“IN 1999, as a writer for The American Prospect, I went into a slaughterhouse undercover, with the help of some rebellious employees. The floor was slick with the residue of blood and suet, and the air smelled like iron. A part of my brain spent the whole time trying to remember which of Dante’s circles this scene most resembled.” [. . .] –Jedediah Purdy, The New York Times, April 8, 2013
“Pluto’s Gate”: Is the Real Gate to Hell in Turkey?
“It sounds like something out of a horror movie. But Italian scientists say that the ‘Gate to Hell’ is the real deal—poisonous vapors and all. The announcement of the finding of the ruins of Pluto’s Gate (Plutonium in Latin) at an archeology conference in Turkey last month, was recently reported by Discovery News. Francesco D’Andria, professor of classic archaeology at the University of Salento in Lecce, Italy, who has been excavating the ancient Greco-Roman World Heritage Site of Hierapolis for years, led the research team.” [. . .] –Claudine Zap, Yahoo! News, April 2, 2013
Contributed by David Israel
Dante’s Fire-Con
“With “Geek!” the playwright Crystal Skillman and the troupe Vampire Cowboys fly high the freak flag of fantasy. An ode to fangirls and fanboys, the show, in Cowboys tradition, celebrates the universe of anime, comics, science fiction, manga and Hollywood effects spectaculars. It’s a milieu Ms. Skillman clearly knows well and depicts with affection. At an Ohio anime convention called Dante’s Fire-Con two fans take on the guises of their fictional heroines…” [. . .] –Andy Webster, New York Times, March 29, 2013
See also: Incubator Arts Project, New York
Dante Group, Fire and Security System (England and Scotland)
Reading of the Inferno at St. John of the Divine, NYC
“For the 20th consecutive year, the great Cathedral Church of St. John the Divine hosts this free late-night reading of Dante’s epic poem of Hell and damnation. Those scheduled to read include the cathedral’s poet-in-residence, Marilyn Nelson. It’s worth the trip to hear grand verse ring out in the church at night.” —Time Out New York, Thursday, March 28, 2013
Contributed by Emma Pyle (Bowdoin, ’12)
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