I’m in the midst of a fight with my friend about whether the end of Star Wars: Return of the Jedi had a totally sweet ending or not. The issue at hand is whether or not Ewoks–the Teddy Bear-shaped warrior race that inhabits the forest moon of Endor–are totally sweet. I know for a fact …
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Matt Jerzyk’s post about the insularity of the Rhode Island affordable housing community has generated 60 or so comments. His concerns were spurred by the rejection of funding for an innovative and important project on Providence’s South Side: The bad news is that renewable energy innovation is not coming to the urban core. For …
UPDATE by Will Emmons: Just got back from this event and it went insanely well. Providence SDS showed up with an anti-imperialist funk machine in the form of two speakers in a shopping cart jury-rigged to a car battery and connected to someone’s mp3 player. The funk machine was decorated with mad anti-war signs and flags. …
Take a break from getting waste off green beer to come out and see “Iraq for Sale: the War Profiteers”, which will be kicking off Providence Students for a Democratic Society’s anti-war Week of Action during this the week of the fifth anniversary of the Iraq War. It starts at 7:30 at MacMillian Hall, Room …
Join Providence Students for a Democratic Society, Operation Iraqi Freedom (Brown U’s anti-war group), and others in saying no to five years of imperialist war. Monday, March 17 Screening of “Iraq for Sale“ 7:30 PM at MacMillian Hall, Room 115 (On Thayer between Waterman and George) Tuesday, March 18 FUNK THE WAR Student Power Dance …
In lieu of me droning about funny books you aren’t going to read, dig hot new-ish trailers for Marvel-ous movies you probably will see. For instance, this sweet trailer for the upcoming The Incredible Hulk fills me with hope that this one will be a lot better than the last: MTV Music Videos MTV Shows …
The various viral marketing schemes to get people psyched for the upcoming Batman: the Dark Knight (like having Heath Ledger die of a drug overdose) has shifted into a new phase with the launch of a website to draft Harvey Dent to run for District Attorney of Gotham yesterday. Fans are encouraged to film and …
The work of comic book superstar and weirdo old man Alan Moore has a pretty nasty history of being adapted to film. The League of Extraordinary Gentleman, while fun and action-packed, really made me not want anyone to do a movie adaption of his magnum opus, the Watchmen. But the production team for the movie …
Justice League: New Frontier, the cartoon adaption of Darwyn Cooke’s instant classic about the dawn of the Silver Age of DC Comics, came out on DVD last week. When I was watching it, I was somewhat disappointed. My friends who hadn’t read the miniseries thought it was sweet, but I guess the actual comics ruined …
Something cool at Brown this Wednesday for Women’s History Month: “Women in the Labor Movement” 4:30pm on Wednesday, March 5 Petteruti Lounge in Faunce House 75 Waterman St. Providence, RI Featuring Roxana Rivera RI Director of SEIU Local 615 and workers from Brown Learn about the role of women in leading and joining the labor …
Fuck Obama, I’m voting for Aquaman. Wasn’t that far more exciting than anything I’ve ever written? You can read my thoughts on angsty teens in comics after the jump. X-Men First Class #9 counts as Pick of the Week:
That left-wing nutjob David Segal gave us his two cents about Nader a couple days ago. Looks like Chris Maisano of the Young Democratic Socialists (a fine organization of wonderful left-wing nutjobs) is basically in agreement. Nader represents nobody but himself at this point in his career trajectory. He is not attached to any third …
One thing you learn not too long after becoming a frequent comics buyer is that the fuckers are inevitably a week, two weeks, three weeks, a month late sometimes. So, I was bound to miss a week eventually. You’ll just have to deal with last weeks comic book column being late. It’s not like they’re …
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Partly to remind you about our Parade for Accessible Education tomorrow at Brown (right) and partly because my friend Mike Da Cruz is really articulate, here are six reasons why Brown Students for a Democratic Society is calling on the Brown Corporation to freeze tuition: 1) High tuition sticker prices, even when they are defrayed …
Don’t you hate how real news like the massive foreclosure crisis get second row to election-mania? I know I do. Well so does Howard Zinn. In a piece in the March issue of Progressive magazine he points out that even progressive activists fall into the presidential election trap of living and dying with the presidential …