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

10th
Dec

R+M (10): GREEN AND PURPLE, RIDICULOUS, BOOKS

GREEN AND PURPLE, RIDICULOUS, BOOKS — art by D. EMORY ALLEN *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art...
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By Joe Alterio

10th
Dec

J Mascis

It’s true that guitarist and drummer J MASCIS (Joseph Donald Mascis, born 1965) and Dinosaur Jr., drunk on jangly post-punk-death-metal, gave birth to an...
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By Tom Nealon

09th
Dec

Beware the Snuggie

I have long been intrigued by the virus, a small personage embodying large paradox. The essential bit of life, DNA with a tail, yet...
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By Peggy Nelson

09th
Dec

Redd Foxx

He knew his audience inside and out.
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By Mimi Lipson

08th
Dec

The Women’s Room

I drink; we drink. I look up. “You have SARDINES in it.” My latest “film” is a Twitter movie. It’s about Adele Hugo, the...
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By Peggy Nelson

08th
Dec

Genuine Mother

“We affirm in the most absolute manner that words can be used that mother love is located exactly where this backhead projects most. To...
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By HILOBROW

08th
Dec

E.C. Segar

The only diploma that E.C. SEGAR (1884-1938) ever earned was from a correspondence cartooning class; but he was every bit as dedicated to his...
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By Joe Alterio

07th
Dec

DIY Not?

Like one of my HiLo Heroes, Jean-Luc Godard (profiled previously on HiLobrow), I came to film through criticism. I started writing about it in...
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By Peggy Nelson