'TBH Politoons'
Thanks, again, Tim!
Weekly Review
HARPER'S WEEKLY REVIEW
February 4, 2003
The space shuttle Columbia broke apart while entering the
upper atmosphere, scattering debris and the remains of seven
astronauts over east Texas and Louisiana; three young
children in Plainview, Texas, found a charred leg; a man in
Hemphill found a torso and a skull along a rural highway.
Fragments of the shuttle were offered for sale on eBay
within a few hours.
President George W. Bush gave a State of
the Union address that focused largely on the state of his
plans to go to war with Iraq.
Bush also unveiled a $15
billion program to fight AIDS around the world, particularly
in Africa, and he announced the creation of a Terrorist
Threat Integration Center, which will merge different units
of the CIA and the FBI.
The president said that Secretary of
State Colin Powell will soon present new evidence of Iraq's
evildoing, including its alleged ties to Al Qaeda, to the
United Nations Security Council.
CIA analysts continued to
maintain that there is no evidence of Iraqi aid to
terrorists, and officials at the FBI also said they were
baffled by the president's claims: "We've been looking into
this hard for more than a year," said one anonymous source,
"and you know what, we just don't think it's there."
Hans
Blix, the head of the United Nations chemical and biological
inspections team, rebutted many of the president's reasons
for attacking Iraq; Blix said that there was no evidence
that Iraq was hiding illegal weapons or weapons scientists
in neighboring countries, that there was no credible
evidence of Iraqi intelligence agents posing as scientists,
and that there was no evidence of Iraqi ties to Al Qaeda.
"There are other states where there appear to be stronger
links," he said. Blix also said that there has been "no
trace" of chemical or biological agents in the many samples
his inspectors have taken all across Iraq.
United Nations
officials covered a tapestry of Picasso's "Guernica,"
which hangs near the entrance of the Security Council, with
a curtain to prevent it from showing up as a backdrop during
photo opportunities.
Continued at www.harpers.org/weekly-review
-- Roger D. Hodge
CNN & Basic Physics - OR - How Fast?
Thanks, Stranger!
Notes From The Nest
from Wren
Whatever Happened To's:
Mark Lindsay, former lead singer of 'Paul Revere and the Raiders¹ is alive
and well and living in beautiful Hawai¹i. He still does some gigs, is active
in animal rights (donates part of the proceeds from the sale of some of his
stuff to this cause) and his homepage is:
Mark Lindsay.com
(And he still looks mighty fine, too!)
Also Gregg Rainwater, best known as Buck Cross in 'The Young Riders¹, does a
lot of voice work (http://voices.fuzzy.com) for
cartoons such as 'Pepper Ann¹ and Max Steel. More info at 'The Buck Stop¹
-- but
-- best install your pop-up ad buster first (Grrrrr!)
You can bid on Sean Bean¹s (Boromir, LOTR) or musician Billy Bragg¹s
(Obviously, the revolution is just a set of briefs away these days!) undies
and other celebrity 'bits¹ until 2/14/03 at an
on-line auction to benefit the Bristol Cancer Help Centre (UK).
Walk in Light and Love and Freedom,
Wren Walker
The Witches' Voice
Thanks, Wren! My first college roommate's goal in life was to marry Mark Lindsay. In hindsight, I guess some of the 'adventures' would now be considered stalking...; )
Thanks, Rob!
and a liar,and a felon,a ne'r-do-well, a....oh, you know him...the pResident of the united states of america...
undergod help us all.
A grocery clerk,sent by errand boys...
Appreciated Legwork
from Kip
I googled Lana Clarkson and came up with this:
www.livingdollproductions.com
She was on The Jeffersons and the Love Boat. She was in Fast Times at
Ridgemont High. She was the Barbarian Queen. You can get posters & DVDs!
CNN said she was 40 but her website says she was 42. IMDB has her at 37!
Other sites:
www.comicbookpage.com (turn down your speakers if you don't like Steely Dan).
www.used-tissues. com
and
www.chixinflix.com
~~ Kip Shepherd
Thanks, Kip!
Reader Recommendation
from Steve C.
Hot! Hot! Hot! (Honest to Koresh!)
Go to: South African Rock Digest
FREE download of "Sheriff Bush and Deputy Blair" by The Nukular [sic]
Stompers.
THEY SAY IT IS PLAYING ON THE RADIO IN SOUTH AFRICA: NUMBER >>_ONE_<
I REPEAT: NUMBER ONE!!
~~ Steven C
Thanks, Steve - will give it a listen!
In The Chaos Household
Last Night
Another too nice for the season day.
Talked to the kid's grandmother in Alaska. She said the Iditarod was being postponed - not enough snow to mush to Barrow (!) Yeah, screw that Kyoto accord.
Today my pal Christi called with the results, and she & Brian are expecting a boy, and Chloe will have a brother. Way cool!
Tonight, Wednesday, CBS starts the evening with a 'special' night-time version of 'The Price Is Right!', then '60 Minutes II', followed by '48 Hours'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Dave is Kelsey Grammer.
Scheduled on a FRESH Craiggers is Andrew McCarthy.
NBC opens with a FRESH 'Ed', followed by a FRESH 'West Wing' (part 1 of a 2-parter), and then a FRESH 'Law & Order'.
Scheduled on a FRESH Jay are Jesse Ventura, Luke Wilson, and Kasey Chambers.
Scheduled on a FRESH Conan are Dave Attell and Chuck Barris
(HST tomorrow!)
Scheduled on a FRESH Carson Daly are Jeff Daniels and Apples in Stereo.
ABC opens with a FRESH 'My Wife & Kids', then a FRESH 'George Lopez',
followed by a FRESH 'The Bachelorette', and 'Celebrity Mole: Hawaii'.
The WB has a FRESH 'Dawson's Creek', and a FRESH 'Angel'.
Faux offers a FRESH 'That 70's Show', then a FRESH 'American Idol', followed by a
FRESH 'Bernie Mac', and a FRESH 'Cedric The Entertainer'.
UPN has a FRESH 'Enterprise', and a FRESH 'Twilight Zone'.
TCM celebrates the union movement (really!).
VCR ALERT!! First up is the seldom seen
Salt of the Earth (1954),
directed by Herbert J. Biberman,
one of the Hollywood 10 (his wife, actress Gale Sondergaard, was also blacklisted).
Written by
Michael Wilson, who was also blacklisted (while on the blacklist, Wilson also wrote scripts for
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955),
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), and
Lawrence of Arabia (1962) - among others, ALL UNCREDITED).
Salt of the Earth is a taut story about striking New Mexico miners (financed by the miners' union, it received little distribution or exhibition until later years), made on a shoe-string budget with
a blacklisted director, producer, actors and writers (the majority of the actors in the film aren't actors),
the film not only addresses the real worker's struggle (against a Zinc mine owner), it also deals with racism against Mexican-Americans and sexism. All of this in 1954!
Next up is
Black Fury (1935), directed by
Michael Curtiz, and
starring Paul Muni in a tour de force performance, as an immigrant coal miner finding himself in the middle of a bitter labor dispute between the workers and the mine owners.
A long time ago I was fortunate to have met Dalton Trumbo, another of the Hollywood 10. To my eternal embarrassment, I was a hick, and didn't even recognize his name. Shamed by my host, the next day I hit bookstores til I found a copy of
'Johnny Got His Gun'. That was during the 'Nam years & Nixon. Think it's time to re-read it, and offer up a toast to the Hollywood 10.
Anyone have any opinions?
Or reviews?
(See below for addresses)
Actor Dustin Hoffman, right, receives the Goldene Kamera prize in the category 'Lifetime Achievement Film' from actress Geraldine Chaplin, left, at the annual Goldene Kamera awarding ceremony in Berlin on Tuesday
night, Feb. 4, 2003. The media prize is sponsored by German 'Hoerzu' weekly tv magazine.
Photo by Jan Bauer
Peace Rally In Aspen
Hunter S. Thompson
Hunter S. Thompson was more than an hour late to Saturdays peace rally in Aspen, Colo., but the founder of gonzo journalism was able to deliver exactly what the 2,000 pacifists wanted to hear.
The Fear and Loathing author accessoried with a cigarette holder and aviator glasses said he was somewhat homesick for the smell of tear gas. But the drug-abusing gun enthusiast drew the biggest
cheer from the partisan crowd when he attacked resident Bush: "In two years, this dunce, this yo-yo from Texas, has taken us from a prosperous nation at peace to a broke nation at war."
Hunter S. Thompson
Dr. Thompson is scheduled on Conan tomorrow!
The Information One-Stop
Moose & Squirrel
Nashville Plans
Woody Guthrie Tribute
What becomes a folk legend most?
In the case of Woody Guthrie, who composed "This Land Is Your Land" and other pieces of Americana music, it's a monthlong tribute, including art exhibits, films, musical performances and a seminar at the Country Music Hall of Fame.
The highlight of the tribute is a concert Wednesday night at the Ryman Auditorium called "Nashville Sings Woody." The lineup includes Guthrie's son, Arlo, Marty Stuart, Nanci Griffith, Guy Clark, Gillian Welch and David Rawlings, and Janis Ian.
Guthrie began by singing country music. But his music evolved, largely because of the hardships he witnessed and experienced, said Jay Orr of the Country Music Hall of Fame.
During the Great Depression, Guthrie had trouble finding work. He hitchhiked, rode freight trains and walked to California with thousands of refugees from America's heartland.
He also developed a love for the open road that he would revisit often.
Guthrie drifted to New York where his social activism grew and his songs became more political. He helped workers form unions and wrote for the Communist paper The Daily Worker. He played a guitar with the
slogan "This machine kills fascists" pasted on it.
By the 1960s he suffered from Huntington's chorea, a genetic neurological disorder that had afflicted his mother. He died Oct. 3, 1967.
One of his last visitors was Bob Dylan, part of a new wave of folk musicians who, with Phil Ochs, Tom Paxton and others, embraced Guthrie's music.
For the rest, Woody Guthrie Tribute
www.woodyguthrie.org
Woody is one of my god's. Not only for his music, but Huntington's runs in my Mom's family. My grandmother, Gladys, was one of 7. 5 of her siblings developed Huntington's.
Long may Woody shine!
An acrobat performs in front of a crowd at a temple fair in Beijing on the third day of Chinese New Year Monday, Feb. 3, 2003. Fairs across the city are crowded with people enjoying performances during their week-long Spring Festival holiday.
Photo by Greg Baker
Slaying Shows Hollywood Polarity
Lana Clarkson
By LINDA DEUTSCH
The stories of Phil Spector and Lana Clarkson, the actress found slain in his suburban mansion, emerged Tuesday as reflections of the two sides of success that exist within Hollywood's pop culture landscape.
Spector, 62, the music industry wunderkind who struck it rich in his teens and changed the face of pop music, was a success story - an eccentric millionaire with a castle home in the suburbs.
Clarkson, 40, a B-movie actress who sold her pinups on the Internet and modeled herself after Marilyn Monroe, was a success within the exploitation movie world. She was nearly 6 feet tall, blonde, buxom and gorgeous.
She was discovered by exploitation movie king Roger Corman and starred in a series of films that made her a semi-cult figure. She played a super-heroine called "Barbarian Queen," a character Corman said was the model for TV's "Xena: Warrior Princess."
Clarkson had her own Web site and a company called Living Doll Productions. She also had appeared in many commercials and often made personal appearances. As "Barbarian Queen," she appeared at comic book and pop culture conventions.
Spector, whose "wall of sound" technique transformed 1960s pop music, was freed Monday night after posting $1 million bond. He had been arrested before dawn Monday after Clarkson's body was found in the foyer of his mansion, which is 15 miles northeast
of Los Angeles. Lt. Dan Rosenberg said deputies found the weapon used in the slaying but declined to say where in the house it was located.
Clarkson began working last month at the House of Blues on the Sunset Strip where she was a ticket collector and hostess, friends and associates said.
"She wasn't thrilled to have people from the industry see her doing that, but she thought it was a good step to get back into the mainstream," said her neighbor, Paul Pietrewicz. "It wasn't exactly what she wanted to do, but she thought she could meet the right person."
The club's management issued a statement saying they were "deeply saddened to learn of the tragic death of its employee Lana Clarkson, who was found in the home of Phil Spector yesterday morning.
For the rest, Lana Clarkson
Living Doll Productions
Hip Hop Group Angered
Boycott Pepsi
Angered at Pepsi for placing foul-mouthed Ozzy Osbourne in a Superbowl commercial only months after yanking rapper Ludacris for his vulgar language, hip hop icon Russell Simmons said Tuesday he will announce this weekend plans
for a boycott against the soft drinks giant, accusing Pepsi of applying a double standard in a wack (hip-hop slang for displeasing) manner.
"The Hip-Hop Summit Action Network (HSAN) plans to announce and detail a proposed boycott of Pepsi during the NBA All-Star Weekend in Atlanta," a spokeswoman for Simmons and the non-profit hip-hop group he helped found, said.
"The boycott is being called in response to Pepsi dropping Ludacris as spokesman and subsequently picking up the Osbournes, who are no less vulgar," she added.
The controversy regarding the Ludacris spot dates back to a few months ago when conservative commentator Bill O'Reilly pointed out that the rapper was foul-mouthed, accused Pepsi of being "immoral" and urged a boycott.
Pepsi caved in to the pressure, yanking its 30-second television spot, stating it had received several consumer complaints about Ludacris' sexually explicit, profanity-laden song lyrics.
Boycott Pepsi
Sentences In Porsche Theft
Nicholas Cage
An airman stationed at Scott Air Force Base in Illinois has been sentenced to five years in prison for stealing a 1989 Porsche 911 belonging to actor Nicolas Cage.
Michael Gramling, 20, of the St. Louis suburb Arnold, pleaded guilty last year. He was sentenced Monday in Jefferson County Circuit Court.
In January 2002, Missouri Water Patrol divers found the $100,000 car at Lake of the Ozarks, submerged in 12 feet of water. It had been stolen a month earlier from a parking lot in Arnold while in a transport trailer
on its way from California to Pennsylvania.
Another defendant, Scott Air Force Base airman Robert Clerkin, 21, was previously tried on stealing charges in a military court and sentenced to six months in the stockade. His sentence also includes a rank reduction,
forfeiture in pay and a letter of reprimand.
Nicholas Cage
Arrested After Flight
Courtney Love
Singer-actress Courtney Love was detained Tuesday at Heathrow airport after an airline claimed she verbally abused the crew of a trans-Atlantic flight.
Love was "verbally abusive toward our cabin crew and disruptive" on a Virgin Atlantic flight from Los Angeles to London, airline spokesman Paul Moore said. No one was injured on the Boeing 747, which carried 201 passengers and 20 crew.
London's Metropolitan Police said a 38-year-old woman had been arrested for disruptive behavior and endangering an aircraft. She was being questioned by officers at Heathrow after reports of a passenger "being generally disruptive, using
abusive language and refusing to sit down and put her belt on," a spokesman said. Love was later released.
Love had been due to attend a fund-raising event at London's Old Vic Theater on Wednesday along with Elton John and Kevin Spacey.
Courtney Love
Threatens Suit
Madonna
Madonna is not amused that a British gossip magazine says she is pregnant just because she has dyed her hair and taken to wearing baggy clothes.
A spokeswoman for the pop diva says Madonna plans to file a complaint with Britain's press watchdog over inaccurate reports in Heat magazine that she is pregnant with her third child.
Liz Rosenberg said Madonna, 44, was not pregnant and also denied a report in the magazine that the "Material Girl" had moved back to Los Angeles to consult her U.S. doctors.
Heat magazine homed in on Madonna's hair color change and latest fashion style as the basis for its report, which follows weeks of rumors in the British press that Madonna was expecting again.
Madonna
In The Kitchen With BartCop & Friends
Latest 'Reunion' Tour
The Doors
Add The Doors to the latest reunion tour circuit. And band members are sure that the late Jim Morrison would have loved it.
"Jim Morrison would be very happy with this regrouping of The Doors," keyboardist Ray Manzarek told The Associated Press. "Because these are Jim Morrison's words, and Jim Morrison's words are now alive and being sung to an
audience one more time. And he was a poet and a poet wants to be known for his words."
Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger have reformed the band, now called The Doors 21st Century. Ian Astbury of The Cult will handle vocals, and Stewart Copeland of Police will play the drums.
"It is The Doors for the 21st century, there's a new millennium here," Krieger said. "And there's a need for good music to be heard. That's why we decided to get this whole thing back together after 30 years."
Their first concert will be on Friday in Los Angeles and a tour is planned for later this year.
The Doors
The Doors 21st Century
Andalusian horsemen perform during the opening show of the World Bull Fair in Seville February 4, 2003. The show pays homage to the bulls used in traditional bullfights around Spain. The fair will close February 9, 2003.
Photo by Marcelo del Pozo
Annual Lingerie Show
Lane Bryant
Lane Bryant will outdo itself with tonight's annual lingerie show at the Manhattan Center. Not only will Roseanne, Mia Tyler and The Post's own fashion-business reporter Lisa Marsh strut the runway, but the retailer has also scored Kelly Osbourne to catwalk
in the finale. Booked to see the ladies firsthand is Aerosmith frontman Stephen Tyler, Kiss guitarist Gene Simmons and the Osbourne clan.
Lane Bryant
Renewing Family Ties With ABC
Michael J. Fox
ABC has renewed its family ties with Michael J. Fox, picking up the pilot "Hench at Home," which the ex-"Spin City" star wrote and will executive produce.
Fox, who recently penned the bestselling memoir "Lucky Man," conceived "Hench" as a semi-autobiographical take on a pro hockey player who spends more time with his family after he is forced to retire.
If "Hench at Home" gets a series order, it will be produced in New York, where Fox lives with his family. Fox left "Spin City" in 2000 after announcing that he had Parkinson's disease.
Beyond the parenting aspect, "Hench at Home" will delve into what it's like to readjust priorities after you're forced to give up what had been your livelihood. The show's working title is a play on the pilot's lead character, Terry Hench.
Michael J. Fox
Baby News
Maile Masako Brady
Comedian Wayne Brady has someone new to entertain - his daughter.
Brady's actress-wife, Mandie, gave birth to the couple's first child, Maile Masako Brady, on Monday. The child weighed 6 pounds, 1 ounce.
Brady, 30, stars on ABC's sketch comedy show "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" and hosts his own syndicated talk show.
Maile Masako Brady
Universal Music Pulls Plug
Grammys Party
Universal Music Group, the world's largest music group, has canceled its expensive post-Grammy Awards gala this year -- with the reasons reportedly ranging from everything from economic woes to fears of fights between rival rappers.
The Los Angeles Times and several other papers reported Tuesday that the company pulled the plug on the gala New York event scheduled for right after the Grammys on Feb. 23 because of concerns that violence might erupt between rival rappers.
But a source close to the company said, "It was canceled for a variety of reasons and a lot of it has to do with the economy and the music market. It just didn't seem appropriate to throw a party like this when everybody's cutting back and when you're having layoffs throughout the industry.."
Grammys Party
Formerly 'The Vidiot'
Time To Say 'Buh-Bye'
Jenny Jones
Long-running syndicated talker "Jenny Jones" is poised to call it quits after the conclusion of the current season, the show's 12th on the air.
A spokesman for the show's distributor, Warner Bros., would not confirm the cancellation. But the Chicago-based staff was informed Friday of the show's likely demise.
Through several ups and downs, "Jenny Jones" has outlived many of its yakker contemporaries. Until "Dr. Phil" debuted this year, no talker with any apparent staying power had been launched since "The Rosie O'Donnell Show" in June 1996. ("Rosie" ended its run at the end of last season.)
Most talk shows launched in recent seasons -- such as this year's "The Rob Nelson Show" and last season's "The Ananda Lewis Show" and "Iyanla" -- have been yanked before they've yakked a whole season.
"Jenny" is in the company of very few that can claim solid runs of more than 10 seasons. Among them are the stalwart "The Oprah Winfrey Show," as well as "Sally," which signed off last season after nearly two decades on the air.
Jenny Jones
U.S. adventurer Phil Buck talks to Reuters while sitting in front of his reed boat Viracocha in this file image from January 26, 2003. Buck is planning to be the first to cross the Pacific Ocean from South America to Australia by using one of the world´s most ancient maritime technologies. Buck and his crew will set sail from Chile on February 22, 2003, hoping to reach Sydney, Australia within six months.
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Sues Bandmates Over Reunion
John Densmore
A reunion concert by two former members of 1960s band the Doors has sparked a lawsuit by a third member, who says they can call themselves "the Windows, the Hinges," but not "the Doors."
Drummer John Densmore filed a legal action in Los Angeles County Superior Court on Tuesday charging breach of contract, trademark infringement and unfair competition against keyboardist Ray Manzarek and guitarist Robby Krieger.
Manzarek and Krieger have joined forces with singer Ian Astbury, formerly of 1980s rock band the Cult, and drummer Stewart Copeland, formerly of rock trio the Police, to play a concert in Los Angeles on Friday.
Manzarek, aged in his 60s, countered in a separate interview that Densmore's suit was "frivolous," and that he and Krieger, 57, were billing themselves as "The Doors, 21st Century."
Densmore said he will not prevent Friday's show from going ahead at the Universal Amphitheater near Hollywood, because he does not want to alienate hardcore fans who do not care who's on stage. He has no desire to play with
his former bandmates, but would not rule out a reunion down the road.
John Densmore
Looking For New Toys
Sting
Tantric sex enthusiast Sting had a good time browsing the aisles at L.A.s Hustler sex shop the other day. The pop star spent an hour and a half scoping out items like a remote-control egg and a diving dolphin, described as an amazing triple-action love ring which will arouse your most erotic emotions, reports the London Mirror. Alas, Sting, who once boasted of marathon seven-hour sex sessions, left without buying anything.
Sting
More Stealth Tactics
More Sierra Logging
The Bush administration is drafting a proposal that would greatly increase logging in national forests in the Sierra Nevada and effectively jettison an elaborate set of environmental protections adopted in 2000 after years of study and analysis.
Complaining that the rules, written by the Clinton administration, are too restrictive and complicated, the U.S. Forest Service is considering replacing them with a much looser set of guidelines that could permit a level of timber cutting not seen in the Sierra for more than a decade.
As currently outlined, the revisions would retain the largest and oldest trees in federal forests, but would permit the harvesting of trees as large as 30 inches in diameter across most of the range. They would also allow loggers to create thousands
of acres of openings in forests, as large as 2 acres apiece, throughout the Sierra.
The recommendations have not been publicly released, and regional forest service officials declined to discuss them in detail, saying they remain under review and may change over the next six weeks. "It's a draft of a draft," said Matt Mathes, spokesman for the Forest Service in California.
More Sierra Logging
Jurors Regret Conviction In Kangaroo Court
Ed Rosenthal
Jurors who convicted a man of cultivating marijuana and other federal drug charges say they would have acquitted him had they been told he was growing it for medical purposes for the city of Oakland.
"I feel like I made the biggest mistake in my life," juror Marney Craig said. "We convicted a man who is not a criminal."
Other jurors reached Monday agreed and planned to write to Ed Rosenthal to apologize.
Rosenthal, 58, the self-described "Guru of Ganja," faces up to 85 years in prison when he is sentenced June 4. In a courtroom crowded with medical marijuana advocates wearing "Free Ed" buttons, a federal judge decided Tuesday that Rosenthal can remain free until then.
After a two-week trial, the 12-member jury unanimously concluded Friday that Rosenthal was growing more than 100 plants, conspired to cultivate marijuana, and maintained an Oakland warehouse for a growing operation. He was portrayed
as a major drug manufacturer and put on little defense.
The jury was not told that Rosenthal was acting as an agent of Oakland's medical marijuana program, an outgrowth of a 1996 medical marijuana initiative approved by California's voters that conflicts with federal law.
"I really feel manipulated in a way," juror Pam Klarkowsky said. "Had I known that information, there is no way I could have found that man guilty."
Rosenthal's defense repeatedly tried to call witnesses to testify that he was growing marijuana for medical use. The judge denied those requests and was backed up twice during the trial by the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
Jury foreman Charles Sackett said he hopes Rosenthal's case is overturned on appeal.
"Some of us jurors are upset about the way the trial was conducted. ... I would have liked to have been given the opportunity to decide with all the evidence."
Ed Rosenthal
Exhibit Spotlights
Female Cartoonists
In the library at the Cartoon Art Museum in San Francisco, there is a book of great 20th century cartoonists. Each page is devoted to an individual artist, with a revealing portrait and brief biography.
Leafing through the pages, it becomes increasingly clear that the cartoon business is a male-dominated industry: Dozens upon dozens of the cult favorites included in the anthology are men.
One image stands out: It is a photo of San Francisco cartoonist Trina Robbins, and she is breast-feeding.
Now that's girl power. Of course, Robbins, now in her 60s, is not the only notable female artist to create comics in the past 100 years; droves of women cartoonists have achieved notoriety during their careers. It's
just that they seem to have been long forgotten by the time someone sat down to write the history of cartoon art.
Robbins, who is also an author and art historian, is doing her darnedest to polish the dust off the work of these female artists and place them back in spotlight.
"She Draws Comics: Great Women Cartoonists," curated by Robbins, opened Jan. 25 at the Cartoon Art Museum. The show spans 90 years, with artwork by more than 60 American women, including a few pieces by Robbins. Most
of the exhibit comes from her private collection, which has been touring Europe for two years.
For a great read, Female Cartoonists
GENERAL INFORMATION: "She Draws Comics: Great Women Cartoonists". Cartoon Art Museum of San Francisco, through June 8. 655 Mission St. Contact: (415) 227-8666.
www.cartoonart.org
Naked in London
Les couples pris en flagrant délit de relations sexuelles en plein air ou dans un quelconque lieu public seront passibles de six mois de réclusion, selon un projet de loi britannique sur les crimes sexuels.
Photo by Sinead Lynch.
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Critical Date Approaches
Nick's Crusade
