by Nicole Zeimis February 24, 2012
The Fun-A-Day Project & Show started eight years ago in Philadelphia. It was founded by an organization called The Artclash Collective, and has now spread around the world with events in the United Kingdom, Canada, and various locations across the United States. I moved to Philadelphia in June, and started hearing about Fun-A-Day in December when my housemates picked up the event postcard and tacked it to the refrigerator.
by East Eden February 17, 2012
If you know nothing about him, the first entrance of his voice on his 2012 album ‘Old Ideas’, will tell you that Leonard Cohen is more than a musician. One phrase, spoken onto the record like God himself, an inch from the microphone, tells you our narrator is a storyteller; a storyteller who doesn’t tell stories from a distance – other than the distance of time. Our subject has been a poet, a drinker, a family man, a freight hopper, maybe even a dancer with a cigarette making smoke circles in a rundown dorm room at McGill University- where he studied law, poetry and debate.
by Paul Anel February 10, 2012
In this exclusive interview for Land of Compassion, filmmaker Dmitry Trakovsky (Meeting Andrei Tarkovsky) shares some of the amazing discoveries he made as he embarked on a voyage down the murky waters of the Kuskokwim and Yukon Rivers of southwestern Alaska, to the native homeland of the Yup’ik people. Prepare yourself for a few surprises, watch the trailer of this feature-length documentary project, and support it on Kickstarter!
by Paul Anel February 10, 2012
Fifty years ago A day in the life of Ivan Denissovitch was published. It was the first novel from a man who devoted his life – and his work – to saving the soul of his people from the snare of materialism: Aleksander Solzhenitsyn (1918-2008). In the coming weeks, LoC will celebrate the Russian writer with a series of three articles. Today, LoC offers you selected excerpts from the commencement speech given by the Nobel Price recipient in 1978, at Harvard. This speech, probably one of the most memorable ever delivered at this prestigious university, was tagged “infamous” by the press, and owed Solzhenitsyn violent criticisms. 33 years later however, the writer’s prophesies have come all too true. They shed a rare light on the present confusion. It’s high time to reconsider Solzhenitsyn, and to carefully listen to his words. Words full of truth. A bitter truth, one might say. But, as he himself put it in his introduction, isn’t that a friend’s responsibility to tell the truth to his friend?
by Paul Anel February 3, 2012
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Is it true, as it is often said, that the US have a short history, and no antique monuments to bring them back in time? Don’t we forget that nature too has a history? Don’t we forget that nature too has its monuments? The Senator was one of them. “Was”, because on January 16, 2012, the oldest pond cypress tree in the world bade farewell to the land, and smoked up to heaven. It was 3,500 years old.
