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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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Harvey Pekar…Gone

July 12th, 2010 · No Comments

Harvey Pekar,  a regular guy with extraordinary talents, dead this morning at 70. Okay, not so regular. His obsessions, his cynicism, his politics, his love of the comic form, will be missed.

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Books

Chabon On Father’s Day

Not quite sacrificing your children on the altar of hypocrisy.

June 20th, 2010 · No Comments

Those of us who are not fathers or husbands understand Father’s Day through memories and envy. Neither of  those mental activities are exclusively positive, at least in the case of fathers. Even as fatherhood has evolved, its old stereotypes haunt our relationship to and understanding of the title: fathers are macho,…

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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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