Archive for September 2006

26 Sep 2006 1758H

Angel Island Needs Your Help

YOUR VOTE NEEDED FOR ANGEL ISLAND IMMIGRATION STATION TO RECEIVE PRESERVATION GRANT
Angel Island Immigration Station has been selected by American Express and the National Trust for Historic Preservation as one of twenty-five Bay Area historical sites to potentially receive funding from the “Partners in Preservation” program. We need your help in voting for the [...]

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23 Sep 2006 1642H

H-Mart, Bini Bakery

H-Mart (Waukegan Rd at Oakton St in Niles) is this ginormous Korean supermarket chain that’s finally arrived in the Chicagoland area. I finally worked up the cojones to go in during the weekend, during the day no less. I’m feeling a little ambiguous about the whole situation too with small Korean shopowners and grocers possibly [...]

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22 Sep 2006 0821H

Byzantine liturgical songs in Arabic

What with the prevalence of Arabesque musical themes throughout television and movies these days, I thought it might be interesting to start looking into the origins of this stuff. A few years back when Sting had his orientalist hit, Desert Rose, he brought in this famous rai artist, Cheb Mami, to sing backup vocals (which [...]

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20 Sep 2006 1426H

In the words that Michel Foucault gave us

“Truth isn’t outside power, or lacking in power: contrary to a myth whose history and functions would repay further study, truth isn’t the reward of free spirits, the child of protracted solitude, nor the privilege of those who have succeeded in liberating themselves. Truth is a thing of this world: it is produced only by [...]

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