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Mark Tribe , a professor in Modern Culture & Media at Brown, and best known for creating the new media art news and archive Rhizome , has a project in which he recreates some of the anti-war speeches and demonstrations from the Vietnam era. Does this...
Early on during the war in Iraq, there was talk of how Americans officers were checking out The Battle of Algiers , a movie about the Algerian insurgency against the French in the 1950s, for clues about the politics of insurgency and counter-insurgency...
Tonight, at Machines With Magnets in Pawtucket, there's an opening for an art show related to the Iraq war. Here's Jim Macnie's writeup from this week's Phoenix: WALLS OF PROTEST The fugazi that is the war in Iraq shows no sign of ending, even though...
Some of the veterans of Providence's creative underground who were involved with RISD's Wunderground show are putting together a new exhibit on the theme of " Experiencing the War in Iraq." They're trying to get the word out that the call for entries...
-- As the Indians put the death bite on the Yankees in the ALDS, I began to think, "Be careful what you wish for." Like any Red Sox fan, N4N wanted a swift exit for the New Yorkers. The Indians, though, are a far better team right now. But, hey, this...
So wonders Brian C. Jones : This year’s edition of the Newport Folk Festival was almost perfect. For one thing, it had the best T-shirt, just a simple line across the front: “What would Woody do?” It’s a great variation on the question about global warming...
Writing in this week's Phoenix, James Parker offers a lively piece on how limericks and surrealism offer considerable insight into the torture policies backed by the Bush administration: History will have trouble digesting the irony of it — that George...
