With a dark, offbeat style and a pointed ability to make the reader uncomfortable, Ann Cummins has acquired a devoted following of readers. Hear if unique style works in person. (more…)
When spooks speak, it’s worth listening. Especially when their speeches are entitled “THE FAILURE OF INTELLIGENCE: THE DECLINE AND FALL OF THE CIA” (more…)
Right now there may be a rare window of opportunity for citizens “outside the beltway” to shape US foreign policy. Citizens for Global Solutions thinks so, and is setting up a summit for experts and non-experts to discuss the country’s main challenges, and top priorities for the next President. (more…)
The biggest single factor in 21st century international politics? It might not be radical Islam, or proliferation of WMDs, or continued crises in Africa. It just might be China’s unquenchable thirst for oil. South Korean Ministry of Commerce, Industry, and Energy official Keonki Roh and Sagamore Institute’s John Clark explore the implications of Chinese petro-politics for Northeast Asia, the US, and Indiana. (more…)
The US seems in deperate need of a balanbced, responsible, grown-up foreign policy. No one articulates this sort of policy better than America’s greatest living former Congressman, Lee Hamilton. (more…)
Witold Rybczynski may be the profound and influential thinker about the implications urban life and suburbia in American intellectual history. Who would be better for providing a context for the IMA’s challenging exhibition SuburbanNation? (more…)
One of the best world music festivals on the planet takes place in Indiana — The Lotus World Music and Arts Festival, in Bloomington. It’s worth making at least one drive south to soak up the spirit and song … and sample the foods. (more…)
If the mystic poet Mawlana Jalaluddin Rumi were alive today, he’d be celebrating his 800th birthday, feted by United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), which has declared 2007 the “Year of Rumi.” He’d probably spend part of his year at the Indianapolis Museum of Art, and so should you. (more…)
Over a career in poetry that spans five decades and twelve collections, Galway Kinnell has received the Pulitzer Prize, a National Book Award, the Frost Medal, and a MacArthur Fellowship. In the nomination for the 2003 National Book Award, the judges called Kinnell “America’s preeminent visionary” whose work “greets each new age with rapture and abundance [and] sets him at the table with his mentors: Rilke, Whitman, Frost.” Wow. (more…)
Butler University’s 2007-08 J. James Woods Lectures in the Sciences and Mathematics series begins Oct. 2 with “The Making of the Fittest,” a discussion of Darwin and molecular biology by Sean Carroll, professor of molecular biology and genetics at the University of Wisconsin. (more…)
NUVO gives Provocate 2007 Cultural Vision Award
Provocate featured in Indianapolis Monthly
"Award combines film, activism: Festival to recognize social justice of Sept. 11, Congo in discussions,"
Indiana Lawyer April 16, 2008 ... on Provocate's Eric Parker Social Justice Award at the Indianapolis International Film Festival
