Review: THE WORLD’S EMBRACE: SELECTED POEMS – ABDELLATIF LAABI

Review: THE WORLD’S EMBRACE: SELECTED POEMS – ABDELLATIF LAABI
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THE WORLD’S EMBRACE: SELECTED POEMS ABDELLATIF LAABI City Lights Books Street: 02.01.03 Every once in a while, you encounter an unfortunate soul who tries to sell you on literature’s primary (only to the far right-wingers) purpose—the conveyance of beauty. If said people possess any respect for world literature, they will find Essential Rumi on the Barnes

Review: AVANT ROCK: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FROM THE BEATLES TO BJÖRK

Review: AVANT ROCK: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FROM THE BEATLES TO BJÖRK
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AVANT ROCK: EXPERIMENTAL MUSIC FROM THE BEATLES TO BJÖRK BILL MARTIN Open Court Publishing Street: 02.01.00 Bill Martin is a bass player and a philosophy professor at DePaul University who examines the “way out” music of the past 50 years and tries to put in theoretical frame-work using the thoughts of intellectual heavies such as

Dear Dickheads – April 2005

Dear Dickheads – April 2005
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SLUG Magazine parties too hard and get’s yelled at by an employee of Area 51. … read more

Guitar Wolf Eulogy

Guitar Wolf Eulogy
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  Guitar Wolf Eulogy (An e-mail from Billy Nord from Narnack Records) It’s with deep and saddest regret to announce this latest news. Last night (3/30) Billy, aka Bass Wolf, passed away of natural causes. He was 38. The band had just returned from their month-long US tour, and fortunately Billy did get to spend

Katchup – April 2005

Katchup – April 2005
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It’s that time of year, the days are getting longer and the snow is melting…wait, it’s still puking snow when the rest of the country is shutting down production and pulling out golf clubs. There still might be more snow than in 20 years at this time, but resorts are still shutting down the party due to their lease agreement and people staying home to work on their summer tans. … read more

Gallery Stroll – April 2005

Gallery Stroll – April 2005
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The Salt Lake Arts Center’s latest exhibit, The Daily News (on display until June 1) posed the question, “What kind of imprint has the printed world made on you?” In addition, they explore the question, what do you do with the news when it’s not new anymore? This show is so intelligent and imaginative you, too, may be inspired to look at the old news in a new way! … read more

Bellydancing – April 2005

Bellydancing – April 2005
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Midnight Mirage doesn’t fit into a box of ideas on how belly dancing should be performed. We took our ideas, our experiences and our dreams and with the core technique of belly dancing, created what we wanted to do. Diversity is what makes life, art and dance interesting.  … read more