The three women in front of me were talking about the big demi-anniversary sale at Walmart and how they’d gotten time off from their cleaning jobs and were going down together. “Is it that big?” I asked. “Oh yeah,” they said, “50% off all children’s clothes, shoes and school supplies.” Everything...

DECEMBER 7 — ANTONIO MACEO “The Bronze Titan.” Cuban revolutionist, anti-imperialist. DECEMBER 7, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS FESTIVAL OF PRIMORDIAL BEINGS. ALSO ON DECEMBER 7 IN HISTORY… 1872 — “Ludentologist” Johan Huizinga born, Groningen, Holland. 1896 — Cuban revolutionist, military hero...

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In Conversation: MTA at DNA Art, Nature, and Community at Mount Tremper Arts (MTA) Photographs by Mathew Pokoik � Tuesday, December 1 through Wednesday, December 30 Opening Reception: Thursday, December 10, at 7pm To be followed by the premiere performance of A Number of Small Black and White Dances by the Aynsley Vandenbroucke Movement Group at 8pm Dance New Amsterdam 280 Broadway, 2nd Floor (entrance on Chambers) Manhattan In Conversation: MTA at DNA documents the relationship between art and...

The Circular Logic of the Universe by Natalie Angier, The New York Times, December 7, 2009 InfiniteBody http://infinitebody.blogspot.com

DECEMBER 8 — DIEGO RIVERA Great Mexican muralist, Marxist, agit-prop conspirator. DECEMBER 8, 2009 HOLIDAYS AND FESTIVALS BUDDHIST BODHI DAY: ROHATSU. FEAST OF THE IMMACULATE CONCEPTION.������ TAKE IT IN THE EAR DAY. ALSO ON DECEMBER 8 IN HISTORY… 1810 — World peace advocate Elihu Burritt, the...

Do you need shots of ordinary people doing things? They got that b-roll. A short film by Dylan Osborn, written by Sergio Cilli. Full credits here. (Thanks, Matt West!)...

Incident (Art et Technologies), Netart Online Platform (Paris), Trias Culture (Cultural Company, Dakar), doual'art (Contemporary Art Center, Douala) and MCD (Musiques & Cultures Digitales - Paris) magazine initiate together a Paper and a Web-based Publication Project called « Digitale...

The Dream Express started with the sip of a drink, the wail of a distant train, and a kind of yelping, high-lonesome, tumbleweed song. The Chocolate Factory hosted a "journey to the end of the night" with its upstairs theater marvelously, if tackily, re-purposed as an honest-to-god cabaret for�Obie-awardees Steve Mellor ("Spin Milton") and Deirdre O'Connell ("Marlene Milton"), known as, they kept telling us, The Dream Express, along with co-conspirators Len Jenkin (writer/director) and John Kilgore (composer). At first glance, the formerly-married Miltons--hulking, vaguely surly Spin and slightly tipsy, vaguely slutty Marlene--looked like...