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TELEVISION | Excellent Brit cop series ‘Above Suspicion’ is gripping, intelligent viewing
Craggy vet Ciarán Hinds and perky young Kelly Reilley lead a squad of detectives in queen of crime Lynda La Plante’s latest white-knuckle thriller. By Alan Waldman | The Rag Blog | June 12, 2016 [In his Rag Blog column, … Continue reading
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Tagged Above Suspicion, Alan Waldman, British Television, Criticism, Police Procedural, Rag Bloggers
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Look ma, no wheels: Weak end at Bernie’s
Political bites and random nibbles. By James McEnteer | The Rag Blog | June 8, 2016 On September 11, 2001, George Bush, Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Condoleezza Rice, et. al., were either negligent about or complicit in the terrorist attacks … Continue reading
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Tagged 2016 Elections, James McEnteer, Presidential Politics, Rag Bloggers
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METRO | Muhammad Ali, the Astrodome,
and me
We had ringside seats on the second row, and were splattered all night with blood, sweat, and snot! By Sunshine Williams | The Rag Blog | June 7, 2016 HOUSTON — News of Muhammad Ali’s death brought back memories from … Continue reading
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Tagged Astrodome, Astroworld, Boxing, Houston History, Metro, Muhammad Ali, Rag Bloggers, Sports, Sunshine Williams
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SPORT | ‘I Just Wanted to Be Free’: The radical reverberations of Muhammad Ali
He redefined what it meant to be tough and collectivized the very idea of courage. By Dave Zirin | The Rag Blog | June 5, 2016 The reverberations. Not the rumbles, the reverberations. The death of Muhammad Ali will undoubtedly … Continue reading
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Tagged American History, Black Power, Boxers, Dave Zirin, Deaths, Draft Resistance, Heavyweight Champions, Muhammad Ali, Rag Bloggers, Remembrance, Sports, Vietnam War
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Out There: My first dispatch from Belize
I’m starting to get a glimmer of the ‘colonial fatalism’ that decrees, ‘That’s just how things are.’ By Mariann Wizard Vasquez* | The Rag Blog | May 28, 2016 SAN IGNACIO TOWN, Cayo, Belize, C.A. — It’s the smallest things … Continue reading
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BOOKS | Charles Glass’s ‘Syria Burning: A Short History of a Catastrophe’
As civil wars go, this one is especially unforgiving and brutal, made worse by bitter historic ethnic, religious, and tribal rivalries and proxy wars. By Murray Polner | The Rag Blog | May 25, 2016 [Syria Burning: A Short History … Continue reading
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Tagged Books, Charles Glass, Middle East History, Murray Polner, Rag Bloggers, Syria, Syria Burning, Syrian Civil War
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ESSAY / VIDEO | ‘Mirando el espejo’: A film-poem about roots and memory in Bolivia
Everywhere people are working to keep their cultural identities alive against the brutal but seductive assault of ‘modernismo.’ Mirando el Espejo (english subtitles) Omar Alarcón Poquechoque. Bolivie from Omar Alarcón Poquechoque on Vimeo. By Chellis Glendinning | The Rag Blog … Continue reading
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Tagged Bolivian Poets, Chellis Glendinning, Omar Alarcón Poquechoque, Rag Bloggers, Video
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METRO | Life in the Soviet Republic of Sun City
A friend had this priceless comment: ‘It’s just like Cuba, only with money.’ By Steve Russell | The Rag Blog | May 17, 2016 SUN CITY, Texas — We just had a crime wave here in Sun City, Texas, and … Continue reading
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Tagged Metro, Rag Bloggers, Retirement Communities, Steve Russell, Sun City
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The Return of the Sacred Deer
The Huichol Deer Repopulation Project: I learned that encroachment and poaching had decimated the deer population in Huichol land. By Luis Guerra | The Rag Blog | May 16, 2016 Artist and storyteller Luis Guerra was our guest on Rag … Continue reading
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Tagged Huichol Deer Relocation, Huichol Indians, Luis Guerra, Rag Bloggers, Rag Radio, Sierra Madre
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