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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

11th
Nov

Hans Magnus Enzensberger

HANS MAGNUS ENZENS­BERGER (born 1929) is a poet, critic, playwright, translator, magazine editor, and author of children’s books about science and mathematics. He has...
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By Lucy Sante

10th
Nov

Screaming Lord Sutch

If you grew up glued to a television set in England in the ’80s, as I did, nothing irritated you more than local and...
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By Patrick Cates

09th
Nov

Ti-Grace Atkinson

On September 23, 1969, a group of women, conspicuous among them a tall, patrician blonde, handed out mimeographed leaflets to passersby and newlyweds alike...
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By Lynn Peril

08th
Nov

Winds of Magic (9): Endless Rhapsody

If Queen had not existed, it would by no means have been necessary to invent them. Sweaty old 1973, the year of their debut...
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By James Parker

08th
Nov

Parker Posey

Her acting career has garnered PARKER POSEY (born 1968) the moniker “Queen of the Indies,” but she deserves an upgrade. In the fantasy life...
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By Joe Alterio

07th
Nov

Reverse-engineering the book

As a child, John Carrera was fascinated by the trove of yellowing pages of Webster’s Pictorial Dictionary he found beneath his grandfather’s chair. As...
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By Matthew Battles

07th
Nov

Albert Camus

In a 1945 essay, the French-Jewish author, philosopher, and journalist ALBERT CAMUS (1913-60) asked, “What is a man who revolts?” His answer: “First of...
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By Joshua Glenn

06th
Nov

The Book is a Weapon (7)

Gregory Green’s Book Bomb #8 (1994). From the artist’s gallery’s website: Since the mid-1980’s Gregory Green has created performances and artworks exploring the evolution...
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By HILOBROW