And we lived beneath the waves
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Psychedelic revelations about the artificial nature of reality
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It’s time to reread… everything.
I After the Cloudy Doubly Beautifully
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BEFORE THE TURN of the millennium when the Web was new, I worked in the bowels of Harvard’s Widener Library. There was as yet no Twitter, no Facebook, no YouTube; blogs and wikis were the […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, May 31-June 6
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. MAY 31 Back when rock’s head was swelling, when the attention deficit disorder of a […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, May 24-30
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HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. MAY 24 I know it’s a bold claim, but JOSEPH BRODSKY (1940-96) just might be […]
Read This PostMy Wes Anderson Problem — And Ours
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WES ANDERSON’S Bottle Rocket (1996) raised the hopes of hilobrows everywhere, and his Rushmore (1998) fulfilled those hopes in spades. So what happened? Anderson once knew how to get a great performance out of his […]
Read This PostHilo Heroes, May 17-23
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Happy Birthday, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. More Hilo birthdays. MAY 17 Parisian composer ERIK SATIE (1866-1925) was the great-grandaddy of ambient music, the distant progenitor of Musak and […]
Read This PostHILO Heroes, May 13-16
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HiLobrow.com thanks Mimi Lipson, David Smay, Peggy Nelson, and Tor Aarestad for these shoutouts to high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes born on the following dates. Click here for more HILO birthdays. Starting next week, […]
Read This PostHiLo Heroes, May 10-12
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HiLobrow gives thanks and praise to Peggy Nelson, David Smay, Mimi Lipson, Tor Aarestad, James Parker, and Greg Rowland, who contributed shout-outs to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. On Wednesday, we’ll publish […]
Read This PostHiLo Heroes, May 3-9
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Happy birthday, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HILO birthdays. *** MAY 3 James Brown Pete Seeger *** MAY 4 Keith Haring Jane Jacobs *** MAY […]
Read This PostHiLo Heroes, May 1-2
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In the HiLobrow galaxy, there are many stars. We’re frantically mapping constellations of our favorite hilobrows; and we ooh and ahh with delight as highbrows and lowbrows flash across the atmosphere. As for darkly brilliant […]
Read This PostTO THE MOON!
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FREELANCERS, GIVE UP your paltry hopes of making a killing by cooking up a killer iPhone app. The Google Lunar X Prize — $30 million to the first private enterprise that lands a rover on […]
Read This PostHILO Heroes, April
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Happy birthday to some of our high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. All hilo birthdays. *** Abraham Maslow (HI: life’s work); Jimmy Cliff (LO: life’s work); Samuel R. Delany (HILO: life’s work); Method Man (LO: […]
Read This PostDon’t Be a Bystander: Remembering Kitty Genovese
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Winston Moseley’s brutal murder of Kitty Genovese in the small hours of March 13, 1964 remains one of the most riveting stories in the annals of crime. In a famous New York Times story about […]
Read This PostInfinite Jest, the Photo Tour
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Flickr user Tim Bean created a photographic tour of Boston locations mentioned in the novel Infinite Jest by David Foster Wallace (1962-2008). Bean’s photos are annotated and geo-tagged for reference. We’re looking for other great […]
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