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Wednesday, June 13, 2007 : Singer David Rovics appeared on stage during the G8 counter-demonstrations, incorporating them into his “G8 Warm-Up Tour” of northern Europe. He sent this account....
Posted: Wed, Jun 13, 2007 6:22pm PDT
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 : A leading Black commentator says racism still divides America, this time over San Francisco Giant Barry Bonds' pursuit of Hank Aaron's home run record....
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 9:02am PDT
Tuesday, June 12, 2007 :
Zirin discusses how sports have become an "athletic-industrial complex," Pat Tillman, Hurricane Katrina, the legacy of Roberto Clemente, Mumia Abu-Jamal and his new book "Welcome to the Terrordome."...
Posted: Tue, Jun 12, 2007 8:49am PDT
The World Premier of Mash-Up Bash, a public performance pageant, will be on June 30, 2007 at 2pm in the Raymond Kimbell Playground, at Steiner St. and Geary Blvd., in San Francisco, California. The event is free and the public is encouraged to attend. For more information, go to Trash Mash-Up’s website at http://trashmashup.googlepages.com/
TMU shares cultural traditions with diverse communities in public performances and workshops. Reducing waste by using trash to make art, TMU reminds a...
Posted: Sat, Jun 9, 2007 6:33pm PDT
ABD Productions presents Cariño Part One and Other Dances with guest artist-activists Judy Grahn, Deep Waters Dance Collective, Melanie Demore, Mama Coatl....
Posted: Sat, Jun 9, 2007 7:54am PDT
Wednesday, June 6, 2007 : (Mexico City) Christian Chavez, a member of the wildly popular Mexican band RBD, says he's lived the life he always wanted since coming out of the closet three months ago....
Posted: Wed, Jun 6, 2007 6:54pm PDT
For one night we turn the GDI Fair Ave railroad tracks location into a hobo jungle for a late-into the night hobo film festival. We will feature train riding shorts, documentaries, and feature films...
Posted: Tue, Jun 5, 2007 4:34pm PDT
For the persistent observer, the private voyeur, or the consistent gawker. Street and documentary photographers exemplify the need to “see” in the visual arts by capturing the fleeting moments that flash before our eyes. The immediacy of the medium allows moments to become historical documents, evidence of “life” in the sense of humanity exposed, raw and unscripted....
Posted: Tue, Jun 5, 2007 1:25pm PDT
Carnaval Parade San Francisco 2007 photos...
Posted: Wed, May 30, 2007 12:44pm PDT
review of the "Situationist International Anthology," reprinted on its 25th anniversary...
Posted: Fri, May 25, 2007 8:05pm PDT
CANNES, France — A Russian movie portraying the battlefields in war-ravaged Chechnya stole the limelight in the 60th Cannes Film Festival, revealing the real drama of war-scarred people living in the small mountainous republic....
Posted: Fri, May 25, 2007 6:22am PDT
New Uber warfare strategies of the 21st century have relegated conventional war and to a lesser extent guerilla war strategies to history. Today’s ubiquitous and highly accessible computer technologies have redefined warfare. Traditional militaries are facing redundancy, irrelevance and heightened vulnerability from skilled digital operators. The keyboard is proving to be the most effective weapon of the modern age! Uber war is asymmetry taken to its final phase. In theory a single individual...
Posted: Fri, May 25, 2007 3:28am PDT
Black Voices (UK) with Linda Tillery and the Cultural Heritage Choir present the closing performance of the SF International Arts Festival....
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2007 11:41am PDT
"The Truth in Knowing - A conversation across the African Diaspora"
Li-Sangha (Congo) performs Thursday thru Sunday May 24-27 at Dance Mission Theater...
Posted: Thu, May 24, 2007 11:35am PDT
This is a benefit for Common Ground Relief in New Orleans.
SUNDAY, MAY 27th:
San Francisco, California
12 p.m.
Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St....
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 12:33pm PDT
This is a benefit for Common Ground Relief in New Orleans.
SUNDAY, MAY 27th:
San Francisco, California
12 p.m.
Roxie Cinema
3117 16th St....
Posted: Wed, May 23, 2007 12:33pm PDT
Over 800 people in Hong Kong have complained to the Television and Entertainment Licensing Authority (TELA), the local censoring body for the publishing industry, asking it to declare the Bible too smutty and violent to be read by those under 18....
Posted: Tue, May 22, 2007 8:03am PDT
Two of the most amazing films of the GDI Summer Series in an unusual double feature......
Posted: Mon, May 21, 2007 12:01pm PDT
CAIRO — Bothered with firebrand director Michael Moore, the Bush administration is trying to confiscate the negative of his new documentary critical of the US health care and the powerful insurance lobby, the film's producer revealed Saturday, May 19....
Posted: Sat, May 19, 2007 9:08am PDT
“Only Moments” is written within the cyclical theme of Birth, Death, and Rebirth. It focuses on the unforgiving world, the false hope of technology and religion, incorporating one’s own search and questioning of the spiritual aspects that provide some measure of meaning, and then tying it into the romance of total devotion of man and wife. The road, throughout the novel is representative of one’s life path and sense of curiosity and discovery. The writing began with the Big Sur and Califo...
Posted: Wed, May 16, 2007 2:42pm PDT