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  I only "discovered" (really, because a friend turned me onto him) Sandy Bull fairly recently.  My pal burned a CD or two of Sand...

I learned of this thanks to a tweet of Teju Cole. As you no doubt know, the great jazz pianist Vijay Iyer just received a prestigious Ma...

Joe Klein really said this. On MSNBC's Morning Joe on October 23. From a recent piece by Vijay Prashad: 'On Oct. 23, Time’s Joe K...

"Numb" is a fantastic song. Let's just get that out there at the outset. The video is great too. It's also an occasio...

At least one of the fifty some vets of Afghanistan and Iraq who t ossed away their medals on Sunday, May  20, as part of the anti-NATO d...

Courtesy of what I've learned from friends, some more commentary on Rihanna and her notorious "Hard" video . First, and I foun...

Over the past year, I've heard my MERIP comrade Moustafa Bayoumi give the same, great, paper twice, at last year's MESA (Middle Eas...

I finally got around to watching this thoroughly enjoyable film last night, and even though its liberal political turns are somewhat hokey a...