Flurin Spescha grew up in a small village in the Swiss Alps speaking a dying language. Today less than 1 percent of the country’s population know Switzerland’s fourth national language, […]
Author Archives: Mike Sula
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Mean Street
There was a bang outside my kitchen window–a big bang with reverb, a Hollywood bang. Whatever that was, it wasn’t a gunshot, I thought. A gunshot sounds like metal corn […]
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Reel Life: Unveiling the lives of Muslim women
Growing up in Iran in the 50s and 60s, filmmaker Mehrnaz Saeed-Vafa remembers praying with her mother and experiencing a profound sense of magic underlined by a profound sense of […]
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Literary Life: Unbearable acts of poetic terrorism
On September 13 for two years running members of a New York writers’ collective have lined up along the Brooklyn Bridge and recited erotic poetry to passersby. “Once you get […]
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Ethnic City: gotta lotta pinata
“Attacking a pinata is a lot like attacking life,” says Governor Lewis. “You go in blind, and there aren’t very many rules. You sort of have to swing at it, […]
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Is this man Jewish? Are you sure?
Marc Alan Jacobs is constantly playing Spot the Jew. “Sometimes I’ll go in real close and see if they are wearing a chi or a Star of David. There are […]
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Significant Authors: the fast rise of Albert French
In 1988 the small magazine Albert French had been publishing folded, and he suddenly found himself with a lot of time on his hands. Over the next three years, he […]