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Christopher Blay and William Sarradet reached out to some Texas artists, including Lauren Cross, Heyd Fontenot, and Francisco Moreno among others, to find out what’s on their current playlists. Christopher and William like what they hear.

“Me and my wife walked down the aisle to the instrumental version of Frank Ocean’s ‘Super Rich Kids’.”

To watch last week’s Top Five in which Christina Rees and Brandon Zech discuss artists taking on the American flag, please go here.

For the complete playlist of artist picks, check out our Spotify playlist here.

 

1. From Lauren Cross: Artist: Teni; Song: Case

“My music selection has absolutely changed. I have been in a West African R&B mood these days. Listening to these artists has me thinking of family and home. Here are my faves, from Ginger Me playlist on Spotify. I keep this playlist on repeat.”

Cross is Senior Lecturer for Interdisciplinary Art and Design Studies at the University of North  Texas.

 

2. From Heyd Fontenot: Artist: Betty Davis: Song: They Say I’m Different
“I have never been able to stop listening to Frank Ocean (Blond) who I will marry someday, and Joni Mitchell. New Interest, Betty Davis’ They Say I’m Different … holy fuck!”

The recent San Antonio Casa Chuck Resident, Fontenot is currently working on a video series with Ruby City San Antonio and a future project with Blue Star Contemporary.

 

3. From Doug Land: Artist: William Onyeabor: Song: When the Going is Smooth & Good

Doug Land currently has an exhibition on view at Terrain Dallas, an outdoor space run by Iris Bechtol in Oak Cliff, south of the Winnetka Heights neighborhood. The show is called Front Yard Museum and it’s “kind of an envisioning of the curated lawn space of suburban texas treated with the calculated and careful labeling of a museum curator.” It’s on view through August 23.

 

4. From Hector Ramirez : Artist, Piero De Benedictis; Song: Los Americanos

Ramirez’s most recent work, ENTRE PIEDRAS Y COPIA, was on view at Blind Alley Projects in Fort Worth. Entre Piedras y Copia “is a memory of a place where I grew up. The exhibitionis rooted in the vernacular of a Mexican American working class. Its sculptures explore the aesthetic and material adaptations worked through cultures, necessity or language.”

 

5. From Michelle Cortez Gonzales: Aritst, Frank Ocean: Song: Blond (Full Album)

“I think through everything going on right now, my playlist has stayed the same. It has been a strange year and I have really wanted to listen to music that I have loved throughout my life and that has remained constant for me.”

Gonzales received an MFA from the University of Dallas earlier this year, and her most recent work Tactile Nostalgia: Michelle Gonzales and Richie Peña, was shown at the 500X Gallery in Dallas.

 

Bonus Picks:

1. From Francisco Moreno: Artist, James Baldwin; Audiobook: The Fire Next Time

“I start the day listening to electronic meditation music like the artist Alaskan Tapes, the Shape of Things. There is a lot going on right now, and this calm music allows me to process. Also I have been listening to audiobooks. Right now I’m listening to a lot of James Baldwin. Just listened to The Fire Next Time, and Nobody Knows My Name. Watching Arthur Jafa’s Love is the Message has also got me listening to Kanye’s The Life of Pablo. Again.”

Moreno’s work can be seen in the current group show For a Dreamer of Houses at the Dallas Museum of Art.

 

2. From Travis Iurato (Tino Ward): Artist, Eddie Harris; Song: Don’t Want Nobody.

Tino Ward’s work is currently on view at ex ovo in Dallas.

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The Contemporary Arts Museum Houston (CAMH) has announced the appointment of Janice Bond as its new Deputy Director. Bond, who assumed her role on June 23, 2020,  will join CAMH’s leadership that includes Executive Director Hesse McGraw. Bond’s past experience in Chicago and here in Houston includes artist advocacy, community activation and engagement, and administrative leadership.

Bond will oversee operation at CAMH with a commitment to diversity, equity, accessibility, and inclusion.

“CAMH is thrilled to welcome Janice to our team — as a native Houstonian, Janice’s new role represents both a homecoming and pivotal moment for the Museum,” says Hesse McGraw, CAMH’s Executive Director. “Janice brings a remarkable record to CAMH, grounded both in belief and trust in artists, and strategic operational acumen that will serve CAMH well. We look forward to the positive influence her thoughtful leadership and cultural insight will infuse into the Museum.”

Bond is a Houston native who has returned home from Chicago, where she was an artist, curator, and gallerist. Her work with Bond Creative Advisors, an art consulting practice she organized, led artist collectives and institutions through large-scale projects and programs, including artist-in-residence programs beyond Chicago. Bond was also a member of both the Chicago Cultural Plan Advisory Council and the Navy Pier Arts Working Group.

“It is a true joy to join the leadership to evolve CAMH’s historic and renowned institutional legacy,” Bond says. “For a museum to sustainably realize its vision, the endeavor must be rooted in the spirit of aligned conscience, service, and investment. As CAMH continues to travel this path, it is imperative that we recalibrate our internal and external operational models to purposefully foster equity and expanded vision. I look forward to CAMH addressing long-standing inequities through re-imagining how we listen, how we engage our communities, and how we aspire to greatness. Alongside the Houston community, artists, cultural workers, staff, and Board of Trustees, I am eager to co-create spaces that inform, inspire, and influence the experience of contemporary art in Houston and beyond.”

Bond’s experience and impact as an artist extends well beyond the United States. In 2014, she traveled to Dakar, Senegal where she became a supporter of Association Colombin, a nonprofit artist-founded organization that remains artist-led and artist-run, while teaching pottery and sculpture to deaf and mute Senegalese citizens so that they can gain independence and visibility while making a positive impact in their community. In 2016, Bond was an artist-in-residence and lecturer at the Mark Rothko Art Centre in Daugavpils, Latvia, where her work remains as part of the permanent collection.

Throughout Bond’s career, she has maintained an active and unwavering involvement on the community level that exemplifies her alignment for the new vision and direction of CAMH.

For more on the appointment of Janice Bond, and the Contemporary Arts Museum Houston, please visit CAMH’s website here. (Note: CAMH is currently closed to the public due to the COVID-19 pandemic.)

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Early in President Trump’s term, McSweeney’s editors began to catalog the head-spinning number of misdeeds coming from his administration. We called this list a collection of Trump’s cruelties, collusions, and crimes, and it felt urgent then to track them, to ensure these horrors — happening almost daily — would not be forgotten. This election year, amid a harrowing global health, civil rights, humanitarian, and economic crisis, we know it’s never been more critical to note these horrors, to remember them, and to do all in our power to reverse them. This list will be updated between now and the November 2020 Presidential election.

Various writers have compiled this list during the course of the Trump administration. Their work has been guided by invaluable journalistic resources, including WTFJHT, NPR, the New York Times, the Washington Post, and other sources, to whom we are grateful.

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– Sexual Misconduct, Harassment, & Bullying
– White Supremacy, Racism, Homophobia, Transphobia, & Xenophobia
– Public Statements / Tweets
– Collusion with Russia & Obstruction of Justice
– Trump Staff & Administration
– Trump Family Business Dealings
– Policy
– Environment

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BEFORE JANUARY 2017

1. – February 10, 2011 – In 2011, Donald Trump stoked false claims that Barack Obama had lied about his education. During a speech to the Conservative Political Action Conference, Trump said, “Our current president came out of nowhere. Came out of nowhere. In fact, I’ll go a step further: The people that went to school with him, they never saw him, they don’t know who he is. It’s crazy.” This is false. Numerous accounts from Obama’s college classmates refute Trump’s claim, including Obama’s Columbia roommate, Phil Doerner.
   
   
2. – March 30, 2011 – Donald Trump was a vocal proponent of the “birther” myth, claiming Barack Obama was not born in the United States. In 2011, Trump told Bill O’Reilly, “If you are going to be president of the United States you have to be born in this country. And there is a doubt as to whether or not he was… He doesn’t have a birth certificate. He may have one, but there’s something on that, maybe religion, maybe it says he is a Muslim. I don’t know. Maybe he doesn’t want that. Or he may not have one. But I will tell you this. If he wasn’t born in this country, it’s one of the great scams of all time.” In response to the “birther” conspiracy theory, the State of Hawaii released Barack Obama’s short- and long-form birth certificate.
   
   
3. – August 6, 2012 – Over a year after the White House released Obama’s long-form birth certificate, Donald Trump again promoted the “birther” myth, tweeting, “An ‘extremely credible source’ has called my office and told me that @BarackObama’s birth certificate is a fraud.” President Trump has publicly attacked media outlets for citing anonymous sources, but has himself cited anonymous sources numerous times to support the claim that Barack Obama lied about his biography.
   
   
4. – December 12, 2013 – Years after first stirring controversy about Barack Obama’s birthplace, Donald Trump implied a conspiracy surrounding the death of the Hawaiian State Official who had released Obama’s long-form birth certificate in 2011. Trump tweeted, “How amazing, the State Health Director who verified copies of Obama’s “birth certificate” died in plane crash today. All others lived.”
   
   
5. – May 27, 2015 – Continuing to build on the debunked “birther” conspiracy, Donald Trump said Barack Obama could have claimed Kenya as his birthplace for special treatment from colleges. Trump said, “There are three things that could happen. And one of them did happen. He was perhaps born in Kenya. Very simple, OK? He was perhaps born in this country. But said he was born in Kenya because if you say you were born in Kenya, you got aid and you got into colleges. People were doing that. So perhaps he was born in this country, and that has a very big chance. Or, you know, who knows?"
   
   
6. – June 16, 2015 – In his speech announcing his candidacy for President of the United States, Donald Trump said, “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best. They’re sending people that have lots of problems. They’re bringing drugs. They’re bringing crime. They’re rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.”
   
   
7. – June 16, 2015 – In the same speech announcing his candidacy, Donald Trump said, “I will build a great wall—and nobody builds walls better than me, believe me—and I’ll build them very inexpensively. I will build a great, great wall on our southern border, and I will make Mexico pay for that wall. Mark my words.” Trump’s belief that Mexico should finance construction for the wall led Mexican President Enrique Peña Nieto to cancel a meeting with Trump in June 2017, and again in February 2018. Peña Nieto has repeatedly said that Mexico will not fund the border wall.
   
   
8. – July 18, 2015 – Donald Trump insulted the military service of Senator John McCain, a decorated Vietnam War veteran who endured torture and solitary confinement as a POW in Hanoi. Trump said in a speech at the Family Leadership Summit in Iowa, "He’s not a war hero. He was a war hero because he was captured. I like people who weren’t captured.” Trump’s comments drew boos from his audience in Iowa, as well as widespread condemnation from Republicans and Democrats alike. Donald Trump himself was exempted from military service after receiving four student deferments between 1964 and 1968, and a medical deferment for a “bone spur in his foot” after graduating from college.
   
   
9. – August 7, 2015 – During the first Republican primary debate in 2015, Donald Trump clashed with moderator Megyn Kelly regarding his many controversial statements against women. In one exchange, Trump claimed his disparaging remarks about women were limited to comments about Rosie O’Donnell, to which Kelly responded, “Your Twitter account has several disparaging comments about women’s looks. You once told a contestant on Celebrity Apprentice it would be a pretty picture to see her on her knees. Does that sound to you like the temperament of a man we should elect as president?” The next day, Trump told a CNN interviewer that Kelly had been “off-base” in the way she treated him. “She gets out and she starts asking me all sorts of ridiculous questions,” Trump said. “You know, you could see there was blood coming out of her eyes, blood coming out of her wherever.”
   
   
10. – August 19, 2015 – In August of 2015, just three months after Trump announced his candidacy for president, two of his supporters in Boston beat a homeless Latino man with a metal pipe, and then urinated on him. Asked by the arresting officer why they had done it, one of the attackers said, “Trump was right—all these illegals need to be deported.” During a press conference shortly thereafter, Trump said he hadn’t heard about the assault. “It would be a shame,” he told the crowd of reporters, before continuing, “I will say, the people that are following me are very passionate. They love this country and they want this country to be great again. They are passionate.”
    
    
11. – July 30, 2016 – Donald Trump belittled Khizr and Ghazala Khan, the parents of a Muslim American soldier who had been killed while serving in the Army, for their speech at the Democratic National Convention. In his speech at the DNC, Khizr Khan had addressed Trump’s stringent anti-Muslim immigration policies, saying, “Have you even read the United States Constitution? I will gladly lend you my copy. In this document, look for the words liberty and equal protection of law.” In response to the speech, Trump suggested that Khan had “no right” to criticize him.
    
    
12. – April, 2016 – Jill Harth accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. In a 1997 lawsuit, Harth stated in court documents that Trump harassed and groped her in 1993. She later dropped the suit but stood by her story.
    
    
13. – May 5, 2016 – For the Mexican holiday of Cinco de Mayo, Donald Trump posted a photo of himself eating a taco bowl to Facebook and Twitter, captioned, “Happy #CincoDeMayo! The best taco bowls are made in Trump Tower Grill. I love Hispanics!”
    
    
14. – May 31, 2016 – Donald Trump attacked Gonzalo Curiel, the federal judge who presided over the Trump University fraud case, saying that Curiel’s assignment to the case represented "an absolute conflict because the judge was “of Mexican heritage.” “I’m building a wall,” said Trump, “It’s an inherent conflict of interest.”
    
    
15. – May 2016 – Temple Taggart, former Miss Utah in the 1997 Miss USA pageant, claimed Donald Trump sexually harassed her. Taggart said that Trump, on multiple occasions, had kissed her on the lips without her consent.
    
    
16. – June, 2016 – Cassandra Searles, Miss Washington 2013, accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct at the Miss USA pageant. Searles posted a photo of contestants with Trump on Facebook, saying, “One guy treated us like cattle,” and “proceeded to have us lined up so he could get a closer look at his property.”
    
    
17. – October 7, 2016 – In the 2005 Access Hollywood tape, Donald Trump bragged to Billy Bush about grabbing women by their genitals without consent. In the video published by the Washington Post, Trump said, “I don’t even wait. And when you’re a star, they let you do it, you can do anything… grab them by the pussy.” Trump said his statements were “locker room banter” and apologized “if anyone was offended.” He later issued a further response to the tape’s release, saying, “I’ve never said I’m a perfect person.”
    
    
18. – October 7, 2016 – Donald Trump reiterated his false claim that the young men known as the “Central Park Five” were guilty of sexually assaulting a jogger in 1989, despite DNA evidence that exonerated them.
    
    
19. – October 11, 2016 – Tasha Dixon, a former Miss Universe contestant, accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. Dixon asserted that Trump walked into their changing room in 2001 while contestants were changing. On the Howard Stern Show in 2005, Trump said about the pageant, “I’ll go backstage before a show and everyone’s getting dressed and ready and everything else. And you know, no men are anywhere. And I’m allowed to go in because I’m the owner of the pageant. And therefore, I’m inspecting it. You know they’re standing there with no clothes. And you see these incredible looking women. And so I sort of get away with things like that.”
    
    
20. – October 12, 2016 – Mariah Billado, a former Miss Teen USA contestant, claimed that Donald Trump behaved inappropriately during the pageant. Billado said that in 1997 Trump walked into the changing room when contestants were not fully clothed. She is one of four former Miss Teen U.S.A. contestants to tell the same story of Trump’s sexual misconduct.
    
    
21. – October 12, 2016 – Rachel Crooks claimed Donald Trump sexually harassed her. Crooks said that when she met Trump for the first time in 2005 while working as a receptionist for a company in Trump Tower, Trump would not let go of her hand and inappropriately kissed her.
    
    
22. – October 12, 2016 – Jessica Leeds alleged Donald Trump made inappropriate sexual advances towards her. Over 30 years ago Leeds sat next to Trump on a plane, where he lifted the armrest, grabbed her breasts, and put his hand up her skirt. She described him as an “octopus,” saying, “his hands were everywhere.”
    
    
23. – October 12, 2016 – Mindy McGillivray accused Donald Trump of groping her. McGillivray alleged that Trump touched her without her consent while she was attending a concert at Mar-a-Lago in 2003.
    
    
24. – October 12, 2016 – Jennifer Murphy, a former contestant on the television show “The Apprentice,” said that Donald Trump kissed her without her consent after a job interview in 2005. She claimed that he had made multiple inappropriate comments to her while she was on the show and when she met with him later about job opportunities.
    
    
25. – October 12, 2016 – Natasha Stoynoff, a journalist, accused Donald Trump of sexual harassment. Stoynoff said that Trump insisted on giving her a tour of his Palm Beach estate while she was interviewing him and his wife, Melania. Trump pinned her to a wall and kissed her. Trump called her a “liar” and responded to Stoynoff’s story, saying, “Look at her… I don’t think so.”
    
    
26. – October 13, 2016 – Lisa Boyne accused Donald Trump of sexual misbehavior. Boyne asserted that at a dinner in 1996, Trump and modeling agent John Casablancas paraded women in front of their table, looking under their skirts to determine whether each woman was wearing underwear.
    
    
27. – October 14, 2016 – Kristin Anderson claimed Donald Trump groped her in the early 1990s. Anderson was at a club in Manhattan with friends when, she asserted, Trump reached into her skirt and touched her without consent, leaving her and her friends “very grossed out.”
    
    
28. – October 14, 2016 – Samantha Holvey described Donald Trump’s sexual misconduct at the 2006 Miss USA pageant. While participating in the competition, Holvey noted that Trump inspected each contestant before the event. She noted, “He would step in front of each girl and look you over from head to toe like we were just meat, we were just sexual objects, that we were not people.”
    
    
29. – October 14, 2016 – Summer Zervos, a former contestant on The Apprentice, accused Donald Trump of sexual assault. Zervos claimed that Trump assaulted her on several occasions, kissing and grabbing her, and during one business meeting, “began thrusting his genitals.”
    
    
30. – October 15, 2016 – Cathy Heller accused Donald Trump of sexual misconduct. Heller said she was having Mother’s Day brunch in 1997 at Mar-a-Lago when Trump grabbed her, tried kissing her, and became angry when she twisted away.
    
    
31. – October 21, 2016 – Karen Virginia accused Donald Trump of groping her. Virginia described how she’d seen Trump with a group of men at the U.S. Open in 1998, and overheard him say about her “Hey look at this one!” and “Look at those legs.” After his comments, Trump approached Virginia, grabbed her by the right arm, and touched her breast. The incident lingered with Virginia for years, and she came forward with her story alongside Gloria Allred: “I now understand that I was not to blame. Mr. Trump, perhaps you do not remember me or what you did to me so many years ago, but I can assure you that I remember you and what you did to me as though it was yesterday," she said. "Your random moment of sexual pleasure came at my expense and affected me greatly.”
    
    
32. – October 22, 2016 – Jessica Drake, an adult film actor and director, accused Donald Trump of inappropriate sexual contact. Drake said that Trump grabbed and kissed her without her consent at a charity golf tournament in 2006, then made further unwanted advances by inviting her to his suite. After Drake repeatedly declined his invitations, Trump asked her, “What do you want? How much?”
    
    
33. – October 27, 2016 – Ninni Laaksonen, a former Miss Finland, alleged that Donald Trump had sexually harassed her. Laaksonen described an incident in which Trump groped her from behind in 2006.
    
    
34. – November 13, 2016 – Ivanka Trump accompanied her father on his presidential interview with 60 Minutes. Ivanka’s upscale jewelry brand used her father’s political appearance to promote a $10,800 bracelet she had worn during the broadcast.
    
    
35. – November 18, 2016 – One week after Trump’s election, 100 foreign diplomats gathered at the Trump International Hotel in Washington, D.C. to drink champagne and tour the building. One diplomat told the Washington Post, “Why wouldn’t I stay at his hotel blocks from the White House, so I can tell the new president, ‘I love your new hotel!’ Isn’t it rude to come to his city and say, ‘I am staying at your competitor?’” This indicated a conflict of interest that could have violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, which forbids government officials from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
    
    
36. – November 18, 2016 – Even though he said he would not settle the case, Donald Trump agreed to pay $25 million to settle his Trump University fraud lawsuits. The real estate seminar program was not an accredited university and used misleading marketing tactics to recruit students.
    
    
37. – November 27, 2016 – Without citing evidence to support his claim, Donald Trump tweeted, “In addition to winning the Electoral College in a landslide, I won the popular vote if you deduct the millions of people who voted illegally”. This claim has been repeatedly debunked.
    
    
38. – End of December 2016 – In December of 2016, Donald Trump’s senior adviser Jared Kushner, incoming national security adviser Michael Flynn, and Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak met at Trump Tower to establish a “line of connection.” The meeting occurred around the time that the Obama administration was placing sanctions on the Russian government for interfering in the 2016 election.
    
    
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    JANUARY 2017

39. January 10, 2017 Robert F. Kennedy Jr. said Donald Trump approached him about leading an investigation into “Vaccine Safety.” The prospect that vaccination can lead to autism has been repeatedly debunked by long-running, peer-reviewed studies. Trump had supported the anti-vaccination theory on stage at the 2015 presidential debates. In September 2015 he publicly stated, “We had so many instances, people that work for me, just the other day, two years old, a beautiful child, went to have the vaccine and came back and a week later got a tremendous fever, got very, very sick, now is autistic.”
    
    
40. – January 11, 2017 – Donald Trump’s lawyer Sheri Dillon stated that Trump would “voluntarily donate all profits from foreign government payments made to his hotel to the United States Treasury.” Two months into his presidency, no evidence existed that Trump had followed through with this promise. If Trump did accept payments from foreign states through his businesses, as his lawyer claimed, he may have been in violation of the Emoluments Clause of the U.S. Constitution. This clause forbids government officials from accepting “any present, Emolument, Office, or Title, of any kind whatever, from any King, Prince, or foreign State.”
    
    
41. – January 11, 2017 – Donald Trump refused to divest from his real estate companies or place his assets in a blind trust, as encouraged by the U.S. Office of Government Ethics. The United States Government designates a “Qualified Blind Trust:” for executive branch employees as one where the trustee has no relation whatsoever to the government official. Contrary to this, President Trump opted to entrust business operations of his companies to his sons, Eric Trump and Donald Trump Jr. According to the Director of the U.S. Office of Government Ethics, Trump’s arrangement “doesn’t meet the standards that the best of his nominees are meeting and that every President in the past four decades has met.” By continuing to maintain a direct connection with his businesses, Trump may have violated the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution. This clause...

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Since lots of people are job-searching right now, here’s a round-up of some of the most key job-searching advice on this site.

Resumes and Cover Letters

The first thing to know is, if you’re not getting interviews, you probably need to fix your resume and cover letter.

If you’re thinking your materials are fine, know this: Very frequently, people who are struggling to get interviews tell me they’re confident that their resume and cover letter aren’t the problem since they’ve had good feedback about them. But when I ask to see them, nearly always they are the problem. The people who told them that they were good were wrong — they didn’t have the experience or the insight to know what would make a really great resume or letter. So these job-seekers have been continuing to apply with mediocre materials and are frustrated because they can’t figure out why they’re not getting interviews!

This is highly likely to be true for you as well if (1) your resume mainly lists your job duties rather than talking about the outcomes you achieved at each job, and/or (2) your cover letter basically summarizes the information in your resume (in which case it’s not adding anything at all to your application).

Read these:

Resumes

• how to write a resume that doesn’t suck
• how to create a resume from scratch
• the #1 question your resume should answer
• how to rewrite your resume to focus on accomplishments, not just job duties
• how to list accomplishments on your resume when your job doesn’t have easy measures
• how can my resume demonstrate initiative, problem-solving, work ethic, and other qualities?
• 10 mistakes you’re making on your resume
• stop claiming subjective traits on your resume
• those big paragraphs of text on your resume are putting people to sleep
• should you include a short-term job on your resume?
• how much do resume gaps matter?
• how long can your resume be?
• here’s the right way to format your resume
• the whole “resumes” section of my archives

Cover letters

• you need to write a better cover letter
• these are bad ways to start your cover letter
• where’s the line between necessary self-promotion and overconfidence in cover letters?
• how do I write a compelling cover letter when I don’t have much work experience?
• the whole “cover letters” section of my archives

Examples of good cover letters

• this is one of my favorite cover letters ever
• here’s a real-life example of a fantastic cover letter
• here’s another real-life sample of a great cover letter
• here’s a real-life example of a great cover letter (with before and after versions!)
• here’s another example of a great cover letter
• this is a resume and cover letter that work

Interviews

• the Ask a Manager guide to preparing for job interviews
• how to answer the most common job interview questions
• behavioral interview questions, demystified
• how to answer behavioral interview questions when you don’t have good examples
• how to answer “tell me about yourself” in a job interview
• how to answer the interview question “how does this job fit with your career path?”
• how to answer “Where do you see yourself in five years?”
• how to explain your weaknesses in a job interview
• how to explain to your interviewer why you left a previous job
• here are the secrets to acing a phone interview
• these are the best questions to ask your job interviewer
• how can I avoid ending up in a horrible job?
• how to write a thank-you note after a job interview

More

That will get you started on the basics! If you want more detailed guidance, there’s much more in my e-book, How To Get a Job: Secrets of a Hiring Manager, where I give you step-by-step help through every stage of your job search, explaining at each step what a hiring manager is thinking and what they want to see from you. Learn more here.

here’s a bunch of help finding a new job was originally published by Alison Green on Ask a Manager.

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Your skin is like a chocolate latte with swirls of caramel drops.

Sometimes you say, “Oh word?” even when no one is speaking.

The other characters often come to you for advice because you’re really spiritual and mature.

Your name is either Jade, Ebony, Lebron, Trey, Beyoncé, the name of some other well-known Black person, or whatever Google suggested when the author searched “Black people names.”

You’re the “cool” character.

Your family is full of colorful individuals, like a criminal uncle or a genius cousin at Harvard.

You don’t have any hobbies, because the author couldn’t figure out what Black people do for fun.

You’re sassy, but for some reason can’t speak up to defend yourself in any situation.

If this is a story about college, you go to a PWI.

If this is a story about marriage, you’re marrying a white guy and having a hard time getting his family to accept you.

If this is a coming of age story, you probably deal drugs.

You always smell really good. Like coconut.

Your grandmother is a wise sage with one eye and only tells stories about slavery even though she was born in 1955.

One of your favorite jokes is, “that’s some white people shit!”

You don’t like fried chicken or watermelon, because that’s a little obvious.

Even if the storyline has nothing to do with drugs, you smoke marijuana.

Your hair is never discussed.

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Seeing a traveling exhibition in two different cities can add depth and perspective to the works presented. Soul of A Nation: Art In The Age of Black Power, is no different. I saw the exhibition last summer at the Broad Museum in Los Angeles, and again last Saturday when it was previewed at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston.

My review of the exhibition is forthcoming, but as we gear up to celebrate the Fourth of July, 2020, I couldn’t help but be drawn to works in the exhibition that depicted flags, or other Stars and Stripes that allude to America’s celebration of independence.

These flags show a different kind of patriotism: the kind that embraces the symbolism of hardiness and valor, purity and innocence — even as it holds those ideals to a higher standard. It’s one that demands the true-blue ideals of vigilance, perseverance, and justice for everyone under the banner.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

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A  public art intervention performance organized by the El Paso Equal Voice Network (EVN) will happen today, July 4, across the United States. The performance incorporates “sky typing” or “sky writing” — airplanes make the water vapor condensation trails or ‘contrails’ to spell out words to relay messages — in this case designed by artists to be written in the skies near migrants detention centers across the country.

The initiative, In Plain Sight, is led by artists Cassils and Rafa Esparza, and one of the locations is the El Paso/Ciudad Juarez area. Described as “a highly orchestrated media spectacle and poetic act,” In Plain Sight is a collaboration of 80 artists creating “an artwork to abolish migrant detention and the culture of incarceration.” The sites, 80 in all, include detention facilities, immigration courts, borders, sites of former internment camps, and other historically significant landmarks.

Each artist’s message will end in the hashtag #XMAP, which leads to In Plain Sight’s website and interactive map. The website uses geolocation technologies to locate ICE detention facilities within the  message display areas. The goal of this sky typing performance is to make visible what is too often unseen and unspoken on the ground: the appalling and profoundly immoral imprisonment of immigrants.

The El Paso message, which reads “UPLIFT: NI UNX MAS,” will be written in the sky over U.S. Customs and Border Protection at the Bridge of the Americas (El Paso CBOA) Port of Entry, located at 3600 E Paisano Dr, El Paso. 

According to the El Paso Equal Voice Network, the message “is meant to inspire awareness in our binational  community and a call to action for all to stand against Immigrant Detention Centers, and systematic racial violence impacting our immigrant and indigenous communities on both sides of the US/MX  border region.”

The artist assigned to activate the local project in El Paso/Ciudad Juarez is Margarita Cabrera, in partnership with El Paso Equal Voice Network, NI EN MORE, Colectiva, Arte, comunidad y Equidad, A.C, Comunidades Indígenas, Colectivo Palabra Brava, Cedimac, Colectivo de Jóvenes indígenas en Ciudad Juárez, and Comunidad N’dee/N’nee/Nde en Juarez.

For more information about the public art intervention performance, please go here.

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NI UNX MAS is inspired by the 1995 phrase by Mexican poet and activist Susana Chávez, “Ni una muerta más” (Spanish for “Not one more [woman] dead”), in protest to the female homicides in Ciudad Juárez. Susana Chávez herself was assassinated in 2011, a moment in which the phrase became a “symbol of struggle”. The inclusion of the “X” by the artists refers to the call of action against killing of all females and males, indigenous, LGBQT, people of color, and all immigrants incarcerated — victims of systematic violence in our border region.

 

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We topped off (officially) at 97° on Thursday, tying yesterday with June 9th for the hottest day of 2020 so far. Perhaps we could make a run today for….

Maybe. If not, there is a valid chance we could do it Saturday or Sunday as well. Either way, expect a hot holiday weekend, and be sure to take it easy if you’re outdoors.

Today

Look for partly to mostly sunny conditions today. Saharan dust will again provide some haze. Air quality on Thursday did get to the “unhealthy for sensitive groups” level, and it may do so again today, so if you’ve been irritated by the recent dust events or have any respiratory ailments, today may bother you once again. High temperatures should aim for the mid- to upper-90s once more with plenty of humidity. Heat index values topped off around 105° yesterday. We should see similar to perhaps slightly lower peak heat index values today.

Rain chances aren’t zero, but they’re low for most of the area most of the day. We will watch some storms in Louisiana later this afternoon that will ride west into Texas this evening. If they can survive the trip, you may see a downpour or have a brief gusty thunderstorm east of I-45 after about 4 or 5 P.M. or so before the storms dissipate. This is a fairly low possibility.

Weekend

For the holiday weekend it will be hot. Both Saturday and Sunday should again see highs in the mid- to upper-90s and lows in the 70s. Humidity is going to creep upward this weekend, so look for peak heat index values around 105°, give or take a couple degrees on both days. Saharan dust may linger a bit, but it will slowly dissipate this weekend.

How about rain? Well, a trough and upper low look to setup shop over Mississippi and Alabama this weekend. Storms on the western periphery of that setup could graze eastern areas. This would be primarily a story for Liberty & Chambers Counties, if not mainly toward Beaumont. So a few heavy downpours are possible east of Houston. Areas to the north (Walker, Montgomery, and San Jacinto Counties) may also get grazed by some storms at times as well this weekend, particularly Sunday morning. For Houston and points south and west, your best shot at storms may be Sunday, and as it stands this morning, that’s a low probability. Either way, no significant issues are expected this weekend.

Next week

Look for scattered showers and thunderstorms on Monday and especially Tuesday. Not everyone will see rain, but it will be our area’s best shot at storms since last week, so hopefully we can participate. By Wednesday, high pressure begins to reload over Texas, building toward the weekend. We will likely be back to hot and mostly dry by the end of next week, with daytime highs back in the 95 to 97 degree range, if not hotter.

Enjoy the holiday weekend, and please stay safe.

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Congratulations! Your MFA in directing is about to be put to good use, effectively proving your father wrong about your job prospects. Your firm grasp of Schopenhauer’s aesthetic theory, not to mention your dissertation on the dramatic relevance of Aristotle’s Poetics, will give you the edge you need to pour into your cast of laypeople like the eager, empty vessels they are.

Despite the ravages of the current health crisis, hunger for the performing arts has reached a fever-pitch and we are excited about the prospect of reopening our theater this fall with some slight operational modifications. As always, nonprofit partnerships require flexibility and patience, but the results — polite applause, feelings of superiority, a philanthropic addition to your résumé — are their own reward. Now that we have received your signed contract, there are a few details you should be aware of.

1. Due to a diminished number of grant opportunities, an ever-increasing rate of competition, and, of course, the current global pandemic, we have failed to secure adequate funding for the upcoming theatrical season. As a result, we have eliminated the budget for your production. Consider this an opportunity to think outside the box — a necessary exercise since the box now comprises 100% of your available set materials.

2. We are unable to afford the royalties necessary to produce The Rocky Horror Picture Show as previously advertised. In lieu of Richard O’Brien’s fan favorite, we have elected to showcase an independent work by Joel Zimmer, a student in Mrs. Meyers’ online creative writing class and winner of her Emerging Playwright Competition. The piece is entitled The Shining: The Musical — an adaptation of Stephen King’s classic novel. The score, composed by Mr. Larson’s concert band, features “The Redrum Blues,” “Queen of 217,” and “Boiler Room Boogie.” All background instrumentals have been pre-recorded with GarageBand, and we trust you will find the result surprisingly human-adjacent.

3. Auditions will be held via Zoom and are open to all community members, regardless of experience or talent. Community theater is built on the foundation of amateur performance, and nothing says “fun” like listening to your local pharmacist reach for those high notes even though she is technically an alto.

4. Due to social distancing guidelines, physical contact between actors is prohibited. All blocking, including love scenes, fight scenes, and choreography must adhere to the CDC’s recommended six-foot minimum. Hula hoops have been provided for your convenience. Worn around the head or waist, these provide an excellent spatial gauge while allowing actors to move freely about the stage.

5. Costumes are available for your use. We have a wonderful array of vintage items in the cellar, size 2 and smaller. Also, thanks to generous donations over the last several months, we have amassed an impressive collection of ’80s-era prom dresses, bib overalls, and parachute pants.

6. Be aware of bats. Owing to the recent period of inactivity, our facility has experienced a baby boom. We ask that you remind all cast and crew that federal regulation prohibits the murder of bats. In the likely instance of an encounter, wastepaper baskets are available backstage to facilitate our new catch and release program.

7. An accompanist will be provided for you through a partnership with the All Saints Baptist Church. Music rehearsals will be held in the Fellowship Hall following Sunday services. Face masks are required for all singers. Please bring a hot dish.

8. Our back of house manager has submitted his resignation following an unusually volatile encounter with a mother bat and her offspring. Rest assured, the animals are unharmed and no charges are being filed at this time. Until a replacement is found, you are responsible for set construction as well as light and soundboard operation. A manual is available for your use.

9. With state and local guidelines restricting theater capacity, ticket sales will be reduced by seventy-five percent. Reservations are available for every third seat in every other row. In order to replicate the feeling of a full house, staff will attach balloons featuring 8 × 10 headshots of family and friends to each unsold seat.

10. We are experiencing low water pressure due to our facility’s historic plumbing. Any corrective attempts would result in a complete structural overhaul, as our 116-year-old building does not comply with current code requirements. To limit the frequency of backups, we request that all visitors deposit toilet tissue at the back of the bowl, depress the handle until the flushing process has completed, jiggle the flush lever three times and genuflect before exiting the stall. And, as always, wash your hands. Instructional posters are installed above each sink.

11. Please retain all receipts for purchases associated with your production. You will not receive reimbursement but we would like to mail a card thanking you for your donation.

12. Please refrain from the use of the following in your production: pyrotechnics of any kind, cigarettes, fog machines, firearms, bubble machines, unusually loud sound effects, live animals, strobe lights, stereotypes, disco balls, candles, infants, impersonations, perishable food, perfumes or hairspray, flammable clothing, aerosols of any kind, rugs, knives, or ethnically insensitive references.

13. Due to budget constraints, our ASCAP membership has lapsed. Henceforth, all house music must be registered in the public domain. We have access to a list of thousands of titles, including “Battle Hymn of the Republic,” “Froggie Went A-Courting,” and the “Star-Spangled Banner.”

Adherence to the above will make the process smooth and enjoyable for all involved. We appreciate your cooperation and look forward to working with you over the coming months. Remember, the show must go on! Good luck and break a leg! (We are not responsible for injury or illness.)

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With complete sincerity: all I wanted to do in this game was run around in the woods and have my own Weirdo Adventures, and the only incentive to do cowboy crimes with my terrible friends was to unlock whatever new fishing lure was locked behind that plot progression.

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MYTH: Fireworks are an American pastime.
FACT: Fireworks were invented in China, but America was the first country to discover their use for teaching our drunk cousin a lesson about the best amount of fingers to have.

MYTH: The 4th of July is when the United States celebrates its independence from England.
FACT: The United Kingdom and North America have been separated by an entire ocean since the last ice age, but you never saw early humans putting Red Dye 40 in their baked goods over it.

MYTH: America’s founders left England in search of religious freedom.
FACT: They really just wanted to stop calling elevators “lifts.”

MYTH: The first American flag was sewn by Betsy Ross.
FACT: Betsy was trying to sew a Union Jack, but had accidentally eaten a loaf of fermented bread beforehand and was tripping her balls off when she cut out all those little stars for no reason.

MYTH: Currently, 5% of the American population believes that things are going really well.
FACT: When Benjamin Franklin invented the lightning rod, 5% of Americans disapproved of his manipulating, “God’s magic sky fire.”

MYTH: The month of July is named after Julius Caesar, a Roman dictator.
FACT: Contrary to popular belief, Caesar salads are not named after Julius Caesar, but after a man who had to be cut from his mother’s abdomen when he was born and then later got really into salad.

MYTH: The average citizen is ten times more likely to be injured by pyrotechnics than be shot in America.
FACT: Whoops, that’s an error. It’s the other way around.

MYTH: Fireworks are legal in 49 of the 52 American states and jurisdictions.
FACT: There’s a guy on Craigslist in every state who can score you some Roman candles and a pet hedgehog in exchange for your expired driver’s license.

MYTH: Bald eagles are large birds of prey native to North America.
FACT: America’s planners chose the bald eagle as its national bird because it was easier to get one of those little powdered wigs onto a bird without hair.

MYTH: America is called many things by many people across the globe.
FACT: Spanish-speaking countries call the U.S. “Los Estados Unidos,” while Canada uses the term, “Unfinished Basement.”

MYTH: America is named after Amerigo Vespucci, the first Italian explorer to promote the theory that the land discovered by Christopher Columbus was part of a whole other continent.
FACT: That’s literally all that guy had to do to get America named after him forever.

MYTH: American flag code dictates that the flag never be worn, lowered to the ground, or used in advertising.
FACT: Ironically, the people who break flag code the least also happen to be the people who are less obnoxious about being Americans in general.

MYTH: The Confederate flag is not a symbol of racism, but of Southern heritage.
FACT: A big part of Southern heritage is racism.

MYTH: Most Americans are Christians.
FACT: Most Christians aren’t Christians.

MYTH: Benjamin Franklin was a President.
FACT: What even is a President anymore? What is a country? Who are pants?