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Alexej Savreux

Bavaria, Kansas City, New York, United States
As seen in: Informality Blog, KC Studio, MIT Technology Review, Online Book Club, The Gazette (Colorado Springs), When the Rain Stops, There Will Still Be a Rainbow, illogical conceits art crit journal, Substack, Kansas City Star, The Pitch (Kansas City), DTLA Weekly, JAM Magazine
Covers:  social theory; music journalism; art and literary criticism; arts journalism; culture journalism; sports; social criticism; editorials; critical dialogue; psychiatry; politics
Doesn't Cover: I'm willing to look at anything someone thinks might be newsworthy and send it my way. (no unpaid work though)
Journalist-Author I Experimental Linguist I ex - GPT-3 Project I Unreconstructed Eccentric I PoEtA I Wrote “Graffiti on the Window”
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I'm Kind of Anti-MFA, Buuuuut . . .

I'm Kind of Anti-MFA, Buuuuut . . .

illogical conceits art crit journal — Academia has had a profound role in the capitalization of the written word. The MFA route used to be a place of refuge, specialty, growth, and debate/introspection/more debate. Now everyone is getting MFAs, and PhDs in Fiction or Poetry, etc.
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I Realized Something About Art: The Truth About Art's Role in Our Lives

I Realized Something About Art: The Truth About Art's Role in Our Lives

illogical conceits art crit journal — We all feel the discord of hurt, illness, and therefore, existential loneliness, and the perverse societal perception of loneliness as afflicting only recluses, eccentrics, or the perennially forlorn only compounds and obfuscates our struggles. Nevertheless, we are least hurt, ill, or suffering when we feel and understand that we are not alone and that ...
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kcjazzambassadors.org —
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Love him or hate him, Bill Maher is coming to KC and he's got a new routine

Love him or hate him, Bill Maher is coming to KC and he's got a new routine

The Pitch (Kansas City) — Bill Maher. // Courtesy Bill Maher team Comedian and social critic Bill Maher has always been a congenital smartass, and whether you love him or hate him he's still a prominent voice in American political discourse and satire. He's coming to Uptown Theater on Sept. 11, so brace yourself.
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Artist to Watch: Craig Auge - KC STUDIO

Artist to Watch: Craig Auge - KC STUDIO

KC Studio — (photo by Jim Barcus) Craig Auge is no stranger to the ephemeral terms of existence. It's something that informs his artistic sensibilities and philosophies. Auge has developed a philosophy of artmaking that plays on his notion that what he is creating might be ever evolving or transient.
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Artist to Watch (PDF)/Craig Auge

Artist to Watch (PDF)/Craig Auge

KC Studio — .pdf version
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I'll Remember, "I Remember 12th Street"

I'll Remember, "I Remember 12th Street"

JAM Magazine —
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Kansas City Rumba Collective Carries on Afro-Cuban Music Tradition

Kansas City Rumba Collective Carries on Afro-Cuban Music Tradition

JAM Magazine —
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Artist to Watch: Seth Davis - KC STUDIO

Artist to Watch: Seth Davis - KC STUDIO

KC Studio — In just under 10 years, Kansas City composer Seth Andrew Davis, 28, has turned the role of the traditional musician on its side.
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Seth Andrew Davis - KC Studio (PDF format) March/April 2023

Seth Andrew Davis - KC Studio (PDF format) March/April 2023

KC Studio —
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new art journalism piece

new art journalism piece

illogical conceits art crit journal —
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SK8MAFIA'S Marshall Heath Fulfills the Dream

SK8MAFIA'S Marshall Heath Fulfills the Dream

illogical conceits art crit journal — I first met SK8MAFIA's Marshall Heath when I was in fifth grade. We went to elementary school together in Burlington, Vermont, the land of Burton Snowboards, Ben & Jerry's, Phish, and Bernie Sanders. We grew up idolizing pros and ams and the lofty but seemingly unattainable goal of one day becoming pro skaters ourselves.
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Artist to Watch: Brittany Noriega

Artist to Watch: Brittany Noriega

KC Studio — artist profile on Kansas City area artist and activist Brittany Noriega with a sidebar piece on core. zine an art zine created by Noriega for artists in the region (two separate articles) in one PDF document
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Artist to Watch: Britney Noriega - KC STUDIO

Artist to Watch: Britney Noriega - KC STUDIO

KC Studio — Human behavior, feminism and storytelling drive the Kansas City artist's compelling figurative surrealism.
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Take Note of Chicago's Kaczynski Composite Sketch & MC Sorcerer -- Here's Why

Take Note of Chicago's Kaczynski Composite Sketch & MC Sorcerer -- Here's Why

illogical conceits art crit journal — by alexej savreux
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Deviled Ham on Rye EP Record Review (PDF version)

Deviled Ham on Rye EP Record Review (PDF version)

illogical conceits art crit journal — backup PDF version of the original substack record review by alexej
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Letters: Readers discuss love for KC, tribute to the Hunt family and our common good

Letters: Readers discuss love for KC, tribute to the Hunt family and our common good

Kansas City Star — As the NFL and the country work through how to erase bigotry and discrimination, Jeffery R. Dysart of Overland Park has a novel idea for renaming the Chiefs.
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Letters: Readers discuss police priorities, Plaza III and a KCK immigration crackdown

Letters: Readers discuss police priorities, Plaza III and a KCK immigration crackdown

Kansas City Star — On Behalf of Cosecha-KC
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Letters: Readers discuss uneasiness about the future, NFL protests and tax abatements

Letters: Readers discuss uneasiness about the future, NFL protests and tax abatements

Kansas City Star — The Kansas City Star (chronicles) Re: Political Activism [cont'd]
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Letters From a Parainstitutional Journalist & Critic - Kansas City Star ~ PDF

Letters From a Parainstitutional Journalist & Critic - Kansas City Star ~ PDF

The Kansas City Star — Re: political activism, work for Cosecha-KC, and subsequent rebuttals to a culture in decline; human rights/civil rights and social action; [protest] letters from a parainstitutional journalist and critic
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Is Literature Alive?

Is Literature Alive?

illogical conceits art crit journal — An Interrelational Dynamical Analysis
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Is Literature Alive? An Interrelational Dynamical Analysis

Is Literature Alive? An Interrelational Dynamical Analysis

illogical conceits art crit journal — An October 2023 drop in the illogical conceits art crit journal in literary theory and philosophy of literature. In this essay, I ask and attempt to answer the question, "Is literature alive?" (in an authentic, biological, or neurobiological sense)
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The Critic Critiques Himself & His Practice & Also Critiques His Critics

The Critic Critiques Himself & His Practice & Also Critiques His Critics

Substack — unapologetically and relentlessly Savreuxian, loony, parainstitutional, and yes, totally and blissfully content in his weirdness
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I'll Remember "I Remember 12th Street"

I'll Remember "I Remember 12th Street"

JAM Magazine — Film review of "I Remember 12th Street" at the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art from JAM Magazine from 2019
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