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Culture and Art
  • Katherine Yurica , Da Vinci's Door

    [Editor's Note: This essay was originally penned by the author in 1988 on the eve of the 100th anniversary of the Nabi movement in France.] Being a Neo-Nabi artist or writer is a calling. It’s a vocation, it’s not a job. It’s a commitment that forces its will upon the... » read this article
  • Ronald Aronson , Religion Dispatches

    Buried in the results of a recent survey is the fact that secularists may now be one  of America’s largest minorities—larger than gays or African Americans. Will  nonbelievers, traditionally one of the most loathed demographics, begin to feel their  oats and demand greater recognition in the public square? As reported... » read this article
  • News Bulletin , UZ News.net

    A benefit performance of The Vagina Monologues played to a packed house in Bishkek on 28 March as part of the global V-Day campaign. The production aimed to  raise awareness of the myriad problems facing women in this Central Asian country and to raise funds for organisations working to support... » read this article
  • Tony Kushner & Alisa Solomon , The Nation

    Caryl Churchill has made Seven Jewish Children available for productions without licensing or royalties for presenters who request audience contributions for the London-based relief organization Medical Aid for Palestinians. Israel's recent bombing and ground invasion of the Gaza Strip, Operation Cast Lead, killed 1,417 Palestinians; thirteen Israelis were killed, five... » read this article
  • Sarah Berman , The Dominion

    VANCOUVER -- As thousands of Canadian performers prepare for Olympic Ceremony auditions, a group of Vancouver artists is spreading the word. The F-word, that is. With posters that simply read “Fuck the Cultural Olympiad,” a recent underground art exhibit asked audiences to challenge the 2010 Games. The week-long show called... » read this article
  • Richard Adams , WSWS

    Vince Melocchi’s Lions at the Pacific Resident Theatre 1st April 2009 Written by Vince Melocchi, directed by Guillermo Cienfuegos Lions, by Vince Melocchi, receiving its world premiere at the intimate Pacific Resident Theatre in Venice, California, is set in the shot and beer home of the 10th Ward Club, a... » read this article
  • Nasrin Pourhamrang , Ovi Magazine

    Arts and Culture The New Persian Year, which is enshrined in Iran, Afghanistan, Tajikistan, Azerbaijan, Turkey, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan, Kyrgyzstan and Kazakhstan, starts on "Farvardin" 1st or the 21st day of March. The first days of New Iranian/Persian year which are followed by widespread celebrations all over the country, are called... » read this article
  • Caryl Churchill , The Guardian (UK)

    Editor's Note: Caryl Churchill's brief but powerful play, Seven Jewish Children - a Play for Gaza, consists of statements that should and should not be told to young Jewish girls about the terrifying things that are going on around them, moving from the Jewish holocaust (1939-1945) to the Gaza genocide in 2008-2009.... » read this article
  • Iris Dement , Transatlantic Sessions

        One of the most celebrated country-folk performers of her day, singer/songwriter Iris Dement was born on January 5, 1961, in rural Paragould, AR, the youngest of 14 children. At the age of three, her devoutly religious family moved to California, where she grew up singing gospel music; during... » read this article
  • Mankh (William E. Harris III) ,

    "The question is not whether we can afford to squander $3 trillion or $5 trillion. We can. But our strength will be sapped. There is no such thing as a free war," Nobel prize-winning economist Joseph Stiglitz told Joint Economic Committee members in February of 2008.   Oh, what of... » read this article
  • Noam Ben-Zeev , Haaretz

    (A magnificent classical concert given in Nazareth by young Palestinian children, trained under the impetus of the Daniel Barenboim and [the late] Edward Sad foundation.) It all began with a declaration by the conductor, Daniel Barenboim - a slightly hasty declaration, as he admitted later - that he would establish... » read this article
  • Venezuelan Artist, Beatriz Domingo , Agora Gallery, New York, NY

    Editor's Note: Axis of Logic will be in Venezuela from November 29 to December 10 to cover one of the most important presidential elections in Venezuelan history, taking place on December 3, 2006. We are now afforded this unique opportunity to present the wonderful paintings of one of Venezuela's premier artists, Beatriz Domingo, whose splendid work will be... » read this article
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World News
  • Petroleum Sullies the Amazon
    "Now the fish are going to disappear," said Luis Umpunchi, an Awajún Indian, one of about 20 people gathered around a broken oil pipeline in the Jayais community, in the northern Peruvian province of Amazonas....
  • U.S. Uses False Taliban Aid Charge to Pressure Iran
    The Barack Obama administration has given new prominence to a Bush administration charge that Iran is providing military training and assistance to the Taliban in Afghanistan, for which no evidence has ever been produced, and...
  • Trans-Sahara Pipeline to send gas to Europe
    Nigeria, Algeria, Niger Seal $10bn Gas Pipeline Deal Three African countries yesterday signed an accord to build a $10 billion trans-Saharan gas pipeline linking vast reserves in Nigeria to Europe. The project would convey gas...
  • US launches major Afghan assault
    US forces have launched a major military operation in southern Afghanistan in the first big push to drive the Taliban out of a key stronghold since Barack Obama became US president. Four thousand marines, backed...
  • DPRK fires fourth short-range missile off east coast
    The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) fired the fourth short-range missile in the day off its east coast on Thursday evening, South Korea's Yonhap News Agency reported.     DPRK fired the fourth missile at...
  • Honduras: U.S. friends carry out a coup
    MILITARY OFFICERS and right-wing forces in Honduras with long ties to the U.S. government organized a coup to topple the democratically elected president at the end of June--and the reaction of the Obama administration was...
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