Lowly Monks: An Interview with Junot Diaz

Published in October 21st, 2008
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_____ Author and PNI Advisory Editor Tiphanie Yanique conducted the following interview in August, 2007—just after the initial release of Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.

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Seeing the Scene (The State of the Arts in D.C.): An Interview with Jose Dominguez [audio]

Published in October 21st, 2008
Posted by editor in Arts Administration, Audio Archive, Commentary, Interviews
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What constitutes the metro D.C. arts scene or what makes a D.C. artist, and does it matter if there are no distinctive characteristics? Though you may not hear these two questions raised publicly, they are—as the demographics of D.C. and surrounding environs continute to shift—questions on the minds of many arts administrators and artists. JOSE [...]

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The Art of the Other and the Politics of Whatever: A Conversation with Kelly Tsai

Published in October 16th, 2008
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“Whatever, yo!” Whatever happened those of us existing outside the black/white racial dynamic in the U.S. being acknowledged as more than “whatever”? Kelly Tsai has a new spoken word video out asking us, as we approach election day 2008, to peel back the worn veils of “whatever” and recognize what needs to be seen underneath. [...]

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Third Addition to “The Wall”

Published in October 14th, 2008
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Photographer Marlene Hawthrone Thomas [website/blog] snapped ( . . . and photoshopped, but a damn good job you have to say) this shot while passing through “Old San Anton.” Yes, we have all love (no ill) for Texas. And speaking of love, if you feel it in the air, Marlene is a travelling wedding photographer.

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Looking into Spike Lee’s MIRACLE AT ST. ANNA: A Film Review by Max Lipset

Published in October 12th, 2008
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[Film listing on IMDB.com] “We were there, too,” Corporal Hector Negron grunts at the television screen. This statement of truth defines the center of Lee’s epic new film. Miracle at St. Anna opens in a Brooklyn apartment, with an elderly Negron watching a John Wayne WWII-film. It is 1983, Christmas time, but Negron’s mood is [...]

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Brick and Metaphor: Three Conversations with Literary and Writing Center Directors (Part 3)

Published in October 8th, 2008
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Conversation Three: Jon West-Bey, Founder and Executive Director of the American Poetry Museum in Washington, D.C.’s historic Anacostia neighborhood [link]. The American Poetry Museum’s programming strategy could be characterized as stick-and-move or guerrilla, even. Either way, its collaborative movable feast of poetry readings and forums concerning the “intersections” of art and social issues is creating [...]

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