The legendary "granny of Mexican cinema" began her movie career when she was a 22-year-old teacher in a nun's school for girls. One day, young Sara's attention was attracted to a small building in downtown Mexico City. Inside it was Azteca Films, one of the very fir
Simon Rodia was born in Italy, and immgirated to California. In 1921 he moved to the small town of Watts and began working on a strange project that would consume the next thirty-four years of his life. Spending what little money he earned as a construction worker on cement and steel, he worked ni
PennSound offers the kind of luxury that, soon upon its discovery, feels indispensable. It is a mammoth source of audio recordings – readings, interviews, sound art – both new and preserved, headed by the eminent Charles Bernstein and Al Filreis. The site is inclusive despite its natural tenden
Teresa McKenna has a camera glued to her hands. McKenna is constantly capturing the world around her. Using photography as her medium we can look through the eyes of this artist to dissect the meaning and reason of her photographic mind. McKenna can be caught in Montréal in some black cat alley wait