Author Archives: kmazz

There was a social critic, can’t recall the name, who wrote years ago about the canny ability of Western capitalism to mediate and emasculate any confrontational social movement by merchandising it. Co-opt and reward. When Hip Hop leaves mean streets … Continue reading →

At the end of a day of long light, when the sun shone for the first time in months and its warmth healed sore moods and old aches, the last thing anyone wanted to do was enter a musty, dusty … Continue reading →

Update to my “Who are we?” post: a local blogger coined a new term that relates neatly.

Across Europe, filthy, fetid camps hold African, Albanian, and Asian illegal immigrants. Italy is rounding up gypsies again. In South Africa, Zimbabweans and Mozambicans are hunted by mobs and burned alive. In the U.S. we criminalize and now imprison Latin … Continue reading →

It is a sad state of affairs when the passage through adolescence requires the loss of the humanizing ritual of mealtime. Let’s face it, the Slow Food movement, which tries not only to restore that ritual before it is gone … Continue reading →