Email Author Silke Tudor

2010 Stories by Silke Tudor

• Whore! Number One

  published June 23, 2010

  For better or worse, a lot of young women who were born out of the seeds of the sexual revolution began to view the word “feminist” as... More >>

• Goodness Gracious

  published June 9, 2010

  It takes a lot of balls to light your tits on fire. Angel Cecelia Helene Walker, better known as Satan’s Angel, has done it approximately... More >>

• Show preview: Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers

  published June 2, 2010

  The season finale of Saturday Night Live offered us a nip of Mojo, the first album from Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers... More >>

• Who's in Control Here?

  published April 28, 2010

  In the 2008 Italian film Gomorrah, tiresome members of a Neapolitan crime syndicate shuffle around in bad shorts, trying to make their... More >>

• Island of Hope, Island of Tears

  published April 28, 2010

  In popular American literature of the 19th century, Chinese immigrants were often characterized as obeisant, illiterate, and sexless. The truth... More >>

• Women of DIVAfest

  published April 7, 2010

  The murder ballad “The Wind and Rain” first appeared on a broadside during the mid-17th century with the title “The Twa... More >>

• Street Work

  published April 7, 2010

  For the world traveler, street vendors sell personalities as much as products: the Chinese shoe-repairman with the treadle sewing machine and tire... More >>

• Kicking and Screaming

  published March 24, 2010

  Legend has it, a trip to the toilet with Zap Comix inspired Ron Turner to borrow $2,500 to start his publishing company, Last Gasp. It was... More >>

• "And This Is Our Minder"

  published March 17, 2010

  To Noah Lang, the Cold War seems almost quaint, compared to the War on Terror. “When I was growing up, the Soviet Union was the evil... More >>

• Flip It

  published March 17, 2010

  The title might evoke an image of clammy-fingered men in ill-fitting clothes bent over synthesizers with penlights attached to their heads, but... More >>

• The Night of a Thousand Knots

  published March 17, 2010

  In the heart of the Castro, those “living outside the female-male gender binary” have a scorching hotspot to call their own. Lickerish... More >>

• Firepower

  published March 3, 2010

  On March 8, Wafaa Bilal, a professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts, turned his back into a canvas for our collective conscience. During... More >>