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Big Machine Music and six-time Grammy nominee Brandy Clark's All BC Music have announced a joint music publishing venture, in addition to the venture's inaugural signing of emerging singer-songwriter Lauren Weintraub.
"Lauren is a smart, evocative, musical storyteller whose music sits effortlessly at the intersection of credibility and commerciality," said BMM's General Manager Mike Molinar. "Her natural craft is far beyond her age and she embodies all that our team could ever hope to find in a young talent. I'm incredibly excited that Lauren has chosen Brandy Clark and Big Machine Music as her publishing partners."
Clark shared, "I feel honored, excited and incredibly lucky to have the opportunity to work with a singer-songwriter whose talent blows me away a little more with every new song I hear. I only hope to help encourage and guide Lauren along her own unique artistic path and can't wait for the rest of the world to hear what we've all been discovering."
Weintraub moved from Boston to Nashville in 2017 to attend the Curb School of Entertainment and Music Business at Belmont University and shortly thereafter began to receive critical recognition. She won the 2018 Recording Academy/Grammy U contest with "Careful Now," while her "If You Were Gonna Leave Anyway" entry for NPR Music's 2019 Tiny Desk Contest earned a "Top Shelf" designation from a panel of judges including Jason Isbell. Nashville Songwriters Association International recently named Weintraub "One To Watch," in addition to an honorable mention in the 19th Annual NSAI Song Contest presented by CMT and Martin Guitars & Strings.
"I am beyond thrilled about this unique opportunity to work closely with Big Machine Music and Brandy Clark," said Weintraub. "To be the first artist signed as a part of this joint venture is extremely special to me and something that I feel so incredibly honored to be a part of as I continue crafting my stories through each song."
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The Advocate by Daniel Madison
Starting at $24.95
The Advocate allows you to reveal ANY thought of playing card from anywhere within your limits at ANY given moment. The effects achievable with such a concept are only limited by your imagination.
In his first major release with Ellusionist, Daniel reveals the inner workings behind the advocate device, teaching you how to make your own out of ANY deck of cards in seconds.
With this DVD you will Master the Advocate concept and learn many effects - predictions, impossible locations and other miracles.
"Daniel, I honestly and truly wish you had developed this, shared it with me and then forgotten it yourself. Looking forward to watching you kick yourself in the ass when you suddenly realize that this was something too good to sell for so little, if at all." - Michael Weber
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SummaryThis tool can be used in so many different situations it's incredible. Once you get the hang of it, its hard to keep it out of your pocket. Smart trick from a smart mind, I salute you DM
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SummaryI immediately bought the advocate upon seeing the performance, after scratching my head for a while, I watched the video and was blown away at how simple it was!
Takes a bit of time to master, but when you do. You will BLOW MINDS!
SummaryThis is not a trick. A lot of people who start out in magic, shy away from anything that does not include a bunch of tricks/routines. They often buy one off tricks, this is not that. This is a utility, that makes creating powerful seemingly impromptu card magic so much easier. The ability to be able to produce a freely named card, from any deck is a strong one. However this is capable of sooo much more. I normally don't like gimmicks (if you can even call them that), but there are two things I NEVER LEAVE THE HOUSE WITHOUT and that is The Seer, and The Advocate. The Advocate is simply put, A WORKER. If you are serious about your card magic, just click add to cart.
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This device is fantastic: it's simple and clever. The video itself is very good, Daniel Madison explain everything in a way you just can't not understand.
I recommend buying this for any magician: beginner, intermediate, advanced... It leads to a whole world of magic tricks with one simple and practical device.
SummaryThis is a MUST for any card magician. I NEVER leave my house without The Advocate. Not only because of the effect shown in the trailer, but because your imagination is the limit. I really think that this and The Seer should be in every card magician's arsenal.
SummaryThis is a mind blower! I put it right into my routine. I pair the advocate with Daniel Madisons AX3 (I highly recommend) and cause a spectators freely thought of card to appear inside the very same envelope they just wrote on during the last effect.(AX3) It leaves them broken as the envelope was not only always in sight but in possession of them the whole time with a freely thought of playing card inside. Other than performing with AX3 the possibilities are almost endless. The advocate can allow to produce a card from almost anywhere and is very easy to combine with other effects in your routine that create miracles. This is a must own for any serious magician. This is one of the best. Thank you sincerely Daniel
SummaryThis is one of the most powerful tools in all of card magic. This tool allows you to move any named playing card to your fingertips. If you are a beginner in sleight of hand you might not be so inclined to get this since it does take a little bit of performance experience. Any intermediate sleight of hand artist should be able to pick this up fairly quickly. The price on this product should be upped by $100. It is that good.

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Interesting. Was logging into WoW tnite and came across a post at the login in screen.
"in 29 days, on November 11, 2009, all accounts must be converted into a Battle.net account to login to World of Warcraft. Any existing account that upgrades to the Battle.net platform, including ones that were upgraded in the past, will receive a brand new in-game penguin pet starting later this week."
Will have to wait until later to get a screenshot of the pet to show off, but to think we will be getting a penguin and a mini Onyxia? Wow they are free with the vanity pets. Does this mean they are catering to the female gamers out there? Just Kidding!! /ducks flying debris thrown by lady gamers.
Tuesday, October 13, 2009
We can Haz Pengu?
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Free event at Miller Outdoor Theatre includes performances by the Theater District's resident companies
Evening honors local heroes and benefits the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund
Theater District Houston presents Houston Strong: A Theater District Benefit Honoring Local Heroes on Wednesday, September 27, 2017, beginning at 8 pm. at Miller Outdoor Theatre. The evening will include free performances by seven of the Theater District's resident companies: Alley Theatre, Da Camera of Houston, Houston Ballet, Houston Grand Opera, Houston Symphony, Society for the Performing Arts, and Theatre Under The Stars.
"Not a single theater in Houston's Theater District was untouched by Harvey's floodwaters," said Kathryn McNiel, CEO of Theater District Houston. "In the face of this adversity, the resident companies are coming together to celebrate the resilience of the city and its performing arts scene, and to honor community heroes that emerged in the storm."
The benefit's wide-ranging program will include George Balanchine's Symphony in C, performed by the Houston Ballet; a special appearance by Houston native Jason Moran, presented by Da Camera; a performance of "Make Our Garden Grow" from Candide, presented by Houston Grand Opera; and much more.
Donations to the Hurricane Harvey Relief Fund will be accepted on-site during the event, online at www.ghcf.org or by texting HARVEY2017 to 91999. Contributions are tax-deductible and will go toward relief for victims affected by the recent floods.
Event Information
Houston Strong: A Theater District Benefit Honoring Local Heroes
Wednesday, September 27, 2017, 8 p.m.
Miller Outdoor Theatre, 6000 Hermann Park Drive
Free and open to the public
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- Da Camera of Houston
- Houston Ballet
- Houston Grand Opera
- Houston Symphony
- Society for the Performing Arts
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Why and How .com Didn't Impact This Interactive Startup
Welcome to this episode of Kickstart Commerce podcast where we interview Payman Taei, a long-time serial entrepreneur and founder of Visme — a startup that allows anyone to create and communicate data visually with no design experience.
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- His various ventures and experiences that lead to starting Visme
- How and why Visme choose to use .co versus .com
- The impact of building a .co digital presence
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Today is released the debut album of Turin's Legacy of Silence entitled "Our Forests Sing". The disc, released by Volcano Records & Promotion, is available in both physical and digital versions on all major streaming and online shopping platforms such as Spotify, iTunes and Amazon Music.
"Our Forests Sing" is an ambitious record work, personally edited by the band at every stage and in every detail of the record, from composition to production. It's a record from which emerges a strong attachment to the land and the Nordic mythology; from artwork to arrangements, from lyrics to costumes, the Legacy of Silence have proved to be young musicians and artists full of talent and enthusiasm, and have all the credentials to be able to find their place in the independent metal music scene.
To anticipate the release of the album, Legacy of Silence have released several quality content such as the lyric video of "Heresy" and the video of "Torment", in which between beautiful landscapes and spectacular costumes the band has launched a clear signal of seriousness, passion and dedication to their music.
Genre: Folk Metal, Viking Metal, Melodic Death Metal
Similar artists: Wintersun, Eluveitie, Amon Amarth
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Tomorrow is Youth Day, the formal celebration of the heroic 1976 uprising by Soweto school students against apartheid. That history and the hopes for the future that underlay it should certainly be celebrated.
However, there is little for the youth of today to celebrate as they contemplate the present and the prospects for themselves in the future. For most — and especially those with little formal schooling — current prospects are bleak and the future outlook bleaker still.
Increasingly, work of any kind seems out of the reach of millions. And here it should not be forgotten that the majority of South African children who start school, never reach matric, let alone progress any further in what is admittedly a shambles of a schooling system.
Another lost generation
As a result of the widespread acceptance of this reality, there is talk now of another 'lost generation'; that just as those young men and women who fought under the banner of liberation before education suffered, so too will this generation. But the difference, this time, is stark because — on the present trajectory — we face not just a lost generation, but generations of discarded people, made redundant by a psychotic economic system.
It is a global system, but South Africa is increasingly sliding lower down the scale to the extent that more people in the business sector are starting to panic. As well they should, with the country's gross domestic product (GDP) recording a fall of more than 2% in the first quarter of this year.
Now profits are being hit, whereas, in the recent past, while growth was slow, profits still grew, along with the wage and welfare gap — and joblessness. The call now is for South Africa to join the 'fourth industrial revolution'. As Telkom chief executive Sipho Maseko noted last week: "The digital economy brings unparalleled efficiencies to agriculture, manufacturing, retail and mining sectors globally."
It is true that, without state-of-the-art information and communications technology (ICT) policies in place and implemented, South Africa will fall still further behind in terms of competing globally. Yet the very technologies now advancing exponentially, and which business wants to kept abreast of, require fewer and fewer workers.
Looked at in this way, it is easy to paint a dystopian vision of the future: of a grossly polluted planet, with tiny islands of heavily protected extreme affluence in a sea of desperate and impoverished humanity. This may well be a valid long-term view, unless some change takes place or, at the very least, the more lunatic excesses of the system are curtailed.
Ignoring the fundamentals
What there can be no dispute about is that the youth of today face a massive crisis, with the International Labour Organisation, for example, putting at 71 million the number of men and women, globally, between the ages of 15 and 24, who are neither working, at school nor in training. And the numbers are growing.
These numbers will continue to grow as governments and business ignore the fundamentals and opt for an array of often simplistic ad hoc measures ranging from extended public works programmes to short-term employment tax incentives. If there were jobs to be had as the future unfolds, such measures might have some justification; in the present circumstances, they are, at best, stop-gaps doomed to overall failure.
However, several commentators have pointed out that, even if a major transformation of the education and economic system began today, it would take at least a generation or two to remedy the ills of the past. Which is, of course, no reason why change should not begin.
It does not mean we should not have a vision for the future. Nor that we should not take steps now to start to lay the foundations of a better world.
We certainly need, as Telkom's Maseko has made plain, youth who can understand coding and software development. But while we need ABET — adult basic education and training — the prime focus should be on early childhood.
Critical thinking is the crucial component, and the encouragement and development of this begins in early childhood. And there is a wealth of material, going back a century and more — to Pestalozzi, Froebel, Montessori, Margaret MacMillan and others to prove this. Sheer logic should also dictate that millions of angry, unemployed youth do not make for a stable society.
But education programmes take time. And time is now of the essence. So why not adopt the serious "national conversation" called for by Sipho Maseko? One that could deal with ways to implement, for example, job sharing — at a living wage — and that could highlight, and bring an end to, the dumping on the domestic market of everything from tinned goods to confectionery and meat; actions that are adding to local job losses?
There really is only one missing ingredient for a start to really address the current ills: political will on the part of the powers that be. But, as the youth of 1976 showed, such will can be awakened.
Add your voice or just drop Terry a labour question. Follow Terry on twitter @telbelsa.


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"High Atop the Rock" Oct. 10th; Story/Photos by Rocky Ragusa
Speed Week
By Rocky Ragusa
The Fairbury Speedway will conclude their 2019 racing season this Friday and Saturday night with the FALS Frenzy. Originally scheduled in May, the race was rained out. Promoter, Matt Curl saw an opportunity showcase "America's Dirt Track", to race teams and fans with the late season event. Two nights of Late Model, Modified, and Pro Late Models on the 1/3 mile, dirt oval has drawn interest from race teams looking to take the big check.
Current World of Outlaw point leader and winner of this year's " Prairie Dirt Classic", Brandon Sheppard will headline a star studded field of Late Model competitors. Outlaw regulars, Dennis Erb Jr., Shane Clanton, and Chase Junghans have indicated plans to attend. 2019 DIRTcar National Champion, Brian Shirley, track champion, Ryan Unzicker, Shannon Babb, and Bobby Pierce will lead the region stars, along with local favorites, McKay Wenger, Mike Spatola, Kevin Weaver, and Derek Chandler.
Fresh off a $7000 to win race at the Shady Hills Speedway in Indiana, Mike McKinney looms as the favorite in the Modified class. Track champion, with 26 feature wins Allen Weisser and McKinney have battled all season for top honors and this weekend will be no exception. A weekend off from the NASCAR Xfinity Series, Riverton's Justin Allgaier has the race on his schedule, plus Jeffrey and Michael Ledford, Steven Brooks, and Jeff Leka.
The Pro Late Model division has made two appearance's to Fairbury this year and Dakota Ewing has been the bridesmaid on both occasions. The man to beat at Farmer City and Macon Speedway, Ewing would love to add some Fairbury hardware to his mattle. In his lone trip to Fairbury, DIRT car Pro Late Model National Champion, Aaron Heck took one of his 22 feature wins with Ewing on his trail. A large field is expected with Torin Mettile, Trevor Gundaker, Matt Hammond, Mitch Hahn, and Amber Crouch looking to take the payday.
On Friday, gates will open at 4. Hotlaps will start at 5:45, time trials at 6:30, and racing will follow with the Modifieds in a 25 lap, $1500 to win race, followed by the Late Models going 40 laps for a $5000 to win, and the night concludes with the Pro Late Models in a 20 lap, $750 to win show.
Gates will open at noon on Saturday. Hot laps begin at 5, followed by time trials at 5;15, and racing wll follow with Modifieds (30 laps, $2000 to win), Late Models ( 60 laps, $15,000 to win), and Pro Late Models ( 25 laps, $1000 to win). To keep up to date on the latest race information, log onto www.fairburyspeedway.com or call the raceday phone at (815) 692-3222.


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We all grow up looking up to our parents. As we get older, they prepare us to be more mature than we were before by saying things like, "I'm not going to be with you always, and you are going to have to know how to handle yourself." They taught us. They trained us, because they loved us.
Just like our parents train us and wean us off of depending on their every move, so does the Lord train us, but the difference is that the Lord never leaves. He is always present, just silent at times. He patiently waits for us to make the choice that we've been taught, so that we can go on to the next level of maturity, learning, growing, and advancing in the kingdom of God.
As a child, it can seem scary, when our parents share that they won't always be around, yet they are preparing us. However, our parents have such confidence in what has been taught that they proceed despite the hesitance of the child. Our heavenly Father does the same with us.
It feels scary when God is silent as if He is distant, yet He is right there encouraging us like the parents who encourage their child to come on along to maturity. One of the best things that a parent can give their child is exposure to who Jesus is.


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A human being is an "agent" in the sense of a person able to act in the world. The words "agent", "act" and "agency" all come from the Latin "agere", "to set in motion, drive, lead, conduct etc." Human agents have goals in life and pursue them through their purposeful actions.
Now, if a human being is an agent or has agency, then we should give her rights because we have to define the range of activities that she is allowed to engage in. We have to decide what she can do without obstruction and defend her against obstruction if necessary. Otherwise her agency will be largely ineffective. It's constitutive of human beings to pursue goals and hence we owe it to them to create a framework in which they can reliably do so. Whether or not they actually realize their goals is another matter, dependent upon lots of things – circumstances, luck, resources, ambition etc. We can't and shouldn't promise people that they'll get what they're after, but making it impossible for them to try is a denial of their humanity. The point is that we can only make it possible for them to try if we give them rights. Of course, people without rights or people suffering rights violations can sometimes act purposefully. But they'll always be precarious agents. A predictable and reliable form of agency depends on respect for rights.
This kind of justification of human rights is by definition a limited one. It isn't complete. There are people who have no agency in the relevant sense of the word – for example babies or the severely handicapped – but who still have rights. So we'll have to look for additional justifications, which is what I've tried to do in the other posts in this series.


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FRIENDS to open book sale
The FRIENDS of New Milford Public Library will open its annual book sale July 6-8 at New Milford High School on Route 7 South.
Early birds are invited July 6 from 9 to 10 a.m., with an entry fee of $5.
The sale will be open with free admission July 6 from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m., July 7 from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. and July 8 from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.
Thousands of fiction and nonfiction books, children's books, paperbacks, vintage collectible books, CDs, DVDs and audio books will be available to purchase.
In particular, a mature reader section and large Manga and graphic novel section will be offered.
All items will be half price July 8.
Major credit cards and PayPal accepted.
All proceeds benefit library programs.
For additional information or to volunteer, contact Jen LaCava at email@example.com.


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This is a very simple recipe which can be used as a base to make :
- Choco-chip
- Almond pistachio
- Elaichi flavoured
- Rose flavoured tutti fruti
The list is endless, just try these and enjoy with a cup of tea or coffee!
- 1 cup whole wheat flour / atta
- 1/4 cup powdered sugar
- 1/2 cup unsalted butter softened to room temperature
- 1/4 tsp salt
- 2 tbsp milk
- 1 tsp vanilla extract
1. Preheat oven to 180 deg C.
2. Cream together butter and sugar till light and fluffy.
3. Add the extract and mix.
4. Now add flour in three additions and add the milk little by little and mix well till you are able to form a soft dough. Don't knead much.
5. Pinch a small ball of dough and lightly flatten it using your palms.
6. Repeat with the remaining portion of dough.
7. Place the cookies, an inch apart, on an ungreased cookie sheet.
8. Bake at 180 deg C for around 15 to 20 minutes or until the cookies are light golden brown in color.
9. Cool the cookies on a wire rack completely.
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This year, my mom is the one who gets the extended birthday. Dinner and cards last night. Presents on the weekend. Dinner out with my dad next weekend. Lucky!
I may have been a little over-ambitious with my menu planning: MuShu Vegetables, Sweet Potato Pot Stickers, and Apple Crisp. It was good, and nothing major blew up or spilled, but man, that was a lot of cooking.
To anyone (everyone) out there who does this with more frequency than I -wow. I'm impressed. I have a new appreciation for people who cook. (Notice I don't say chefs...)
Halloween is coming up. When I was younger, and had big birthday parties, October would knock us (my mom) flat.
My birthday, my mom's birthday, Halloween.
Boom boom boom.
I was never over-the-top into Halloween. Dressing up was fun, but the candy was better. I loved it, but it didn't make me crazy.
Our neighborhood is quite sad on the trick-or-treating front. This meant we would have to pack the car up with hot drinks and five extra coats and relocate to a neighborhood more friendly to kids knocking on doors and asking for sugar.
I would usually do some afternoon rounds in town, where all the shops handed out candy. As I got older, friends and I would go out and hit the houses known for handing out hand-fulls of good-quality candy.
I don't really remember when I stopped going. It was several years ago. I had lost interest in dressing up-my brain couldn't take that much creativity.
The appeal of trekking around in the dark to get small pieces of sugar had worn off. Half my friends weren't going. So I stopped. I don't miss it. I do wish we had more kids coming to our house, though, because I've always thought it would be fun to be the hander-outer of candy. Seeing the costumes and how hyper the kids were.
So no plans this year. We have pumpkins. To be carved this weekend. I only want to take off the top and get the seeds to roast. That is one Halloween tradition I'm not ready to give up.
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Balshaw, Maria and Liam Kennedy, Eds., Urban Space and Representation
Balshaw, Maria and Liam Kennedy, Eds., Urban Space and Representation . London, Sterling, Virginia: Pluto Press, 2000.Pp. 201. ISBN 0-7453-1344-2.
City and urban space have recently become objects of intensive interdisciplinary scholarly research and discussions involving not only the architects, geographers and economists, but also urban sociologists, film and literary theorists, cultural studies scholars, and even philosophers.
The idea and the nature of the city, its structure, function and meaning have opened up the field for the reconsideration of its status. The city's role has considerably changed in modern times, since cities have become not only the centres of human habitation and life, but especially the centres of contemporary modernist and postmodernist culture. The city and its culture have mostly been seen not so much in terms of aesthetic or artistic categories but rather in the context of fashionable ideological or political concepts such as race, ethnicity, class, gender and sexual identity. According to Balshaw and Kennedy these concepts are even "...key features of modern and postmodern urbanism" (p. 11).
As the title of this collection of papers edited by Balshaw and Kennedy suggests, the main emphasis of this book should be on "representation" of the city, in different media and by different forms of art as one would expect, however ambiguous and complicated the term "representation" may appear in postmodernist discourse. This is true only partly about this book. The diversity of themes and fields of study make this book not only interdisciplinary, but especially eclectic and incoherent in its approach.
However united by themes of Space and Vision (Part I), social, racial, sexual and gender differences (Part II entitled Spaces of Difference), and a representation of national identity in the Third Chapter entitled (Post)National Spaces, this collection of essays presents a discussion on the representation of the city in different forms of art (literature, film, cinema, photography, music), discourses (arts, TV news, reports), in different media (cinema, TV, photography), and through a diversity of approaches ranging from postmodern through sociological (mostly part 3) even including almost documentary and purely informational (Pascal Pinck' s essay on the representation of the city in local news and by skycam; or to some extent S. Shapiro's essay on the Representation of Aids).
The problem with the inclusion of such a diversity of topics, approaches and with such general eclecticism is that the editors of the book do not seem to distinguish between artistic and purely mimetic or other representation. It seems that in their understanding everything is simply "representation", never mind that the function and meaning of art are entirely different from the purely pragmatic and informational function of, let us say, TV news (Pinck's essay).
Maria Balshaw and Liam Kennedy recognize the value and importance of language in representation, but at the same time argue that "representation also involves material, visual and psychic forms and practises that cannot be reduced to textuality" (p. 4). One can agree with this statement, but there is never an equal relationship between for example a tourist guide and Dickens' novels. What must be emphasized is especially the fact that "textuality" is primarily represented by language as a sign system which represents, in a complex way, outer reality. There is a danger that understanding of all these media and discourses as representation may reduce the figurative and symbolic meaning of the langugage of for example the arts to a purely informative function. At the same time, such a broad understanding of representation as well as such a broad scope of included discourses presupposes a familiarity with different areas of knowledge and different sciences and arts which could be problematic even for the academic community.
Although concerning arts the main focus is on film and literary texts, these do not dominate in the overall composition of this collection of essays. What dominates is rather a sociological approach and analysis of the city. Out of 11 essays, only 2 deal either directly (Al Deakin's essay) or in a comparative way (M. Balshaw) with literary texts and only 3 with film. I think these analyses, in addition to Douglas Tallack's fine re-interpretation and analysis of the work of the so-called Ashcan School of American painters (especially the image of New York in their work), and Richard Ings' analysis of different Harlem communities in DeCarava and Langston Hughes' The Sweet Flypaper of Life are the most original essays of this collection.
Al Deakin in his essay entitled Fear and Sympathy: Charles Dickens and Urban (Dis)Ability gives an analysis of the image of ability and disability in some Dickens' works (A Christmas Carol; The Old Curiosity Shop; and partly Great Expectations) which construct a Victorian understanding of the city. Al Deakin is interested in the way Dickens' narrative strategies and his depiction of physical dysfunctions are able symbolically both to construct and undermine the Victorian and rational understanding of the city. On the one hand, according to Deakin, the representation of the city evokes the idea of Victorian "domesticity", and on the other the Victorian fear of the body. According to Al Deakin this manifests itself in two textual features, especially in Dickens' A Christmas Carol. One textual feature exemplified by the relationship between Scrooge and Tiny Tim in A Christmas Carol "... sees the representation of the impaired body falling within the controlling arms of the discourse of charity" (p. 80). The other textual feature of the same work, Deakin claims, "sees the diverse physical abilities engendered by the city as things that can become dangerously and intoxicatingly out of control" (p. 80).
In another fine comparative essay dealing with both film (Isaac Julien's Looking for Langston) and literature (Toni Morrison' s novel Jazz) Maria Balshaw, drawing on Park's understanding of the city, is interested in the way both these artistic texts represent body, race and sex in the context of the authors' depiction of the city.
She sees both authors' depiction of the city (of Harlem, New York) as a manifestation of a "racialised aesthetic" (p.82), that is the depiction of body and race in the city as a manifestation of Modernist aesthetics. In Balshaw' s understanding the two texts refer to the city in different ways and emphasize different aesthetics - Looking for Langston "avant-gardist meditation on identity without falling into modernist solipsism" (p. 96) with the focus on community, while Toni Morrison' s novel Jazz, in her view, rather undermines Modernist aesthetics (especially through different treatment of the motifs of desire and death and the deception of visual perception).
The essays dealing with film analyze the postmodern representation of the city understood as community (Peter Brooker' s essay The Brooklyn Cigar Co. as Dialogic Public Sphere: Community and Postmodernism in Paul Auster and Wayne Wang' s Smoke and Blue in the Face), as a paranoid space (Liam Kennedy' s essay Paranoid Spatiality: Postmodern Urbanism and American Cinema), or analyzing particular film genre (French film de banlieue) to give a comparative analysis of the depiction of the centre and periphery, inside and outside (Myrto Konstantarakos' essay The Film de banlieue: Renegotiating the Representation of Urban Space).
Peter Brooker sees Auster and Wang' s film representation of the city as postmodern especially because of their multi-layered structure (stories within stories in Smoke; and the motif of photography), or because of the depiction of cultural diversity and fragmentary urban experience (Blue in the Face), although such a view would require closer analysis.
Liam Kennedy focusing mainly on two American films analyzes and emphasizes several aspects of postmodern representation as the manifestation of urban experience and culture - white male paranoia (Schumacher's film Falling Down); or apocalyptic feelings amidst hi-tech popular culture (Bigelow's Strange Days); Kennedy's convincing analysis shows that "paranoid spatiality" is closely connected with the character of postmodern urbanism and visual urban culture.
The last section entitled (Post)National Spaces includes, perhaps with one exception (Konstantarakos'essay on film), mostly sociological or urban studies dealing with particular cities (Paris, Birmingham, Great Britain; New York; and Singapore, the latter in John Phillips' essay).
The most convincing and analytical is perhaps Gargi Bhattacharyya's study of the changing character and image of the British city of Birmingham from industrial to cultural centre (his essay Metropolis of the Midlands). Although some of Bhattacharryya's statements can seem quite artificial (the association of the body and the city, pp. 166-167), he gives a convincing and fine study of the image of Birmingham, its inferiority complex and other aspects of its culture shaping the general vision of the city.
On the other hand, some essays not only in this final part (Stephen Shapiro's essay Whose Fucking Park? Our Fucking Park!: Bohemian Brumaires (Paris 1848/East Village 1988), Gentrification, and the Representation of Aids); or J.Phillips' essay on Singapore), but also, for example, Pascal Pinck's essay in Part I entitled From the Sofa to the Crime Scene: Skycam, Local News and the Televisual City, are of almost purely documentary character, and might be worth publishing in the popular press rather than in a scholarly book. The latter essay gives a purely documentary account of TV and camera broadcasting practises in Los Angeles and its TV news broadcasting. On the other hand, if such magazines as Playboy can publish valuable stories by significant authors, why should a scholarly book not include popular (or) documentary articles?
I think despite its eclectic approach, its emphasis on interdisciplinarity and inclusion of some rather documentary articles, Balshaw and Kennedy's compilation represents a valuable contribution to the contemporary interdisciplinary and postmodern debates on the role of the city in contemporary culture.
If the authors had reduced their focus on sociology and "political correctness", included more essays on artistic topics (literature, film, music, visual arts), and narrowed their focus (for example, the last section could be extended to include other similar sociological essays, and be published as a different book), the contribution of this book would be even more valuable.
Jaroslav Kusnir
The University of Presov, Slovakia


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2019-20 Scottish Premiership – Hamilton vs Kilmarnock Betting Preview & Prediction
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