“And unfortunately, in our strange and uncertain times, maybe a brutal “it can happen here” wake-up call is what we need.”
Noir as Societal Mirror: Julien Duvivier’s PANIQUE
March 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.
Letter From the Editor, March, 2025
Ramblings for these tough times.
Imaginary Jobs: Morality Accountant
The qualifications for the job might seem simple, innate, even. All you need is a functioning moral compass, the courage of your convictions, the ability to see what is happening right before your eyes caused by people who are making no attempt to hide it, and enough resolve to do something about it.
Speed of Life: Magpies Mix Tape
“Each moment is transient, gone as quickly as it appears, the journey playing out like an unedited film.”
The Writing is on The Wall
Brassaï declares that the “bastard art of the streets of ill repute that does not even arouse our curiosity, so ephemeral that it is easily obliterated by bad weather or a coat of paint, nevertheless offers a criterion of worth. Its authority is absolute, overturning all the laboriously established canons of aesthetics”
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker
Entertainment-wise, a motherfucker: critical race politics and the transnational movement of Melvin van Peebles
Art as a bullhorn: An Interview with Peter J. Ketchum
Whether I’m commenting on politics or the hypocrisy of organized religion or societal ills in general, my art is like a bullhorn used to get attention about things that concern me.
The Ghosts of Japanese Folklore
Yūrei, in their varied forms, are potent symbols of the simple and enduring universal human need for right over wrong.
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.
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