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The Cleveland artists waiting for Donald Trump

16-07-2016 12:00

With the Republican convention taking place in Cleveland, local artists aim to remind delegates of the city’s history of police brutality and racial segregationNext week, Cleveland will host the Republican national convention for the first time since 1936. Fifty thousand visitors are expected. In anticipation, the city that’s been fighting for half a century to shake the moniker of “the mistake on the lake” has undertaken a vigorous campaign of beautification. It has hung

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Untitled( i think i have seen her before when we were galactic cock sucker slaves at an outpost and a supernova exploded in our faces. )

16-07-2016 02:26 via feedproxy.google.com

i would give up lingering if this woman wanted me. she is polished and plain. her face is like a river with two small bridges and a black man swimming in. she lives to talk politics and food systems. she fundraises for non profits and political campaigns. i think i have seen her before when we were galactic cock sucker slaves at an outpost and a supernova exploded in our faces.the man with the white hair is facing me. he is thinking and looking.i don’t think he sees my large head. he is go

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Our Pop Culture Is Filled With Anger

16-07-2016 01:02 via feedproxy.google.com

Visceral and at times frightening narratives are running through our popular culture. We get Batman and Superman — once the extensions of our better selves — battling each other in a grim rain; the take-no-prisoners TV commentaries of Samantha Bee and John Oliver; abrasive, if clever, comics like Amy Schumer; rage and betrayal in Beyonce’s “Lemonade”; meth and degradation in “Breaking Bad”; beheadings, dragons, torture and wars for supremacy in “Ga

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How Playwrights Do Anger

16-07-2016 00:34 via feedproxy.google.com

“The better playwrights are inevitably drawn more to questions than answers, but in turbulent times a God-like neutrality can seem like an abdication of responsibility. To put the matter in Yeatsian terms: Why should the best among us, our writers, lack conviction, while the worst, a tough call but let’s go with our representatives in Congress, be full of passionate intensity?”

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