The Complicatist : Songs About Money
The economics of rhythm and melody…..
Columns
From The Hood : Moonbeam Dreams of Murder
Feline fantasies of fame fortune and bloody vengence
Left Coasting : Undaunted Oakland
Attempting to dream, amid gunfire
From the Hood: Howdy Neighbour!
From a past life as a Muppet
Left Coasting : Hunger for Justice
California’s prison inmates go on hunger strike for better conditions
From The Hood: Dining With The Baron
An extraordinary tale of marine vicissitude
Left Coasting : Barricading the Information Superplaza
BART starts a free speech firestorm
From the Hood: The Inspector Protector
Inspection is my life
Left Coasting: Robbin’ the Hood
California’s latest attempt to escape from its low tax / no revenue straightjacket
From the Hood: Sestina SIStina Barcelona
The art of spying, dying and versifying
Letter from America : Sarah, Forever
Outrage at Sarah Palin is gasoline to a forest fire….
From the Hood : The Antipodean Nights’ Entertainments
Like 1001 nights in the Caliphate of Key…
Left Coasting : Doing the Charleston
In which our correspondent shares a multimedia experience of Charleston, South Carolina
Talking Sport : Stanley Cup Fever
On and off the field
Letter from America : It’s Alllivvveee…..
Is the media rising up from its much heralded grave?
Left Coasting : At War With Amazon.Com
Should the e-commerce giants be made to collect and pay far more taxes on what they sell ?
From The Hood : Goff Disappointed As World Fails To End
Rapture no-show deals serious blow to Labour’s election plans
Scavenger City
Christchurch, and the politics of subsistence
Sleight of Hand
With 90 day trials, the government has broken its decades-long bargain with workers
Left Coasting : Becoming, Herself
An interview with Merrill Garbus of tUnE-yArDs
From The Hood : Learning To Read The PM
Politics is child’s play
Classics: Diana Wynne Jones R.I.P.
Celebrating the author of Archer’s Goon, Howl’s Moving Castle etc.
Milestone Movies : The Killer Inside Me (2010) and Coup de Torchon (1981)
Film violence against women, via the ‘dimestore’ novelist Jim Thompson
From The Hood : You Have Been Mooned
The Lunacy of Earthquake Satire
Left Coasting : On Edge
Earthquakes, insurance and building codes – home, and away
From The Hood : “John Key PM” Wins 2011 Walters Prize For Modern Art?
Is he a natural clown or the nation’s greatest conceptual artist?
Letter from America : Christmas in New York
Santa’s Sleigh makes its way to the U.S. of A.
From The Hood : Mustn’t Grumble
Lyndon Hood looks back at 2010 and feels reasonably satisfied
Left Coasting : Open Season on Healthcare
Count the ways the medical-industrial complex is bad for everyone’s health…
From the Hood : Lost in Wiseacre Wood
Isn’t it funny / How a bear likes cutting the public service? / Buzz buzz buzz, / I wonder why he does.