July 2009
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We Love Agnès Varda
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Black Panthers - Huey! (1968) [.avi] Total Runtime: 46mins Language: English Directed by Agnès Varda
In honor of Varda’s new film The Beaches of Agnès which opens in New York on Wednesday, after winning a César for best documentary feature in February, it’s a great time to watch her incredible documentary about Huey Newton. The style & vision of The Panthers is simply...
June 2009
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omg you guys the baffler is coming back →
maura:
not a moment too soon, you know. also: the new publisher is an nu grad (who graduated five years after i did)!! GO CATS!!!
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This is kinda fucking awesome. The zine library I help out at has a nice cache of old issues that I’ve been making my way through. (There’s also a book of collected works.) And it looks like much of the original staff is returning, including...
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Video of Bishop Perry Tillis performing in 1995 at an Alabama church on WFMU blog.
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“The Belgian royal family, always eager to form alliances with the Hapsburgs, had married off Leopold’s younger sister Charlotte to Archduke Maximilian, brother of the Emperor of Austria-Hungary. In 1864, Maximilian and his wife, her name appropriately changed to Carlota, were installed by Napoleon III of France as the figurehead Emperor and Empress of Mexico, where Napoleon was...
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He's an Artist →
Meant to post this last week… Ryan profiled on the BUTT blog!
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kamikazepaperairplane:
BARR, The Song is the Single
I never knew there was a video!
I glanced at the dame sleeping next to me, and all... →
Jonathan Franzen reads Veronica Geng’s brilliant and hilarious “Love Trouble Is My Business,” as well as a short Ian Frazier piece.
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"Susan Hill, President of the National Women's... →
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Survivorman →
Sherman Alexie’s “Reservation Blues” is the “Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao” of the Rocky Mountain region, haunted by the ghost of Robert Johnson instead of Raphael Trujillo.