Longfellow

From Guinea, West Africa, Ibé Kaba currently resides on an “Atlantic rock” in the middle of the ocean. When asked about this poetic metaphor for where he lives, he reveals, “It’s my home. I am from Africa and I live in America, so I exist on an Atlantic Rock…I grew up in the Middle of the Atlantic. That is the story; the beginning, the end, and the middle.” What an interesting way to describe the rock that represents the place in between two continents and cultures. This idea is similar to the mental space where W.E.B. Dubois termed “double-consciousness,” where one is always reminded that their current state is a result of a hybrid of cultures. MORE »

I don’t know if they shake the hand of everyone who walks through the door, but the greeting from the server set the tone for my experience of dining at Gandhi Mahal, the Indian restaurant that opened at the end of May at 3009 27th Ave. S., in the former space of the short-lived Calypso. MORE »

Citgo closes to become Metro Petro; poles to be replaced for wi-fi; Seward Redesign gets new digs, SNG nerw office mates; Resource Center of Americas building to reopen MORE »

Going to a complete stranger’s house to sit in the grass in their front yard to watch a puppet show really is not the kind of thing a relatively shy person like myself usually does. But, as I sat in the summer sun on a lawn in the Seward neighborhood on a recent afternoon, I felt at ease. Adults and children sat together to enjoy a performance by Open Eye Figure Theatre: The Adventures of Little Grandpa, a tale of the city that involved a lost baby alien, a reggae-singing heroine, and a troublemaking cat named Frisky. MORE »