Category Archives: General

Bolsonaro, Marina Silva Tied in Brazil Amid Racism, Inciting Hatred Charges

Posted in General | Leave a comment

A Flow Of Organic Lines

Originally posted on KooZA/rch:
A Flow Of Organic Lines Christa Rijneveld ? Project Impressed by the enormity of the Rocky mountain landscape, intrigued by its’ shapes and layers, intimidated by the beauty and danger of this natural artefact Christas’…

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Summer Samba

Originally posted on Daria:
“Summer Samba” (also known as “So Nice” or its original Portuguese title, “Samba de Verão”) is a 1964 bossa nova song by Brazilian composer Marcos Valle, with Russian-language lyrics by Alexei Ivashhenko; the original Portuguese lyrics…

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Lula, Brazil, and the World

Originally posted on The Net Projection:
Lula has led the most successful democratic economic redistribution project the world has seen in the modern world, yet he has been sentenced by the Brazilian Supreme Court in complete disregard of the Constitution…

Posted in General | Leave a comment

“We’re in a struggle for our equal humanity”: Black women maintain Marielle Franco’s struggle one month after the Rio councilwoman’s assassination

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Facing up to reality, at least

Originally posted on RioReal:
Just what is Rio’s post-intervention reality? Panelists chat before the March 26 public hearing on the Federal Intervention, at the Federal Public Defenders’ Rio office Tough to say. But one thing is certain: there’s more information…

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Groovology 201: The Life Force of Music and Dance | Joy in Motion

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Tom Lehrer: Mathematician-musician

Originally posted on Knowledge in Civil Society:
In 1959, the mathematician and satirist Tom Lehrer — who turns 90 this month — performed what he characteristically called a “completely pointless” scientific song at Harvard University in Cambridge, Massachusetts. (He was…

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Port Urbanism, Blackness, and the Shipping Crate in ‘Collapse: Works by Dewey Crumpler’ — a conversation with curator Sampada Aranke

Originally posted on urbanculturalstudies:
Dewey Crumpler, Untitled 3 (2017). Photo by Yosef Chaim Kalinko, Seattle University. “He would do these walks along the port, and see these shipping containers come in and out, and became particularly interested in the way…

Posted in General | Leave a comment

Have a Cheat Day Treat… with Manchester’s Yes! Doughnuts

Originally posted on Jess' Random World:
The first thing that pops into my head when I think about doughnuts is American cops stuffing their face while on a stakeout (not that I don’t want to do that at least once…

Posted in General | Leave a comment