January 2010

Alternavox Recommends: Barriando (Haiti Benefit)

By Mikhail Saavedra Because all of us here at Alternavox have been incredibly moved, saddened and heart broken by the sad images filling our computer and TV screens. Because we can’t find it in ourselves to remain detached nor cynical in front of the genuine human pain and suffering in front of us. Because solidarity [...]

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Writersbox Book Review: The Kingdom Of This World

By James Ratlif The Haitian revolution is the only successful slave revolt in the history of the world. It is an incredible story, which has been told well by many great authors. This is one of them. Carpentier’s novel traces the history of the conflict through the eyes of TiNoel, a slave on the estate [...]

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Writersbox Book Review: Three Cups Of Tea

By James Ratlif Sometimes actions speak a lot louder than words. Mortenson’s wonderful personal journey from personal grief (and a terrible mountaineering experience coming down from the fearsome K2) to a career of school building is a real modern day story of heroics. Mortenson’s working style is freewheeling, chaotic and amazingly effective, and I can [...]

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Special Mix Tape: Trance Showdown

Mixing: Derek Moxam, Music Supervision: Cliff McGoldrick This month, we have two very special guests contributing to the mix tape. Friends to many of us in the Alternavox family, Derek and Cliff bring you ‘Trance Showdown,’ a compilation of classic and cutting-edge trance tracks that celebrate a special and unique time in electronic-music history. A [...]

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Before Dark

By Matthew Walsh Carefully, they walk. The salt water had eaten away at the cement stairs. The staircase, chalky, brittle like an old woman’s arthritic bones, lead down to the water where few scattered people trace the water’s edge. The stairs are like decaying teeth, opening up to the mouth of the shoreline. What’s left [...]

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