• BBC NEWS | Americas | Obama lifts ban on abortion funds
  “gag rule” overturned
  tags: politics healthcare usa barackobama abortion contraception
• Major Earthquake in Arkansas? – todaysthv.com
  Scientists say a newly discovered fault line in Arkansas could trigger a magnitude seven earthquake. Perhaps my predicted Mad Max-ification of Arkansas begins this way.
  tags: arkansas earthquake
• NY1 | Queens Museum Of Art Unveils Its Fourth Biennial
  video features our artist friends Derick Melander and Ryan Humphrey
  tags: art video museum queens queensinternational derickmelander ryanhumphrey
• Moody’s cuts New York Times debt to ‘junk’ status – Crain’s New York Business
  tags: economics media nytimes

• SFMOMA installed unusual wall-text in Emily Jacir gallery – Modern Art Notes
  SFMOMA added some “context” and a FAQ to Emily’s work “Where We Come From.” Highly problematic.
  tags: art israel palestine politics sfmoma emilyjacir

• Daily Kos: Republicans Playing Politics: Block Holder Vote
  Republicans blocking Eric Holder vote for AG because they like waterboarding and don’t thing it’s torture
  tags: politics gop torture republicans ericholder
• Vatican: ‘Homosexual behavior’ in decline | 365 Gay News
  says seminaries are less gay now
  tags: queer religion catholic lgbt vatican
• D O T S
  iphone gloves – you don’t have to take of your gloves to use the touch screen
  tags: iphone touchscreen gloves
• Wisconsin Cheese Cupid
  wine / beer / cheese matching
  tags: wine cheese wisconsin beer
• Sweden to allow gay marriage in May – The Local
  tags: queer marriage gay sweden
• nycgo.com
  new NYC tourism site, created in partnership with google and travelocity
  tags: travel nyc newyork tourism

• Raffle for Paul Chan Drawing, Support The Front Collective in NOLA
  New Orleans artist collective having a $5 / ticket raffle of a Paul Chan drawing
  tags: art neworleans benefit drawing paulchan raffle frontcollective

Louise Fishman, Angry Bertha, 1973, acrylic on paper, 26.5 × 40.25 inches

Next weekend, the Chelsea Symphony (we think they’re awesome) is honoring artist Louise Fishman for her 70th birthday. The program includes a new work by Aaron Dai based on a text by poet and former presidential candidate Eileen Myles inspired by Louise’s “Angry Paintings”.

[photo by James Wagner]

• Over The Opening: Secret School Session 01 – Hong-An Truong
  Latest monthly event from the MTAA guys: January 17, 2009 from 7-10PM
  tags: art video newmedia williamsburg mtaa
• Remembering Rosa: Luxemburg Still Popular 90 Years after Assassination – SPIEGEL ONLINE
  “In her assassination Hohenzollern Germany celebrated its last triumph, and Nazi Germany its first.”
  tags: germany history communism weimar rosaluxemberg marxism

• Nerds Get Training in Seduction 2.0 | From the Fringe | Deutsche Welle | 10.01.2009
  University of Potsdam has a “social skills” track for its IT masters students, including lessons in flirting.
  tags: germany technology sex education socialskills potsdam it

• ArtCal Zine – Features – Gas Masks, Israel & Human Rights: An Interview with Street Artist Mike Marcus
  Timely interview by Hrag Vartanian
  tags: streetart israel palestine human-rights hragvartanian

• Get Afghanistan Right!
  progressive opposition to military escalation in Afghanistan
  tags: war politics afghanistan