Thursday, August 19, 2004

Thinking About Culture, Pt. 1

“33 internal FOX editorial memos reviewed by MMFA reveal FOX News Channel's inner workings.” Media Matters for America (July 14, 2004)

Akst, Daniel. “Buyer’s Remorse.” Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2004)

Alford, Henry. “Defining the Future.” Newsday (August 15, 2004)

Alternative News Links

Association of Alternative Weeklies

“Author Hoffman’s Haunted House: Stories in New Collection Inspired by Creepy Cottage on the Cape.” NPR (August 1, 2004)

Bartels, Eric. “My Problem With Her Anger.” Alternet (August 17, 2004)

The Beat Within: A Weekly Publication of Writings and Art from the Inside.

Benning, Jim. “Remembering Neil Postman.” Alternet (October 10, 2003):

Beran, Michael Knox. “In Defense of Memorization.” City Journal (Summer 2004)

“Capsoul--Ohio's Answer to Motown: Short-Lived 1970s Soul Label Resurrected on New Collection.” NPR (August 1, 2004)

George Carlin (social critic/comedian)

Clark, Jude. “Urban Culture: Representations and Experiences in/of Urban Space and Culture.” Agenda #57 (2003)

Conan, Neil. “Guitarist Richie Havens Live at NPR.” National Public Radio (August 12, 2004)

Copley, Rich. “It’s ‘America’s’ Heart and Soul That Makes it Great.” Lexington Herald-Leader (August 13, 2004)

Cowie, Denise. “Rain Catchers.” Lexington Herald-Leader (August 14, 2004)

Coyne, Brendan. “Anti Biotech Artist Indicted Possessing ‘Harmless’ Bacteria: FBI Confiscates Artwork Critical of Biotechnology.” The New Standard (July 6, 2004)

Critical Art Ensemble. “The Mythology of Terrorism on the Net.” (Address to Ars Electronica Conference, Summer 1995)

“Critical Arts Ensemble: Defense Fund.” (Website site devoted to supporting artistic collective protesting biotechnology from FBI harassment—supplies history of recent arrests and persecutions)

Crouch, Stanley. “For Young Black Men, Rap’s Lure is False.” New York Daily News (June 7, 2004)

Currie, Duncan. “It’s Not Easy Bein’ Rodney: Comedian Dangerfield's Autobiography is Outrageous, Entertaining--and Surprisingly Frank.” The Daily Standard (August 6, 2004)

Dirda, Michael. “Borges: A Life.” Washington Post (August 8, 2004)

El-Moslimany, Samia. “Azizah Rising.” Saudi Aramco World (March/April 2004)

“Encyclopedia Americana.” Harper’s (February 2004)

Engler, Mark. “Go Ahead, Mr. Wendell: At 70, Wendell Berry Remains a Champion of Agrarian Ideals.” Grist (August 5, 2004)

Esposito, Joseph J. “The Devil You Don’t Know: The Unexpected Future of Open Access Publishing.” First Monday 9.8 (August 2004)

Fenkl, Heinz Insu. “American Dreamtime.” Journal of Mythic Arts (2000)

Flynt, Josiah. “Club Life Among Outcasts.” Harper’s (originally published 1895; republished July 26, 2004)

“G-D Hipsters.” Translated by Steven L. Weiss. Harper’s (March 2004)

Gentleman, Amelie. “Summertime, and Living Is Not Easy For French Racked With Self-Doubt.” The Guardian (August 10, 2004)

Gessner, David. “Sick of Nature: Today's nature writing is too often pious, safe, boring. Haven't these people re-read Thoreau lately?” The Boston Globe (August 1, 2004)

Goldsmith, Diane. “Designer Zeisel Still Creating at 97.” Lexington Herald-Leader (August 14, 2004)

Green, Adam. “Gangsta Content.” The New Yorker (July 5, 2004)

Gross, Terry. “Comedian Bill Maher.” National Public Radio (August 3, 2004)

---. “Motown Songwriters Holland and Dozier.” NPR (April 2, 2004)

Gumbi, Bandile. “Speaking the Word.” Agenda #57 (2003)

Hansen, Liane. “Tom Dowd: Fluent in 'The Language of Music.'” National Public Radio (August 15, 2004)

Harding, Luke. “Germans Bridle at Language Law.” Guardian (August 8, 2004)

Hesser, Amanda. “Aunt Julia.” New York Times (June 17, 2001)

Hilf, Bill. “Media Lullabies: The Reinvention of the World Wide Web.” First Monday 3.4 (April 1998)

Hitchens, Christopher. “Edward Said: Polymath With a Cause.” Washington Post (August 15, 2004)

Hodgkinson, Tom. “The Virtue of Idleness.” Guardian (August 7, 2004)

Holston, Neal. “Putting a Spin On the News.” Newsday (August 15, 2004)

Izan, Carlos. “Aspects of the Downhill Slide.” Skateboarder Magazine 2.2 (Fall 1975)

Johnson, Julie. “Activists and Entrepreneurs: The California Advocate.” NCM (August 6, 2004)

Johnson, Reed. “Mexico City’s Mosh Pit.” L.A. Times (August 1, 2004)

Karlyn, Kathleen Rowe. “Scream, Popular Culture and Feminism’s Third Wave: ‘I’m Not My Mother.’” Genders #38 (2003)

King, Larry. “Interview With Jon Stewart.” CNN (Transcript: June 25, 2004)

Klawans, Stuart. “Bad Brains.” The Nation (August 12, 2004)

Kong, Deborah. “Searching For a Soul Mate: Online Networks Help Link Like-Minded Muslims.” Columbia Daily Tribune (March 6, 2004)

Korza, Pam, Andrea Assaf, Barbara Schaffer Bacon. “INROADS: The Intersection of Art and Civic Dialogue.” Community Arts Network (2004)

Kuftinec, Sonja. “Critical Relations in Community-Based Performance: The Artist and Writer in Conversation.” The Animating Democracy Initiative (2002)

Lampman, Jane. “A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to Disbelief: A Theologian at Oxford University Explains Why Atheism’s Appeal Has Faded.” Christian Science Monitor (August 3, 2004)

Ludden, Jennifer. “Marc Broussard: Soul Singer From the Bayou.” National Public Radio (August 14, 2004)

Ludden, Jennifer and Robert Hass. “Requiem For a Poet: Czeslaw Milosz.” National Public Radio (Audio: August 14, 2004)

Marchand, Philip. “An Extra Whack: The Genius Of Language: Fifteen Writers Reflect On Their Mother Tongues.” Toronto Star (August 8, 2004)

McNamara, Mary. “A Royal Gain.” L.A. Times (August 16, 2004)

Medina, Dolissa. “’Maria Full of Grace’ Goes Beyond Drug War’s Numbers.” Pacific News Service (Originally published in El Tecolote: August 10, 2004)

“Michael Franti: On Government Surveillance and the Role of Artists in a Time of War.” Democracy Now (May 16, 2003)

Montagne, Renee. “Caedmon: Recreating the Moment of Inspiration—Label Brought Words of Dylan Thomas and Others to Life.” NPR (December 5, 2002)

Muslim Women’s League

Negra, Diane. “Quality Postfeminism?: Sex and the Single Girl on HBO.” Genders #39 (2004)

Nichols, Lee. “Movie Night in the Land of the Free.” The Austin Chronicle (August 6, 2004)

Noel-Todd, Jeremy. “Mangling the Canon.” Telegraph (January 8, 2004)

“Only Skin Deep: Changing Visions of the American Self.” International Center of Photography (Online photographic exhibition: 2004)

Owen, David. “Mosaic TV: A Window On the Middle East.” NCM (August 12, 2004)

Payne, Tom. “Circle of Cliches.” Telegraph (August 16, 2004)

Peace Party (A Multicultural Comic Featuring Native Americans)

Postman, Neil. “Informing Ourselves to Death.” (Speech given to the German Informatics Society in Stuttgart, Germany—Sponsored by IBM: Oct 11, 1990)

Ratele, Kopano. “Re tla dirang ka selo se ba re go ke ghetto fabulous? Academics on the Street.” Agenda #57 (2003)

Richards, Linda. “Interview With Patricia Anderson: In Search of Passion.” January Magazine (August 2001)

Roddick, Anita. “Unbrand the Planet.” (Lecture given at the Global Brand Forum in Singapore: December 1, 2004)

Romano, Carlin. “A Hunched Back, A Searching Heart, and a Fiery Wit.” Chronicle of Higher Education (July 2, 2004)

---. “Revising the Grecian Formula.” The Chronicle of Higher Education (August 13, 2004)

Rosen, Jay. “Neil Postman (1931-2003): Some Recollections.” Press Think: Ghost of Democracy in the Media Machine (October 7, 2003)

Rustin, Susanna. “Hello To All That: Scarred by his experiences in France in 1945, Paul Fussell has sought to demystify the romanticism of battle, beginning with his literary study of the Great War. His latest book is about American GIs in Europe; his next concerns the nature of generalship.” Guardian (July 31, 2004)

Samuelson, Robert J. “Shop ‘til We Drop?” Wilson Quarterly (Winter 2004)

Schappel, Elisa. “How Mad Can a Mother Get.” Alternet (August 17, 2004)

Schrambling, Regina. “Julia Child, The French Chef for a Jell-O Nation.” New York Times (August 13, 2004)

Schurmann, Franz. “In the Year 2104—Americans Will Speak a New Kind of English.” Pacific News Service (August 13, 2004)

Searcey, Dionne. “Woodstock Anniversary.” Newsday (August 16, 2004)

Seigel, Jessica. “Taking Back the Whip.” Ms. Magazine (Summer 2004)

Siegel, Carol. “Curing Boys Don’t Cry: Brandon Teena’s Stories.” Genders #37 (2003)

Shapin, Steven. “The Great Neurotic Art.” London Review of Books 26.15 (August 5, 2004)

Simon, Scott. “Bob Weir Reviews His Long, Strange Trip.” National Public Radio (August 14, 2004)

Smead, Julie. “Fairy Tales and Folklore with a Feminine Touch.” Lexington Herald-Leader (August 13, 2004)

Smiley, Tavis. “'Harold and Kumar': Busting Stereotypes in Film—Asian, East Indian Ethnicities Rare in Hollywood Films.” National Public Radio (August 9, 2004)

Smith, Larry. “Marriage and Its Discontents: Bitch vs. Bastard.” Alternet (August 17, 2004)

Solnit, Rebecca. “Hatred at One End, Rejection at the Other: A Writer Retraces Walter Benjamin’s Failed Walk to Freedom.” L.A. Times (August 1, 2004)

Star, Alexandra. “Dixie Chicks: A New Kind of Democrat is Emerging in the South—And She’s No Shrinking Violet.” Atlantic Monthly (September 2004)

Steen, Karen E. “The Playful Search for Beauty.” Metropolis (January 2001)

Sugar, Janos. “Interview with Peter Lamborn Wilson” The Hermetic Library (conducted at Metaforum II, Budapest, October 95')

Teachout, Terry. “Unloved Elgar.” Commentary (2003)

“Ted Kooser Appointed U.S. Poet Laureate: Poet from the Plains is a Voice for Rural America.” National Public Radio (August 12, 2004)

“Television Chef Julia Child Dies at Age 91.” National Public Radio (Retrospective/Remembrance: August 13, 2004)

Tharp, Shannon. “Six Things You Don’t Know About Wyoming.” The Black Table (July 28, 2004)

Tucker, Jessica. “Fables From Finland: Pt. 1.” Vibewire (March 19, 2004)

---. Fables From Finland, Pt. 2.” Vibewire (August 6, 2004)

Wald, Gayle. “’I Want it That Way’: Tennybopper Music and the Girling of Boy Bands.” Genders #35 (2002)

Walker, Casey. “Waiting for the Barbarians: Lewis Lapham on civic discourse, intellectual life and cultural asphyxiation in a TV nation.” Media Channel (February 16, 2000)

We Are Everywhere: The Rise of Global Anti-Capitalism

Weiner, Eric and Jacob Weisberg. “Slate’s Bushism: The President’s Verbal Blunders.” National Public Radio (August 12, 2004)

White, Scott. “Lexington Erasing Black Heritage.” Lexington Herald-Leader (August 15, 2004)

Wilson, Peter Lamborn. “Iran… or Persia?” Nth Position (August 4, 2004)

---. “Irish Soma.” Lux Illuminati (June 2004)

---. “Tombeau for L.” Dreamtime Village (February 2004)

Woo, Elaine. “Lalo Delgado, 73; Poet Was Seminal Figure in Rise of Chicano Literature.” L.A. Times (August 1, 2004)

Woolf, Virginia. “Portrait of a Londoner.” Guardian (August 11, 2004)

Z-Boys (Website about an infamous skateboarding community in Venice Beach)

Zion, Lawrie. “Along the Danube and Into the Deep End.” The Australian (August 4, 2004)

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