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...aged man falls off a seesaw in the middle of a crowded art gallery, does he make a sound? As Ogden T. Ross ’75 and a room full of fellow art enthusiasts recently learned, the answer is yes—he does.After lively opening remarks by Mexican contemporary artist Pedro Reyes last Thursday, the Carpenter Center’s Sert Gallery reception was thronged with eager attendees, a concerned HUPD officer, and a number of local EMTs. And the aforementioned seesaw? It was the centerpiece of the show.With his installation “ad usum...
...Dead in Oaxaca, everything is in limbo. Mexican tradition has the souls of the dead returning to visit on el Dia de los Muertos, but Oaxaca itself is very much a ghost town on this holiday. The beautiful colonial city has been wracked by months of labor protests and, then, beginning last weekend, violent government reprisals. It is now a jigsaw puzzle of barricades and graffiti: "Murderers," "Power to the People." The streets are mostly empty except for the occasional pedestrian carrying the "Pan de Muerto"-the sweet bread of the dead decorated with skull and bones...
...half as much for twice as many issues. For the hoi polloi without a Harvard degree, content is available in an online issue. But a Harvard degree might be necessary to stand the self-awareness: the teaser for one story reads, “Think the vigilantes patrolling the Mexican border are a bunch of uneducated xenophobes? Not the one with the Ph.D. from Harvard.” Ahem. So for anyone who wants to be an occasional reader of 02138 in hard copy, FM has two suggestions: get online or start raiding a subscriber’s mail...
...drawing the most heat. The state party's platform has twice rejected the idea because of the land required to build it. Conservative bloggers are angry because the plans would let foreign companies run the for-profit toll roads for 50 years and would open up the border to Mexican truckers. Oil woman Anne Holland, a member of the Republican Inner Circle for years, is so irate she is voting independent for Strayhorn. "I have been a staunch Republican supporter for many, many years. The upcoming Texas governor's race is about to change that!" she says...
...More political but equally grabby is Don Dinero, the Aterciopelados's stinging critique of society's obsession with money. Buitrago's groovy bass is mixed with blaring Mexican trumpets, a touch of reverberating accordion and some twangy sounds imported from India - all while Echeverri innocently croons: "Don Dinero how I love you/Don Dinero you are the main guy." In the same vein is Oye Mujer, a pop song that takes on the idea of the over-sexualized woman. "Sex object, piece of meat with a Barbie complex," growls Echeverri in the chorus. It sounds earnest, but it isn't. Both...