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There’s a song that I like to listen to over and over again. As I write this I’m listening to it on my computer. Some… Read More »The Hipless Boy: Over and over and over

Scottish trangressional novelist Irvine Welsh serves up another round of literary debauchery in five installments

AIDS is “a very human virus, a very human epidemic,” said one doctor in a 2006 PBS documentary on the disease, “It touches right to… Read More »La condition humaine: moving beyond the science of AIDS in The Witnesses

Aesthetics and politics rub up against each other in director Mikhail Kalatozov’s Soy Cuba

Ska/Reggae/Punk

Making music the scientific way If the name José Gonzalez isn’t already familiar, you may have unwittingly come across his music while watching the stunning… Read More »Culture Briefs

City of Men, the loosely-defined sequel to 2002’s City of God, takes us back to Dead End Hill, one of the many slums in Rio… Read More »Favela drama turns melodrama in Paulo Morelli’s City of Men

McGill dance troup Mosiaca returns with another colourful experiment in movement, sound, and music

In the Wash I celebrate the whipping wind that shatters our skin like plaster into the rain. Because the rain breaks us like a wishbone.… Read More »Inkwell