On Jan. 10, 1877, Reverend Jacob Gass, who was known for his amateur archeological finds and as a part-time charlatan, excavated a mound in a field near Davenport, Iowa. The burial mounds along the Mississippi were of great interest to archeologists at the time, as there was a widespread (and racist) theory that they were […]
Shane O’Shaughnessy
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Comics Issue: 2019 predictions by Shane O’Shaughnessy
Little Village’s annual Comics Issue found local artists musing over the year ahead. Shane O’Shaughnessy, also known as Rv. Xen, is a cartoonist and the frontman of TECHNO-LINCOLN and the Technicolor Union
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Eight minutes to live
On Nov. 26, 2017, the Hawai’ian government reinstated the “attack warning” siren amidst growing fears of a possible missile attack from North Korea. My wife, Julia, and I were living in Wailuku, a town on the island of Maui. Along with the rest of the citizens of Hawai’i, we had watched with growing apprehension as Trump and Kim Jong Un began their volley of insults and threats with our islands stuck in between.
