“I’m staying because it’s the right thing to do,” she said hoarsely. “Because Jules and I made a commitment and because I want to wake up to something isn’t a fucking horror show of constant defeat.” She blew into her hands and squinted at me. “I don’t know what to do,” I said. [...]

by Ryland Walker Knight [The Resnais series playing at the PFA this month and next is part of a broader, traveling retrospective with a concurrent run in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center and a proposed stop at the newly renovated Museum of the Moving Image in early 2010.] Parts of...

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If you haven't seen the Main Street show at Space15Twenty, Saturday is the last day. It's a perfect opportunity to pick up the DVD compilation which is finally finished and available at the gallery. It will be at Family next week - I'll take some photos of it and put them on the blog soon. If you pre-bought a copy at the gallery already they'll be sent out Friday. On Saturday Girls are playing a free show in the gallery courtyard at 3PM, plus a bunch of DJs, so what else can you ask for? What a great day you will have!

DECEMBER 4 — HERBERT READ Distinguished British anarchist art critic. DECEMBER 4, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS Nuremberg, Germany: KRIS KRINGLES’ FAIR. ALSO ON DECEMBER 4 IN HISTORY… 1122 — Poet of wine, women and song Omar Khayyam dies. 1866 — Painter Wassily Kandinsky born, Moscow, Russia. 1875 —...

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I started with FEMA maps. “This is how they cost out earthquake damage.” I laid one on the drafting table so Jules could see. “Sometimes people call them Ground Failure Maps or Hazard Maps. They show you where the land is unstable and prone to liquefaction.” He leaned over. I traced a river gorge...

“I entered into literature on my own, I live in it on my own and I shall depart from it on my own when the time comes” http://www.khazars.com/en/ Academician and author Milorad Pavić, professor of the Faculty of Philosophy of the Belgrade University, passed away yesterday of complications following...

DECEMBER 3 — ALLAN BÉRUBÉ Gay American historian, activist, independent scholar. “None of us can do our best work until we believe that the life of the mind really does belong to us.” DECEMBER 3, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS… China: FEAST OF LU-HSING, the Stellar God of Happiness. ALSO ON DECEMBER 3...