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Archive for March, 2008

is america ready for a canadian president?

Posted by jodietonita on March 31, 2008

KChronicles

Be sure to catch The K Chronicles on the last Friday of each month.

Keith Knight was born and raised in the Boston area, settled in San Francisco and now calls LA his home. Weaned on a steady diet of Star Wars, hip-hop, racism and Warner Bros. cartoons, Knight started drawing comics in grade school and developed his trademark cartooning style in the Bay Area in the ’90s. His strips have been described as a cross between Calvin & Hobbes and underground comix. Knight is part of a new generation of talented young African-American artists who infuse their work with urgency, edge, humor, satire, politics and race. His comic art has appeared in museums and galleries from San Francisco (CA) to Angouleme (France). He also co-wrote and illustrated The Beginner’s Guide to Community-Based Art.

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gold miners

Posted by jodietonita on March 29, 2008

gold miners
Photo: John Moore/GETTY IMAGES

Gold miners scratch through soil while collecting ore for panning on the outskirts of Bulawayo, Zimbabwe.

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monk protesters charged

Posted by jodietonita on March 29, 2008

nepalese demonstration
Photo: Prakash Mathema/AFP/GETTY IMAGES

Nepalese policemen charge Tibetan monk protesters in exile during an anti-Chinese demonstration in front of the consular section of the Chinese Embassy in Kathmandu.

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baby room

Posted by jodietonita on March 29, 2008

baby room
Photo: Gurinder Osan/AP

Children play at the Baby Room at the Tibetan Children’s Village school in Dharamsala, India.

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parthetic circle

Posted by jodietonita on March 29, 2008

parhelic circle
Photo: S.K. Mohan/AP

A boy points at a parhelic circle seen around the sun from Kannur, Kerala, India.

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da music biz

Posted by jodietonita on March 28, 2008

Jay Smooth calls out hip hop heads who are worried that Ashely Dupre, the sex trade worker caught up with Eliot Spitzer’s scandal, will devalue hip hop if she records an album.

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Spring festival of Nowruz

Posted by jodietonita on March 23, 2008

kurdish festival
Photo: Serkan Senturk/AP

A Turkish Kurd gestures as he stands in front of a bonfire during a gathering to mark the spring festival of Nowruz in Istanbul.

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Military convoy

Posted by jodietonita on March 23, 2008

israeli convoy
Photo: Saif Dahlah/AFP/Getty Images

An Israeli military convoy rolls down a road during an operation near the West Bank city of Jenin.

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mother and child

Posted by jodietonita on March 23, 2008

tibetan mother and child
Photo: David Gray/Reuters

A mother and her child watch Chinese soldiers in riot gear walk past in the main square of the city of Kangding, in Sichuan Province.

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Fallen through the cracks

Posted by jodietonita on March 23, 2008

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