Julie Ardery
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A Frontal Attack is Not the Best Idea
An image can cause an erection or a tear, but can it kill a man or stop a war? After looking around FotoFest, the huge, international photography biennial happening now all over Houston, you have to ask. This is the … Read More
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The Man Who Shaved Off the Beard of Poetry
“Tell me not in mournful numbers‘Life is but an empty dream!’…” So Henry Wadsworth Longfellow began his anthem to the superego, “A Psalm of Life.” My fourth grade classmates and I–perhaps you, too–were forced to memorize all nine stanzas. We … Read More