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Monthly Archives: July 2011
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Peoples Temple
Years ago PBS aired a mesmerizing documentary on the Jonestown Massacre and the history of the Peoples Temple—Jonestown: The Life and Death of the People’s Temple.
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Student Speak
What’s in the hearts and minds of young University of Florida students?
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Black Britain: A Photographic History
Left: ‘A young dandy wearing a formal suit and Top hat, circa 1890’ Right: ‘Conroy Campbell, a pupil at Willesden High school, 1973’
I just rediscovered this book; Stuart Hall and Paul Gilroy put it together in 2007.
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Poolside Breakdown
Back in 2003 before The Hills and The City, there was a one season wonder MTV show—Rich Girls.
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Atherton Lin Presents: On Running
Right now Jamie and I are trying to finish the illustrations for our 2012 wall calendar, which is all about walking.
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Gang Out
In the late 70’s and early 80’s, Chicago gangbangers carried and distributed business cards.
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Summer of ’42
Friends lounge luxuriously at Plage Lavel in Quebec during the steamy Canadian summer of 1942.
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To Whom it Concerns
httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ueJF2FUKV84
Precious moments on Roseanne—rough and tumble, 13 year old, Darlene is forced to read her poem aloud at her junior high school’s “culture night”.
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Jon Savage Presents: Teenage Reads
Working on your summer reading list? Jon Savage, author of Teenage: The Creation of Youth Culture 1875-1945, the book that Teenage film is based, presents his teen-centric recommends — I read hundreds of books by and about teenagers for the “Teenage” book and these are among my favourites: