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TechnoPop

TechnoPop

November 6, 2018
Features
This issue's TechnoPop features two technology items that effect our daily, popular culture driven lives with out our even noticing. Both are also receiving various levels of awards from the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences at this year's Scientific and Technical Awards in March. With the first one, the Dolby Loudness Meter, we would certainly notice if it was not there. The second item, RenderMan from Pixar Studios, we notice when its obvious, but don't when it's…
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A GLIMPSE OF MOLLY MCQUADE

A GLIMPSE OF MOLLY MCQUADE

September 25, 2018
Books
Molly McQuade was generous enough to grant me an hour of her time on a recent Saturday to talk about her books and her work only for the Independent Reviews Site. There have been enough interviews and reviews of her life and work on the Net to render the usual Where-Have-You-Been-and-Where-Are-You-Going sort of questions drearily redundant, and I didn't want to waste the time she had granted me asking them. I was curious, however, about this woman, whose critical…
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RHAPSODIES IN BLACK:

RHAPSODIES IN BLACK:

September 5, 2018
CD
Music and Words From The Harlem Renaissance 4 CD Set Rhino www.rhino.com The Harlem Renaissance (roughly1915-1937), like the Armenian holocaust or the bombing of Dresden, is a rarely talked about yet monumental event in history. Unlike the holocaust in Turkey or the immolation of Dresden however, the Harlem Renaissance was cause for celebration. Started around 1915 after the death of Booker T. Washington, the Renaissance was ushered in by black artists, writers and performers who, unlike Washington, had not…
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WOMAN ON THE VERGE

WOMAN ON THE VERGE

September 3, 2018
Books
Los Angeles writer Aimee Bender seems poised for the beginning of... something. The question of her direction is less a question of her talent, which is certain, and more an issue of the state of American literature itself. Any one who has read Bender's stories will attest to the fact that they may be the doorway through which a new American style of literature may presently walk through. When reviewing her first collection of short stories, THE GIRL IN…
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Greetings Constant

Greetings Constant

May 29, 2018
Features
You'll notice that this issue of the IRS is extremely late. So late in fact that I'm not even sure of my own production schedule anymore. Which brings me to the subject of this month's editorial. How does one properly cope and hopefully recover from an experience as life altering as the events of September 11th. Even the recitation of the date speaks volumes. You don't need a year or a location, just the date. Like December 7th, September…
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