As is currently the case in many sectors, broadcast journalism is scrambling to figure out how to tap into and employ (and exploit . . . hey, it’s capitalism) new media and the public’s relationship to the developing formats. NBC News seems to have found a clue, if not an answer, in their new Digital [...]

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As part of POST NO ILLS’ efforts to encourage and disseminate exchanges between contemporary artists, we present the following conversation between performance artists Holly Bass and Anu Yadav. Curious to see what would happen when one puts two one-woman show artists at a kitchen table, we schlepped our gear over to Columbia Heights and let [...]

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. Southgate, Martha. Third Girl from the Left. New York, NY: Houghton Mifflin, 2005. 288 pp. $24.00 (cloth). [View title on Goodreads.com] Review by Tiphanie Yanique The running metaphor of Martha Southgate’s latest novel is the movies: from the Dorothy Dandridge films that one character frequents, to the blaxploitation flicks another acts in, to the [...]

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by Miles Marshall Lewis The world has a little while longer to wait for the end of Lupe Fiasco. The twenty-six-year-old Chicago MC—born Wasulu Muhammad Jaco—has declared way in advance that his delayed third album, LUPN, will most likely be his last. Hiphop has heard this kind of talk before. But Lupe pulling the plug [...]

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