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Labor’s next heavy lift
It’s probably the right thing, the duly deferential thing, to observe Labor Day (America’s tempered version of May Day) by reflecting on the successes and legacies of the U.S. labor movement. The forty-hour workweek, job-safety regulations, even this very holiday … Continue reading
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Tagged Blue Green Alliance, blue green coalition, climate change, Labor Day, labor movement, Trump
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RIP Jerry Lewis (March 16, 1926 – August 20, 2017)
We were lucky to live, for as long as it lasted, in a world co-inhabited by Jerry Lewis. That funny, funny man lived to the most venerable age of 91, and he died at home—these are blessings by anyone’s measure. … Continue reading
The gift of movement
My city, Akron, boasts a myriad of ways to deliver art and culture to we, her lucky citizens. Our local arts scene is thriving beyond all proportion to our size, geography, and, I’d guess, our reputation. Much of that is … Continue reading
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Tagged Akron, Art, Ballet Hispanico, dance, Groundworks Dance Theater, Urban Bush Women, What is art?
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The long history of :)
Thanks to the ubiquitous emoji, we’re now communicating more than ever in semiotics, and most specifically with some simple yet telling arrangement of two dots for eyes, and some visceral version of a frown, grimace, or smile. It shouldn’t come … Continue reading
RIP Adam West (Sept. 19, 1928 – June 9, 2017
Must the Dark Knight brood? Does every incarnation of the Batman need to be darker than the last? Maybe that’s a question for today’s superhero fan base, but we’re fortunate to have had it answered long ago. From 1966 to … Continue reading
Memorial and monition – Lt. Alonzo H. Cushing
We take this day as personal time, hopefully as a time of reflection and gratitude but in any case as a day that exists as an exemplar of freedom, bought and paid for, like all freedoms, with blood and sacrifice. … Continue reading
Ostara
Who can lay claim to a holiday, or a holy day? Today is the first Sunday after the first full moon, after the vernal equinox. If ever there was a pagan-y way of fixing a feast on the calendar, that’d … Continue reading
“Aaron Burr” takes a shot, we all feel the recoil
Culture and current events intersected, as they do, when this weekend Vice President-elect Mike Pence attended the Broadway mega-hit musical, Hamilton, and was addressed both with sporadic boos (and some cheers) upon his entrance, and with with a stirring appeal … Continue reading
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Tagged Brandon Victor Dixon, Donald Trump, Election 2016, Hamilton, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Mike Pence, resistance, Trump
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The beer sonnet
~ ~ With thanks and salud to Max Stossel.
Friday freebie – a novella just for you
A question I’m frequently asked, not always in the most patient of tones, is what becomes of the central characters, Sara and John, from my first novel, Mind.Net. Well…I still can’t completely answer that, as the sequel to that book … Continue reading
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RIP Muhammad Ali (Jan. 17, 1942 – June 3, 2016)
He was the greatest. He told us so, but he really didn’t need to. His greatness was easily seen, perfectly understood. When he was 12 years old, in his hometown of Louisville, Kentucky, his bicycle was stolen. Young Cassius Clay, … Continue reading
Best subway improv ever
Anyone who’s ever ridden the NYC subway system has shared a collective suppressed groan when a man with a money can stands up and says, “Ladies and gentlemen, can I have your attention….” So for the benefit of us all … Continue reading
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Tagged brilliant, flash mobs, Improv Everywhere, New York City, subway
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On this date…
…In 1888, Vincent Van Gogh cut off his ear. Happy Holidays!
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A century of the absurd – Looking back on Dada
It was roughly a hundred years ago (the dates are hard to pin down) that one of history’s most vibrant, innovative, and influential art movements was born. Dadaism dominated the scene for a scant twenty years, spinning off from the … Continue reading
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Tagged Armory Show, Art, Art history, Dada, Dadaism, performance art
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Artist / provocateur Petro Wodkins makes Putin’s head explode
Petro Wodkins is by now an old friend of the Deconstruction—we chuckled with him back in May ’13 when he hijacked Belgium’s beloved Mannekin Pis (and replaced it with himself). And we thrilled with him in the following year when … Continue reading
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Tagged Art, audio, Dada, performance art, Petro Wodkins, Russia, Russian Federation, Sound of Power, Vladimir Putin
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