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

22nd
Dec

Genuine Husband

“Young ladies, indelibly fix this shape of head in your memories. Any man who will make a natural, kind and true husband will have...
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By HILOBROW

22nd
Dec

Jean-Michel Basquiat

Even if Brooklyn-born JEAN­MICHEL BASQUIAT (1960-88) had never taken brush (or spraycan) to canvas (or wall, or door panel, or helmet), he would merit...
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By Franklin Bruno

21st
Dec

Breakin’ the Law

Don’t you love it when the first thing everyone asks you about your work is, “isn’t that illegal?” [The Cones Project, a performance art/virtual...
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By Peggy Nelson

21st
Dec

Frank Zappa

Of all the hilo heroes of American music, only FRANK ZAPPA (1940-93) turned the scramble of the brainy and the base into an aesthetic...
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By Erik Davis

20th
Dec

Sidney Hook

American philosopher SIDNEY HOOK (1902-89) enacted the key dilemmas of twentieth-century politics. Born in Brooklyn to Austrian Jewish parents, he attended City College of...
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By Mark Kingwell

19th
Dec

Gladwell Moore’s Guide to Girls (2)

Last week’s advice was not for everyone, Gladwell Moore recognizes that. What if you don’t want to be a playa? What if you just...
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By Peggy Nelson

19th
Dec

Chess Match (4)

“At present my life can almost be likened to what a chess-piece in a game must feel when the opponent says: This piece is...
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By Joshua Glenn

19th
Dec

Maurice White

Led by MAURICE WHITE (born 1941), Earth, Wind & Fire were by far the most commercial cousins of the cosmic-jazz entity known as Sun...
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By Greg Rowland