Look What SHE Did! is delighted to share a new interview with the formidable Joan Blades (co-founder of MoveOn.org, MomsRising.org and LivingRoomConversations.org). Her recent TED Talk is nearing a million views! Joan tells us about Dr. Arlene Blum, a scientist/mountaineer who led the first team of American women to scale Annapurna AND discovered the carcinogen in kids’ …
I had taken a leaf out of Henry David Thoreau’s book, and was living alone in the wilderness at the time, living ‘at one with nature’ down in Redgate. I was there on some sort of quest – to see myself reflected in the bush, to get in touch, to finally write ‘all this’ out …
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Bloodink The thing to do when naught is left― hold on to dreams, and after dreams to nothing. Are you afraid of the wolf who inhabited your nightmares? Look at your teeth, they’re ready to devour him. My friend discovers an invitation to the mystery where I see nothing but empty space. When he sings, …
“Blacks aren’t good enough.” Between the record heat of the summer’s evening or dealing with this little white boy for three days, I’m about to lose it. This is the worst affirmation circle that I have facilitated in three years! My big brown eyes locked into his baby blue eyes, through a toothy smile, and …
Andrew Pearson goes solo in Echo Park, tackling sexual/gender identity in Pasadena, a Fred Astaire tribute downtown, Odyssey Theater’s Dance Festival week two in W.L.A., The Who’s Who of African-American dance companies in Torrance, plus more SoCal dance. 5. Dancing the story In Stories of Identity, choreographer Hilary Thomas and Lineage Dance continue their thoughtful …
Speaking as a secular Jew, one of the things that I have always treasured about Jewish values is their ubiquitous quest for justice and balance. Not that this quest always succeeds, nor is it always easily identifiable as the thing to pursue. What’s important is that the desire for it exists. What we never know …
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Context: Toward the end of his life, the late 19th and early 20th centuries, Danish painter Vilhelm Hammershøi resided in the harbor area of Copenhagen, at number 30, then at 25 Strandgade, where he died in the building complex of the Asian Company he had painted in 1902. See feature image, showing a moored sailing merchant …
I’m walking down an empty, dark street in Alphabet City somewhere in the East Village of Lower Manhattan. I’m looking for Slugs’ in the Far East, the coolest jazz club in New York, at 242 East Third Street between Avenues B and C. Hence the moniker “Alphabet City.” It’s the late 1960s and the neighborhood …
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