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And, On Piano, Dick Nixon: Music and Anarchy
When then-President Richard Nixon sat down at the piano on the stage of the Grand Old Opry in 1974, he was reinforcing a conservative, polemical wall of sound to help…
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Pike’s Pique
What social or psychological dysfunctions led UC-Davis police lieutenant John Pike to brutally assault some sitting, non-threatening protestors with chemical pepper spray? Clearly unthreatened and acting with a sociopathic coldness,…
Rick Perry and Race
In the aftermath of revelations about the ugly name of Gov. Rick Perry’s hunting lease, some Democrats and pundits, including some friends of mine, are pardoning Gov. Rick Perry on…
Willie Nelson, America’s Voice in the wake of 9-11
Ten years later – here’s the third of my Slate.com diaries written in the wake of 9-11. I’m don’t have any vintage photos to post with this one because I’m…
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And, On Piano, Dick Nixon: Music and Anarchy
Posted on January 27, 2012 | 1 CommentWhen then-President Richard Nixon sat down at the piano on the stage of the Grand Old Opry in 1974, he was reinforcing a conservative, polemical wall of sound to help...
Untamable Melodies: Music’s Revolutionary Spirit
Posted on January 15, 2012 | 2 CommentsAlone in the walnut-paneled music room, his favorite of Fair Lane Mansion’s 56 rooms, automobile tycoon Henry Ford picks up one of his two Stradivarius violins. It is 1920 or...
Pike’s Pique
Posted on November 21, 2011 | 1 CommentWhat social or psychological dysfunctions led UC-Davis police lieutenant John Pike to brutally assault some sitting, non-threatening protestors with chemical pepper spray? Clearly unthreatened and acting with a sociopathic coldness,...
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Shake the Dust
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 machine.
Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs – Alone in This Together
In my last review of Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs I promised a follow up about how their album would have a living room sound to it–meaning intimate and…
The Fall to Earth
Ten years later the hallucinogenic events of September 11, 2001, remain enigmatic and nightmare-like. There is no shared, uniform view because our experiences of that day are so disparate. There…
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We Need a Little Light
What interesting parallels I’m having this week with the stories I wrote ten years ago as the Slate Diarist not long after 9/11. There was a lot of talk in…
Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
In the days before everyone’s grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet’s greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn’t have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
From Gender Violence to Gender Democracy: What Will It Take?
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Art
Shake the Dust
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 machine.
Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
In the days before everyone’s grandmother had a blog, the Slate Diaries were one of the internet’s greatest outlets for interesting writing from widely disparate voices. I was asked by Slate to be a weekly diarist a month before 9/11, and when I scheduled my week for early October, I couldn’t have anticipated that America and the world would be in such a soul-searching and somber mood.
Part 2: Documentaries that Change the Way We Think About Art
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Untamable Melodies: Music’s Revolutionary Spirit
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Shake the Dust
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Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs – Alone in This Together
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We Need a Little Light
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Willie Nelson, America’s Voice in the wake of 9-11
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The Fall to Earth
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Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
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