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		<title>Book Arts with Yuka &amp; Angela</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Join SIFT at Press Street’s Antenna Gallery for a free, informal book arts workshop. Participants will select a non-traditional book structure and then create their own cut-up poem from found text. Using collage, rubber stamps, transfer type, and stencils, we will incorporate our cut-up poems into these one-of-a-kind artist’s books. All materials will be provided. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Local author too disgusted by his own stories to read them</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Local author Michael J. Lee—whose debut collection of short stories, Something In My Eye, was recently released—reportedly became so disgusted while reading his stories prior to a scheduled appearance last night he canceled the event, citing acute stomach pain as the primary cause. Lee told Room 220 he had been attempting to refresh his memory [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Columbus Street at N. Dorgenois</title>
		<description><![CDATA[A commendable effort to promote literacy.]]></description>
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		<title>Shameless self-promotion: McSweeney&#8217;s</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Okay, okay, I feel some shame. But I&#8217;m posting this anyway. Pick up a copy of the next issue of McSweeney&#8217;s venerable literary quarterly to read a little baby story written by yours truly, along with lots of better writing from people like Saïd Sayrafiezadeh and Rick Bass, and a compendium of writing that inspired [...]]]></description>
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		<title>monu_MENTAL</title>
		<description><![CDATA[Antenna is pleased to present “monu_MENTAL,”  a group show proposing imaginative revisions to existing 19th and 20th century New Orleans monuments.  “monu_MENTAL” seeks to revise and revive one’s experience of local monuments.  Many a New Orleans monument has skidded out of sync with contemporary mores, if not out of the local consciousness.  Not content with [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Spaces: Antenna, The Front, Good Children Gallery</title>
		<description><![CDATA[SPACES: Antenna, The Front, Good Children Gallery GALLERY OPENING: February 25, 2012 –6pm to 8pm (FREE) Curated by Amy Mackie, Director of Visual Arts with Angela Berry, Visual Arts Coordinator Spaces: Antenna, The Front, Good Children Gallery is the first exhibition to bring together these collectively organized, cooperatively run artist spaces located on or near [...]]]></description>
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		<title>Writers &#8220;Emerge&#8221; at the Black Widow Salon</title>
		<description><![CDATA[M&#8217;Bilia Meekers reads with accompaniment at the Columns Hotel; Room 220 editors refrain from editorializing for fear of seeming creepy; Meekers will perform at the next Black Widow Salon. The Black Widow Salon continues its monthly literary event series at Crescent City Books in February with a group of &#8220;emerging&#8221; local writers: Christopher Hellwig, Jenna [...]]]></description>
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		<title>For Don Delillo: photographs by Sophie Lvoff</title>
		<description><![CDATA[&#8220;Every child ought to have the opportunity to travel thousands of miles alone,&#8221; Tweedy said, &#8220;for the sake of her self-esteem and independence of mind, with clothes and toiletries of her own choosing. The sooner we get them in the air, the better. Like swimming or ice skating. You have to start them young. It&#8217;s [...]]]></description>
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		<title>I Can’t Discount the Factor of Helplessness: Andy Young’s New Book on Watching the Egyptian Revolution</title>
		<description><![CDATA[By Nathan C. Martin Just as Room 220 was getting on its feet about a year ago, another breathtaking development of historical significance was taking place—the Egyptian revolution. One of the very first Room 220 posts was an interview I conducted with Andy Young and Khaled Hegazzi, co-editors of Meena Magazine, a bi-lingual literary journal [...]]]></description>
		<link>http://press-street.com/i-can%e2%80%99t-discount-the-factor-of-helplessness-andy-young%e2%80%99s-new-book-on-watching-the-egyptian-revolution/</link>
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		<title>The People Is Singular</title>
		<description><![CDATA[The People Is Singular, by local poet Andy Young and Egyptian photographer Salwa Rashad, is a personal response to the Egyptian Revolution. Rashad’s vision includes everyday people—Muslims and Christians, young and old, the foregrounded and the peripheral. Her perspective is from inside the events as they unfolded. Andy Young, a New Orleans poet married to [...]]]></description>
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