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Did you know Americans spend $16 billion on yoga gear each year? Learn how understanding the 8 Limbs of Yoga can help us decolonize wellness and keep you away from all the meaningless "namaste" merchandise.
Films about the challenges of faith in modern-day society are pretty hard to come by. Here are six multicultural films that challenge everything we thought we knew about religion.
Music
Imagining all the best artists to co-tour with, touring with Tricky is "seriously, an honor," said Terra Lopez, lead singer of Sacramento-based band Rituals of Mine (f.k.a. Sister Crayon) during their opening act at Underground Arts for the Bristol-based heavy-bass-heart-of-darkness. A heckler in the crowd yelled,"We Love Tricky, and we love you!"
There are two things I absolutely love: sick house parties and (two) drops of X.
This Friday, October 28th, Black Kids are back in Philly with new tracks from their upcoming (yet to be named) 2017 album, including their latest release: Obligatory Drugs, headlining at Kung Fu Necktie.
Art
For most artists, no matter what stage along their path, the take-it-or-leave-it and nearly self-destructive question continuously persists: what happens if nobody sees it? As the Senegalese and Philadelphia based artist Michel Delgado nonchalantly puts it, "You gotta be cool with it." Unsettling? Yes. Refreshing? Most certainly not. Worth it?
According to Richard Ross: darkness breeds disease.
Dread Scott-the artist who sparked controversy in 1989 as a student at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, snowballing to national debate with his installation What is a Proper Way to Display a US Flag? - is currently exhibiting his work at Rowan University Art Gallery at High Street.
"He said something like, 'if we are to change our world view, images must change. The artist now has a very important job to do.' " David Gleeson states, trying to remember Vaclav Havel's quote on the artistic response to Communism, as we wrap up our conversation on Gleeson's recent exhibition at Crane Arts: T.Rump - America on the Rag.