By: Alix Lambert

Solving an unknown factor of art and an unknown factor of life.

By: Mike Fleisch

Bolger’s flailing rubber legs made sense in The Wizard of Oz.

By: Adam McGovern

He skims the event-horizon of listenable music and bearable emotion.

By: Adam McGovern

He colonized and abandoned serial worlds of sound and sexuality.

By: Joshua Glenn

Celebrating thirteen HiLo Heroes about whom we wrote in 2011.

By: Gary Panter

A politicized Pop Art inspiration.

By: Brian Berger

“I’d only written these things for the sake of the sounds.”

By: Brian Berger

A composer in search of ambivalence and revelation.

By: Lucy Sante

Dashiell Hammett vs. The Situationists

By: Peggy Nelson

She showed us how to color outside the lines.

By: Lynn Peril

A story that everyone knows even if they don’t remember the author’s name.

By: Mike Fleisch

A repeating slideshow from a series of knee-high cameras.

By: Gary Panter

He inspired a movement of self-aware, less cool folk artists.

By: Deb Chachra

She pioneered human-readable program­ming language.

By: Greg Rowland

He pushed the Hammond’s delicacy and dirt the furthest.