“You shut the fuck up and wait,” Tom said, pointing his finger at the driver honking at him from behind. Tom was a big-bellied fat man. A pistol and a pocketknife hung from his waist. Framed by ditches on both sides, Tom and Pops talked from their trucks, blocking the narrow two-lane road. In the back of our van, my middle brother Peter and I were sitting on tomato boxes. “Geeze,” Pete whispered, putting his head between his legs. “The …
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Common and TDE’s Ab-Soul spit some hot shit; lyrical stunts and ill word play. Common sounding like he ain’t got time for acting right now. He said “When rappers dead I have the fluid that embalm.” Ab-Soul acting like he getting slept on, trying to wake heads up. He gives respect to Common, who is probably one of his great influences by saying “I’m morpheus in this hip-hop Matrix exposing fake shit,” from “The Sixth Sense (2000).” This is the …
The Missed-Adventures of Br’er Rabbit and Br’er Death in the Land of Shadows is the latest solo show from artist Christopher Burch. The exhibition is part of Burch’s continuing series about Br’er Rabbit, a classic American figure birthed by slavery. Held at Aggregate Space, The Missed-Adventures instillation includes found objects, video, drawings and a floor-to-ceiling mural. Burch described it as a “giant graphic novel” that’s “confrontational” and storied. Br’er Rabbit, also known as the trickster, was a clever amoral rabbit …
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