Freedom to Make Art* (*restrictions apply)
The Afghan Film Organization, which was established in 1968 as a government fund for movies, was subject to several abrupt regime changes as Afghanistan became a hotbed of the Cold War. A...
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“Commoners’ food”
In South Korea, fried chicken (colloquially shortened to just “chicken”) is a staple food of the Korean middle class. A 2017 survey found that a majority of respondents ordered yashik (late-night...
View ArticleIs the “journalism crisis” just a capitalism crisis?
The number of newspaper employees in U.S. newsrooms dropped by about half between 2008 and 2019, according to a report from Pew Research Center. Then the pandemic accelerated the damage. In response,...
View ArticleSome Personal News
I was on the 395 after the downslope past Sonora Junction bent over the front of my car trying to unhook the chains from my tires in the light of my cell phone when a semi-truck sped past going 50...
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A has never danced, but he gave it a pretty good go
New South Wales, Australia August 1, 2021 It was early Sunday morning, and I was grateful to be outside of the city, watching the sky melt through pastel oranges, pinks and blues, and fill with light....
View ArticleAt the Elder’s Corner
The elders are many, and their corners spread from Lagos to the other major southern towns of Nigeria. They are the radical dreamers, the artists and musicians who built the cradle bed for the nation...
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Eyes Lowered
Man with Face Creams and Phone Plug is a painting of a brown man with his head down—in just the way I’ve always held my own head down at airports—as he waits for an immigration or customs official to...
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A Hundred Hours of the Ministry of Health on Nightcore
Three and a half months after an initial outbreak that began on May 15th, COVID-19 is back under control in Taiwan, with the country’s first day of zero new cases announced on August 25th. In that...
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Primal Squirm
We’re at 1.1 degree of warming. As the most recent IPCC report confirms, what we’re seeing now hasn’t even begun to reflect how much carbon has already been emitted, let alone what we’ll emit...
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