It’s long past midnight on Saturday and the audience has had a bit too much to drink. “My mother,” begins Raven O, devilishly smiling at every face in the heaving mass, “was a prostitute.” The crowd utters a collective note of giddy shock. Raven quickly turns his head, sweeping his gaze across the […]
ALTERNATIVE MEMORY
Cekov LOVE STORY We see through the window the wonder of wonders. With our inner eyes, You, green, You, mother, Wrap me between your lips – mummy style, Answer me I am alone, Come on, you sweet, Crucify me by your words, My life, My soul. PROFILE I want […]
Life Lessons
La Plata — In the downtown apartment building where he lives with his wife, Julio Drut maintains a small workshop in a back room above the lobby that might otherwise be left for storage. “In this life,” he says in his gruff voice, “you have to take care of things, day by day, so […]
Can a $100 Laptop Save the World?
It was easy to spot the most popular kid at last week’s “Open Source Meets Business” conference in Nuremberg. Between presentations, in the halls, even at the lavish evening banquets, there he’d be, flitting around in a cherry fedora, showing off the coolest toy in town, if not the world. Jan Wildeboer is a Solution […]
Rahsaan as Orpheus
City Bell, Argentina — "That’s what freedom’s all about; learnin’ somethin’ then throwin’ it away." Rahsaan Roland Kirk One afternoon, about two years ago, I was sitting in my bedroom with a view of a strange, new city, listening to a piece on NPR about dreams and art. It was a cold day and […]
Heard by a Bird
"Give me a nation with arrogant fruitsellers and meek politicians."– Paul Claudet Did you see the cloud shaped like Aladdin’s lamp over Allaben last Tuesday? A Letter Dear Sparrow: When I was a kid, I thought Popular Mechanics was a magazine profiling well-loved garage mechanics. J. T. Bumper sticker: I’M TOO LAZY TO LOOK UPTHE […]