FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

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By Heather Quinlan

15th
Dec

Paul Simonon

The Clash was on the front lines of the punk revolution of the late 1970s, but bassist PAUL SIMONON (born 1955) shared some similarities...
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By Lynn Peril

14th
Dec

Love and Tentacles

A few months ago, a friend of mine started Twittering his doodles. An irrepressible draftsman, Walter Sickert has the kind of old-skool muse that...
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By Peggy Nelson

14th
Dec

The Dogs in the Trees

The first sightings of dogs in trees were reported not long after the Fall equinox. Early rumor came in the form of videos shot...
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By Matthew Battles

14th
Dec

Lester Bangs

Strictly speaking it’s Meltzer who’s the hilo hero, who inverted the language of academe in pursuit of the rock thrill, but here’s what puts...
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By James Parker

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