, Euna Lee, Guest Bloggers, journalism, Laura Ling, North Korea, PoliticsThere’s no perspective like outside-in.
No one understands this quite as much as Thomas Friedman, author and New York Times international columnist. Like an old fashioned, beat reporter with wings, Friedman [...]
