By:
Don Williams
MSM gave huge stories short shrift in wall-to-wall election coverage

With elections dominating mainstream media, crucial stories are landing at other ports. Truthout.org does a great job of landing an amazing number of stories and opinion that reveal profound changes afoot. Take a look…

By:
Julie Auer
Beauty and Irony

Two things I value so much and yet are so undervalued in this vulgar time and place are very nicely synthesized in, of all things, this YouTube link my sister sent to me.

The ...

Lou Reed at Tennessee Theatre 4/30/08

Talking with concertgoers after Lou Reed wrapped up his 90 minute set, opinions were mixed. Few people were blown away, most seemed to enjoy it, some were underwhelmed and a lot of us felt lucky ...

Hair Metal Rockers and the Subversiveness of Gender Essentialism As Escape

It is hard to decide if Bret Michaels, frontman for 80’s hair band Poison and current star of Vh-1’s Rock of Love, is more of an abomination of feminism or good taste. Michaels has based ...

Help for Myanmar

As a kid I grew up on Rambo. I even hid in the furry tip of a fallen-over pine tree once with a thirty-year-old set of binoculars and eyeballed my neighbors, a retired husband and ...

By:
Denise Sanabria
Frozen Brains

Doomed to be Frozen in Time

I was reading through an email sent from Nashville this morning on what is on exhibit during their First Saturday Gallery Crawl in May. If you ...

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