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Shake the Dust
Posted on October 13, 2011 | 1 CommentSometimes 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.
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Star Anna and the Laughing Dogs – Alone in This Together
Posted on October 9, 2011 | 4 CommentsIn 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
Posted on September 11, 2011 | No CommentsTen 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... -
Ten Years After – My Slate Diaries in the wake of 9/11
Posted on September 10, 2011 | 1 CommentIn 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.
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A Diamond Is Forever: One Woman Questions the Most Successful Ad Slogan of All Time
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Animal Kingdom
Posted on March 31, 2011 | No CommentsI had never heard of the Australian gem and terror of a film Animal Kingdom until Jacki Weaver was nominated for an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her sweetly... -
The Mick Hits Two
Posted on March 28, 2011 | 2 CommentsDuring the summer of 1961, Mantle and his Yankee team- mate and room-mate, Roger Maris, each threatened to break Babe Ruth’s seemingly unbreakable 1927 record of 60 home runs. As the summer progressed, nothing else in sports seemed to matter. While all that was going on, I was hitch-hiking up the eastern seaboard with a friend named Gentry Lee. -
Part 3: Documentaries that Change the Way We Think About Art
Posted on March 4, 2011 | No CommentsBeautiful Dreamer: Brian Wilson and the Story of ‘Smile’ is a documentary that proves the maxim that no art project is ever dead. The film tells the story of the... -
Toddlers and Tiaras
Posted on January 25, 2011 | 10 CommentsSpray tans, heavy makeup, false eyelashes, hair pieces, choreographed dance routines, fake teeth, temper tantrums and entangled mother/child relationships characterize TLC’s Toddlers and Tiaras, an addictive reality show about child beauty... -
![<p>[caption id="attachment_8503" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Poet Jardine Ravine Libaire reads in front of Sam Baker's paintings."]<a href="http://www.dogcanyon.org/wp-content/uploads//2011/01/samspaintings.jpg"><img class="size-full wp-image-8503" title="sam'spaintings" src="http://www.dogcanyon.org/wp-content/uploads//2011/01/samspaintings.jpg" alt="Poet Jardine Ravine Libaire reads in fro" width="640" height="640" /></a>[/caption]</p>](http://www.dogcanyon.org/wp-content/uploads//2011/01/samspaintings1.jpg "Musician Sam Baker Makes Visual Art Debut")
Musician Sam Baker Makes Visual Art Debut
Posted on January 14, 2011 | No Comments[caption id="attachment_8503" align="alignleft" width="640" caption="Poet Jardine Ravine Libaire reads in front of Sam Baker's paintings."]
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