Author: Pierre Joris

The third anniversary of the Bush-Cheney aggression against Iraq is upon us. Last night at Nicole’s Experimental Cabaret (great work from Ed Atkeson, Sam Truitt & A.C. Everson!), Dan Wilcox distributed large signs to...

The Austrian paper Der Standard printed the first part of an acceptance speech by German philosopher Jürgen Habermas for the Bruno Kreisky Prize for promoting human rights on 10 March and the second part...

Ti Jean would have been 84 today!

The Nomadics necrolog is sad to announce belatedly the passing (“taking a taxi” was his own euphemism) in late February of Bill Cardoso, the hip journalist who coined the term “gonzo” for his old...

A wonderful comic instance of menu translation was just forwarded me, & you can check the whole thing out here. It’s a very large Chinese menu, so I’ll only quote a couple items, plus...

Quick addendum to this morning’s post: wanted to draw attention to an excellent review in The Nation of Moroccan writer Tahar Ben Jelloun’s latest novel (translated into English) by Laila Lalami, whose “moorishgirl” blog...

Friday 10th 9:30PMTrio Pamplemousse @ Justin’s 301 Lark Street Albany- 518 – 436-7008 $5 Monday 13th7PM Monday Night Experimental Cabaret Sam Truitt Ed Atkeson A C Everson @ Tess’ Lark Tavern – Albany donation...

What is called homework in English, we called Aufgaben in my native lingo (with a bit of a Luxembourg inflection softening the German loanword). So coming home from school it was great to find...

It came in the mail recently & is worth checking out: Absinthe, the magazine of “New European Writing.” Issue 5 just out. It contains its usual eclectic mix centered on Eastern Europe but also...

Lawdie, Lawd, this blog is becoming a necrolog — too many of those who have given us pleasure & instruction & art are kicking the bucket at the end of this winter. So, besides...