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...term world music gives you hives--and its condescension to musicians (lumping all non-Westerners into a single undifferentiated category) and consumers (writing off anyone who doesn't listen to it as implicitly narrow-minded) is really quite impressive--then grab an EpiPen before reading any further. For we are about to discuss Amadou and Mariam, the world-music stars who are not just a married, middle-aged couple from Mali but a blind, married, middle-aged couple from Mali. By description, they're worthier than the Grameen Bank...
...series of films funded by and promoting the Marshall Plan in Western Europe in a program called “Selling Democracy, Films of the Marshall Plan: 1948-1953.” The event, organized by curator Sandra P. Schulberg and funded by the Goethe-Institut (a German non-profit cultural institute), features 25 short films constructed around the Marshall Plan’s deployment in Europe. The films range widely in genre and rhetorical strategy, from simple narratives about how the Plan’s programs could improve daily life, to more broadly pedantic lectures on the nascent...
...group of comic enthusiasts says, “I think these myths and legends are like if you grow up with the Greek Gods and then start exploring them in different ways.” “I don’t think that there is anything non-intellectual about superheroes,” Snyder reiterates. “There’s the perceived danger that we’re ‘dumbing’ ourselves down with superheroes but superheroes have the ability to be as intellectually stimulating as anything. I just think that people fight...
...Delft houses.” In the first poem, “Ornament,” Nilsson informs her interlocutor that “Your heart is as large as an anthill in Switzerland”—presumably, the heart in question is non-existent. Elsewhere, the poet takes us to Lapland, treads on Persian rugs, compares the heart to a “timber mansion on the Bosporus” and watches deer in Auvers while musing about Cezanne’s apples—tall traveling orders for such a brief collection. Yet this preponderance...
House Culture: Tepid. As the largest house, and one that happens to be divided amongst four non-adjoining buildings (including Dewolfe), it's got to be tough to build a defining house culture. Add to that the fact that many just don’t want to rep shirts that prominently feature these, and it certainly gets tougher. The Stein clubs are, in a word, WEAK. And Lev really lacks those iconic rooms that drive a healthy party scene (those of you who are of party grant age, do you ever remember a Lev party really turning it out?). FlyBy...