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Frederik Sisa, arts/entertainment/politics/culture: Resolved to use his powers of writing for good instead of evil, long-time contributor and assistant editor Frederik Sisa is The Front Page Online’s resident art critic as well as a political/cultural observer through his column The Recreational Nihilist. He also edits The Front Page Online's fashion blog The Fashionoclast. When not writing, he writes more, whether working as a marketing professional for a local architecture firm or feeding his blog. Want to drop him a line? Write to: fsisa@thefrontpageonline.com.
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Deconstruction for Beginners: A Cheeky, Clever Primer on Derrida’s Infamous IdeaBy Frederik Sisa @ 3:00 PM June 24, 2011Derrida for Beginners demonstrates serious substance beneath its lighthearted surface, and helps bring one of philosophy’s most controversial and exciting thinkers within everyone’s reach.read |
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The Old Settler: Beautiful Theatre at the ICT Long BeachBy Frederik Sisa @ 10:00 AM June 10, 2011In the parlance of World War II Harlem, an old settler is a woman long past what society considers the peak age for marriage; a spinster. read |
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On Stranger Tides: Watered-Down Rum but Rum NonethelessBy Frederik Sisa @ 11:00 AM May 27, 2011The Hollywood blockbuster has always been vulnerable to film’s version of shock-and-awe: Too much is never enough. After their previous entry in the Pirates of the Caribbean series, the entertaining but ultimately exhausting and overstuffed At World’s End, screenwriters Terry Rossio and Ted Elliot (and other filmmakers) take mercy on our senses and return to the focused storytelling of the film that started it all, The Curse of Black Pearl.read |
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Not Your Ordinary Music Fest: ‘This Is Drop Dead’By Frederik Sisa @ 12:00 PM May 13, 2011For nine years, New York and other cities around the world have played host to a scrappy DIY bacchanalia dedicated to drinking up, as the official website puts it, “Art in every aspect of Life.” Still young and independent enough to be considered underground, unlike other DIY-fests that have since sold out, the Drop Dead Festival (DDF) has become an international showcase of iconoclastic musicians and artists from a scene that might loosely fit under the umbrella of goth/death rock/punk if its members didn’t often achieve a more singular, category-defying individuality. read |
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Bin Laden is Dead, Bin Laden Lives OnBy Frederik Sisa @ 5:00 PM May 02, 2011King of the Greek Molossian tribe during the Hellenistic era that spanned from 323 B.C. to 146 B.C., Pyrrhus of Epirus was considered by Hannibal himself to be the time’s greatest military commander, perhaps second only to Alexander the Great. He was a staunch and able opponent to the Romans, as demonstrated in encounters such as the Battle of Asculum that pitted roughly equal forces against each other. read |