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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?” There is still no permanent memorial. No special prosecutor, no federal aid to survivors. But ther...

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 founding director of Visual AIDS, an advocacy group that supports artists living with the disease, help...

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, we should point out, is not over). First, we had David France’s Oscar-nominated 2012 documentary

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 N. Over 30 dealers from seven states will fill more than 80 tables with music items. Vendors will ...

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 Show: Dexys Do Irish and Country Soul. That’s as good a way to sum it up as any, I guess. It’s g...