What we can learn from the 10th grade mock trial of Caesar Goodson Last week, an all-police panel cleared officer Caesar Goodson on all 21 administrative charges he was facing for the in-custody death of Freddie Gray. Last year, a group of students at Reginald F. Lewis High School came to a very different conclusion. […]
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Tariq Toure’s “Colin Kaepernick: For the Love of The Game”
Yes sir Coach, Yes sir Coach, Yes sir Coach, Yes sir Coach, I throws the ball coach I runs the ball coach I catches the ball coach I knows the ball coach I holds the ball coach I controls the ball coach But you, you, you… owns the ball coach? And this here field and […]
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“Intimate Apparel” and “Origin Of The Species,” two plays about women forming connections in the face of erasure
“Intimate Apparel” Depending on who you ask, a corset is either a symbol of feminine beauty and sexuality, or one of women’s subjugation—a literal and figurative means of suffocation—or both. In the hands of lauded playwright Lynn Nottage, and those of her nimble heroine Esther, it’s not that simple. Nottage’s “Intimate Apparel,” now running at […]
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Anti-Trump emo from Chaz Monroe, slow-motion trap music from It’s Tadoe, and more local singles reviewed
Bully Preston, ‘Tony Iommi’: Rapper Dwell teams up with low-key boom-bap unraveler Jumbled for Bully Preston (named after an iPhone autocorrect fuck-up of Billy Preston). The two keep it simple, stupid, and occasionally zooted with a loop of The Young-Holt Unlimited’s ‘Sombrero Man’ (thanks to Jumbled for the tip) and a whirl of rhymes and references […]
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Blue Mountain Durban provides a smooth body high and some self-loathing
Many of us would never make it through the day without weed, for whatever medical conditions we suffer from. And people who suffer from anxiety know what a relief a good toke can be. But it can also send you in an insane tailspin of self-doubt and crippling anxiety. We’ve all been there, frozen in […]
