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...spurred by local artists, earmarked €775,000 to renovate the landmark and reopen it as an informal Dadaist venue. The newly refurbished Cabaret Voltaire, which opened at the end of September, features an archive of notes, documents and testimonials by Ball and other early Dadaists that chronicles the birth and growth of the movement, as well as works of modern followers such as the Japanese photographer Nobuyoshi Araki. Expectant parents take note: to mark the Dada revival, the Cabaret has launched the Gugusdada contest; it will award €6,500 to the first parents who dare name their newborn...
...bothersome train wreck over the new Commission. But Buttiglione's comments about gays and women, and the fact that he had been nominated by Berlusconi, amounted to a cause that Greens, Socialists and a majority of Liberals were willing to go to the mat for. "This week was the birth of a truly European Socialist faction," said Martin Schulz, the German leader of the Socialist group. (Berlusconi may now regret having compared Schulz to a Nazi pow camp guard last year.) "Despite pressure from national governments," he added, "all our Socialists were thinking like Europeans...
...Birth of a Nation, which takes its name from a 1915 D.W. Griffith film about the Ku Klux Klan, is a graphic novel—a sort of long-form comic book—about a black community in St. Louis that secedes from the United States to form “Black Land” after too many of its citizens are denied the right to vote...
Despite the humorous tone of the novel, Birth of a Nation confronts issues such as poverty and violence in cities like East St. Louis, which Hudlin said result from governmental problems that require extreme solutions...
Panelist Michael Flaherty, the co-founder of Walden Media, said that Birth of a Nation would have a much greater impact on middle and high school students than other media such as New York Times...