Oaxaca If the only book you had ever read about Oaxaca was Oliver Sacks,’ Oaxaca Journal from 2002, as I had, you would have a sense of the environment, particularly ferns along the mountain sides at the edge of the desert, and perhaps the world-renowned culinary scene, but you would miss the fact that this …
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The Mural Mile on New Orleans’ St. Claude Avenue
New Orleans For decades the ACORN headquarters has been somewhere around the intersection of St. Claude Avenue and Elysian Fields Avenue. We were ten blocks from the Mississippi River for many years, and we are again. The old riddle used to be, “What street has its head in the river and its feet in the …
Museums for the People, Rather than the Elites
New Orleans Ok, maybe it’s not the very highest thing on everyone’s list, but that doesn’t mean it is not important. Recently, we talked about the efforts to rid books like Howard Zinn’s Peoples’ History of the United States from school libraries and classrooms. We all know that’s wrong, but how about the constant efforts …