#Jewish in Santa Fe

[fortunelowtier]

I still 100% unironically wholeheartedly believe that this scuffed ass reality tv show from 2007 where CBS stranded 40 children in the middle of the NM desert a la Lord of the Flies is one of the most genuinely fascinating pieces of TV I've ever watched just because of how ABSURD it is on every level

-Their society is a bizarre Communism/Democracy hybrid whose entire economy is based on the barter system

-There is a set class system everyone is sorted into against their will who each get paid more or less money depending on how high or low they are on the ladder, and at the end of each episode they must compete in competitions to decide who gets to be at the top, with the "strongest" being able to get the esteemed title of "upper class"

-Every time they would complete a challenge, at the very end they were given a choice of 2 things that could be added to the town, to which the leaders of the teams would vote on which to get (For example, in one episode they had to choose between fresh produce or 50 pizzas). One of these things was letters from the children's parents, implying that the adults on site were receiving the mail from these kid's parents and deliberately withholding it from them

-In one episode the district leaders of each of the 4 teams (the classes) go out and find a chest full of buffalo nickels (the town's currency), they bring the chest to the town and naturally, this creates unprecedented inflation near instantly, as there's now a mass amount of currency that suddenly appeared in the economy

-Their entire society existed in relative stability until the moment religion was introduced in the form of various religious texts (Bibles, the Quran, etc), after which the town immediately started to go to shit. The Jewish kids and Christian kids were at each other's throats about which religion was """better""" (because they're children who had religion forced upon them at a young age before they were able to think for themselves but that's an entire can of worms I won't open), while the 1 (one) Hindu kid was trying to keep the peace

-At one point the kids start to crave meat, as their food up to that point was mostly canned goods and various produce, so one of the """eldest""" members of the group, (I say """eldest""" because he was still only like 14 or 15) who had worked as a butchers apprentice, took one of their chickens and lead the kids into the desert to where he then taught them how to decapitate, pluck, drain, and cook a chicken.

-One of the kids later did a Reddit AMA about his experience on the show, where he then disclosed various things that happened outside of the camera such as, but not limited to: Oil burns, a kid drinking bleach, scorpions, venomous snakes, an outbreak of herpes, the lack of showers, the lack of multiple toilets (up until I believe a few weeks in they only had one outhouse), etc etc etc

-The parents of these kids allegedly had to sign a 22 page waiver that was basically CBS going "If ur kids get hurt you can't sue us", specifically noting "acts of god" in the contract of things that they weren't to be held accountable for

-At the end of every week, the 4 leaders got together to choose which person would receive that week's "gold star", a star made out of 20,000 USD of solid gold (around 30k after adjusting for inflation), an unfathomable amount of money to give to kids who likely had no concept as to how much money 20 grand was

-The town used for Bonanza City is actually a ghost town/film set located just 20 miles from Santa Fe used as a filming location for movies like A Million Ways to Die In the West (2014) and The Legend of the Lone Ranger (1981). The reason I bring this up is because it's the same film set in which 14 years later, Alec Baldwin would accidentally discharge a firearm on the set of Rust, resulting in the death of cinematographer Halyna Hutchins

To anyone asking where to watch this, I genuinely don't know. All of the 13 episodes used to be available on YouTube by someone who re-uploaded them in 2010, but the channel was terminated last year. I've heard that there are a few Google Drive folders floating around that have the raw MP4 files and you could watch them that way but you'd probably have to go digging for it

[frances-baby-houseman]

My entire life leading up to now and every single thing I see on the internet has led me to believe that I would be invited to a lot more festive holiday cocktail parties than I actually get invited to, which is generally 0-1. Are other people going to a lot of parties? I think a big part of this is everyone I know is Jewish and also I work for a public institution, so we're not having christmas parties all. But is this a reality for other people?

I HAVE lately been invited to my friend's massive christmas party in Atlanta, always held the saturday before christmas, which is usually when we arrive, if not sunday, so we haven't made it yet but I aspire to get there. Many years ago, before this woman and I were friends, my dad and stepmom used to go to this party bc my friend's dad and my dad were law partners. Then my dad fired her dad (dissolved the partnership but we all know who was at fault) so my dad doesn't get to go to the party anymore. And every time I mention this friend he is so confused that we are friends, even though he knows we went to college together and her high school bff and my current bff are the same person. And we went to santa fe together! Anyway that's my only party invitation.

I know I could throw a party myself but that seems awfully goyische of me, which is the whole problem!!

[howieabel]

"September 11th has a tragic resonance in the Middle East, too. On the 11th of September 1922, ignoring Arab outrage, the British government proclaimed a mandate in Palestine, a follow-up to the 1917 Balfour Declaration which imperial Britain issued, with its army massed outside the gates of Gaza. The Balfour Declaration promised European Zionists a national home for Jewish people. (At the time, the Empire on which the Sun Never Set was free to snatch and bequeath national homes like a school bully distributes marbles.)" - Arundhati Roy, Come September Speech, Santa Fe, NM, (29 Sep 2002)

[emmedoesntdomath]

emme i am in need of assistance.

i need to be dragged kicking and screaming back into the newsies fandom, please and thank you

you know what? fine, sure, let’s do this. 

in this fun little drag-you-by-your-ears-and-force-you-to-listen-to-me, we’ll be talking about javey. 

obviously, javey is the lifeblood behind most of this lovely fandom. look at your own account. besides the synchronized dance numbers, it’s about the most the majority of us agree on (with a few exceptions, but we love them anyway <3333 /j)

but why is javey such a phenomenon to us? why is it that big of a deal? let’s explore that. 

javey is, in simple terms, something that can quickly become revolutionary. 

don’t understand what I mean? consider it-

most of us headcanon jack to be a person of color. whether he’s black, or of latinx descent, jack is not normally white. in a lot of cases, people don’t even believe english to be his first language. with these very intentional choices, you are already taking marginalized groups, and giving them a voice. groups, that for most of history, have been shunned, or outright ignored. and to see jack kelly, a character not defined by his parentage or skin color, simply *living*. making choices, mistakes, wrong decisions, without being turned into a performative political message by a major corporation. he’s just jack kelly. and his existence speaks louder than words ever could. 

and all of this can be said before we even mention what else he could represent, could mean to all of us. 

he’s a kid from the streets, or the more modernized foster care. he’s not the sad, lonely, discouraged orphan kid that needs saving. no, jack kelly is going to get off his ass, and do it himself. he’ll run away. earn a living. he is our defiance, he is our rebellion and independence. 

he has dreams, big ones. ones that we relate to. he wants to run to santa fe? well, guess fucking what? we do, too. wants to be given a little respect, a little worth? maybe we relate to that. 

he is the poster child of found family. and I don’t know if you’ve noticed, but we’re all pretty big on that in this fandom. 

so, let’s put it this way- jack is a lot of us. most of us, maybe. 

but so is davey. 

davey is a canonically (or maybe not, but I say it’s canon) jewish character. in a world that reeks of antisemitism, that is ridiculously important. he, too, represents more than just himself. there is a whole history of a people hated and brutally punished for simply existing. he is another character who isn’t restricted, forced to be but yet another stereotype or one-note idea, but who just exists. you don’t realize how huge that is. representation and the explicitness of modern media is great, and very much needed. but it is just as powerful, if not more so, to let a character be without making it a display. 

to compound this all, he is the epitome of religious struggles. our davey has internalized homophobia, self-hatred, and more crises in faith than he has time to count. and I would say at least half of the people that I have met in this fandom can identify with one or more of those things. that’s valuable. especially when you consider that a lot of those things are essentially taboo in a number of regards. 

he’s from a working class family. he’s not rich, not swimming in bills. he’s missing school every day to go to work so his family might eat the next week. and that’s a reality for a lot of people. 

putting them together, we have- a man, a person of color, who has seen the shit end of life that a lot of other people do, falling in love with another man, one burdened with mental struggles and a heritage that carries just as much weight as the heaviest, in a time period when it was literally illegal to do so. 

they are people. they are representations. they are silent messages to the world. they are love. they are queer. they are happy. they are a family. they are revolutionary. they aren’t wrong. they aren’t broken. they aren’t hate. 

javey thrives because they are us, and by letting them thrive, we are hoping we will, too. 

(newsies, with more layers and deeper meanings than one could have ever hoped for since 1234)

ta da. 

[thefactsofthematter]

fic title: till the horses come home

i mean. this is giving post-canon jack went to santa fe vibes in the realest way.

i think in this world, he leaves when he’s about 20 - he’s been scraping by with his illustrator job, making ends meet, but he just needs to know what’s out there. he can’t take the city anymore.

(it definitely has nothing to do with the fact that davey, whom he’s been in an unspoken more-than-friends-but-won’t-say-i-love-you situationship with for years, is moving upstate to go to college on some prestigious scholarship he was selected for. no way.)

so jack goes, and he likes it, and they keep in touch at first, and the years steadily go on, and they sort of stop writing. he goes from a ranch hand to owning a little plot of his own, never quite settles down with anyone, but maybe takes in orphans in his own type of lodging house where they can work on the farm for fair and decent pay.

meanwhile, davey is becoming this incredibly powerful lawyer, known for defending immigrants and the working class in some very high-profile cases. in 1911, he runs for city council, and it’s big news! he’s only 29, he’s got progressive views, he’s jewish and an immigrant… and voters love him. he wins his seat, and pisses off conservatives around the country in the process.

so jack reads a newspaper article one day about this idiot politician up in new york who’s pushing for crazy things like child labour regulation and laws around worker’s compensation — and he just sort of blinks at it, because he’s ninety-nine percent sure councilman jacobs is his davey, out there doing all the things he said he was going to do someday.

and it strikes him how badly he wanted to be there for it— wanted to see davey come home after a long day with his fire still lit, going on and on about all the ways the world could be better and we have the power for change jackie, i know we do, we just need to get people to listen; wanted to be there to campaign for davey, making posters and getting the newsies on board and telling everyone who’ll listen to vote for dave jacobs; wanted to take him home after finding out he’d won his seat and kiss the living daylights out of him.

so he leaves some of the older boys in his lodging house in charge of the farm, books a train ticket, and sends a telegram to davey’s office: COMING TO VISIT . SEE YOU SOON . JACK .

and then something something, he’s back in new york and tracks davey down and tells him how proud he is and they kiss about it or something

he goes back to santa fe, sells his farm in shares to some of the kids he once helped out so they can keep running it, and then moves back to nyc for good because home is where the man who has his heart is <3

[whoops-im-obsessed]

RE: Jewish Crutchie and UKsies

In UKsies, Crutchie is Catholic, has a rosary and prays with it during the show. This is understandably upsetting as his original depiction was Jewish. I learnt a few things at the fansie Q&A tonight and I wanted to share them in the hopes that the fandom won't assume the worst of the cast or creative team.

Matthew Duckett's Crutchie is wonderful. He brings a depth and personality to the character that was missed before. During the Q&A, Michael Ahomka-Lindsay explained that the cast were encouraged to ignore other iterations of the show and create something entirely new, claiming the characters as their own.

As part of this character building process, each actor chose an item which their newsie would carry throughout the show. Duckett explained that he latched onto and read into a line in Santa Fe (Prologue) where Jack points at Crutchie and sings 'cept for Sunday when you lie around all day' taking this, combined with the nuns' influence to imply that Crutchie observed or at least wanted to observe the christian day of rest as, for them, weekends would have just been regular work days.

I know this is no excuse for whitewashing a character but please do not assume the worst of this cast or creative team, it is extremely likely that he just didn't know, hell, I was deep in the fandom and infatuated with Crutchie and I only learnt because of my commenting on UKsies, it isn't mentioned or implied in the show or the character description.

Tl;dr: they wanted to make a new version of everything and most likely don't know Crutchie was Jewish, don't be mean.

[haveyoureadthismgyabook]

Series info...

Book one in the Dear America series

A Journey to the New World

The Winter of Red Snow: The Revolutionary War Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1777 by Kristiana Gregory

When Will This Cruel War Be Over?: The Civil War Diary of Emma Simpson, Gordonsville, Virginia, 1864 by Barry Denenberg

A Picture of Freedom: The Diary of Clotee, a Slave Girl, Belmont Plantation, Virginia, 1859 by Patricia McKissack

Across the Wide and Lonesome Prairie: The Oregon Trail Diary of Hattie Campbell, 1847 by Kristiana Gregory

So Far from Home: The Diary of Mary Driscoll, an Irish Mill Girl, Lowell, Massachusetts, 1847 by Barry Denenberg

I Thought My Soul Would Rise and Fly: The Diary of Patsy, a Freed Girl, Mars Bluff, South Carolina, 1865 by Joyce Hansen

West to a Land of Plenty: The Diary of Teresa Angelino Viscardi, New York to Idaho Territory, 1883 by Jim Murphy

Dreams in the Golden Country: The Diary of Zipporah Feldman, a Jewish Immigrant Girl, New York City, 1903 by Kathryn Lasky

Standing in the Light: The Captive Diary of Catharine Carey Logan, Delaware Valley, Pennsylvania, 1763 by Mary Pope Osborne

Voyage on the Great Titanic: The Diary of Margaret Ann Brady, RMS Titanic, 1912 by Ellen Emerson White

A Line in the Sand: The Alamo Diary of Lucinda Lawrence, Gonzales, Texas, 1836 by Sherry Garland

My Heart Is on the Ground: The Diary of Nannie Little Rose, a Sioux Girl, Carlisle Indian School, Pennsylvania, 1880 by Ann Rinaldi

The Great Railroad Race: The Diary of Libby West, Utah Territory, 1868 by Kristiana Gregory

A Light in the Storm: The Civil War Diary of Amelia Martin, Fenwick Island, Delaware, 1861 by Karen Hesse

The Girl Who Chased Away Sorrow: The Diary of Sarah Nita, a Navajo Girl, New Mexico, 1864 by Ann Turner

A Coal Miner's Bride: The Diary of Anetka Kaminska, Lattimer, Pennsylvania, 1896 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

Color Me Dark: The Diary of Nellie Lee Love, the Great Migration North, Chicago, Illinois, 1919 by Patricia McKissack

One Eye Laughing, the Other Weeping: The Diary of Julie Weiss, Vienna, Austria to New York, 1938 by Barry Denenberg

My Secret War: The World War II Diary of Madeline Beck, Long Island, New York, 1941 by Mary Pope Osborne

Valley of the Moon: The Diary Of Maria Rosalia de Milagros, Sonoma Valley, Alta California, 1846 by Sherry Garland

Seeds of Hope: The Gold Rush Diary of Susanna Fairchild, California Territory, 1849 by Kristiana Gregory

Christmas After All: The Great Depression Diary of Minnie Swift, Indianapolis, Indiana, 1932 by Kathryn Lasky

Early Sunday Morning: The Pearl Harbor Diary of Amber Billows, Hawaii, 1941 by Barry Denenberg

My Face to the Wind: The Diary of Sarah Jane Price, a Prairie Teacher, Broken Bow, Nebraska, 1881 by Jim Murphy

Where Have All the Flowers Gone? The Diary of Molly MacKenzie Flaherty, Boston, Massachusetts, 1968 by Ellen Emerson White

A Time for Courage: The Suffragette Diary of Kathleen Bowen, Washington, D.C., 1917 by Kathryn Lasky

Mirror, Mirror on the Wall: The Diary of Bess Brennan, Perkins School for the Blind, 1932 by Barry Denenberg

Survival in the Storm: The Dust Bowl Diary of Grace Edwards, Dalhart, Texas, 1935 by Katelan Janke

When Christmas Comes Again: The World War I Diary of Simone Spencer, New York City to the Western Front, 1917 by Beth Seidel Levine

Land of the Buffalo Bones: The Diary of Mary Ann Elizabeth Rodgers, an English Girl in Minnesota, New Yeovil, Minnesota, 1873 by Marion Dane Bauer

Love Thy Neighbor: The Tory Diary of Prudence Emerson, Green Marsh, Massachusetts, 1774 by Ann Turner

All the Stars in the Sky: The Santa Fe Trail Diary of Florrie Mack Ryder, The Santa Fe Trail, 1848 by Megan McDonald

Look to the Hills: The Diary of Lozette Moreau, a French Slave Girl, New York Colony, 1763 by Patricia McKissack

I Walk in Dread: The Diary of Deliverance Trembley, Witness to the Salem Witch Trials, Massachusetts Bay Colony, 1691 by Lisa Rowe Fraustino

Hear My Sorrow: The Diary of Angela Denoto, a Shirtwaist Worker, New York City, 1909 by Deborah Hopkinson

The Fences Between Us: The Diary of Piper Davis, Seattle, Washington, 1941 by Kirby Larson

Like the Willow Tree: The Diary of Lydia Amelia Pierce, Portland, Maine, 1918 by Lois Lowry

Cannons at Dawn: The Second Diary of Abigail Jane Stewart, Valley Forge, Pennsylvania, 1779 by Kristiana Gregory

With the Might of Angels: The Diary of Dawnie Rae Johnson, Hadley, Virginia, 1954 by Andrea Davis Pinkney

Behind the Masks: The Diary of Angeline Reddy, Bodie, California, 1880 by Susan Patron

A City Tossed and Broken: The Diary of Minnie Bonner, San Francisco, California, 1906 by Judy Blundell

Down the Rabbit Hole: The Diary of Pringle Rose, Chicago, Illinois, 1871 by Susan Campbell Bartoletti

[jewish-elphaba]

NEWSIES TWO NEWSIES TWO

part one

AIGHT

so

we are at the refuge, and crutchie writes a heartbreaking letter to jack, serving as the only major crutchie singing part in the musical and it ISNT EVEN ON THE CAST ALBUM anyways

back at the jewish representation deli, everybody (sans jack) is laying around super banged up and jacobi recites a proverb and the newsies are not very receptive

enter kathy

kath: why are you sad

newsies: bc we fucking lost one friend, another gave up on us, and we got our asses kicked

kath: but.. you're on the front page of the newspaper

newsies: oh then I guess it's a party?

and then they tap dance

ok member that piece of exposition about jack painting stuff for medda? he's doing that. he's painting santa fe when all of a sudden hOW ABOUT LETTIN A PAL KNOW YOURE ALIVE its davey <3 and kath and les are close behind and *8 year old voice* 🎶 les has a girlfirend! and they're like ok we have an idea. what if we hold a rally at the theater for the newsies and jack is like FUCK NO???? PEOPLE ARE??? HURT???? *cue "lighten up, nobody died*

^^^ live jack reaction

anyways one pOOr gUYS HEAD is Spinning later and he's on board, and immediately heads over to make a big fucking oopsie and goes to pulitzer's office to tell him about the rally personally. big mistake.

jack: hi mr jerkface mcdick we’re having a rally do you wanna come

pulitzer: no. also, this is katharine. shes my daughter. :).

jack:

pulitzer: oh also shut down the strike or i’ll hurt all of you badly. here’s some money :)

and then he sends his goons morris and oscar who i’ve somehow managed to leave unmentioned until now and theyre like ok we can do whatever we want with you. so we’re going to make you sleep on a printing press. because nothing is worse than sleeping uncomfortably;

ok so now we’re at the theater for the rally and the brooklyn boys are like hi. we are here. we just now this very moment only like two seconds ago very recently found out about this very new and unheard of strike. but we’re here now. so hi. and then they’re like ok where the fuck is jack. and then jack arrives and hes like ok okok so. if we disband the union, pulitzer wont raise the price for three years. and obviously he gets booed off the goddamn stage bc wtf bro. so he. runs off to the roof of the lodging house and theres katharine!

jack: what the fuck are you doing in my room

kathy: umm. specs did it not me

jack: put away my plot devices drawings

kathy: are they the refuge?

jack:.......maybe

anyways they get into an argument and then threaten to punch each other and then they kiss and then they sing their love for each other and devise a plan to create a pamphlet to rouse all of the working kids of new york and theyre like ok where should we print it. and then jack remembers the printing press he was made to sleep on. and gets an idea.

so. they go to the printing press and print the papers and sing a rousing song about changing the world once and for all with a little help from sons of famous people or whatever. then, roosevelt gets a copy and shuts down the whole parade and pulitzer is like ok but. my pride. and so jack is like hmm. ok so what if you lower the price by half, and buy back any papers we cant sell.and hes like ok deal and then jack initiates the spit shake thing adn pulitzer is like thats fucking gross and jack goes thats jsut business so pulitzer does it. and then they go back to newsieing around but this time jack and kath are a couple :)

that was very fun, thank you for the ask! also shout out to mike faist as jack kelly in newsies for making me memorize the whole fucking show <3

[seraphtrevs]

RE: Rich and Cliff. I could really see an intellectual/crunchy type like Cliff being registered for the green party. It was weirdly popular in NM in the mid-90s, especially in santa fe. Rich is Jewish and a northeast transplant (in my head) so was possibly raised in a democratic household like chuck.

As a rebellious teenager in a deep red area, Kim ID'd as libertarian before becoming a democrat.

And you're so right about Marie!! I love her but she is spreading disinformation on facebook as we speak

sorry this was a fun topic:)

Yeah, Cliff strikes me as crunchy, with his guitar playing in the office and encouraging his employees to take time to unwind, and he seems pretty nonjudgemental and supportive about his son's drug problems.

I can't believe I didn't think of the Jewish angle for Rich. Northeast transplant makes a lot of sense for him

Kim could have definitely used libertarian as a stepping stone out of Republican in her deep red state - but I'm sure it was an extremely brief phase when she was very young lol

Omg Marie spends so much time on fb spreading shitty conservative memes 😭 The Heisenberg disaster probably pushed her even further right.

[rhetoricandlogic]

Book review: Stella Maris, by Cormac McCarthy

By Stuart Kelly

Published 16th Nov 2022, 16:38 BST

Updated 16th Nov 2022, 16:45 BST

t is a curious kind of question to ask, but what kind of a book is Stella Maris? In a daring move, the publishers brought out Cormac McCarthy’s new novel The Passenger last month, and then this other new work this month. I have known of novels – often science fiction – which are scheduled at six month intervals. But this is unique, particularly because McCarthy is such a renowned figure. So what is this book?

It is not a sequel to The Passenger. It is not a parallel text, telling the same events from a different perspective. It is not really part of a literary diptych, as it is stylistically very different indeed – it would be like having a diptych with one half from the Baroque period and the other half in startling Cubism. Is it, perhaps, a pendant to the first novel; or a ravelling up of unanswered question? Not really. The publishers have opted for “coda” which seems as good a word as any. I suppose I would describe the relationship between Stella Maris and The Passenger as akin to symbiotic. Now, having read Stella Maris, I went back and looked over passages of The Passenger, and they appeared in a different light, like changing the angle of a mirror. Likewise, The Passenger sets up some of the mythology which Stella Maris expands.

It is, whatever it is, quite remarkable. As with only a few other authors – Roberto Bolano, Brian Catling – it has the distinction of having given me bad dreams. Scratch that: nightmares. I mean that as a compliment. The Passenger introduced Western, a marine salvage diver who turns fugitive. We learned that his father worked on the Manhattan Project, that his mother died when he was young, and that his sister, Alicia, is both a genius and insane. There were also dark hints from Western’s roguish friends that he was in love with his sister. Western is not just a fugitive from nefarious forces with inexplicable agendas, but a fugitive from his own past. In Stella Maris we get Alicia’s full-on flight from reality itself.

“Stella Maris” is a “non-denominational facility and hospice for the care of psychiatric medical patients”. A note, dated October 1972, reports that Case 72-118 (is that a nod to how many patients were admitted that year?) is 20, Jewish/Caucasian, female, arrived with $40,000, is a doctoral student in mathematics, has been diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia and has been a resident on two previous occasions. At least one of my hunches from reviewing The Passenger proved to be right. She is not, we find out, actually called Alicia, but changed her name by deed poll using forged documents from Alice.

Alicia, to use her chosen name, is caustic, wry, rebarbative, sarcastic and dismissive. She is also phenomenally clever, and the book takes in topology, physics, ethics, Schopenhauer, Grothendieck, religion, music and at times wonders if mathematics is something we impose on the universe or a set of truths that would exist without any consciousness to comprehend them. She has a pleasing disregard for Carl Jung. It is pretty heady stuff, and one can see that McCarthy has made good use of his time at the Santa Fe Institute for multidisciplinary research. Alicia revels in being a paradox – that she was sane enough to know she had to go to an insane asylum. She certainly does not go easy on her psychiatrist. (A slightly indulgent anecdote: when I had had my insides visiting the outside world, I developed delirium from the painkillers, so a psych was sent. My Dad arrived and the ward sister told him I was seeing the psych and he said “Poor sod”. She replied, “No, he’s in very good hands”. Dad said, “I wasn’t speaking about Stuart.”) It is not so much that this Alice has fallen down a rabbit hole, she excavated the rabbit hole with her fingernails and built a labyrinth at the bottom for good measure.

Formally, the book is only the interchanges between Alicia and Dr Cohen (with the exception of the fake document about Stella Maris on the first page). The reader has to be nimble in not skipping, although the longer disquisitions are usually Alicia. This form is reminiscent of the Greek stichomythia, to use a technical term, which in tragedies in particular uses alternating lines of dialogue to emphasise the underlying conflicts. One of the few books I know in a similar form is William Gaddis’s equally difficult JR. So, from the very first page, we get: “How are you? Are you all right?” “Am I all right.” “Yes.” “I’m in the looney bin”. She is a master of negation: “I’m not really serious”. “Oh”. “Alicia’s okay. I prefer it to Henrietta”. “You’re not being serious again”. “No”.

Alicia’s one condition is that they do not speak about her brother, which they duly do. She tells us about her hallucinations – the Thalidomide Kid and his vaudeville entourage from The Passenger – and her self-awareness about them, which includes using maths to figure out their heights and being sceptical about them having any meaning whatsoever. In some ways the reference to Greek tragedy is key. Western and Alicia are a modern day Orestes and Elektra, siblings from a cursed family, fleeing Furies. The two together, for two doomed not to be together, are a staggering achievement.

[sefaradweb]

Criptojudíos en Nuevo México

🇪🇸 El artículo relata la historia del reverendo Bill Sánchez, un sacerdote católico en Albuquerque que, tras someterse a una prueba de ADN en 2001, descubrió que tenía ascendencia judía sefardí y era descendiente del linaje Cohanim, un sacerdocio judío que se remonta a Aarón, el hermano de Moisés. Sus antepasados habían sido expulsados de España tras la Inquisición de 1492, forzados a convertirse al cristianismo o a practicar su fe en secreto como criptojudíos. Sánchez inició el Santa Fe DNA Project para ayudar a otros hispanos en Nuevo México a rastrear su ascendencia judía, descubriendo que el 30% de los resultados mostraban vínculos con el linaje Cohanim, una cifra muy superior al 1% habitual entre judíos a nivel mundial. Este fenómeno es atribuido al legado de la Inquisición, que forzó a muchos judíos a esconder su fe o huir a lugares remotos como Nuevo México.

🇺🇸 The article recounts the story of Reverend Bill Sánchez, a Catholic priest in Albuquerque who, after undergoing a DNA test in 2001, discovered his Sephardic Jewish ancestry and that he was a descendant of the Cohanim lineage, a Jewish priesthood tracing back to Aaron, Moses’ brother. His ancestors were expelled from Spain following the Inquisition of 1492, forced to convert to Christianity or practice their faith secretly as crypto-Jews. Sánchez started the Santa Fe DNA Project to help other Hispanics in New Mexico trace their Jewish ancestry, finding that 30% of results showed links to the Cohanim lineage, much higher than the usual 1% among Jews worldwide. This phenomenon is attributed to the legacy of the Inquisition, which forced many Jews to hide their faith or flee to remote places like New Mexico.

[globalworship]

Two 'Trinity' artworks by Charlie Carrillo, New Mexico

Charles M. Carrillo (born 1956, Albuquerque, New Mexico) is an American artist, author, and archeologist known particularly for creating art using Spanish colonial techniques that reflect 18th-century Spanish New Mexico. Carrillo’s works have shown throughout the USA and are a part of many permanent collections in United States museums including the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the Smithsonian Museum of American History in Washington, DC, the Museum of International Folk Art in Santa Fe, and the Denver Museum of Art among others.

Here are two of his 'Trinity' artworks:

1 La Santisma Trinidad, 1998 Lithograph, 13 1/2 x 11 1/2 in.  https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/La-Santisma-Trinidad/CB42FF926E76193CC697FFD2BE76BC12

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2 Santisima Trinidad, undated 49.21 x 31.43 x 2.54 cm. hand-adzed pine panel with natural pigments on gesso https://www.mutualart.com/Artwork/Santisima-Trinidad/23C4B34335CD1C3C?signup=1

This piece obviously references the famous 'Trinity' icon by Rublev, with three seated figures.

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Charles Carrillo’s interest in archaeology led him to his life’s work as a santero, a carver and painter of images of saints.  https://www.newmexicopbs.org/productions/colores/artist-charlie-carrillo/

See a PBS video about his art at https://youtu.be/uwNbt9AOkZ8

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In addition to his work as a santero, which he describes as a vocation rather than a job, Carrillo teaches at the University of New Mexico, works with the artists-in-residence program for the state of New Mexico and conducts workshops at schools throughout the state. “At one point I figured out I had seen over 17,000 young students,” he said. “More than three-quarters of the santeros at the Spanish Market now either have either been my students, worked with me or have taken classes from me. That’s where my life has been. My life has been promoting the tradition.

“Even if the kids never do artwork, I truly believe that they get an appreciation for the culture and the traditions. The saints were made for one purpose and one purpose only: to tell stories. We see them as artwork nowadays, but historically they were made to tell stories to pass along values and morals and religious philosophies. I think it’s important that kids of different faiths, different backgrounds — whether they’re Jewish or Buddhist or Muslim or even Protestant — get an appreciation for the longevity of the tradition in New Mexico and get an understanding of a people’s culture and tradition.” http://www.mastersoftraditionalarts.org/artists/50

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Artist Talk: Miguel Arzabe and Daniela Rivera from San Francisco Arts Commission on Vimeo.

Wednesday, June 26, 2024 | 6:30pm SFAC Main Gallery

Join exhibiting artists Miguel Arzabe and Daniela Rivera for a conversation about their work and process. Moderated by Matthew Villar Miranda, curatorial associate at Berkeley Art Museum.

This program is planned in conjunction with the exhibition Praxis of Local Knowledge on view at the SFAC Main Gallery through August 17, 2024.

About the Panelists Miguel Arzabe is a visual artist who lives and works in Oakland. He had recent solo shows at Shulamit Nazarian Gallery (Los Angeles, CA) and Johansson Projects (Oakland, CA). Arzabe’s work has been featured in such festivals as Hors Pistes (Centre Pompidou, Paris), Festival du Nouveau Cinéma (Montreal), and the Geumgang Nature Art Biennale (Gongju, South Korea); and in museums and galleries including MAC Lyon (France), MARS Milan (Italy), RM Projects (Auckland), FIFI Projects (Mexico City), Marylhurst University (Oregon), the Contemporary Jewish Museum, Berkeley Art Museum, the CCA Wattis Institute, and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Arzabe’s work is held in public collections such as the Harn Museum in Gainesville, Florida, Albuquerque Museum of Art, Oakland Museum of California, the de Young Museum, San Francisco Arts Commission, the State of California, as well as numerous private collections. He has attended many residencies including Facebook AIR, Headlands Center for the Arts, Montalvo Arts Center, Millay Arts, and Santa Fe Art Institute. He holds a BS from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS from Arizona State University, and an MFA from UC Berkeley. In 2022 Arzabe was awarded the San Francisco Bay Area Artadia Award. In 2023 he was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and and a Golden Foundation Residency. In 2024 he was a SECA award finalist.

Born in Santiago, Chile, Daniela Rivera received her BFA from Pontifcia Universidad Católica de Chile in 1996 and her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts, Boston in 2006. She is currently Professor of Studio Art at Wellesley College. She has exhibited widely in Latin American cities including Santiago, Chile, as well as in the United States. She has been awarded residencies at Loghaven, Headland Center for the Arts, Surf Point, Proyecto ACE in Buenos Aires, Vermont Studio Arts Center, and the Skowhegan School of Paintings and Sculpture. And she has been the recipient of notable fellowships and grants including from The Chiaro Award, The Rappaport Prize, Now + There, the Massachusetts Cultural Council Award, VSC, the National Association of Latino Arts and Culture, the Berkshire Taconic Foundation, The FONDART in Chile, and the Saint Botolph Club foundation Distinguish Artist Award. Recent or upcoming exhibitions include: New Worlds, NMWA, Washington DC, 2024, Donde el Cielo Toca la Tierra, Matucana 100, Santiago Chile, 2024, Praxis of Local Knowledge, San Francisco Art Commission, San Francisco, Labored Landscapes; Where The Sky Touches the Earth, Fitchburg Art Museum, Fragmentos para una Historia del Olvido/ Fragments for a History of Displacement, The Davis Museum, Wellesley College, Wellesley, MA (2018–2019); En Busca de los Andes, solo exhibition with Proyecto ACE, Buenos Aires, Argentina (June 2019); Sobremesa (Karaoke Politics), a public art project developed as her Now + There Accelerator Fellowship.

Matthew Villar Miranda (he/they/siya) is Curatorial Associate at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. In their former position as Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow at the Walker Art Center, they worked on exhibitions by Julie Mehretu, Pao Houa Her, Paul Chan, and Pacita Abad. They serve on the Board of Stakeholders Museums Moving Forward (MMF), a Ford and Mellon Foundation-funded initiative of an intergenerational, cross-institutional coalition of art museum professionals committed to advancing equity across the museum field. In 2021, they co-curated the Art for Justice Fund-supported exhibition Undoing Time: Art and Histories of Incarceration at the Arizona State University Art Museum (ASUAM). They received their BA in History of Art from UC Berkeley (2013) and graduated among the inaugural class of ASU-Los Angeles County Museum of Art Master's Fellowship in Art History (2021).

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Newsies: Beyond the Headline

by, Stargazing_Froakie by Stargazing_Froakie This is a fan-rewrite of "Disney's Newsies" combining both the Broadway musical and the original 1992 movie. This is written as a screenplay and as such will feature amateur notes on camera location/movement as well as character direction notes. To streamline character arcs; motivations; and in-canon timelines, some elements will either be dropped or rewritten. Such as:   Katherine is no longer Jack's love interest. She is much older than all of the boys and is strictly professional. Bryan Denton is still featured but won't replace Katherine as the main reporter; he instead is Katherine's competition and debatable love interest (open to interpretation but not confirmed nor ruled out). Crutchie is still a leading part, but he does not share Jack's fantasy for Santa Fe. He is the damsel in distress. Sarah Jacobs and the Jacobs family are back. Sarah once again as Jack's love interest. With her return also comes the revival of the cut Broadway song "Then I See You Again" as Sarah and Jack's love song. Kid Blink returns and is joined by the original character Annie, based on the real newswoman Annie Kelly. While her role is simply a supporting role, it is a moderately sized one. Words: 1345, Chapters: 1/?, Language: English Series: Part 1 of Newsies Reimagined Fandoms: Newsies - All Media Types, Newsies!: the Musical - Fierstein/Menken, Newsies (1992), Disney - Fandom Rating: General Audiences Warnings: No Archive Warnings Apply Categories: F/M, Gen Characters: Jack Kelly (Newsies), Davey Jacobs (Newsies), Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Crutchie (Newsies), Joseph Pulitzer, Racetrack Higgins, Les Jacobs, Bryan Denton, Sarah Jacobs (Newsies), Medda Larkson | Medda Larkin, Spot Conlon, Kid Blink, Mush Meyers, Albert DaSilva (Newsies), Boots (Newsies), Specs (Newsies), Finch (Newsies), Romeo (Newsies), Elmer (Newsies), Skittery (Newsies), Snipeshooter (Newsies), Tommy Boy (Newsies), Pigtails (Newsies Jr.), Wiesel (Newsies), Morris Delancey, Oscar Delancey, Don Carlos Seitz, Bunsen (Newsies), Hannah (Newsies), Jonathan (Newsies), Esther Jacobs (Newsies), Mayer Jacobs (Newsies), Bill Hearst, Snyder (Newsies), Ten Pin (Newsies) Relationships: Sarah Jacobs/Jack Kelly (Newsies), alluded to: Katherine Plumber/Bryan Denton, Les Jacobs/Pigtails (Sally), Two Hetero Lovers making out in the street Additional Tags: Canon-Typical Violence, Based on Newsies!: the Musical, Based on Newsies (1992), Jewish Jacobs Family (Newsies), Jack Kelly is a Good Friend (Newsies), Musicals, Disney, Katherine Plumber Pulitzer is a Good Friend, Journalist Katherine Plumber Pulitzer, Katherine Plumber Pulitzer Appreciation, Racetrack Higgins Needs a Hug, Jewish David Jacobs, Anxious David Jacobs, David Jacobs Needs A Hug, Protective David Jacobs, Badass Sarah Jacobs (Newsies), Sarah Jacobs Appreciation (Newsies), Jewish Sarah Jacobs (Newsies), Mild Language read : https://ift.tt/MefEZLR - August 02, 2024 at 05:37PM

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Events 11.16 (before 1950)

951 – Emperor Li Jing sends a Southern Tang expeditionary force of 10,000 men under Bian Hao to conquer Chu. Li Jing removes the ruling family to his own capital in Nanjing, ending the Chu Kingdom. 1272 – While travelling during the Ninth Crusade, Prince Edward becomes King of England upon Henry III of England's death, but he will not return to England for nearly two years to assume the throne. 1491 – An auto-da-fé, held in the Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects. 1532 – Francisco Pizarro and his men capture Inca Emperor Atahualpa at the Battle of Cajamarca. 1632 – King Gustavus Adolphus of Sweden was killed at the Battle of Lützen during the Thirty Years' War. 1776 – American Revolutionary War: British and Hessian units capture Fort Washington from the Patriots. 1793 – French Revolution: Ninety dissident Roman Catholic priests are executed by drowning at Nantes. 1797 – The Prussian heir apparent, Frederick William, becomes King of Prussia as Frederick William III. 1805 – Napoleonic Wars: Battle of Schöngrabern: Russian forces under Pyotr Bagration delay the pursuit by French troops under Joachim Murat. 1822 – American Old West: Missouri trader William Becknell arrives in Santa Fe, New Mexico, over a route that became known as the Santa Fe Trail. 1828 – Greek War of Independence: The London Protocol entails the creation of an autonomous Greek state under Ottoman suzerainty, encompassing the Morea and the Cyclades. 1849 – A Russian court sentences writer Fyodor Dostoyevsky to death for anti-government activities linked to a radical intellectual group; his sentence is later commuted to hard labor. 1855 – David Livingstone becomes the first European to see the Victoria Falls in what is now Zambia-Zimbabwe. 1857 – Second relief of Lucknow: Twenty-four Victoria Crosses are awarded, the most in a single day. 1863 – American Civil War: In the Battle of Campbell's Station, Confederate troops unsuccessfully attack Union forces which allows General Ambrose Burnside to secure Knoxville, Tennessee. 1871 – The National Rifle Association of America receives its charter from New York State. 1885 – Canadian rebel leader of the Métis and "Father of Manitoba" Louis Riel is executed for treason. 1904 – English engineer John Ambrose Fleming receives a patent for the thermionic valve (vacuum tube). 1907 – Indian Territory and Oklahoma Territory join to form Oklahoma, which is admitted as the 46th U.S. state. 1914 – The Federal Reserve Bank of the United States officially opens. 1920 – Qantas, Australia's national airline, is founded as Queensland and Northern Territory Aerial Services Limited. 1933 – The United States and the Soviet Union establish formal diplomatic relations. 1938 – LSD is first synthesized by Albert Hofmann from ergotamine at the Sandoz Laboratories in Basel. 1940 – World War II: In response to the leveling of Coventry by the German Luftwaffe two days before, the Royal Air Force bombs Hamburg. 1940 – The Holocaust: In occupied Poland, the Nazis close off the Warsaw Ghetto from the outside world. 1940 – New York City's "Mad Bomber" George Metesky places his first bomb at a Manhattan office building used by Consolidated Edison. 1944 – World War II: In support of the Battle of Hürtgen Forest, the town of Düren is destroyed by Allied aircraft. 1945 – UNESCO is founded.

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Bernardo Jobson (1928-1986) Cuentista judío-argentino/Argentine Jewish Short-story Writer--"Te recuerdo como eras en el último otoño"/"I Remember Know How You Were Last Autumn"--un cuento "médico"/a "medical" short-story

Bernardo Jobson _____________________________________________ Bernardo Jobson (Vera, provincia de Santa Fe, 1928-Buenos Aires, 1986) fue periodista en los diarios La Opinión y Tiempo Argentino entre otros, traductor y redactor publicitario. Escribió los libros Memorias de un soldado raso y Veinticinco watts, aunque los originales se extraviaron, por lo que estos se consideran irrecuperables; lo…