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Sculpture as Political Commentary
Rich Doty is a graphic artist who lives in Houston. I met him over 30 years ago when I lived there. He, his wife Sarah, an educator, and I were part of a young adult professionals group at a liberal...
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Annie Proulx & The Gourds
Annie Proulx. Photo by Gus Powell. A friend who knows I have a deep love for both the books of Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Proulx and the music of The Gourds sent me a link to the NYTimes...
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It’s Our Pals Who Save Us
drawing by MPL.We don’t write to each other or for each other, but we write in anticipation of seeing each other. –Sam Baker www.sambakermusic.com Related Articles: No Related Related
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Musician Sam Baker Makes Visual Art Debut
Poet Jardine Raven Lebair reads in front of Sam Baker's paintings. Beloved Itasca-born songwriter Sam Baker made his visual arts debut last Thursday night at (Un)(In)hibited, a group art exhibit held...
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The Anxieties of X-treme Winter
We’ve had a long gray cold winter here in Northern California. I know, the rest of the country has been buried under blizzards, and I shouldn’t complain about the X-treme deluges and the frosty...
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Documentaries that Change the Way We Think About Art
I was disappointed that: 1) Banksy didn’t pull any inspiring art stunts at the Oscars; and 2) That his brilliant documentary “Exit Through the Gift Shop” didn’t win an Oscar. Still, pondering the...
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An Academy Awards Past….
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Part 2: Documentaries that Change the Way We Think About Art
Steve "Lips" Kudlow with renowned country musician Damon Bramblett at Emo's. I had no desire to watch a documentary about a Canadian heavy metal band, but I did and it told me more about a love of and...
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Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Writer and filmmaker Turk Pipkin looks back at some of his writing in the wake of 9/11 when he was the weekly diarist on Slate.com. Turk Pipkin: In the days before everyone’s grandmother had a blog,...
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Anis Mojgani performs Shake the Dust at HEAVY AND LIGHT Sometimes beauty hides in the magic of a URL. The nearly indecipherable strings of letters and numbers that only make sense when fed into a...
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