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This compilation of commercials, an ongoing series, reveals a land of manipulation. Documenting the selling of the American presidency in political ads from the 1950s to the present, it highlights the development of political strategies and marketing techniques of the TV campaign process. Co-sponsored by iEAR presents

Sanctuary TV producer Yaminay Nasir Chaudhri is reporting regularly from Pakistan, where she is staying with family while developing a new documentary project.  This, the first of her visual narratives of life as a migrant in cities she calls home, focuses on a worrisome phone call she received days before embarking on her journey...

"An incident that brought the unstable political situation in Pakistan uncomfortably close to home occurred on September 19 when a car bomb exploded a mere kilometer from my family's home in Karachi, Pakistan.

We've got new neighbors!!!! Welcome!!

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A digital storytelling workshop led by a writer/photographer team, focusing on food as a tool to capture powerful and evocative personal histories.

Please join photographer Ellie Markovitch and writer Amy Halloran for an afternoon of food and digital storytelling.  

Bring a meaningful recipe, relevant photographs, and your camera.

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Bike!Bike! NE happened!

HUGE THANKS to everyone who made this a weekend to remember, and for sending me your digitized memories. KEEP SENDING STUFF IF YOU HAVEN'T YET -- chris DOT gang AT gmail DOT com!!

here's your evidence:

PHOTOS

faced-book photos from Worcester Earn-A-Bike, incl.: TBR workshops, bike piles, Blister Pack, indoor tallbiking, group ride, polo

flickr set by E.P. of tri-county sunday ride with AWESOME "share the road" billboard and abandoned gas station takeover photos