Dowbrigade

It was back in 1975, and the 22-year-old Dowbrigade was in rough shape
in a tight spot. Huddled on the floor of the glorified warehouse that
served as the International Terminal of the airport in Cali, Columbia,
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The Dowbrigade has written
previously on the ongoing disappearance
of indigenous cultures around the world. We realize it is not a question
of somehow preserving these cultures like some kind of exotic […]

 
Since the talking heads have made the dissection of the Dean Debacle
practically a national pastime, we have learned that Dr. Dean was betrayed
and undone by a) Himself b) The Democratic Party, c) The Media Mafia,
[…]

The
Dowbrigade remembers attending a particularly ostentatious Bar Mitzvah
in Brookline a few years back and seeing a life-size Torah molded entirely
from Chopped Liver. Only Jews, we […]

Macabre
doesn’t begin to describe the
work of German artist/anatomist Gunter von Hagens, who is turning human cadavers into artwork at the Von Hagens
Plastination factory in Dalian, in northeast China. Although he […]