INTERVIEW: Ray “CRO” Noland
As much as I’d like to, I can’t pretend to know him well. But what little I do know is that Ray is making some of the most iconic and important art to come out of Chicago since Carl Sandburg wrote about a “City of the Big Shoulders.” CRO is currently in Asheville, North Carolina, fundraising for a new street art campaign combating the ignorance and idiocy that is the Tea Party Express. Can you dig it?
INTERVIEW: Marie Casimir
Y’all may recognize Marie, who is Haitian-American, from her stints as a performer with Ransom Royal’s Cream & Starch, and from our video SKINEMAX I: Women of The Future. After I heard about the earthquake, I realized I knew very little about Haiti, and what little I did know… well, I knew from talking to Marie. I asked her to share her perspective online as a way of raising more social and cultural awareness about the country in the aftermath of the disaster.

