A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
June Issue, 2025
May Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
April Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Impermanence is an Equanimous Wave: Magpies’ Mix Tape
Some philosophy, photography, and a Mix Tape from poet and photographer Michele Farinelli.
Speed of Life: Magpies Mix Tape
“Each moment is transient, gone as quickly as it appears, the journey playing out like an unedited film.”
Corridos: (Mostly) True Stories in Verse With Music
Although mass media and scholars regularly document, analyze, and interpret important events, such documentations and interpretations are seldom from the perspective of the common folk, el pueblo.
February Issue, 2025
A collection of all the articles we’ve published over the past month, for those who like to savor their Magpies’ tidings as an issue.
Magpies Mix Tape: Ain’t Going to Worry No More
A playlist of songs about putting your worries aside and moving forward, for anyone who might need a reminder that we’re all in it together.
Socialist Singer Barbara Dane Was a True American Radical
“Refusing to sacrifice her socialist principles for commercial success, folk-blues-jazz singer Barbara Dane dedicated her life to bringing music from around the world back to where it belonged: in the hands of the people struggling to change it.”
Rai Tide Rising
Two Algerian rai tunes made the top ten of the Village Voice music critics’s poll in 1989. Why were post-liberation Algerian pop singers winning a wide Western audience while an earlier generation of popular Arab singers like Umm Kulthoum, Muhammad ‘Abd al-Wahhab and Fairouz never did?
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