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#Boston and #NYC Dance Event: Forest

My dear friend Wendy Jehlen is doing a dance performance called “Forest“ Fri, June 18 8pm Sat, June 19 3pm & 8pm BU Dance Theater on Buick Street at 915 Commonwealth Ave. tickets: $25, $20 Student/Senior/BDA, $10 Children under 12 available at 617-358-2500 and www.akhra.org/tix.html ANIKAI Dance invites you to escape the confines of our urban world, and step into the ever-evolving, unpredictable world of the forest – a landscape unfamiliar and alluring, full of serenity and sensuality, conflict and metamorphosis. Forest is but a moment, a small part of a longer, eternal story. FOREST is choreographed by Wendy Jehlen…

Musalman Newspaper

A friend of mine sent me this great documentary on the last handwritten newspaper, The Musalman. Coincidentally, Comedy Central ran a bumper about the same paper shortly after.

Of Concentration Camps and Comic Books

Naif Al-Mutawa, mastermind behind the 99, writes a column about growing up in NY. If we can show how perceptions are unfairly formed, we can take great leaps in a single bound towards transforming them. And what better characters to explore such issues than Superman and Batman who were created by Jewish young men from New York and Cleveland at the height of anti-Semitism and THE 99 who were created by a Muslim during the height of Islamophobia (and who went to camp with a bunch of Jews from Cleveland and New York!).