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...black man, talking about her daughter's cornrows. A homophobic Italian cop. A young girl in the projects who's "the only virgin left in her building." Jones, 25, the daughter of a black father and a mother of European and Caribbean descent, uses her one-woman show, Surface Transit, to get the voices out of her head and into the world. "We all know people like this," she says. "Some of us are people like this...
BUILD MASS TRANSIT...
...city has good rail and bus lines, then development can be concentrated around mass-transit stops rather than spread out all over the countryside. Public transport is still a tough sell in the U.S., but rail lines in most of the world have kept sprawl from being even worse than it is. Says Tony Burton, a member of the Council for the Protection of Rural England: "The dilemma is, if you don't build roads, what do you do? Well, for a start, you prevent sprawl." Curitiba, Brazil, is an up-and-coming city in which an efficient bus system...
...nomadic tents" from which he must procure "sacred fruits" to save the KNOWMAD society. Based on Middle Eastern rug motifs, the three-dimensional interiors of the 36 tents are visually engaging and well-executed. Somewhere, there is a connection between the desert and virtual reality as analogous spaces of transit, a recognition of "fragile and mutable political boundaries which are being torn by ethnic, religious and sectarian strife; perforated via economic and cultural globalism; and reconceived by technology..." Hip and cerebral as these meditations may be, they are largely lost on the art viewer-cum-game player absorbed simply...
...HUPD assisted transit police at the Harvard Square kiosk...