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A New Testament to the Fury and Beauty of Activism During the AIDS Crisis The mass deaths in America from 1981 to 1996 — have you heard of them? In her 2012 book, “The Gentrification of the Mind,” Sarah Schulman delved into the silence still surrounding AIDS in America. “Where is our wall of white marble with the names of every New Yorker who died of government neglect?” she asks. “Where is our special prosecutor?” “Where is our post-traumatic diagnosis? Where is our recovery?�...

Patrick O’Connell, 67, Dies; Raised Awareness of AIDS With Art As the founding director of Visual AIDS, he helped develop campaigns including “Day Without Art” and, most notably, the ubiquitous red ribbon. Patrick O’Connell, the founding director of Visual AIDS, in his apartment in New York in 1994, wearing the red ribbon that became an international symbol of AIDS advocacy.Credit...Thomas McGovern/Getty Images May 3, 2021, 3:52 p.m. ET Patrick O’Connell, who as the fou...

Sarah Schulman Discusses Her Massive ACT UP Tome ‘Let the Record Show,’ Coming This May Book design by No Ideas; portrait by Drew Stevens It’s fascinating to watch how traumatic and fraught events get historicized, isn’t it? Think the Holocaust. Think the Vietnam War. And think the U.S. 1980s and ’90s AIDS crisis and the furious activism that rose up to meet it. Only in the past decade have we started seeing major nonfiction works of film or publishing take on that seismic era (which,...

South Bend Record Show returns this month By: Maura Johnson Photo courtesy: South Bend Record Show SOUTH BEND, Ind. – The South Bend Record Show is returning this month as the largest one-day sale of recorded music in Michiana. Guests can shop for their favorite records, posters, cassettes, and more on April 18 from 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. at the Ramada by Wyndham at 52890 IN-933...

How would you sum up this new album then Kevin? Down the phone there is a pause. “I thought you’d be able to do that,” the voice answers. “I don’t think I could.” Kevin Rowland is in a car at the end of the day. He isn’t driving. At least I don’t think he is driving. It doesn’t occur to me to ask. He is definitely chewing on something as he speaks. That’s between chewing up the questions I’m asking him. Dexys have a new album coming out. It’s called Let the Record ...

Last modified on Mon 8 Mar 2021 07.27 EST In the spring of 1986, Ruth Coker Burks was in the medical centre in Little Rock, Arkansas, visiting a friend with cancer, when she noticed three nurses drawing straws to see which one would have to enter a patient’s room. Curious, she snuck down the corridor to take a look. The door was hung with a scarlet tarp and a biohazard sign. Food trays were piled on the floor outside, along with a cart of isolation suits and masks. Inside, she found an ema...

Vancouver theatre artists Marcus Youssef and Maiko Yamamoto are curating a series of compelling presentations by Charlie Smith on January 13th, 2021 at 10:46 AM 1 of 5 2 of 5 This has been an awkward year for the PuSh International Performing Arts Festival. The associate artistic director, Joyce Rosario, was let go in the midst of a pandemic, along with others. And health restrictions imposed by the provincial government have made it impossible to put on live theatrical or musical perform...