Pages tagged “issue 39”

Bell X1: Flock

There’s Marissa, this week giving the lesbian lifestyle...  read more

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Glossed in Translation: Be Kind Rewind

“It comes back to what ‘Sweding’ is: even if your resources are really limited, you don’t let your limitations limitate you,” says Michel Gondry in his endearing French-limitated English, expressing both his love of the handmade and the raison d’être for his new comedy...  read more

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Sarah Boxer [Editor]

Sarah Boxer’s new book offers luddites the possibility of redemption...  read more

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Vince Vaughn’s Wild West Comedy Show: 30 Days & 30 Nights, Hollywood to the Heartland

In the fall of 2005, actor/comedian Vince Vaughn decided to...  read more

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In Bruges

You know you’ve tripped into the ambiguous realm of Postmodernism...  read more

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In the Shadow of the Moon

I walked across the Purdue University campus one day...  read more

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Dan Kennedy

Dan Kennedy thought he landed his rock ’n’ roll dream job as Atlantic Records’...  read more

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Honeydripper: The Birth of the Blues

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In addition to marking the midpoint of the 21st century, the year 1950 stood as the doorway to a paradigm shift in music, politics and technology that would significantly revolutionize American culture for decades to come...  read more

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Filmmaker to Watch: Cristian Mungiu

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Whenever abortion is a major plot point in a film, it’s natural for viewers to try to immediately suss out the perspective of the filmmaker...  read more

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Tagging Museum Walls

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Graffiti has long been considered one of the four fundamental elements of hip-hop culture, along with MCing, DJing and breakdancing. To ensure that this important visual component was properly represented in Recognize!, curators commissioned D.C. graffiti artists Tim Conlon and Dave Hupp, whose work has been featured in advertisements and movies, to tag four 20-foot panels lining the hallway between the exhibition galleries. During the summer preceding the opening, Conlon and Hupp tagged the panels with the exhibition's title, their own tags (CON and AREK), two stylized self-portraits, and lots of playing cards—in particular, the king of diamonds. "You have...  read more

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