After covering what’s going on in Ferguson and the #BlackLivesMatter movement, let’s get to other news stories of note this week.
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This week, a lotĀ of the news has been All Hillary, All The Time, but still I have some other interesting tidbits to report. Let’s get started:
Friday, Friday, once again. Let’s catch up with some of the news stories that caught my eye over the last week.
For how much I enjoy and respect Patti Smith, I own far too little of her music. On CD, I have 1996’s Gone Again and 2000’s Gung Ho, and that’s it. I don’t even have Horses yet, which I realize is a major gap, particularly since the time leading into that album is so lovingly […]
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5 Books with Sara Habein
You may alreadyĀ be familiar with the amazing Sara HabeinĀ from her long stint here at Persephone Magazine. She has excellent taste in music, an ear for news, and happens to be an all around gal of many talents. Here, she shares with us her picks for our 5 Books series.Ā
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30 Years of Music: 1993
1993! You are a wealth of musical riches! How am I to be happy with a mere ten songs of your excellence? By picking fifteen instead, that’s how. Turn up yer speakers, kids, we have a bit of (almost) everything this week.
Different moods for reading strike me at various times, but lately I’ve been in the midst of a life plan-crisis, battling Seasonal Affective Disorder, and feeling alienated and alone in a city that’s still new to me after 9 months of settling in. So the literary mood I’ve been in has demanded stories about women […]
You would think that trying to create Polyvore homages to four widely recognized fashion icons would be simple, but I found the difficulty of pinning down and adequately expressing each woman’s style increased in direct proportion to how plainly they dressed. For example, Josephine Baker’s flapper-ware was a snap to pull together. Patti Smith’s proto-punk […]
When I bought Just Kids I was expecting something raw and deliberately dirty, titillating or even shocking, but nothing could have surprised me so much as Smithās beautiful, lyrical writing voice, her style having clearly been influenced by the Romantic poets she references throughout the book. Just Kids is a chronicle of her relationship with […]