Word: suburbanity
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Growing up in suburban Pennsylvania, she recalls her father ceaselessly playing in the car the soundtrack to “Victory at Sea,” a television series about the Navy in World War II. The elder Hendricks, whom his daughter calls “one of my best friends,” was forced to give up his dream of enlisting in the Navy during the Vietnam War because of a bad heart...
...We’ve been advocating for a long time to remove parking on North Harvard Street,” says Paul Berkeley, the president of the Allston Civic Association, who says that suburban commuters park there and walk to Harvard Square to take the T downtown, leaving few spaces for Allston residents themselves...
...master at creating hilarious stories about alienated weirdos, most famously in Ghost World, Clowes has more recently been exploring the formal properties of graphical storytelling. Inspired by the overlapping style of director Robert Altman, Ice Haven weaves more than 30 short strips into one cohesive portrait of a strange suburban town shaken by the disappearance of an odd little boy. Bruisingly satiric and brilliantly designed, Ice Haven will have you gleefully reading it two or three times in a row to unlock its complex interconnections...
...Daily Show commentator riffs on his suburban upbringing...
...With an exhibition budget of $A1.4 million, triple that of New Zealand, Australia can afford to be more relaxed. Which suits the artist. While et al.'s installations often feature cyclone fencing and cacophonous sound loops, Swallow's pale wood carvings of skulls and suburban beanbags speak more softly. "The Biennale is about this explosion of shows, and you've got such little time to look at everything," Swallow says. "So the idea I want is almost like a cool room away from that experience." Not that Australia is resting on its laurels. As well as the usual bags...