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Dance

Ten More Years

Director’s Choice Sweeps Away Anniversary with Debut Will NW Dance Project fans fill the house for a series of reruns? Probably. It’s not like a bad movie that for some reason you just keep seeing on TV or can bring up on Netflix any time. What if a debut was added to the balance? Definitely. […]

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Satire

I Am Winston Smith

I have come to see myself as Winston Smith. Every morning, I rebuild my civilization through the news, fed through a little screen with cameras pointing at me. On Twitter, I repost the news. I create nothing. I investigate nothing. I simply read the article, post my own propaganda in less than 140 characters and […]

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Political Economy Report

TIME BOMB LAWMAKER

How Conservatives Put Half a Million Non-Profits Out of Business John Boehner’s legacy will amount largely as being President Obama’s toughest adversary. The looming threat of John Boehner’s time bomb haunts the White House every day. I can count three instances, one of which blew up my non-profit arts production company. This personal narrative reflects […]

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Dance

Reborn in Stillness

Like Lazarus Did Presented by White Bird Dance March 6-8, 2014 To a frustrating degree, the Stephen Petronio Company is purely mesmerizing with Like Lazarus Did. Why that frustrates me is because I am having a difficult time repeating my impressions for you. My intellect grapples with the physical response of stillness, heart opened, spellbound […]

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Music

11 Albums that Don’t Suck From the Class of 2000

Featured image taken from Woodstock 1999 The late nineties are never going down in history as a renaissance period for music. It is no golden age, nor even something we want to think about very often. It’s not like the much derided Eighties because that actually was a pioneering time, full of experiments and burgeoning record […]