According to DAWN POWELL (1897-1965), there was no trick to writing satire. You just describe people as they are, and add a motive. If...

Over at the group philosophy blog Crooked Timber, John Holbo is conducting a discussion of sans serif type and its connection to twentieth-century Modernist...

I have written about Candyland in another connection. But until yesterday I hadn’t played it in ages. While we waited for the button on...

In 1963, BRUCE LEE (1940-73), an immigrant from Hong Kong who’d been studying philosophy at the University of Washington in Seattle, dropped out in...

Monster: “Vivacious, Bipolar, Rat-Terrier” — by David Huyck *** Robots and Monsters, a website that swaps custom-designed cartoons and pop art in exchange for...

CHARLES M. SCHULZ (1922-2000) might seem an unlikely hero for HiLobrow.com, because his comic strip Peanuts and, particularly, the animated Peanuts TV specials, are...

Readers! As you’ve noticed, we’ve recently redesigned HiLobrow.com. Many thanks to Rob Tourtelot, for all his work on our behalf. Why did we go...

The apex of MARK LANEGAN’s (born 1964) visibility came more than fifteen years ago as the lead singer of the feral Seattle band Screaming...