By christine on Thu, May 15, 2008 9:56 am
hold on to your hats, mac whores: the boston behometh apple store opens downtown TODAY, at 6pm. brace yourself for the calamity. if you're not already there, you're LATE. get in line.
if you didn't get the memo, it's the largest store in the country. w0wzerz.
By weeklydig on Mon, May 5, 2008 12:23 pm
Two bills were submitted to congress at the end of April — one to the House and one to the Senate — called the Orphan Works Act of 2008. Congress is looking to have this act passed and signed into law by George Bush by June 8, 2008, less than two months after it was introduced.
In a nutshell, this act may put many of you creative people in a tight spot when it comes to copyrighting your images and jeopardize long term royalties.
The Intelligence Community Presents: THE FREE TRANSLATORS
Public information URL: http://www.sabinegruffat.com/FreeTranslators.html
May 10, 2008 6pm Gasp Gallery, Brookline, MA.
http://www.g-a-s-p.net
Reminiscent of the do-it-yourself approach of the Riot Grrrl movement, this Spring two feminist provocateurs are taking their multimedia show on the road. Mary Billyou and Sabine Gruffat are hailing from Brooklyn, NY and Madison, WI to present “The Free Translators” touring east coast cities and towns with a program of radical videos and performances.
As the title suggests, The Free Translators’ video program is inspired by widely accessible texts. The artists perform in many of their own videos, sometimes enacting the news, dictating words written by the Marquis de Sade, or excerpting from Virginia Woolf’s anti-war essays. By re-interpreting the texts for the audience, the videos explore notions of identity and communication, re-imagining issues raised by feminist consciousness, the quality of attention today in the midst of multiple authorial references, and the diminished space of citizenship around the monologue of mass media.
In between video screenings, The Free Translators present two “Live Tactical Translations,” or, live multimedia experiments inspired by 1970s feminist art and Soviet avant-garde news troupes. Culling from their library of text, sound, and image, alter egos Miss Reading and Miss Recognition communicate through matching headsets and manipulate analog recordings as they educate audiences in their unique methods of reading and comprehension.
Decter at JALSA
Forum Set At Harvard Law School On America’s Future “After Bush” Cambridge, MA May 11, 2008 – Four Boston area civil rights groups have announced a symposium at the Harvard Law School on May 16, 2008, on the topic, “Restoring America After Bush.” Co-sponsoring the event are the Jewish Alliance for Law and Social Action, the Charles Hamilton Houston Institute of Race and Justice of the Harvard Law School, the American Civil Liberties Union of Massachusetts and the Boston Lawyers Chapter of the American Constitution Society.
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Responding to nationwide dismay over how to restore the country to constitutional government and to its traditional position of world leadership, these organizations have brought together distinguished panels to discuss such vital issues as: curbing the “imperial” presidency; restoring governmental checks and balances; depoliticizing government agencies and the courts; reinvigorating habeas corpus and the Fourth and Sixth Amendments; reversing the Bush-Cheney doctrine of pre-emptive war; renewing American commitment to multilateralism; achieving real security without sacrificing fundamental rights; and reversing America’s current image as the propagator of arbitrary detention and even torture.
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Panelists include Senator Sheldon Whitehouse of Rhode Island, who serves on the Select Committee on Intelligence and on the Judiciary Committee; Prof. Andrew Bacevich of Boston University, a widely published expert on international security affairs; F.A.O. Schwarz, Jr., of the Brennan Center for Justice at NYU Law School; Louis Fisher, distinguished constitutional law specialist at the Library of Congress; Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute; Prof. Charles A. Fried, Beneficial Professor of Law at the Harvard Law School and former solicitor general of the United States; and Prof. Detlev Vagts, Bemis Professor of International Law, Emeritus, also of Harvard Law School.
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The conference will be held in the Ames Courtroom in Austin Hall on the Harvard Law School campus from 1 to 5 p.m. Admission is free and the public is invited. For questions or reservations, call the JALSA office at 617-227-3000 or email us at rsvp@jalsa.org. See website or blog
Decter at JALSA