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Issue 104 Summer 2008
THE BOMB BLAST
Ned Sublette’s The World That Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square details the complex history of the captivating and tragic city, including the influence of Havana and Haiti. He speaks with former New Orleans resident, writer and editor Garnette Cadogan.
Big Chief Donald Harrison, Jr. at Saint Augustine’s, Mardi Gras morning, 2006. Photo: Ned Sublette.
Tom Kalin’s upcoming film, Savage Grace, tells the tale of socialite Barbara Daly Baekeland’s infamous 1972 slaying and the incestuous family dynamics surrounding her murder. A BOMB video web exclusive with filmmaker and BOMB contributing editor, Bette Gordon.
Julianne Moore as Barbara Baekeland in Savage Grace, directed by Tom Kalin. Copyright 2007 Monfort Producciones S.L-Lace Curtain Productions Inc.-Celluloid Dreams. All rights reserved. An IFC Films Release.
Performance artist Kalup Linzy breaks down the walls of various stereotypes—of blackness, gayness, normalcy, and the art world. The results are sometimes uncomfortable, often outrageous, and never cynical. With Nick Stillman on his homemade soap operas and new full-length album.
Kalup Linzy, KK Queens Survey video still, 2005, digital video, color, sound, TRT: 7 minutes. Courtesy of the artist and Taxter & Spengemann, NY.
Japanese avant-garde noise band The Boredoms hit New York City last summer with 77 BOADRUM, an electrifying musical event that had everyone talking. Hisham Akira Bharoocha helped make it all happen. He spoke with band members Eye and Yoshimi on their latest U.S. tour.
Boredoms front man Yamatsuka Eye playing the Sevena, the 7-neck guitar he devised, during the band’s most recent tour in the U.S. Photo: Hisham Akira Bharoocha.
Playwright Will Eno, “The Beckett of the Jon Stewart generation,” and artist Joe Sola have been friends for fifteen years. They share their ongoing conversation with BOMB, ranging from art to sports to “what it’s like to be here.”
Joe Sola and Will Eno in central Florida, 2007. Photo: Grizzly O’Connell.
Art: PETER SAUL by Saul Ostrow
DARA BIRNBAUM by Karen Kelly & Barbara Schroeder
CATHERINE SULLIVAN & MEG STUART
Architecture:
JAMES TIMBERLAKE by Deven Golden
Practice + Theory:
MIKE DAVIS by Lucy Raven
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