Back in November of 2012, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense somehow managed to bring world-renowned hip-hop provocateur Boots Riley and his band, The Coup, to Ypsilanti to play a fundraiser for Ozone House, to support their work with at-risk and marginalized LGBTQ teens. As you may recall, in my interview with Riley, recorded a day […]
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Boots Riley’s “Sorry to Bother You” hits theaters half a dozen years after telling us about it
Posted in Art and Culture, Detroit, Uncategorized Also tagged 21 Grams, Alex Rivera, Atlanta, Boots Riley, community organizing, Danny Glover, Danny Goldberg, David Cross, fast food workers union, film making, foreclosure defense, Happiness, hip hop, Ice Storm, indie film, Lakeith Stanfield, Led Zeppelin, Nirvana, Oakland, Occupy Oakland, Occupy Sandy, Occupy Wall Street, Ozone House, Patton Oswalt, police brutality, Pride Zone, rap, Sleep Dealer, Sorry to Bother You, Street Sweeper Social Club, Ted Hope, telemarketing, Terry Crews, The Coup, unions, Washtenaw Eviction and Foreclosure Defense 10 Comments
R.I.P. Harvy Pekar
Well-respected autobiographical comic book writer and curmudgeon Harvey Pekar died at his home in Cleveland last night. He was 70 years old… I hope his old adversary David Letterman says something nice about him tonight. And, if he doesn’t, I hope that Harvey haunts the shit out of him.
Posted in Art and Culture Also tagged Cleveland, comic books, David Letterman, ghosts, Harvey Pekar, haunting, like reality television but in comic book form, underground comics 16 Comments