Dancers at LA’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar Become the Nation’s Only Unionized Strippers  · Actors’ Equity Association

Dancers at LA’s Star Garden Topless Dive Bar Become the Nation’s Only Unionized Strippers  · Actors’ Equity Association
— Read on www.actorsequity.org/news/PR/StarGardenVictory/

Hating it Lush: On Tel Aviv – The White Review

Silly or not, my preliminary thesis was to think of Tel Aviv as a sort of Los Angeles of the eastern Mediterranean. Both cities are trashy, though one is in denial about it. Both have a sort of melancholic hedonism baked into their equations: in Los Angeles the party ends when the cash runs out. In Tel Aviv, too, but the currency here is Zionism.
— Read on www.thewhitereview.org/feature/hating-it-lush/

Mexico president asks Biden to stop USAID funding opposition groups | Reuters

Mexico’s president asked his U.S. counterpart Joe Biden to stop the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) from funding groups hostile to his government, according to a letter presented to journalists on Wednesday, echoing previous Mexican criticism of U.S. interventionism.
— Read on www.reuters.com/world/americas/mexico-president-asks-biden-stop-usaid-funding-opposition-groups-2023-05-03/

The Empire Strikes Back: Inside a clandestine neo-Nazi concert in Mexico City | International | EL PAÍS English

Swastikas, Nazi salutes and Hitler tattoos were all the rage at the event where Mexican and Spanish bands performed ‘hard and nationalist’ music
— Read on english.elpais.com/international/2022-11-09/the-empire-strikes-back-inside-a-clandestine-neo-nazi-concert-in-mexico-city.html

After the Fire | Oxford Law Blogs

The magnitude of the Juarez fire also unraveled feelings that I could no longer keep in check, perhaps because of the accumulated horror of each one of these events, or of how unreachable, even implausible justice for the victims and their family and friends seems to be. It was also personal.
— Read on blogs.law.ox.ac.uk/blog-post/2023/05/after-fire

The Poetry Project > #272 – Spring 2023 > An Interview with Bernadette Mayer, Lisa Jarnot

I believe this interview, printed in the Feb/March 1998 issue of the Poetry Project Newsletter [#168], was a rapprochement meeting for me and Bernadette.
— Read on www.poetryproject.org/publications/newsletter/272-spring-2023-for-bernadette-mayer/an-interview-with-bernadette-mayer