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Thursday, January 22nd, 2009 at 1:37 pm
Hooray 2009 is here! It’s a new year with a new president and now a new edition of NAICA online. I know, I know, you’ve been waiting so long for us to put up something new, but we were waiting for the right time, and this week is probably one of the best so far. I mean, sure it’s only, like, the third week into the new year, and it could actually turn out to be crap, but we’re feeling hopeful! (Thanks Obama!). It probably goes without saying, but in this edition we focus on national, local and personal politics.  Photo: Courtesy Official bro’Town Website
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Following McCain’s example we have reached across the isles to introduce you to our most exciting Artists in Residence to date - the creators of bro’Town - a wicked smart and truly hilarious ‘adult cartoon’ from New Zealand. For those of you Stateside you can catch the first two seasons on Link T.V., but once you’re hooked, and you will be, you’ll have to purchase the succeeding seasons from the Official bro’Town website. Yes, they are NTSC format!  Photo: Courtesy Leonard Gath (pictured)
The Word features essays by Leonard Gath, our some times contributing correspondent from Colorado, and one by yours truly (that means me, Maria). I contemplate a country in which our first Native American President is Val Kilmer (why not?!), and Gath gives his 2 cents on 1% Politics.
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Photo: Courtesy author Sonny Grant (pictured)
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In People, Places, Things we meet Jim Brown, an L.A. artist and musician with a heart of gold (He’s not a Fake Indian!), and we travel to San Carlos Apache Reservation to glimpse the inner working of Rez poltiics according to Sonny Grant.  Photo: Courtesy designer Victor Pascual (pictured) <  Photo: Courtesy author/curator Paul Chaat Smith (pictured) < We focus the Spotlight on graphic/web designer Victor Pascual with an interview conducted by associate editor Torry Mendoza; we consider the importance of non Indian Indian painter Fritz Scholder in an in depth discussion with co-curator Paul Chaat Smith. You can bet your ass that discussion was quite political (though perhaps not overtly so).
The personal is political, and you know, that other stuff is too. Check it out tonight, or tomorrow morning, or whenever.  Soundtrack to Fake Indian Installation - Courtesy Jim Brown [8:42m]: Play Now | Play in Popup | DownloadPosted in longviews-where old posts hang out. ~ You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
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