From the Porch to the Plaza, a Diaspora Looks Forward

The Art of South Central Innervisions: An AfroLatinx Futurism

Well before the pandemic began, Esperanza Community Housing was planning a public arts festival in South Central Los Angeles to challenge prevailing narratives about the community and celebrate its excellence and diversity. After a long delay and with a variety of safety measures and technological innovations, that festival is set to take place on July 31, 2021, at Esperanza’s Mercado La Paloma, with support from the National Endowment for the Arts and the Kresge Foundation.

Titled South Central InnerVisions: An AfroLatinx-Futurism, the program includes a variety of free virtual …

by Sarah Rothbard | July 26, 2021

Why Sheep Started So Many Wars in the American West

Each Year, an Idaho Festival Honors the Shepherds Who Sought to Keep the Peace

By Adam M. Sowards | October 5, 2017

In early October, when the leaves turn golden and the shadows of the Sawtooth Mountains lengthen, the annual Trailing of the Sheep Festival moves through south central Idaho. The festival, …

My Delightful, Non-Depressing Scandinavian Film Festival

As a Kid, I Took a Crazy Leap Off a Roof. As an Adult, I Took an Even Crazier Leap Into Nordic Cinema.

by James Koenig | January 15, 2014

When I was in the first grade, I so believed in the moving images I saw in cartoons that I once jumped off the top of our garage with an …

Wanna Get Naked and Drink Absinthe?

Burning Man Can't Be a Way of Life--But It Says a Lot About How We Live

by Robert Salladay | August 28, 2011

A few years ago, a young man tested Burning Man’s ethos as a “gifting economy” by stripping naked at the gate and walking into the makeshift city of 50,000 people …

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