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Monthly Archives: March, 2004

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Lost Children in the City of God

Take anything you know about coming-of-age dramas, splice that with well-traveled gangster formulas, add a heaping load of social commentary and visual spectacle, and you are only getting close to what City of God has to offer.

Three To Tango: A Review of The Dreamers

Sex, cinema and politics interweave in the controversial NC-17 love note by Bernardo Bertolucci.

A Review of 6 Irresponsible Albums

As a lazy alternative for young consumerists everywhere, I offer you six satisfying soundtracks to accompany what we do best: being excessively hedonistic, apathetic and indifferent.

Camille @ Gallery 37 Center for the Arts

The UFO of human feelings: a hardly believable phenomenon where you not only have hot pants for one another but every worldly care is forgotten

The Government That Cares: Interviews with the New Student Government Officers

As the Spring 2004 semester goes on, SAIC welcomes four new officers of the Student Government.

Artwatch: March 2004

Guerrilla Girls // Tibetan Protest in the OC // Censorship at LAX

Ink: March 2004

What Did The Winner Get // Fear and Covert Giggling

Mouth Off: Full Frontal Nudity

Imagine if it weren’t Janet who did the flashing. Imagine, if it were Justin Timberlake and his Mickey Mouse club?

Worst Case Scenario: How to Create the Illusion of Opinion

For any artist to be taken seriously, they must project an image of total self-assurance, even to the point of narcissistic obstinacy.

Resistance and Dissent in Milwaukee: Visions of Tragedy

No image or photograph can match the reality of war, and every artist that has in any way referenced it has to address that certainty.

Snow White and the Trouble of Interpretation

Whether or not the application of a single meaning can ever be integrated into the whole of anything is, perhaps, the main question at the heart of modernity.

Empowerment or Punishment?

What is the No Child Left Behind Act (NCLB), and why are people so worked up about it? Many of us have heard of its emphasis on standardized test scores, but few people have publicly offered a thoughtful or detailed critique.

Speaking Out From The Inside

The point of this art isn’t necessarily to see eye to eye, but to speak heart to heart.

First Things First… Again

It seems that many people believe that all it really takes to be a graphic designer is a computer, some basic software, and a...

Students and Responsibility

If politics are inescapable and life and art are intertwined, what does this mean to the student artist at SAIC? Is there a responsibility involved in being an artist?