Joshuah Bearman

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Earth Daze

Joshuah Bearman
Illustration by Travis Chatham Environmental writing almost always entails travel. There are the exceptional moments when places of proximity — hometowns, back yards or routine paths to the local barber — achieve enough depth of field to be understood as slivers of the natural world, but for the most part,......

Freaks and Geeks on Sunset

Joshuah Bearman
FIVE HUNDRED people showed up in West Hollywood Saturday for a high school reunion, many waiting several hours to get their yearbooks signed by old friends. And coincidentally everyone had the same old friends: Lindsay and Sam Weir, Bill Haverchuck, Neil Schweiber, Daniel Desario and Kim Kelly, Coach Fredericks, and......

Howard Dean, Take 2

Joshuah Bearman
“Twenty-eight people signed up,” said Michael Faulkner, host of the Democracy for America Meetup. It was the first since Howard Dean had re-christened his campaign operation as a permanent organization intended to become the basis for a long-term renaissance of grassroots political organizing. It was 7:30 p.m., starting time, and......

Red-Hot Mamas

Joshuah Bearman
The bouncer warned us it was crowded in there. Eight bucks to get in, he said. But when we had a quick peek behind the red velvet curtain leading to Tangier restaurant’s backroom lounge, it was the heat that hit us first — a wave of warmth emanating from the......

Primary Notes

Joshuah Bearman
Dean Reborn The crowd in the Southern New Hampshire University gym was still waiting for Howard Dean when John Kerry’s victory speech came on TV. With half the precincts counted, it was clear that Kerry had a bigger lead over Dean than the exit polls suggested it would be. Kerry......

Under the Iowa Radar

Joshuah Bearman
IOWA CITY, Iowa — Iowans for Clark may be an oddly titled group, considering Clark didn’t run in the Iowa caucuses. Clark had decided to focus on New Hampshire, so it was a surprise to find so many Clark supporters in Iowa City. They had gathered, on their own initiative,......
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The Coffee Table

Joshuah Bearman
“I think there’s something extremely peaceful about picture books,” says John Flansburgh, one half of the band They Might Be Giants. “They’re very elegant and leisurely, like few other things in the world.” Clearly, Flansburgh is enthusiastic about his latest project, Bed Bed Bed (Simon and Schuster, 48 pages, $16.95),......

Ecology of Fire

Joshuah Bearman
Photo by Anne Fishbein Suppose the rains didn’t come, she thought . . . And now that men were hunting quail through the brush the hills might burn. There were always more fires in hunting season. November Grass, by Judy van der Veer, 1940 “This is where we used to......
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Organomics

Joshuah Bearman
Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov When DISNEY HALL’S first 2,265 concertgoers file in beneath Frank Gehry’s celebrated stainless-steel challenge to Euclid this week, they will most likely get their first view of the building’s equally remarkable interior: the terraced vineyard shape, the soft bulges of the scallop-bellied ceiling, the sharp lines......

Goldberg and the Guv

Joshuah Bearman
In a leafy backyard in Eagle Rock, right across the street from Occidental College, Quetzal was serenading a few dozen progressive activists and their children, many of whom were exhausting themselves in a moon booth, or whatever people are calling those inflatable chambers for bouncing kids these days. Next to......