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Monthly Archives: March, 2013

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Letter to the Editor — Against Racial Fetishism

Student group criticizes climate of insensitivity at SAIC.

Student Profile: Sanaz Sohrabi

Highlighting the human costs of U.S. sanctions against Iran.

Does SAIC Invest Responsibly?

SAIC student groups rally to expose SAIC investments.

Lack of Innovation Parading as Nostalgia

Revival of 90s music signifies death of creative originality.

April is the Wettest Month

Certification course to limit umbrella-related assholery.

Trucking Delicious

A selection of food trucks with affordable meal options that park around the loop.

In the Aftermath of War, a Void

Review of ‘Destroy the Picture: Painting the Void, 1949-62’ at the MCA.


Reading the canvas as a metonym for the body can’t be helped as you make your way through this exhibition. Canvases are sliced, torched, bound, shot, decayed, corroded and maimed.

Eco-Punk Art

pref. Of or pertaining to the totality or pattern of relations between organisms and their environment

n. A music movement, characterized by aggressive anti-Establishment slogans and a defiant Do-It-Yourself ethos

n. Quality, production and expression according to aesthetic principles, of what is beautiful or of more than ordinary significance

The Birth of Boom-Bap

Underappreciated '90s New York Hip-Hop.

Fun with Genres!

Jungle-Goth Lovers Rock? Space Viking Surf Wave? Outsider Funeral-Gaze? Or...

Little Me

A comic by Nina Palomba

Dreamscape

A comic by Griffin Miller.

To be. . .

A comic by Jennifer Yung.

Back At the Ranch. . .

A comic by Eric J. Garcia.

Hugo Chávez

A comic by Esther Garcia Peces