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Category Archives: North America

Manhattan

Monday, January 12, 2009

Woody Allen’s homage to Manhattan and to the long tradition linking cinema to the city:
-Vertov’s 1927 Der Mann mit der Kamera (Man with a Movie Camera)
-Walter Ruttman’s 1927 Berlin, die Sinfonie der Groszstadt (often referred to in English as (Symphony for a City), and,
-Fritz Lang’s c.1926-27 Metropolis
-the first images of Los Angeles 2019 in Ridley [...]

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Responding to the Ottawa transit strike

Wednesday, December 17, 2008

Ottawa transit strike brings city to a standstill:
At 12:01 AM on December 10th, buses stopped moving in Ottawa as the over 2,200 members of Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 279 officially went on strike, while at the same time over 30 centimetres of snow was falling and one of the four bridges linking Ottawa and [...]

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Urban Salons II : Not so Quiet: the new suburbia, Toronto

Tuesday, December 16, 2008

Continuing on the theme of urban salons, The New Art of Suburbia, a two-evening panel discussion and forum recorded for podcast, will address these changes and implications for the arts and culture. Dealing with changes in the development and urban fabric of Toronto, speakers from a variety of backgrounds will tackle pressing questions:
What is the [...]

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Photos of the detention facilities at Guantánamo Bay

Friday, December 12, 2008

Scenes from Guantánamo Bay

An arrow in the recreation yard at Camp Delta, Naval Station Guantánamo Bay, Cuba points the direction to Mecca, the Islamic holy city, so the detainees know which way to face if the call to prayer sounds while they are outside. Every cell and recreation yard has similar arrows. Photo taken in [...]

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Salman Rushdie and the Festival of Ideas

Friday, November 14, 2008

Comments from Salman Rushdie on freedom, religion, growing up in Bombay and England, and the theme of fear and happiness in the modern world and how it is anticipated in earlier imperial moments, such as the mid 1400s which saw the discovery of America, the flowering of Venice and Florence and, far to the east, [...]

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