June 24, 2018

The Great Work Continues....

The 25 Best American Plays Since ‘Angels in America. (SLNYT)
posted by storybored at 9:23 PM PST - 21 comments

Meanwhile In Canada

The @MeanwhileInCana Twitter account covers all things Canadian, often with a light touch (unless it's indigenous injustice or oil sands exploitation). Today it's highlighting ACTUAL HEADLINES FROM CANADIAN NEWSPAPERS. [more inside]
posted by Johnny Wallflower at 8:34 PM PST - 23 comments

“Hot Dog Water is the NEW coconut water!”

Someone Sold Hot Dog Water for $28 at a Festival [Teen Vogue]literal bottles of water containing a single hot dog eachwhich were sold at the Car Free Day festival in Vancouver. [more inside]
posted by Fizz at 7:59 PM PST - 58 comments

Life Between Buildings: Life Lost and Refound, by Ingrid and Jan Gehl

“Why are you architects not interested in people?” Ingrid Gehl asked her new husband, Jan. “What do you think about the fact that your architecture professors take their photos at four o’clock in the morning . . . without the distraction of people in the photos?” The little-known behavioral scientist who transformed cities all over the world is the story of Ingrid Gehl, the psychologist who helped her now famous husband, Jan Gehl, in his battle to make cities livable. See also: Live Between Buildings (20 minute video, "annotated" links below the break) [more inside]
posted by filthy light thief at 7:32 PM PST - 7 comments

Are You There Whale? It’s Me, Ahab

Every book/play title should be written in the form of Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret
posted by gwint at 6:30 PM PST - 136 comments

You are with whom you eat

How food is used to create a sense of identity and belonging has been well documented by anthropology for over a century. Change how a people eat -- or what they eat -- and you change the people, is the anthropological axiom at hand. So, how is food being used to create a culture of belonging coupled with extremes of self-sacrifice in Silicon Valley?
posted by clawsoon at 4:54 PM PST - 31 comments

there are moments in time when people need to live their convictions

Are you being served? Maybe not, if you're a fascist. This story and more coming up, as we review the latest dispatches from an America in crisis. [more inside]
posted by Two unicycles and some duct tape at 4:14 PM PST - 2844 comments

The LAPD Arrested The Wrong Gay Dude That Day

Pride Month Special: “One True Pervert In the Courtroom” – The Trial of Dale Jennings
So smear on your best body paint, cuddle up with the spouse you previously couldn’t marry, and call that one homophobic Aunt that everyone has just to tell them to fuck right off as we talk about Dale Jennings, and how the LAPD totally George Michael’d the fuck out of him…and in doing so helped kick off the modern LGBTQ+ rights movement as we know it today.

…Fucking talk about some shit backfiring, eh?
[more inside]
posted by Lexica at 4:07 PM PST - 10 comments

Military Vet Mom MJ Hegar Is Running for Congress in Texas's District 31

And she might just break the internet with the most persuasive political campaign ad ever created. (SLYT)
posted by bologna on wry at 3:45 PM PST - 46 comments

Listen, the rest of the world needs to get put on to grapenut.

If people want to write about my mum’s bathroom in her house, all I have to tell you is that 15 years ago, we were cleaning toilets in Stonebridge and getting breakfast out of the vending machine. If anybody deserves to be happy, it’s my mum. She came to this country with nothing and put herself through school cleaning bathrooms and changing bed sheets, and now she’s the director of a nursing home.
And her son plays for England.
posted by MartinWisse at 2:12 PM PST - 25 comments

New Black Gothic

the black Gothic revival not only works through what it means to be black in a nation still structured by violent white supremacy, but also dramatizes how black artists like Glover, Peele, Ward, and even Kanye must negotiate their celebrity while also remaining cognizant of the ways their race binds them to the vulnerabilities of a racialized second-class of citizenship.
posted by gusottertrout at 1:41 PM PST - 5 comments

Is it an EP? Is it an LP? It certainly is NIN (with saxophone)

BAD WITCH has been released. 30 minutes of NIN being NIN where they are now. Trent talks about the album and other things. Worth a read and a listen.
posted by hippybear at 1:27 PM PST - 18 comments

"Work, love, build a house, and die. But build a house."

Prolific poet, writer, & former Poet Laureate of the United States, Donald Hall, September 20, 1928 - June 23, 2018. On poetry “It is beautiful ... there is no other purpose than the beauty of it. And that is reason enough to be.” [more inside]
posted by theora55 at 12:21 PM PST - 18 comments

It's not a diversity experiment.

In the City of South Fulton’s justice system, black women hold all the reins. The city is the first city in American history where every criminal justice department head is an African American woman. [more inside]
posted by Anticipation Of A New Lover's Arrival, The at 12:00 PM PST - 6 comments

Natural Anthems

Reclaimed is an hour long CBC show focusing on indigenous music from all over the world. Each week, host Jarrett Martineau brings you sounds from the Indigenous next wave: artists reclaiming their culture through music and song, while paying respect to the previous generations that have set the stage for today’s diverse and inspiring talent to rise. Every episode is now available for streaming, going back to the show's debut at the start of 2018 (currently approx. 25 hours of realllly good music).
posted by mannequito at 11:15 AM PST - 7 comments

performative activism

"For Gilbert Baker, sequins and rhinestones weren’t just fabulous. In his hands, they became political." Gilbert Baker, the ‘gay Betsy Ross’ (San Francisco Chronicle)
posted by joseph conrad is fully awesome at 10:23 AM PST - 3 comments

"I don't want to be 20, but I'm really freaking cool."

"I flaunt it," said Lyn Slater, a professor, model, and blogger. "I'm not 20. I don't want to be 20, but I'm really freaking cool. That's what I think about when I'm posting a photo." [more inside]
posted by holborne at 9:39 AM PST - 42 comments

Into the Forest

Midsummer listening recommendations on BBC Radio 3 and 4. Over midsummer week, BBC Radio 3 explored the "the enchantment, escape and magical danger of the forest in summer", through words, music and soundscapes. And if you need more, Radio 4's Pursuit of Beauty recent episodes include Colombian born artist, Alison Turnbull travelling to the tropical forest of Chocó on the Pacific coast in search of butterflies, and this week, going in search of musicality and sonic landscape of Virginia Woolf's world.
posted by Helga-woo at 8:54 AM PST - 2 comments

A Wes Anderson Versailles in Brooklyn

The Grand Prospect Hall in Brooklyn is a Victorian Banquet Hall. It's an over-the-top banquet hall, full of things to look at and nowhere to rest your eyes.
posted by MovableBookLady at 7:00 AM PST - 18 comments

happy camper

David Lynch interview as Room to Dream, his biography is published. Discussion (audio only). 'It is calling, but there are a lot of disturbances' Lynch hints at the possibly of more Twin Peaks.
posted by fearfulsymmetry at 6:53 AM PST - 11 comments

The most Instagrammable view in New York City [SLNYT]

"Situated in a neighborhood that's almost a caricature of urban grit — where the city's early-20th-century streetscape meets the Instagram-era — Washington Street has become a must-visit because of the way the buildings frame the Manhattan Bridge and the bridge, in turn, frames the Empire State Building beyond it." [more inside]
posted by How the runs scored at 6:33 AM PST - 31 comments

Helping your brain function better with music

The unexpected is what makes an impression Surprises fires up the neural signals in the brain way more than an expected outcome. It is no different when listening to music and the notes take a different path.
posted by Yellow at 4:11 AM PST - 12 comments

Free trip to slightly alternate universe provided via art

Yamaguchi Akira makes art that takes everyday aspects of Japanese modernity (department stores, highway intersections, telephone poles...) and makes them half medieval and half science fantasy, without losing their everydayness. The art is also really beautiful. (I would give anything to ride on one of his subway trains; he's also done the New York subway among his illustrations to Donald Keene's autobiography, sadly not findable online as far as I can tell.)
posted by huimangm at 3:12 AM PST - 5 comments

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