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Lit Bombast: Bad Like Me
Oh, Courtney Love, you’ve always been at once unfairly disparaged and unfairly idolized by the laymen of your country. But why are people so obsessed with you? I honestly can’t answer that. I CAN point...
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Arts Bombast: Hannah Höch
Add her to the list of my favorite women– the brilliant Hannah Höch was the LONE female artist in the Berlin Dada scene. Feminist, dyke, and originator of the photomontage technique, Höch challenged...
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Lit Bombast: Making Waves
It’s been a slow week on Ribbon Around a Bomb, but today, my friends, is the best day ever. I’m finally done with my final papers for Winter quarter of grad school (in fact, I might be posting one of...
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Lit Bombast: Sexism and Punk via Attica! Attica!
First I fell in love with the punk sounds of Marathon (hi, me circa ’06), then I fell in love with the folk sounds of Attica! Attica!. I think I’ve been in love with (founding member of both) Aaron...
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Noisegasm: Mia Zapata, 20 Years Later
“I don’t like to be a violent woman, but I know I have it in me.” -The Gits, Here’s to Your Fuck Mia Zapata was the frontwoman of Seattle punk outfit, the Gits. She has been a huge inspiration in my...
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San Francisco: “Mainstream Mania!” on Ribbon Around a Bomb Radio (with ticket...
Are you sick of tuning in to Radio Valencia on Saturday nights, expecting to enjoy “women who rock,” only to have your senses assaulted by bands you’ve never heard of like Legal Weapon, Tozibabe and...
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Arts Bombast: Rita Wasted
Wednesday, or as we in the corporate world like to refer to it, “Hump Day,” calls for some super-negative, “anti-everything” unspiration from Berlin-based Wasted Rita. I’m particularly fond of the...
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Arts Bombast: Louise Nevelson
“The greatest thing we have is the awareness of the mind. There we can build mansions. There we have all the things that are not given to us on earth.” -Louise Nevelson [Photo by Cecil Beaton.] Louise...
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Arts Bombast: Guerrilla Girls
Guerrilla Girls were/are a group of anonymous radical artists and activists dedicated to fighting sexism and discrimination in the art world. Around ’85, they started printing cheap, humorous posters...
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RAAB Radio #56: Love Songs
New podcast, and by “new,” I mean, from 2 weeks ago. Nevertheless, here’s our Valentine’s Day show: http://podcasts.radiovalencia.fm/ribbon_around_a_bomb/ribbon_around_a_bomb.2014-02-15.2200.mp3 [Nikki...
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