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How the Bay Area’s Black Cowboys Carry on a Long Tradition
It’s hard to imagine a more powerful symbol of self-reliance, strength, and determination than the cowboy. While the archetypal cowboy is a highly romanticized figure, and one that ignores ugly truths about the cost of westward expansion in the United States—namely the theft of Native American lives and land—still it has become synonymous with traits we almost universally admire. And while the archetypal cowboy is almost always depicted as white, in reality no one better embodies these admirable traits than the Black cowboys who helped shape the culture of the American West. According to the late historian William Loren Katz,...
Thom Browne holds "teddy talk" for toy-inspired Autumn Winter 2022 collection
American fashion designer Thom Browne's Autumn Winter 2022 show in New York City was an ode to toys and featured sculptural tailoring and an audience of 500 teddy bears. The show, which took place on 30 April at New York City's Javits Center, saw the second floor of the convention centre turned into a conceptual "adult toy shop." The first half of the show presented "adults" wearing classic tailoring The staging included a set of oversized grey painted doors and a "teddy talk", a pun on the TED Talk conferences, which was attended by toy bears. At the centre of the...
New Langford park will honour pilots of crashed water bomber
A new Langford park will be named Flying Firemen Park in honour of Alexander Davidson and Robert (Paddy) Moore, who died flying a water bomber above Skirt Mountain in the summer of 1967. The park, located at 1851 Bear Mountain Pkwy., is currently under construction and is the nearest park to the crash site of Davidson’s and Moore’s plane. This year marks the 55th anniversary of the crash. The pair started their flying careers in the Second World War with the Royal Air Force pilots, and in mid-1960s Davidson recruited Moore to fly water bombers with the BC Forest Service....
Action Figure Review: Fennec Shand from Star Wars: The Black Series Phase IV by Hasbro
May is filled with Star Wars holidays and milestones so it's fitting that I have another review from Hasbro's Star Wars: The Black Series lined up. As I've mentioned in a few other reviews, I'm not really all that excited by many of Hasbro's Black Series offerings right now but when there's a character I want who is well done I'm still jumping in. Today we're checking out Fennec Shand from the most recent series of figures. The Mandalorian and The Book of Boba Fett have truly introduced some of the greatest Star Wars characters in recent memory...
AID’s Care’s Was Ineffectual Thanks to Koch The Mayor Who Wanted to be Straight
Introduction by Adam Gonzalez, Publisher. Edward I. Koch, closeted mayor of New York City during the times of AIDS. It would have been a blessing to have a gay mayor during that pandemic. Instead, they got a mayor who was out to prove he was straight and the gay community who helped put him in power were not his friends particularly if they dare have sex or criticize him. He however had his own boyfriends he might just make the sacrifice and stay with one. He went after all the places gays got together like bars. There was no...