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Since his beginnings as a self-taught musician, Ho has been pushing the boundaries of jazz, which he calls “quote-unquote jazz,” referencing the term’s origin as a racial slur. He merges African American music with Chinese opera and uses Duke Ellington-style swing in musicals and operas featuring female vampires, mythical monkeys, and now, green earth monsters. His music is arresting, indefinable, and unquestionably dramatic, aggressive in its motifs but always expansive in tone...

Author: By Sophie O. Duvernoy, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: Jazzing Up a Revolution | 11/20/2009 | See Source »

Epstein, Marcus •2007 assault on African-American woman - he stopped her on a Washington, D.C. street, uttered a racial slur, and karate-chopped her head - is pleaded guilty...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: This Preposterous Week! Paul Slansky's News Index | 6/5/2009 | See Source »

...years, I ask nothing more than to relax without the incessant chatter of young ’uns, brimming with energy for no explicable reason. They will arrive, seeking pleasure on a Saturday night, and might even take sherry to the point of wooziness: for shame! They will then slur their speech and stumble about in an unrefined manner. An utter disgrace to this university! These troublemakers remain out until all hours of the night (I have seen them frolicking about past the 9 o’clock hour), when all decent individuals have long since retired for the evening...

Author: By The Crimson Staff | Title: No Kids Allowed | 4/21/2009 | See Source »

...elitist’ is another word for ‘arrogant,’ which is another word for ‘uppity’”—claiming, ergo, that any word synonymous with a synonym of a racial slur is a racial slur...

Author: By Dhruv K. Singhal | Title: Just Words | 3/11/2009 | See Source »

...Street Journal, and tied himself with sausage links to the doors of a Chase Manhattan bank wearing only a skirt made of cash and urging passersby to pluck the bills away. Last Thursday, the Peter Ivers Visiting Artist at the Office for the Arts brought seven crying, spitting, racial slur-shouting baby heads to the Carpenter Center in “Corbu Pops,” a performance that was both humorous and disquieting.William Pope.L is a multidisciplinary artist known for his work in performance and public interventionist art which often deals with themes of race and consumerism. Influenced...

Author: By William P. Hennrikus, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: 'Corbu' Explores Race Artfully | 3/8/2009 | See Source »

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