Wednesday, August 20, 2008 
Don’t you hate it when film reviewers employ stale cliches about films, like,”You’ll laugh; you’ll cry…”? I do, too. Yet here I am, only having watched the trailer and “Making of Persepolis” (available on the film’s beautiful website), and I know for a fact that when I finally see Persepolis on November 10th, […]
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The New Yorker has a piece on Shirin Neshat this week, and there’s a slide show on their website: check it out. The image above is from Neshat’s film “Zarin,” which is based on Shahrnush Parsipur’s excellent feminist novel, Women Without Men.
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Today is Blog Action Day, when thousands blogs have committed to posting about the environment; according to a Global Voices translation, 500 of these are Iranian blogs.
Hopefully some of them are writing first-hand accounts of Tehran smog, which, according to an AFP report from January, kills 3,600 a month. That’s 120 people dying every day […]
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I’m writing a review of the show for another site and will link it here when it’s up… unfortunately, their sound check meant I could only squeeze in an interview with Babak Khiavchi before I had to run off to Mehregan down the street (more on that soon, too)… so Babak Khiavchi is now my […]
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I’m sort of intimidated by Ardeshir Farah (weell, all these guys but him most of all…) but he’s a little more accessible after seeing him dance along to continued of “Afsoos” - this time with a female backing vocalist, not the same one as their last shows as far as I can tell, but she […]
So how long have you been with the band?
Seventeen years, since the beginning.
Wow, you don’t look that old.
I’m eighteen years old.
So you’re all child prodigies. Why is the band’s name Kiosk?
This goes back to 17 years ago… we would get together and experiment with different musical ideas. Because of the restrictions in Iran, we couldn’t […]
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Kiosk improv means the bass line from Queen’s “Another One Bites The Dust” with Iranian-style keyboard and guitar flourishes… and it works!
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