• Top-Down "National March for Equality" Won't Wash
  Article by Steve Ault on the problem of a top-down, non-grassroots approach to queer activism.
  tags: civilrights queer lgbt marchonwashington equality activism

Jane Benson, Dead Swan Wallpaper, 2009
cut Laura Ashley Wallpaper

Sadly, the show is closed now, but check out the artist's website for more images. Best use of messed-up plinths I've seen in a gallery!

• Personal art escorts reveal unknown side of Berlin's art scene | Culture & Lifestyle | Deutsche Welle | 26.07.2009
  One escort service in Berlin organizes a different kind of rendez-vous for its clients - with artists.
  tags: berlin art escorts

• Daily Kos: Wal-Foods
  Owner of Whole Foods: anti-union and anti-healthcare reform
  tags: healthcare politics unions labor organic food

• www.mnftiu.cc > Blog Archive > No Justice, Part II: Boycott Jamba Juice!
  Jamba Juice rips off David Rees for its advertising. Vile.
  tags: gywo david-rees comics jambajuice ripoff

James and I were at Chase Manhattan Plaza yesterday to see the last performance of this LMCC work. Visit my blip.tv page to see three other videos, including an amazing section with Judith Sanchez Ruiz.

Never miss anything with Jonah Bokaer!

• New footage changes the way we see 'Metropolis,' says film restorer
  A half hour of additional footage of the 1927 film "Metropolis" by Fritz Lang has arrived in Germany for restoration.
  tags: film history germany ufa fritz-lang

• Gardner Museum tears down carriage house at heart of dispute - The Boston Globe
  Gardner Museum tears down Carriage House to build Renzo Piano building, refuses permission for Boston Globe to print photo
  tags: isabellastewartgardner museum boston renzopiano architecture

Joe Ovelman, Untitled, as Michael Jackson, 2002

From his 2002 series Self Portraits

Thanks to the NY Times I learned of Here is Where whose mission is

to find and spotlight little known and unmarked historic sites throughout the United States.

I really love this story from the article:

The Marriott Wardman Park Hotel in Washington, Mr. Carroll's hometown, has agreed to install a marker that commemorates a moment on Nov. 27, 1925, when the poet Vachel Lindsay was timidly approached at dinner by a busboy who placed three poems he had written next to Lindsay’s plate. Lindsay was so impressed that he shared them with his audience at a poetry reading that night, prompting journalists to report on the "busboy poet." His name was Langston Hughes.