PLANET OF PERIL (51)

How did Tombstone become the mascot of the San Francisco Press Club?

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By Lynn Peril

MEDIA DIET

Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.

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By Annalee Newitz

24th
Jan

Best of Brainiac (1)

In the latest issue of Print Magazine, the graphic designer and design critic Steven Heller introduces perhaps the most ineradicable of all design viruses:...
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By Joshua Glenn

23rd
Jan

The Book is a Weapon (14)

You know anything about rare books?
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By HILOBROW

23rd
Jan

Django Reinhardt

For Europhiles who wish they were smoking Gauloises on a balcony somewhere, the plunk-plunk of DJANGO REINHARDT’s (1910-53) simple but completely original jazz stylings...
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By Joe Alterio

22nd
Jan

Parallel Universe: Pazzo (1/3)

Here’s the 3rd reading from the first episode of “Parallel Universe: Pazzo,” a monthly science fiction podcast sponsored by HiLobrow.com and hosted by Pazzo...
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By HILOBROW

22nd
Jan

Robert E. Howard

The writer best known in his time for Sailor Steve Costigan and Breckinridge Elkins conjured something more rare when he created Conan the Barbarian:...
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By David Smay

21st
Jan

The HiLo Life

Your digest of what’s what! Jersey Shore star Paul “Pauly D” Delvecchio is known for his outspokenness in matters ecclesiastical, but the strength of...
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By Marcia Kogler-Vegan

21st
Jan

To Err is Divine

The theremin is a perfect instrument: it plays all the notes. Not only those we discretely declare, but every tone in between. Such a...
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By Peggy Nelson

21st
Jan

Benny Hill

He took the weight of English sexual anxiety on his shoulders.
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By Greg Rowland