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COUNTRY WESTERN NIGHT CLUBS EMBRACE NEW GAY CLIENTELE
COUNTRY WESTERN NIGHT CLUBS EMBRACE NEW GAY CLIENTELE...
Posted: Tue, Feb 7, 2006 12:48am PST
San Francisco Opening of the Exhibition of Master Wan Ko Yee's Achievements
February 5, 2006: Hundreds of people crowded into the renovated historic structure at 1822 Eddy Street today to see the exhibition of "Master Wan Ko Yee's Achievements in the Form of World-Class Treasures. This free exhibition of the works of Dharma King Yangwo Yisinubu Wan Ko for the people of the San Francisco area will continue daily through February 27. Hours are Monday-Thursday 10-6 and Friday-Sunday 10-8. Phone 415-673-2311 for more information....
Posted: Mon, Feb 6, 2006 8:45am PST
EL ENEMIGO COMUN premiers in the Bay Area
"el enemigo común" scratches beneath the surface of neoliberalism, at some of the its most hidden atrocities in recent North American history. The film documents instances of paramilitary activity against indigenous communities in Oaxaca, Mexico from 2002 through 2005 while including scenes from an international human rights movement in 2003, in Miami against the Free Trade Area of the America's, and in Cancun against the World Trade Organization. The three locations in isolation expose the d...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 7:58pm PST
Ken Knabb's masperized translations
For decades, the only translation of the Situationist International's text about Jean Maitron -- an "anarchist" historian who'd falsified one of the SI's texts, got called on it and, when he didn't do anything, was roughed-up by two young situs -- was Ken Knabb's masperized version, which failed to translate well over half of this relatively short text. We happy to announce that NOT BORED! has translated the text, from scratch and in its entirety, as it once did with Knabb's masperi...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 7:57pm PST
The Super Bowl in Detroit: the manufacturing of a “national event”
Detroit is the host city of this year’s Super Bowl, the championship game of American professional football. The annual contest, which will be played this Sunday between the Pittsburgh Steelers and the Seattle Seahawks, has in recent years become something of a national phenomenon, almost a national rite. Proper obeisance must be paid to it. The mass media, as it does every year, has been informing the population for weeks that it can hardly wait until “Super Sunday,” when “Super Parties” wil...
Posted: Sat, Feb 4, 2006 9:52am PST
Green Bloggers Meet
P0st on recent Commonwealth Club meeting of environmental blogger hosted by Gil Friend on 1/31/06. Event to be possibly broadcast on KQED-FM...
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 9:29pm PST
Exhibition of Master Wan Ko Yee’s Amazing Achievements in the Form of World-Class Treasure
On February 5-27, 2006, M-Th 10-6, F-Sun 10-8, the Master Wan Ko Yee International Cultural Institute will hold an exhibition of the World-Class Treasures created by Master Wan Ko Yee (Dharma King Yangwo Yisinubu Wan Ko) at 1822 Eddy Street. Regarded by all as enchanting and precious treasures from another dimension, this art appears in the world for the first time. This exhibit displays superb, extraordinary art, profound knowledge, holy virtue, and more from another realm. Free admission....
Posted: Fri, Feb 3, 2006 8:00pm PST
Turkish movie depicts Americans as savages
- In the most expensive Turkish movie ever made, American soldiers in Iraq crash a wedding and pump a little boy full of lead in front of his mother....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 7:32pm PST
Kansas City: Contemporary American Radical Political Poster Art
Radical political posters have long been a feature of American
culture and politics. From handbills posted during the Revolutionary War
to wheatpasted posters put up by anti-capitalists activists, radical
street art has been vital to political discourse in this country....
Posted: Thu, Feb 2, 2006 12:54pm PST
Tonight in Oakland: Finding our Folk Sendoff
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> FINDING OUR FOLK - OAKLAND SEND OFF
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> Wednesday, February 1st, 7-9pm
> Ella Baker Center, 344 40th Street, Oakland
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Posted: Wed, Feb 1, 2006 4:13pm PST
Other Cinema Spring '06 Kickoff
Report on CIA Torture Taxi, plus a doc on the business of outsourcing interrogation....
Posted: Tue, Jan 31, 2006 9:36pm PST
No discrimination against Falun Gong
No discrimination against Falun Gong...
Posted: Mon, Jan 30, 2006 9:26am PST
1/28 Naked Souls Artists Alliance 4-Year Anniversary Party
01.28.2006 @ The Oakland Noodle Factory
1255 26th Street @Union Street, Oakland
$10-20 Sliding Scale, $5 under 18...
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 10:41pm PST
Google China Adopts New Logo
In light of Google's agreement to adhere to the Chinese government's strict censorship rules, Google introduced several new logos for the China-based version of their website, www.google.cn. In a press conference held this afternoon at the company's Mountain View headquarters, co-founder Larry Page urged artists and graphic designers to run with the theme and come up with new, creative variations....
Posted: Fri, Jan 27, 2006 6:03pm PST
DVD TO RAISE FUNDS FOR GRENADA HURRICANE RELIEF
GRENADA: THE MAROON SPIRIT, a new documentary film by Pumpkinhead Production Company to donate portion of sales to Grenada Maroon Fund...
Posted: Thu, Jan 26, 2006 2:38pm PST
Lt. DeLacy Davis - Black Cops Against Police Brutality
Idriss Stelley Foundation is organizing a week of book signings and appearances for Lt. Delacy Davis in the Bay Area, January 24 to 29, 2006...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 8:21pm PST
American “Dream...” Manifest. These babies are first cousins. Aren’t we all¡!
American “Dream...” Manifest. These babies are first cousins. Aren’t we all¡!...
Posted: Mon, Jan 23, 2006 11:39am PST
Diamond Dave's Fifteenth Show (audio/mpeg 11.4MB)
Jan 5, 2006 - A quiet night in the city. Dave reads pleasurable poems from Garrison Keillor's "Good Poems for Hard Times"...
Posted: Sat, Jan 21, 2006 4:29pm PST
CALL FOR DEATH PENALTY RELATED ART
This is an international, all-media, juried exhibition on view May 6 through
May 22, 2006 at Gallery Lombardi in Austin, Texas and online for at least
one year at http://www.deathpenaltyartshow.org.
Work in all media is eligible....
Posted: Fri, Jan 20, 2006 6:09pm PST