My first Music Notes of the year, after a bit of a holiday layoff, when I wasn't listening to a whole lot of new music or seeing shows. Let's get this off the ground for 2026. While flying to Asia at the end of December,...
Author: Erik Loomis
This is the grave of Karl Bendetsen. Born in 1907 into a Jewish immigrant family in Aberdeen, Washington, Bendetsen would......not really take the lessons of his family fleeing anti-Semitism to.
Well this is horrible. Catherine O’Hara, the comedian best known for her roles in “Home Alone,” “Schitt’s Creek” and “Beetlejuice,” and as a member of the influential Canadian sketch comedy.
Again, what ICE is doing is nothing that new in America except for expanding the operations of police violence onto white liberals who don't like what is happening. As for state violence against immigrants, what is more American than that? The violence, racial profiling and...
Stephen Miller desperately wants to engage in some ethnic cleansing in Maine, which is also home to a large Somali community, one that has revitalized some dead mill towns and.
As many of us have said, if Trump and his fascist friends have their way, ICE is going to be doing a whole lot more than ethnic cleansing. It's not.
This is the grave of Thomas Coates. Born in 1803 in Easton, Pennsylvania, Coates grew up without much. He did learn music though and left home by the time he was 10 years old to play in a circus band. It didn't really work out....
Unsurprisingly, since JD Vance is happy to spread lies about Haitian immigrants there just like he is happy to spread lies about the people being murdered by ICE, our lovely.
There's no question in my mind that a big part of the reaction to ICE's occupation of Minneapolis is that the type of aggressive, violent policing that happens all the.
This is the grave of Albert Sabin. Born in Białystok, Poland in 1906 (it was then part of Russia), Abram Saperstejn was among the last Jewish refugees to get out of Europe before the United States disgustingly closed its doors to such immigrants with the...
I am such a huge fan of Wong Kar Wai, well, at least until My Blueberry Nights. Everything from As Tears Go By in 1988 to 2046 in 2004 is.
I had a post the other day on Trump destroying jobs for the International Longshore and Warehouse Union (ILWU), which is the longshoremen's union on the west coast. As I.