AccessMyLibrary provides FREE access to over 30 million articles from top publications available through your library.

Rehearsing revolution: performance artist Kayhan Irani on the political power of storytelling.(PROFILE)

Colorlines Magazine

| July 01, 2008 | LaVon Rice, Almah | COPYRIGHT 2008 Color Lines Magazine. This material is published under license from the publisher through the Gale Group, Farmington Hills, Michigan.  All inquiries regarding rights should be directed to the Gale Group. (Hide copyright information)Copyright

A COLD DAY IN HARLEM finds a woman collecting signatures for yet another idealistic endeavor. She's from the Public Coalition of Improvements and Renovations, and her petition is in support of the One Manhattan Project. "We want to reunify all of Manhattan after 9/11," she explains. "We feel like a lot of neighborhoods have been fragmented and lost their tourist and business dollars. We think it would be a good idea if we reestablish all the original avenue names." In particular, the proposal calls for Harlem streets bearing names such as Frederick Douglass, Malcolm X and Martin Luther King, Jr. to be assimilated into the numbered avenues found throughout Manhattan, in ...

Related articles from newspapers, magazines, journals, and more
Ray Irani brings new ways to Occidental. (chairman and chief executive officer...
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Glover, Kara March 23, 1992 700+ words
...Bar Mitzvah in December 1991, and Ray Irani, who was then second in command, took...executive officer. Fifteen months later, Irani has streamlined the company's assets...his predecessor. Industry analysts hail Irani for getting Occidental on a more focused...
New heir apparent at Occidental doesn't pacify unhappy shareholders, analysts...
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Frook, John Evan April 2, 1990 700+ words
...unhappy shareholders, analysts say Ray Irani gets some ink, but investor suit remains The ushering in of Ray R. Irani as heir apparent to Armand Hammer's...financial analysts say. The campaign to cast Irani as future chief of the Los Angeles-based...
Stereotyping and double standards in `Hollywood Islam'.(film "The Siege";...
Magazine article from: National Catholic Reporter Jones, Arthur November 20, 1998 700+ words
...saw the movie in Washington with George Irani, an International relations scholar and an Arab Christian. Jones spoke with Irani about popular views Islam and the continuing...over. Freed from our movie seats, George Irani and I headed for the car. Said Irani...
Irani committed to the work ethic
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London David Llewellyn October 26, 1995 700+ words
Ronnie Irani is engagingly hesitant about his ancestry...club. I am born and bred English." Where Irani is on absolutely firm ground is when he...England Under-19 manager. Hearing of Irani's unhappiness, he suggested that the...
Big-hitting Irani is set to strike up a new deal and keep his Essex love affair...
Newspaper article from: The Evening Standard (London, England) August 7, 2006 700+ words
Byline: ALEXANDER CLYDE RONNIE IRANI has been offered a new three-year contract...but the Essex public quickly embraced Irani as one of their own: a bold, adventurous...Leading from the front with a flourish is the Irani way and that is precisely what he did last...
Irani's spell puts victory in sight
Newspaper article from: The Independent - London November 8, 1995 700+ words
...of bowling by Essex all-rounder Ronnie Irani has left England A with victory in their...today against the Combined XI in Karachi. Irani took 5 for 14 and was backed up by the...third day of four with a lead of just 103. Irani's second spell was his most prolific...
Irani, Jacobs join forces to lead group buying small local bank. (Los Angeles,...
Magazine article from: Los Angeles Business Journal Mullen, Liz April 17, 1995 700+ words
Ray Irani and Joseph Jacobs, heads of two of L.A...based Jacobs Engineering Group Inc. and Irani, chairman and chief executive officer of...downtown L.A.-based bank. Jacobs and Irani are making personal investments in the bank...
Irani opposes export of high grade iron ore.
News wire article from: PTI - The Press Trust of India Ltd. December 9, 2005 700+ words
Irani opposes export of high grade iron ore Kolkata, Dec 9 (PTI) Tata Sons director J J Irani has opposed the export of high grade iron...people who will make steel in India,'' Irani told newsmen here last night. Irani further...
For more facts and information, see all results
©2009 Gale, a part of Cengage Learning. All rights reserved.
About us | FAQs | Contact us | Privacy policy | Terms and conditions
Other Gale sites: Encyclopedia.com | HighBeam Research | Acquire Content | Books & Authors | Goliath | MovieRetriever | Smart QandA