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Feb 17 2010 - 1:42pm

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Time to Empty the Pool (Books & Arts, Poems)
Daniel Bouchard
MOVE members exit their headquarters during a 1978 confrontation with police
They Didn’t Start the Fire (Books & Arts, Film)

Jason Oder’s Let the Fire Burn; Martha Shane and Lana Wilson’s After Tiller; Peter Morgan and Ron Howard’s Rush; anniversary wishes to Stuart Klawans from Rabbi Simcha Feffeferman

Stuart Klawans
Charles Mingus at the Monterey Jazz Festival, September 20, 1964
An Argument With Instruments: On Charles Mingus (Books & Arts, Music)

How a jazz artist’s relationship to black identity gave his music its stormy weather.

Adam Shatz
First Saturday of Summer in Virginia (Books & Arts, Poems)
Joan Mazza
Mohsen Makhmalbaf during the Vesoul International Asian Cinema Festival, 2009
Salaam Cinema: On Mohsen Makhmalbaf (Books & Arts, Film, World)

An Iranian director’s ongoing meditations on the nature of illusion and reality, truth and consequences.

Adina Hoffman
Steven Soderbergh as Fletcher Munson/Dr. Jeffrey Korchek, in Schizopolis
The Long Goodbye: On Steven Soderbergh (Books & Arts, Film)

Hollywood’s wonkiest director hasn’t stopped working. He’s finding new problems to solve—and toying with us again.

Akiva Gottlieb
Shelf Life (Books & Arts, Biological and Chemical Weapons, Shelf Life)

Robert Neer’s Napalm: An American Biography; Juliette Volcler’s Extremely Loud: Sound as a Weapon

Peter C. Baker
Walter Mosley
Walter Mosley’s Alien Script (Arts and Entertainment, Books and Ideas)

The author opens up about his latest art exhibition, magic, failure and unexpected success.

Humna Bhojani
Gramsci Archive and Library, part of Gramsci Monument (2013), Thomas Hirschhorn
More of Less (Books & Arts, Fine Art)

Thomas Hirschhorn’s unmonumental monument to egalitarianism and Antonio Gramsci.

Barry Schwabsky
Summer’s fall: White House Down
Summer’s Fall: White House Down (Books & Arts, Pop & Circumstance)

The happy ending to Hollywood’s summer: not guy gets girl but guy gets job.

Joshua Clover

Blogs

Bob Dylan's Top Ten Protest Songs
Peter Rothberg

Bob Dylan turns 70 on Tuesday. To mark the occasion I've assembled a list of what I consider his top ten protest songs with accompanying videos.

May 19, 2011
In Rap Battle, Stewart Demolishes O'Reilly on O'Reilly Factor (VIDEO)
The Notion

Jon Stewart paid a visit to Fox News' Bill O'Reilly to debate Fox News' hip hop double standard.

May 16, 2011
Insert Hed Here
Eric Alterman

Eric on Smithsonian's Jazz anthology and Reed Richardson on the S&P's rating of the bond market.

April 22, 2011
Tangled Up in Unbelievable Foolishness
Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman reviews jazz, including Wynton Marsalis and Eric Clapton, the Jazz Foundation benefit, and Reed Richardson discusses the ethics of Obama's budget speech.

April 15, 2011
Elizabeth Taylor, Al Jazeera and the Raid on Entebbe
The Notion

How a Hollywood star offered herself in a hostage trade.

March 25, 2011
'If I Turn Traitor...'
Eric Alterman

Eric Alterman reviews music and Reed Richardson parses the ethics of sports journalism.

March 25, 2011
Brackets, Brackets, Everywhere
Eric Alterman

Alter-reviews of Stoppard and music old and new, Reed on the Washington Post's decision to bracket their writers into right-leaning and left-leaning and reader mail.

March 17, 2011
Then They Came for the Pensions
Eric Alterman

Alter-reviews of French movies and some new tunes, Reed explains the secret war on pensions, and the mail.

March 4, 2011
Walkouts, Payouts and Lockouts
Eric Alterman

Why the NFL's labor dispute should matter to you.

February 17, 2011
All Alter-Review Slacker Friday
Eric Alterman

Reviewing two shows in the Lincoln Center's "American Songbook" series, plus the Cowboy Junkies.

February 11, 2011
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