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40 Years of the Summer of Love and All I Got Was This Lousy Article Tuesday, September 4, 2007 : What do you call a bunch of pieced-together old rock and blues bands trying to recapture the glory days of their rebellious youth in front of a crowd that’s drinking designer water in plastic bottles and carrying cellphone and ipods, not to mention ATM cards? The 40th anniversary of the Summer of Love in San Francisco! Four decades after a generation unleashed one of the biggest and most commercially lucrative cultural revolutions in history, the commemoration in ...
Posted: Tue, Sep 4, 2007 6:40am PDT
White Light Black Rain: powerful HBO film about atomic bombing of Japanese cities Monday, September 3, 2007 :White Light, Black Rain: The Destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, written and directed by Steven Okazaki In August 1945, in an act that will forever haunt the memory of humankind, the United States government under President Harry Truman ordered the dropping of two atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki, incinerating some 120,000 people instantly and leading to the slow and painful deaths of hundreds of thousands more in the weeks, months an...
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 7:44am PDT
Poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti of City Lights Books n the 50th Anniversary of Jack Kerouac's "On The Road" Monday, September 3, 2007 :
Fifty years ago this week Viking Press published Jack Kerouac's novel On The Road. Today we will talk with City Lights Books' publisher and poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1953, Ferlinghetti co-founded City Lights Bookstore in San Francisco, the first all-paperbound bookshop in the country. Two years later he launched the City Lights publishing house. Both institutions are still running half of a century later....
Posted: Mon, Sep 3, 2007 7:31am PDT
Pangs Theater Ensemble Performs Moliere's Don Juan in Golden Gate Park Pangs Theater Ensemble believes San Francisco's natural resources should be used to the fullest. The Company believes the use and enjoyment of Golden Gate Park should be more fully developed and thus will stage Moliere's Don Juan in the Park's Bunny Meadow, former venue of Shakespeare in the Park....
Posted: Sun, Sep 2, 2007 11:54pm PDT
Poet Sunni Patterson & Hip Hop Artist Truth Universal Reflect on New Orleans Two Years After Katrina Friday, August 31, 2007 : We end today's show from with a pair of spoken word acts from New Orleans: poet and performer Sunni Patterson and hip hop artist Truth Universal....
Posted: Fri, Aug 31, 2007 8:14am PDT
A 1000 CONGAS Bay Area Social and Racial Justice Brigade ~ A 1000 CC's~
Bay Area POWER Injection :
A Thousand CONGAS...
Posted: Tue, Aug 28, 2007 11:48pm PDT
BICYCLE FILM FEST at Santa Cruz GDI Friday Aug 31st 8pm Pee-wee's most prized possession, his shiny new bicycle, is stolen, and he sets off on an obsessive cross-country journey, determined to recover it. PLUS thrilling and funny short bike films, an intermission, bike sumo, critical mass discussion, and great company....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 11:33am PDT
Max Roach 1924-2007: Thousands Pay Tribute to the Legendary Jazz Drummer, Educator, Activist Monday, August 27, 2007 :
Over 2,000 people gathered at Riverside Church in New York on Friday for the funeral of the legendary drummer, educator and activist Max Roach, who died on August 16 at the age of 83. He was credited with helping to revolutionize the sound of modern jazz and for playing a prominent role in the struggle for black liberation at home and in Africa. We speak with two men who have known Roach for decades: Amiri Baraka and Phil Schaap....
Posted: Mon, Aug 27, 2007 8:31am PDT
Grace Paley 1922-2007: Acclaimed Poet and Writer Dies at 84 Friday, August 24, 2007 :
The acclaimed American poet, short story writer, and anti-war activist Grace Paley has died. She was 84 years old and died Wednesday in her home in Vermont. We go back to a Democracy Now! interview with her talking about the peace movement and the role of poets in a time of war....
Posted: Fri, Aug 24, 2007 7:33am PDT
CBS promotes misogynistic verbal abuse to go on in the Big Brother House CBS has reached new lows this season in promoting misogynistic tirades in the Big Brother House. The houseguest Evil Dick on CBS’s Big Brother reality show has spent the past few weeks verbally abusing a young woman, Jen Johnson with threats of rape, insults focused on her sexuality and hopes for her death. His abuse has been so severe, that she has asked to drop out of the competition. This weekend Evil Dick he added homophobia to his repertoire....
Posted: Wed, Aug 22, 2007 10:26pm PDT
Calling Outsider Artists and Art Rabble Rousers An attempt to document the creative efforts of non-commercial, non-institutional artists in Santa Cruz, California working to blur the lines between art and life, and between the personal and the political....
Posted: Tue, Aug 21, 2007 5:09pm PDT
Rich and Poor Breathe the Air A Daily Lyric Poem, concerning our place in existence, that was inspired by the news of the morning. Thank You....
Posted: Mon, Aug 20, 2007 10:57am PDT
ARTworkSF presents: Soft Core – EXTENDED THROUGH OCT 1, 2007 Soft Core is a Depiction of the figure in relaxed, languid poses or serene environments that emphasize the gentle nature of the human form.
Curator: Matt McKinley...
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 3:52pm PDT
In Utah Mining Disaster, Life Imitates Art Friday, August 17, 2007 : A week before the August 6 Utah mining disaster that has left six miners trapped and likely dead, Billy Wilder’s classic 1951 film, “Ace in the Hole” was released on DVD. Wilder’s movie portrays a down on his luck newspaperman seeking to make the big time by publicizing the plight of a man trapped inside a mountain by a cave-in....
Posted: Fri, Aug 17, 2007 6:27am PDT
How Kucinich Wins The traditional Democratic base isn't stupid. They haven't been driven away from the polls because they are lazy or apathetic. They are painfully aware of the huge disconnect between Democratic Party rhetoric and the official behavior of many Democrats. They don't appreciate being lied to, and maybe they have grudging reasons to go to the polls just to vote against some Republican. Maybe they don't. The traditional Democratic base doesn't always turn up at the polls. They need more than trans...
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 9:40am PDT
The 11th Hour: Hollywood Documentary Takes on Environmental Crisis of a World on the Brink Thursday, August 16, 2007 :
"The 11th Hour" is a new feature-length documentary on the extent and gravity of the global environmental crisis and its impact on human life as we know it. The film is produced and narrated by actor Leonardo DiCaprio and includes interviews with Nobel Peace laureate Wangari Maathai, physicist Stephen Hawking, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev and environmentalist Bill McKibben. We play clips from the film and speak to its two co-directors and writers, N...
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 8:09am PDT
Weinstein Deletes Honor Killing in Movie, But Bias Runs Deep Originally From New America Media
Thursday, August 16, 2007 :New America Media, Commentary, Behrouz Saba, Posted: Aug 16, 2007 Editor's Note: After complaints from the Iranian American community, Harvey Weinstein and director Wayne Kramer deleted scenes of an honor killing in the upcoming film, "Crossing Over." But this small victory, says NAM contributor Behrouz Saba, is the exception to the rule in the deep bigotry of the film industry....
Posted: Thu, Aug 16, 2007 7:52am PDT
Devils on the Doorstep at Santa Cruz GDI, THIS FRIDAY! Award-winning 2000 Chinese black comedy produced and directed by Jiang Wen, starring Jiang himself, set in the shadow of the Great Wall during the final months of the Japanese occupation. By turns incongruously hilarious and grotesquely shocking, it staggers the mind, a film of much complexity that will resonate with any thinking viewer....
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2007 5:53pm PDT
A Magic Of Here Ever After One of my Daily Lyric Poems from the Millennia Song Project, which is a collection of tens of thousands of mid sized poetic works, written while listening to today's http://www.democracynow.org program....
Posted: Wed, Aug 15, 2007 9:47am PDT
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