ehren watada update

good news! the army dropped two of the charges against lt. watada (see jaded issue 10), though he still faces a potential 4 year prison sentence. http://starbulletin.com/2007/01/30/news/story08.html

-j

information/inspiration

a quick roundup of papers and mags with good writing, meaty content, and interesting perspectives.

christian science monitor
a great daily paper. in my opinion they've mastered sensitive, provocative, and thoughtful journalism.

the sunday herald (published in scotland)
i get the most out of their analysis and commentary sections, esp b/c i'm not connected to politics in the uk.

rolling stone
not kidding. can't say much about the rest of the mag, but their political coverage is consistently smart.

slate.com
at least one or two unique pieces are published every day. their "the explainer" column is fun, too.

salon.com
similar format. an online news/politics/culture/entertainment jibber jabber community. great post by garrison keillor about how to read a newspaper. http://www.salon.com/opinion/feature/2007/01/10/keillor/index.html

poplicks
run by two asian american guys. one, junichi semitsu, is a law professor and another, oliver wang, is an ethnic studies professor. in semitsu's off time he toured with the dixie chicks and wrote a blog on msn for them. he's also a spoken word artist. wang also runs an EXCELLENT music blog (www.soul-sides.com) and is a music critic and dj. their blog provides SHARP social analysis and uses accessible pop culture references to comment on race, society, culture.

negrophile
a little difficult to navigate and densely packed with text, but good content. the blog culls articles from all over the spectrum about african americans and relevant issues (media representation, semantics, politics).

other standards:
ny times, la times, alternet.org, harpers, new yorker, the nation, mother jones.

where do you get your information? share! share!

-julianne

State of the Union: Word Search TOOL

check out this program that the new york times.com made.
you can type in a word in the search box and the program will outline how many times the word appears in george bush's state of the union speeches in the last 6 years.
you can click on it the little red dots and it will show exactly where that word was mentioned in the speech and provide the context of that word.

you can see interesting relationships between words like "oil" and "iraq"

http://www.nytimes.com/ref/washington/20070123_STATEOFUNION.html

m.m. = more magazines

Stop Smiling magazine

http://www.stopsmilingstore.com/index.asp

di

Selenium slowers HIV

A new US study found that HIV patients who take a daily supplement of selenium experience a slower rate of HIV progression. The selenium can suppress the progression of HIV-1 viral burden and there has been improvement in CD4 count. This supplement is inexpensive and keeps the immune system healthy, yet the impacat on HIV patients is still unkown because it has not been studied in a controlled trial.

-maddy

behold my power suit and wither

courtesy of the washington post.

red power suits ain't nothin' to fuck with.

-cuhriss

fiy new mag

there is this new magazine called "Taste"
it calls it self a "mini guide to progressive popular culture"

the first issue is out feb 07.


i like this trend of progressive culture magazines. like "good" mag and now "taste" but of course jaded was the first to in being a progressive culture magazine.

yeah, jaded.

di

Communist Party

created by an artist on Threadless.com

click to enlarge!

-diana

Janelle's recommendations

I went to LACMA over the weekend and came across a photograph. At first I thought, okay, this looks like something a three year old had drawn. A double, triple, quadruple take, it was actually a photograph of a paper and wire skeleton built to resemble a light bulb. The piece is called "Paper and Wire II". Sorry I couldn't get a picture of it..

There's also a cool fashion exhibit there right now (which you may enjoy). A lot of the designers they feature are from Japan and, to me, have seemingly influenced a lot of today's stuff. Well you know.. today's fashion is just copying revolutionary designers. Again, I wish I could post pictures.

www.lacma.org

Daniel Edwards is a controversial American sculptor that's known for somewhat satirical work such as Britney Spears giving birth, Hilary Clinton's breasts, Tom Cruise and Katie Holmes's baby's poop. The sculpture of Clinton's breasts (not actual size of course) was, to him, supposed to remind the nation that Clinton, in fact, is a woman that still has sexual appeal (according to magazine Mother Jones).


Some good movies I saw for a dollar:
The Prestige. A lifelong, obsessive competition between two master magicians. Complete with soap opera-like events, real and fake magic, and the like. Starring Hugh Jackman, Christian Bale, Scarlett Johansson, David Bowie, Micheal Caine

Marie Antoinette. A loosely based movie on the French monarch directed by Sofia Coppola. I liked the costumes and the fact that they shot the movie in Versailles. 50-50 chance you'll like it. Starring Kirsten Dunst

Pan's Labryinth. A Spanish movie directed by Guillermo del Toro. Said to be "the best fantasy film since Wizard of Oz" (Ad in OC Weekly). Starring: Ivana Baquero