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Three Things I Read Today - 5/17/2012 “Toni Morrison” by Christopher Bollen (Interview Magazine) Interview with the Nobel winner in advance of her latest novel. http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/toni-morrison Chuck Brown Obituaries The “old DC” lost another icon with Brown’s passing yesterday. From the Post obit - “He smiled a bit, and I asked my dad, “You know Chuck?” “Everyone who grew up then does,” he said. “It was a different time then.” Chuck Brown, go-go legend, dies (Washington Post): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/chuck-browngo-go-legend-dies/2012/05/17/gIQA4OrfUU_blog.html Chuck Brown Live at Lorton (Washington Post): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/chuck-brown-live-at-lorton/2012/05/17/gIQAgIPfVU_blog.html?wprss=rss_local Goodbye to the Godfather of Go-Go (The Root): http://www.theroot.com/views/chuck-brown-dies-75 The Great Chuck Brown Has Passed (David Simon): http://davidsimon.com/the-great-chuck-brown-has-passed/ “Detroit’s Otherworldly Decay (with Slideshow)” by Julie Dermansky (Atlantic Monthly) Municipal bankruptcy and privatization of formerly-public services is a troubling trend in some of the US’ once-magnificent cities. Detroit is a laboratory for the latest round of bondholder/market driven policy experiments. This is not going to end well. Just ask London’s rail passengers. http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/detroits-otherworldly-decay/257169/#slide18 View Larger

Three Things I Read Today - 5/17/2012

“Toni Morrison” by Christopher Bollen (Interview Magazine)
Interview with the Nobel winner in advance of her latest novel.
http://www.interviewmagazine.com/culture/toni-morrison


Chuck Brown Obituaries
The “old DC” lost another icon with Brown’s passing yesterday. From the Post obit - “He smiled a bit, and I asked my dad, “You know Chuck?” “Everyone who grew up then does,” he said. “It was a different time then.”
Chuck Brown, go-go legend, dies (Washington Post): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/therootdc/post/chuck-browngo-go-legend-dies/2012/05/17/gIQA4OrfUU_blog.html
Chuck Brown Live at Lorton (Washington Post): http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-state-of-nova/post/chuck-brown-live-at-lorton/2012/05/17/gIQAgIPfVU_blog.html?wprss=rss_local
Goodbye to the Godfather of Go-Go (The Root): http://www.theroot.com/views/chuck-brown-dies-75
The Great Chuck Brown Has Passed (David Simon): http://davidsimon.com/the-great-chuck-brown-has-passed/


“Detroit’s Otherworldly Decay (with Slideshow)” by Julie Dermansky (Atlantic Monthly)
Municipal bankruptcy and privatization of formerly-public services is a troubling trend in some of the US’ once-magnificent cities. Detroit is a laboratory for the latest round of bondholder/market driven policy experiments. This is not going to end well. Just ask London’s rail passengers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/national/archive/2012/05/detroits-otherworldly-decay/257169/#slide18

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  3. facelessbitchmage said: mainstream media sources seem to like to fetishize & focus on Detroit. Not denying shit is bad, but keep going south & they can see the same phenomenon happen over and over again.
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