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Deb Chachra on: the Library app, Midnight Radio, Vancouver museums.

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By Deb Chachra

PLANET OF PERIL (49)

TALKING CARS & DUMMIES

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By Lynn Peril

13th
Dec

Zeno’s Paradox

In the screen classic beloved by philosophy undergraduates everywhere, Benjamin Socrates (Dustin Hoffman) is the target of an attempted seduction by Diotima (Mrs. Robinson)....
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By Peggy Nelson

13th
Dec

Tom Verlaine

What musician has been more unfairly burdened with expectations set by his early work than TOM VERLAINE (Thomas Miller, born 1949)? His band Television’s...
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By Franklin Bruno

12th
Dec

Gladwell Moore’s Guide to Girls (1)

Girls have always had lots of guides to boys, from Susan Dey to He’s Just Not That Into You. Boys, however, have had to...
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By Peggy Nelson

12th
Dec

Avatars

I’ve been reading the debate about James Cameron’s CGI magnum opus Avatar over at io9— which strangely reawakened an old puppetry hobbyhorse long dormant....
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By Matthew Battles

12th
Dec

Chess Match (3)

DINNER. Not a little fit, not a little fit sun sat in shed more mentally. Let us why, let us why weight, let us...
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By Joshua Glenn

12th
Dec

Sheila E.

Sheila Escovedo, better known as SHEILA E. (born 1957), is a curious case: a totally solid musician and performer who’s spent the high points...
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By Douglas Wolk

11th
Dec

Sugarplum Squeampunk

"An unspeakable sledge,/and eight Things to strike fear!"
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By John Holbo

11th
Dec

Maila Nurmi

Finnish-born MAILA NURMI (1921-2008) kicked around Hollywood as a hatcheck girl and pinup model before a turn as the Charles Addams cartoon character later...
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By Lynn Peril