Two thousand eight marks the fiftieth anniversary of the release of Billie Holiday’s great album, Lady in Satin. Add two years and you’re back to 1956, the year she sang “My Yiddishe Mame” at a rehearsal. Until recently, Holiday’s Yiddishkeit session was available only on Verve’s The Complete Billie Holiday: 1945-1959. But a Venezuelan [...]
Read MoreCounterPunch just reprinted a fascinating piece by Uruguayan journalist Raul Zibechi about Mexico’s Brigada Callejera de Apoyo a la Mujer (Street Brigade in Support of Women). It’s part of the Mexican Sex Work Network collective, which works with prostitutes and transvestites. “This has meant transcending the ‘victim’ role and becoming people who want to be [...]
Read MoreBeen off the blogmobile for a couple weeks due to travel, mostly to the US-Mexico border. I’ll be writing more on that soon. Meanwhile, here are some interesting links.
International bridge, El Paso, TX
First, wonderful work from Feroze Sidhwa, a 25-year-old student at the University of Texas medical school in San Antonio. The US [...]
Carrie Bradshaw and her girlfriends on SATC were big followers of the wedding announcements in the Sunday New York Times. Who can forget the episode devoted to Carrie’s sturm & drang when news of Mr. Big’s nuptials with someone else appeared in the paper of record?
I dip into Weddings occasionally, but it’s hard to [...]
( Almost all illustrations in this post, including the black-and-white nude, are computer generated and do not portray real people. Some virtual images are reproduced from work published by Dartmouth College Professor Hany Farid … see below for more about him.)
More of the latest sex-pol research and news: from studies of young people [...]
Read MoreI still get asked about David, whom I wrote about in New York Magazine a couple of years ago. He’s the undocumented Mexican who was living in a basement with over two dozen other immigrants. People wonder how he’s doing. David and one of his former roommates, Jose, keep in touch because they [...]
Read MoreWriter David France was on (click here) Boston public radio WBUR yesterday, talking about his story, in last month’s New York Magazine, about the fall of former New York Times reporter Kurt Eichenwald. France’s interview is the first normal radio piece about the subject — “normal” referring to the quaint practice of a host asking [...]
Read MoreI dropped by the Margaret Mead Film & Video Festival, held at NYC’s Museum of Natural History over the weekend. The fest began decades ago, to showcase moving-image offerings by anthropologists — materials that have been coming out since stuff like Man of Aran first appeared in the 1930s. Back then, the medium was 35 [...]
Read MoreTo get to Carrollton, the suburb just north of Dallas where my sister lives, you have to drive through mean little Farmers Branch. Which is yet another burb, lately in the news because the town has been trying to keep landlords from renting apartments to “illegal aliens.” I passed through Irving, Texas too – [...]
Read MoreI’m still out of town and busy, so for several more days there’ll be no wordy blogging.
Meanwhile, check out David France’s piece in the latest issue of New York Magazine, “Saving Justin Berry” for — finally! — some actual reporting by someone other than I, about Kurt Eichenwald (click here)
There’s a lot missing from [...]
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