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David Murray On the Island

The saxophonist's Gwo Ka Masters project mixes Afro-Caribbean sounds, Ishmael Reed lyrics and Taj Mahal vocals.

June 26th, 2010 · No Comments

In his liner notes to Miles Davis’ post-Bitches Brew recording At Fillmore: Live At the Fillmore East, Morgan Ames quotes J.J. Johnson on Miles’ new direction. “If you put Miles and his new group in the studio and recorded them on spearate mikes, and then you cut the band track and…

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The Rabbit Rants

Sum Of Its Parts

Bret Easton Ellis' spoiled brats are all grown up.

August 17th, 2010 · No Comments

This Rabbit has never quite gotten Bret Easton Ellis’ Less Than Zero to equate. We read the book when it came out in 1985. We liked it for its take on the disillusioned youth of wealthy Los Angeles. We’d been around enough to know that rich kids always have the best…

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Books

Kerouac, Ginsberg, Lenny Bruce and Me

Helen Weaver's Beat memoir brings Greenwich Village of the 1950s to life.

August 12th, 2010 · No Comments

“I am the man who has best charted his inmost self.” Antonin Artaud quoted by Helen Weaver

Helen Weaver’s account of  her early days in Greenwich Village is misleadingly titled. Weaver, a new age author and translator nominated for a National Book Award in 1977 for her reading of Antonin Artaud,…

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Comics

Digging Up A Deadly Past

Joe Sacco's Footnotes In Gaza reminds us that senseless killing has a long history in the Palestinian territories.

June 15th, 2010 · No Comments

The Gaza Flotilla Raid in May that left nine dead and dozens wounded has already faded into the background of oil-soaked news. While in Seattle earlier this month, the Rabbit witnessed attempts at keeping the issue alive: dueling protests on the University of Washington campus in which both bullhorned sides…

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