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...artistic community. “I’ve never seen a professor give a talk about an artist sitting two feet in front of her,” said Cathleen D. McCormick, Director of Programs for the Office for the Arts at Harvard. Odundo—who was born in Nairobi and now resides in Hampshire, UK, where she teaches at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham—discussed her more recent work with vessels as well as her inspiration since she began creating pottery around 1975. “My whole idea of living...
...coated in spacious reverb. Adams has been a prolific songwriter since his days with Whiskeytown, releasing albums left and right, focusing more attention on the material than the finished product. This album may just be a turning point in his career. From the first bar of “Born Into a Light,” it’s clear that this album is different. Simultaneously poppy, catchy, country, rocking, and somehow laid-back, the album is reminiscent of both everything Adams and nothing at the same time. Tracks like “Magick?...
...some point in the late 1990s, hip-hop became weighed down by bling and, taking its cue from the diamonds that adorned the necks of most of its artists, grew harder and more polished. Electronic sounds further stretched the genre, but an orthodox mainstream was born and experimentation fell by the wayside. Eminem made a movie and then disappeared, Kanye West and Estelle bounced irresistibly delicious sounds back and forth from both sides of the Atlantic, but nothing really changed—nothing was really revolutionized. Hip-hop continued to sit quite comfortably in its own little groove. The Knux?...
...optimism born of the 2008 American election disseminates across borders, we are already witnessing new kinds of Hope surge and swell. In most nations, we recognize the Hope of a better international system, manifested in the Hope for the return of multilateral cooperation with the United States of America. This Hope is more the permanent exit of what University of Toronto political science professor Beth Fischer has referred to as the “cowboy-swagger” of the Republican Party. It is Hope for renewed, dignified leadership that is not just multilateral. As Australian Prime Minister Kevin Rudd...
...sitcom director couldn’t have cast a better set of characters: There was Bush, the prodigal-son-turned-born-again with a characteristic smirk and a penchant for butchering the English language; Cheney, with all the charm of a superhero villain and the mannerisms to match; and the entire gang—from Rumsfeld to Ashcroft, Rove to Gonzalez—each with his own set of laughable, unlovable idiosyncrasies...