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  The well-read red has been reading about gentrification, as well as seeing plenty of it.    Despite what we often hear in mainstream media, gentrification is not simply a cultural change in a neighborhood, and not simply a matter of individual choices.  Rather, it invo... Read more

I'll be back broadcasting this Thursday; I've been following the naval buildups versus Tehran and Pyongyang.  The war rhetoric is cranking up as well.  With the hurricane season threatening to wash oil all over the US Gulf Coast, the oligarchy is no doubt crying for a di... Read more

Ruth Aguilar                An Invitation                self prod Peter Appleyard            Sophisticated Ladies            Linus Ravi Coltrane                Spirit Fiction                Blue Note Manuel Galban            Blue Cha Cha                Concord Picante... Read more

Gaybashing, swine flu and losing the Afghan warHilariously, Admiral Mike Mullen and Secretary of Imperial Wars Robert Gates had to stand next to the President yesterday, as he announced signing the Matthew Shepard and James Byrd, Jr. Hate Crimes Prevention Act.  That’s b... Read more

Salt Director: Phillip Noyce With: Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, etc. Angelina Jolie is our major, if not only, female action-movie star.  She has played Lara Croft, of video game fame, and other kick-ass assassins, as in Wanted.  ... Read more

KBOO jazz Tracking 8/7/12 Ben-Hur/Debriano                Our Thing                    Motema Sylvia Brooks                Restless                    self prod Frank Herzberg            Handmade                    self prod Hot Club of Detroit                  Juncti... Read more