Randi

why didn't i think of this??

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this guy

http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com

http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com

http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com

http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com

http://www.mir-hosseinmousavi.com

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P.R.ide

In accordance with the festivities happening in Humboldt Park this week to honor Puerto Ricans, it seemed fitting to mention Pepon Osorio- a Puerto Rican contemporary artist, whose large scale installations and sculptures address issues of identity and experience in the Latin American community. Though highly specific, I think that everyone can understand his work or at least recognize their relationship to it. For instance, No Crying Allowed in the Barber Shop stems from Osorio's personal experience of his first hair cut, and how this was a transitional moment into becoming a "little man" in true machismo fashion. While this experience remains uniquely his own, it resonates with many Latin Americans, and transcends into larger topics like tradition, family, community, expectations, and memory. The explicit and implicit influences of each may vary from individual to individual, but everyone can acknowledge their impact and this remains the common tie. 

No Crying Allowed in the Barber Shop (1994)

100% Boriqua (1991)

La Bicicleta (1985)

chill out on those horns, tho

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THIS TIME LAST YEAR

2 YEARS

3 YEARS

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Politics and parody take center stage Upstairs at Chicago Shakespeare with the Second City’s rollicking musical parody of the rise and fall of ex-Governor Rod Blagojevich. Following a sold out run at Second City e.t.c., the limited engagement on Navy Pier will feature new music and frequent updates—incorporating Blagojevich’s brother, his $100,000 book deal and Roland Burris’s son—as the Illinois political saga continues to unfold. After each performance, the cast will improvise a 20-minute political comedy set based on audience suggestions.

via Chicago Shakespeare and Chicagoist

Paulina

my mother coulda told you this

via DCist.com

D.C. Tops in Cocaine Use?

We were definitely just as surprised as City Desk to hear that D.C. is at the top of the country (by a pretty big margin) in cocaine use. Having lived in Los Angeles for about the same amount of time that I've now lived here, it certainly doesn't seem like there's nearly as much cocaine around as in that city, let alone as say, New York. D.C.'s full of square federal employees with security clearances to worry over, isn't it? But take a closer look at the full study. First of all, it's another one of those ones that compares D.C., an entirely urban district, with states, which are made up of both cities and large swaths of suburban and rural areas. Second, there's no separate category in this survey for crack (or any other illicit drug besides marijuana, for that matter), so it appears that is included under the "cocaine" banner. My bet is that strict cocaine use in D.C. is nowhere near as rampant as this study makes it out to be when compared to other large metropolitan areas.

No DCist you're wrong wrong wrong wrong.  Have you truly kept your eyes open in Adams Morgan on a good (bad) Saturday night?  Obvi not because I've never met so many interesting(ed) people in such a shitty place in my entire life.  and GEORGETOWN more like blowtown not to mention the kiddies doing key bumps in line for the youth ball, get a grip DC loves it some yay.

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