Beyond the hood? Detroit Techno – Article exploring the relationship of Techno, dance music and its inner city roots. [fiar] A Noisey Film – The Police vs Grime Music Black British musical identity is being erased by culture-less dance music – Writer Kele Okereke thoughts on the social-political-economic issues happening in the UK music scene. [Noisey] Meanwhile, 6th and Mission – San Francisco based artist Wendy McNaughton illustrates her story of the changing landscape of the neighborhood around 6th & Mission street. …
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Ruby Dee, a ringing voice for Civil Rights, onstage and off, dies at 91. Ruby Dee had a long successful acting career, most of us as students may have read Lorraine Hansberry’s play A Raisin in the Sun and was shown in class the movie based on the play in which Ruby Dee played the memorable role of Ruth Younger, more recently she was in 2007’s American Gangster playing the role of Mama Lucas. She was also known for her work in …
Aja Brown – Can this Millennial Mayor turn Compton into L.A.’s next hot neighborhood? [TakePart] Gentrification of L.A.’s Skid Row, the homeless get shafted [Vice] Rural homelessness – After months, a teen leaves the woods behind [NPR] Mikki Kendall and her online beef with white feminists [Vice] Asa Akira on TakePart Live 5-19-2014 – Can porn stars be feminists? Time Magazine interviews Eddie Huang about Fresh Of The Boat sitcom [Time] Anatomy Of A Dance Hit: Why We Love To Boogie With …
Here’s a first look at The Zero Theorem, Terry Gilliam’s latest flick. He told Indiewire, “I think I made ‘Brazil’ for 2013.” We’re taking a rabbit hole trip down the existential lane starring Christopher Waltz, Melanie Thierry, Matt Damon, Tilda Swinton, David Thewlis and Ben Whishaw. It’s suppose to come out this fall in Japan and this summer in the U.S. but there’s no release date for either. Distribution by Amplify. …
Teenage (2013) is a documentary by filmmaker Matt Wolf with author-music journalist Jon Savage whose book Teenage: The Prehistory of Youth Culture: 1875-1945 serves as research for the movie. The documentary follows the development of the teenager, a relatively new concept, starting around 1900s (the end of forced child labor) to 1945 (World War II). Back in the days, there was no concept of the second decade of life, you where a child growing straight into adulthood, getting married, laboring or finding …
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