Email Author Silke Tudor

2007 Stories by Silke Tudor

• On the Download

  published December 12, 2007

  In a world where faster is commonly construed as better, the Long Now Foundation stands out in the stream of convenience-store consciousness,... More >>

• Whiskery Goodness

  published December 12, 2007

  Albanians have almost as many words for mustache as Eskimos have for snow (fshes means drooping with bristly hairs, holl means thin, dirs ur means... More >>

• Harry Belafonte, Patriot

  published December 5, 2007

  From the outset of his recording career, Harry Belafonte took a stand. He refused to appear in the segregated South, vocally and financially... More >>

• Going Live

  published December 5, 2007

  Between the 1920s and 1940s, audio theater in every form enjoyed an ardent following, but imagination and inventive Foley artists were no... More >>

• On Your Mother's Grave

  published November 7, 2007

  In America, profanity is thought to comprise 13 percent of all adult conversation. Swearing is, in fact, so commonplace we take it for granted,... More >>

• The Guitar Has Been Drinking

  published November 7, 2007

  Devotees of the chicken-swinging Hasil Adkins and chicken-sucking Andre Williams will be right at home greasing up and getting down to the sleazy,... More >>

• Punkercize

  published November 7, 2007

  Riders on the 22 Fillmore are in love with "Push It!," the city’s first happy-hour dive-venue aerobics class. As the bus stops outside... More >>

• More Like A Nightmare

  published October 24, 2007

  In Stiffed: The Betrayal of the American Man, Pulitzer Prize–winning journalist Susan Faludi analyzed the myth of the stoic... More >>

• New Growth

  published October 24, 2007

  This year, Jonathan Mills, director of the Edinburgh International Festival, invited the Tiger Lillies to reinterpret Monteverdi's... More >>

• You Are Here

  published October 24, 2007

  Psychogeography is defined by Guy Debord, founding member of Situationist International, as the study of the specific effects of geography on the... More >>

• Still Sticking It to the Man

  published October 17, 2007

  There are few sacred cows more deserving of tribute than Lawrence Ferlinghetti. In 1953, he gave us the first all-paperback bookstore in... More >>

• Stage Fright

  published October 10, 2007

  Early directors of the Théâtre du Grand Guignol might have understood the guilty pleasure of today's reality TV, but it is highly... More >>

• Damp, Dirty Drama

  published August 29, 2007

  For theater lovers, the San Francisco Fringe Festival is a much-anticipated marathon -- 200 performances of 38 new shows delivered in just... More >>