Hello! We are having our issue distribution event tonight!
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PAULA VILAPLANA DE MIGUEL reviews the psychic shops of New York.
Presenting her research from a piece she recently wrote for Urban Omnibus, Signs of Things to Come, Paula “takes us on a spatial, material, and metaphysical journey through the psychic industry in New York, a trade driven by women and immigrants — citymakers in their own right who have made a future for themselves through divining the future itself.”
ZACH MORTICE reviews the vigilante historic preservation of the Candyman movies.
By placing a hook-handed killer in Chicago's Cabrini-Green projects, the 1992 movie Candyman is an architectural horror cult classic. It presents the failure of public-sector Modern architecture besieged by neoliberal policy and racism as the ideal setting for gothic urban legend. Its 2021 remake, directed by Nia DaCosta and produced by Jordan Peele, is indelibly altered by the dynamiting of Cabrini-Green, and traces the Candyman's looping trajectory of violence as it spirals out into the city.
For those coming in person, we are opening the doors at 7:00pm.
The address is 83 Grand Street. Vaccines are of course mandatory.
For those joining by zoom, we are starting the presentations at 7:30pm.
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