Monthly Archives: January 2011
Little Boxes #31
(from Nancy, by Ernie Bushmiller, 1970s)
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Tea With Chris: All That Matters Today
We had a bundle of links this week, but only one is connected to a nascent revolution: Watch what’s happening on the streets of Egypt.
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Friday Pictures – Thomas Ruff
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The Kids Are All Right (2010) – directed by Lisa Cholodenko, written by Lisa Cholodenko and Stuart Blumberg
by Margaux Williamson
(I saw this in the middle of a very long train trip headed north. My boyfriend picked it out. We watched it on his laptop with separate headphones. The little boy next to us was watching Spider Man without headphones. I didn’t realize till just before we started watching it that the director was Lisa Cholodenko. I had seen two of her other movies High Art and Laurel Canyon and never would have guessed this was hers. We both laughed a lot. The movie was what you hope a Hollywood/ independent/ intelligent drama could be, but rarely is – incredibly good and not dumb. )
The Kids Are All Right is about a sort-of-happy family with two moms, one teenage son and one teenage daughter [..] Continue reading
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Little Boxes #30
(from Dororo vol. 1, by Osamu Tezuka, 1967/2008)
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Tea With Chris: Metaphors, Butchered Ruthlessly
Tea With Chris is a roundup of recommended links, posted every Friday. Here are a few of our favourite things from the Internet this week: Carl: Thanks to my Slate Music Club chat-partner Ann Powers, this week I was introduced … Continue reading
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Like a G20: K-Pop and Far East Movements
by Chris Randle A creaking racial barrier was breached last November. It mostly went unnoticed – this was not an Obama-sized milestone – but as omens go, it’s a convincing one. When the L.A. rap crew Far East Movement sent … Continue reading
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