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Thursday, January 8, 2009

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Today’s Feature: “Jewish Like Me” by Andrea Higbie
Latest in Digest: We Will Fall

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Fleeting

In a move to obliterate ubiquitous graffiti, tag and stencil art, cities like Toronto, Portland, and Vancouver have taken steps to obliterate these urban hieroglyphics with overpainting. Rarely is the paint a match for the building itself, nor are subsequent coats a match for prior ones.

It is during these fleeting moments between successive applications that I have endeavored to find abstract compositions. While these property owners have at least momentarily obliterated one form of urban art, they have unintentionally created another.

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TODAY’S FEATURE

Jewish Like Me

To be Jewish in America can be a gefilte fish served with wasabi and a dollop of paranoia. And things get even more complicated when you don’t look the part, as ANDREA HIGBIE explains.

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What’s Your Resolution?

The TMN writers share, collectively.

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We Will Fall

Another member of punk rock’s bellwether band The Stooges has passed away. Please help us mourn the loss of incendiary guitarist Ron Asheton.