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Topic “Issue 18: Action”

Equal opportunity activist Grace Lee Boggs, 94, has been significantly involved in most of the major movements of the 20th century. At age 77, she founded an intergeneratlonal youth program to uplift Detroit, the city she has made her home...

Neela Banerjee | Tue, Aug 16th- 3:21pm | activism, civil rights, Grace Lee Boggs, Books Section, Issue 18: Action, Books

My world spun out of control when I found out that I was born addicted to heroin in the Alderson Federal Prison for women in West Virginia - a long way from where I lived with my adopted family In Seattle. When I was about 12, I found a letter...

Anonymous | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:35pm | Essay, Issue 18: Action, Gender, First Person, Parenthood, Race, Social Issues

The war ended three weeks ago. You know because the hills have stopped quaking with cannon fire and you cannot remember the last time you saw a French soldier. Today, you are walking home from summer school when you hear the low moan of a plane...

Anonymous | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:33pm | Issue 18: Action, Fiction

Directed by Lee Isaac Chung

Sylvie Kim | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:30pm | Issue 18: Action, Film, Reviews

Directed by Shi-Zheng Chen

Sylvie Kim | Sat, Jan 30th- 12:37pm | Issue 18: Action, Film, Reviews

Directed by Danny Boyle

Neela Banerjee | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:29pm | Issue 18: Action, Film, Reviews

Known for the dreamy vocals of Sadie Contini, with the occasional leads of the equally dreamy-voiced Han Wang or Goh Nakamura, the Bay Areaborn indie pop band The Invisible Cities releases its second full-length album in five years. Band members...

Anonymous | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:25pm | Issue 18: Action, Music, Reviews

Directed by Tze Chun

Sylvie Kim | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:24pm | Issue 18: Action, Film, Reviews

For those with a penchant for all things twee, Oakland, CA's Dreamdate delivers 12 tasty pop confections in the band's sophomore effort, Patience. With an assortment of songs filled with fun friendships and bittersweet romance, Dreamdate...

Anonymous | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:23pm | Issue 18: Action, Music, Reviews

Though Passion Pit produces what could be called glitterysweatband-dance-floor music, the young gentlemen from Cambridge, MA, are so nerdy that it makes listeners feel all right about liking electronic dance music, heavy on the falsetto....

Anonymous | Mon, Mar 8th- 10:22pm | Issue 18: Action, Music, Reviews

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