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Christian Cagigal has been astounding Bay Area audiences with his spooky mix of narrative and magic for years. Now the magician is preparing his most ambitious show yet, a thirteen night experiment– from April 1st to Friday the 13th– he’s calling The Collection. To pull the show off he’s turned to that best friend of indie artists everywhere, crowd funding.
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Tracking 11 million undocumented persons in a country is tough. But one professor, Dr. Roberto Gonzales, tried to do exactly that. And he found some surprising trends.
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We’ve heard recently that student loan debt in the United States tops credit card debt. In fact, two thirds of college graduates wind up with some kind of debt that averages about $25,000. Filmmakers Serge Bakalian and Aurora Meneghello created Default: the Student Loan Documentary, which is currently on a national tour, and played recently at the San Francisco Indie Fest.
Will Fordyce, Andrew Edison and Luke Loftin in the opening scene of Bindlestiffs.
Bindlestiffs has the distinction of being one of the most oversexed, twisted, and just plain messed up comedies in ages, and when you consider that the writer-director team behind the film were only half out of high school during the filmmaking, it’s cause for the comedy factories in Hollywood to be very, very nervous.
So Complex.com recently put out their 50 Greatest TV Show Theme Songs list. Then, the good folks at Egotripland.com responded with 10 Best TV Theme Songs (That Complex Didn’t List). No disrespect to either but when you come out with a top ten, 50, or 100 of anything, something cool is bound to be left [...]
Our system of law doesn’t acknowledge the derivative nature of creativity. Instead, ideas are regarded as property, as unique and original lots with distinct boundaries. But ideas aren’t so tidy. They’re layered, they’re interwoven, they’re tangled. And when the system conflicts with the reality… the system starts to fail. — Kirby Ferguson
In this episode, Pomona, California poets Tre’veon Bain and Krys Bragg of Kadoosh use the motif of the 1960s Chatty Cathy doll to address disturbing patterns in romantic relationships.
A Homeland Security budget proposal released yesterday recommends what seems to be a gradual phase-out of a program known as 287(g), a voluntary federal-local immigration enforcement partnership that preceded the more controversial, but less costly (and mandatory) Secure Communities fingerprint-sharing program. The proposed budget recommends cutting $17 million from 287(g), discontinuing it in some jurisdictions, and suspending consideration of new requests from agencies wishing to participate.
In the latest Brains and Beakers, students got a behind-the-scenes demo from UC Berkeley’s Museum of Vertebrate Zoology. If you’ve never heard of the museum, it’s probably because it’s closed to the public — only scientists and other researchers have access to the hundreds of thousands of bones and skins in its collection.
Last month, the California State Senate approved a bill to develop a Creativity and Innovation Education Index, to use as a tool to measure how schools are fostering creativity among their students. California is just one of several states to implement a law like this, Massachusetts being the first, according to Education Week.
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