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(R)evolution in Rock: The Art Takes Los Angeles by Storm

Lisa Paul Streitfeld | Posted 04.02.2012

Read More: Andy Warhol, Rock N' Roll, The Art, Los Angeles, Motley Crue, Marcel Duchamp, Vicky Hamilton, Geffen Records, Lady GaGa, Kill City, Bar Sinister, Ron English, Australia, Jim Morrison, Marilyn Mason, The Beatles, The Doors, Rodney Bigenheimer, Rodney on the Roq, Twilight of the Idols, Nietzsche, Guns N Roses, American Idol, K-Rock, Joan Jett, Hollywood, Rockpaper Coffeehouse, Abstract Art, The X Factor, Van Halen, Arts News
Lisa Paul Streitfeld

Such scrappy behavior -- hopeful, yet realist in a "turning world" -- is what propels this Down Under band over the precarious tightrope navigating the middle ground between dreams and nightmares on their journey to define a rock 'n' roll (r)evolution in the 21st century.

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2011's Doomsday Cinema, Part I: Melancholia @ 49th NYFF plus Gainsbourg on Von Trier & Lars' NYFF 47 Press Conference (VIDEO)

Michael Vazquez | Posted 03.14.2012

Read More: The New York Film Festival, The Artist, Dogme 95, Marie Antoinette, Bibi Anderssen, Anti-Christ, Bono, Gael Garcia Bernal, Alexander Skarsgard, Agnes Varda, Breaking the Waves, Steven Norrington, Brady Corbet, Liv Ulmann, Udo Kier, Rousseau, Keifer Sutherland, Kirsten Dunst, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Richard PeñA, Nietzsche, Charlotte Rampling, Earth vs Flying Saucer, Melancholia, The Last Minute, The Turin Horse, The Maids, Jesper Christensen, The New Yorker, Larry Fink, Barbara Kruger, Lars Von Trier, Jean Genet, The Film Society of Lincoln Center, Un Chien Andelou, Michael Vazquez, John Wayne, Virgin Suicides, Anton Corbijn, Penelope Cruz, John Hurt, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Lou Gehrig, Béla Tarr, Cameron Spur, A Star Is Born, Vampire Chronicles, Morrissey, Tarkovsky, Nietzsvhe, Persona, Vagabond, Video, Entertainment News
Michael Vazquez

In anticipation of 12/21/12, this past year saw a return of the doomsday film. Melancholia was an okay end-of-the-world movie, but for this fan, it was not a very good Lars Von Trier film. Perhaps a third viewing is in order.

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Don't Worry, You Might Die

Daniel Will-Harris | Posted 03.10.2012

Read More: Nietzsche, Tcm, Illness, Death, Communication, Nihilism, Captain Kirk, Star Trek, Kierkegaard, Fifty News
Daniel Will-Harris

There's always a difference between what someone says and what you hear. Whatever the words are, they get filtered through your brain and distorted ...

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What Is Art? Famous Artists Respond

Posted 12.12.2011

Read More: Andy Warhol, Ad Reinhardt, Leonardo, Twyla Tharp, Edgar Degas, Warhol, Karl Marx, Da Vinci, Degas, George Wyllie, Gauguin, Braques, Nietzsche, Art Is, Arts News

For centuries we have wondered, what is art? Many nights we've tossed and turned pondering this unsolvable question. And now, HuffPost Arts is here to...

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HuffPost Review: The Guard

Marshall Fine | Posted 10.03.2011

Read More: John Michael McDonagh, I Went Down, Mark Strong, The Guard Movie Review, Martin McDonagh, Movie Reviews, Brendan Gleeson, Don Cheadle, Marshall Fine Movie Review, Movies, Bertrand Russell, Marshall Fine, In Bruges, The Guard, Nietzsche, Liam Cunningham, Fbi, Perrier?S Bounty, Entertainment News
Marshall Fine

Brutal -- and brutally funny -- The Guard joins a growing list of darkly witty contemporary Irish gangster movies. It's as amusing as it is occasionally shocking.

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What Would Nietzsche Say About Europe's Islam Crisis?

Daniel Tutt | Posted 09.24.2011

Read More: Islamophobia, Nietzsche, Norway Bombing, Islam, Beyond Good and Evil, Nietzsche and Multiculturalism, European Multiculturalism, Oslo Bombing, Islam in Europe, European Islamophobia, Nietzsche and Islam, Religion News
Daniel Tutt

Nietzsche found liberation in radically questioning the foundations of tradition. But would he prefer that Islam assimilate or integrate into Europe?

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Fixing Social Security: Ted Nugent Speaks Truth to Power

Eric Laursen | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Al Gore, Social Security, Tea Party, Erskine Bowles, Ted Nugent, Testicle-Lockbox, Nietzsche, Glenn Beck, Alan Simpson, Republican Party, Lockbox, Politics News
Eric Laursen

Ted Nugent, the "Motor City Madman" of '70s hard rock, has a plan to fix Social Security: eliminate it. And make workers under 45 pay to wind it up. With enemies like this, does Social Security even need friends?

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Nietzsche, Buddhism, and Burning College Newspapers: My Interview with spiked

Greg Lukianoff | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Campus Liberty, Foundation for Individual Rights in Education, Fire, Greg Lukianoff, Free Speech, Dartmouth College, College, Speech-Codes, University of Delaware, Brendan O'neill, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Censorship, Spiked, Spiked-Online, College News
Greg Lukianoff

Last week I sat down for an interview in my backyard in Brooklyn with Brendan O'Neill, editor of the British online magazine spiked. Brendan has been ...

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The Arrogance of Catholic Church Authorities

Thomas de Zengotita | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Cardinal Sean Brady, Sex Abuse Scandal, Bishop Pierre Pican, Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Sam Harris, Wittgenstein, The Enlightenment, Pope Benedict XVI, Christopher Hitchins, Catholic Church, Cardinal Dario Hoyos, Nietzsche, Nicholas Kristof, Rev. Raniero Cantalamessa, Rev. Brendan Smyth, Rev. Frederico Lombardi, Religion News
Thomas de Zengotita

What Church authorities have been revealing about themselves, in their very words, is this: they believe they are what they say they are.

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Glenn Beck: "Historian" for a Troubled America

Joseph A. Palermo | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: History, Supreme Court, Jerry Falwell, Historians, Glenn Beck Fox News, Time Magazine, Jonah Goldberg, Sarah Palin, Liberty University, Honorary Doctorate, David Horowitz, Amity Shlaes, Accuracy in Academia, Frederick Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Texas Board of Education, Gordon S. Wood, Glenn Beck, Media News
Joseph A. Palermo

Beck's shtick is a backhanded nod to the relevance of history as a discipline and to historians not only as educators, but also as the keepers of the nation's myths.

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Newsweek Blew It

Michael Sigman | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The Internet, Jon Meacham, The Bible, President Obama, Mormons, Fareed Zakaria, Allen & Company, Newsweek, God, Mary Magdalene, Donald Graham, Nancy Pelosi, Sarah Palin, Nietzsche, Mary, Gay Marriage, The Week, Time, Media News
Michael Sigman

Given the vast pension, health care and unfulfilled subscription liabilities Newsweek carries, it's likely the magazine is headed for extinction.

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Richard Dawkins and Atheist Crimes

Rory Fitzgerald | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Einstein, Religion, God, Atheism, Belief, Richard Dawkins, Psychology of Belief, New Atheism, Nietzsche, Francis S Collins, Werner-Arber, Religion News
Rory Fitzgerald

For many years now Richard Dawkins has been working to discredit all belief in God. He has now said that he wants to have the Pope arrested when he comes to Britain for later this year for covering up "crimes against humanity".

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If God Is Dead, Then F*ck Is The Most Important Word In English (VIDEO)

The Huffington Post | Amy Hertz | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: India, God Is Dead, Guru, Rajneesh, Meditation, Nietzsche, God, Friedrich Nietzsche, Osho, Nietsche, Bhagwan, Video, Books News

If God is dead, asks the speaker of the video, then what is the most important word in English? "F*ck" is what he comes up with, and not surprising co...

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What Shall I Do with the Rest of My Life?

Robert Fuller | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Quest, Self, Work, Nobody, Question, Nietzsche, Beckett, Tennessee Williams, Facebook, Love, Somebody, Healthy Living News
Robert Fuller

Rich or poor, young and old, we all dream of something different, something better, if only when we gaze at the stars. And, regardless of our lot in life, we can give this perennial question a new answer.

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Moment of Truth In Afghanistan, Iran, Israel-Palestine, Southeast Asia, Africa, FSU

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Negotiation, Holocaust, Afghanistan, Afghan War, War, Sri Lanka, Violence, Iran, Eisenhower, South East Asia, Peace, Pbama, President, Religion, Mcchrystal, Military Industrial Complex, Burma, Africa, Former Soviet Union, Israel, Sustainable Communities, Realpolitik, Global Emergency, Nietzsche, World News
Stephen C. Rose

In all these situations, violence is active or incipient. In all of them, there is no solution being proposed that promises an end to the prospect of more of the same.

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Bad Dreams From My Grandfather

Daniel Bruno Sanz | Posted 11.17.2011

Read More: Martini Movies, Francois Truffaut, Variety Magazine, On the Beach, Julius Rosenberg, Reagan, James Anderson, Al-Queda, Adolf Hitler, Albert Einstein, Los Ultimos Cinco, Enrico Fermi, Charles Bronson, Frank Lloyd Wright, Stepin Fetchit, The Day the World Ended, Wille Zur Macht, Manhattan Project, Emperor Hirohito, Mokusatsu, Taliban, Carl Sagan, Mulholland Highway, Cosmos, William Phipps, Rod Serling, Pearl Harbor, Suzuki Kantaro, Harry Truman, Lord of the Flies, Genesis, Hiroshima, Arch Oboler, Leo Szilard, Klaus Fuchs, Potsdam Decleration, Douglass Macarthur, Nagasaki, Nietzsche, H.G. Welles, The Day After, Stalin, Orson Welles, James Weldon Johnson, Charles Lampkin, Uranium Fission, Fahrenhei 451, Nuclear Holocaust, Lavrentii Beria, Fat Man, Twilight Zone, William Golding, Red Army, Will Smith, Elizabeth Montgomery, Mao Tse-Tung, North Korea, African-American Poetry, 5ive, Schopenhauer, Manchuria, Gyokuon-Hoso, Semipalatinsk, Five, The Late Show, Healthy Living News
Daniel Bruno Sanz

Shadowy non-state actors contemplate flattening an American city with a device smuggled into the United States at one hundred possible ports of entry.

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Europe's Biggest Financial Swindle Since World War II

Iris Erlingsdottir | Posted 11.14.2011

Read More: Iceland Banks, Johanna Sigurdardottir, Iceland Economy, Iceland National Bankruptcy, Iceland Economic Crisis, Iceland Global Economic Crisis, Iceland Financial Crisis, Friedrich Nietzsche, Iceland Economy Collapse, Europe, Iceland Bank Crisis, Nietzsche, Iceland, Iceland Bankrupt, Johanna Sigurdardottir Iceland, World News
Iris Erlingsdottir

Ever since the Icelandic economy came crashing down with the country's bank cabal, our politicians have failed to grasp the enormity of these catastrophic events.

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Feeling Normal?

Jayne Lyn Stahl | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: The 1970s, Stds, Normalcy, Queens, Gypsy, Joan of Arc, Arthur Rimbaud, Teenage Girls, Dostoyevsky, Gypsies, Allen Ginsberg, New York City, Religion, James Joyce, Iconoclasts, High School, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Penicillin, Reading, 1970s, Teenagers, Style News
Jayne Lyn Stahl

I grew up in a place, Bayside, New York; a place where, when I mentioned Nietzsche, the woman who lived above me asked, "if you take Penicillin, will it cure that?"

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Our Crisis Is Not Economic -- Part Two

Stephen C. Rose | Posted 05.25.2011

Read More: Debt, Forgiving Debt, Pattern Language, Architecture, Design, Green, Harvey Cox, Obesity, Barack Obama, Spectrum of Consciousness, Ken Wilber, Spectrum, Change, Global, Christopher Alexander, Building, Friedrich Nietzsche, Nietzsche, Apollo Project, Automobile, Green News
Stephen C. Rose

It is no longer heresy to suggest that by continuing our automobile economy we are throwing money, architecture, design and ecology down a black hole.

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