Dirty Wars: Jeremy Scahill and Rick Rowley’s Film About US Covert Warfare
Jeremy Scahill, investigative reporter for the Nation and author of Blackwater: The Rise of the World’s Most Powerful mercenary Army, has teamed up with director Rick Rowley for a new documentary called “Dirty Wars: The World is a Battlefield,” which is being screened this weekend at the Sundance film festival. The film follows Scahill as he [...]
Sing About the Dark Times: Bill Ayers Interview
Every year Bill Ayers and his wife Bernardine Dohrn spend a couple months residing in Northern California. Their modest cabin tucked behind the Redwood Curtain has been a perfect place to escape the media frenzy stirred up during the 2008 campaign, when former Republican VP candidate turned failed reality TV star, Sarah Palin, teamed up with Fox [...]
Jeffrey Lewis – The Bold Type Interview
Bold Type caught up with illustrator and Rough Trade Record’s recording artist, Jeffrey Lewis, on tour promoting his sixth album, “A Turn in the Dream Songs.” We conversed throughout the night about the fledging record industry and the commonality between punk, folk, and illustration. We also discussed Alan Moore and Will Oldham, which, [...]
VIDEO: Diggin’…The art of Brian Woida
Humboldt County artist Brian Woida has done it all. He’s a DJ, painter, sculpture, record collector, rockin’ guitarist in bands such as The Ravens, and the best damn barista in town. His latest art show, Diggin’…Can You Collect Them All? sets out to show the interconnectedness of music, as well as all the mediums he frequents, through collage. Unlike [...]
Rove’s Brain
Published in the North Coast Journal May 5th, 2011 Barack Obama announced his reelection campaign on April 5, and within hours Karl Rove, the crafty political strategist once famously dubbed “Bush’s Brain,” was on Fox news opining on the field of Republican candidates. Minnesota Governor Tim Pawlenty was cited as a leading contender. Was there [...]
Shades of Green: Artist Lucas Thornton
Artist Lucas Thornton slid into his modest home studio and eagerly began rotating pieces gathered from all over his home onto his lyre easel. The walls, lined with everything from mid-sized acrylic paintings, sketches, etchings on aged ivory piano keys and art books – some over a hundred years old – seemed to kaleidoscope out [...]
Meth Mouth: The Art of Jesse Wiedel
Jesse Wiedel paints Americana. That’s not to say his subjects are your run of the mill placated Protestants ornamented in shrouds of patriotic exceptionalism like the works of Norman Rockwell or Charles Wysocki. Nor are Wiedel’s creations Warholistic imitations screaming for attention like spoiled hipsters measuring their self-worth on the spectrum of irony. On his [...]
Haggard’s Heuristics
Colorado Springs, CO –- As Pastor Ted Haggard embraced me a broad smile stretched across his face. With a New Year blessing he welcomed me to his recently founded fellowship, St. James Church. Conversation amidst the nearly three-hundred parishioners was filling the cafeteria at Timberview Middle School as Haggard and his wife Gayle greeted everyone [...]
