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

30th
Sep

Autotune the Universe

Electronica composer John Boswell remixes the preambles and perorations of Carl Sagan for a groovy take on the wonder-struck spiritual cosmology at the heart...
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By Matthew Battles

30th
Sep

Anti-Anti-Utopians: 1934-43

They were anything but silent.
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By Joshua Glenn

30th
Sep

Dave Arneson

“Who am I?” “You’re DAVE ARNESON (1947-2009), who some claim was the true visionary behind modern role-playing games — though your partner, the more...
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By Joe Alterio

29th
Sep

Jerry Lee Lewis

The last man standing of Sun Records’ early roster has been known to set himself among even loftier company. “Al Jolson, Jimmie Rodgers, Hank...
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By Franklin Bruno

28th
Sep

MIDDLEBROW BESTSELLERS — THIS WEEK

Same as last week, except Gladwell Moore’s Clunk enters the list at no. 8, knocking out Don Piper’s 90 Minutes in Heaven. 1) THREE...
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By Joshua Glenn

28th
Sep

Will Shortz & the Death of the Author

Listening to NPR yesterday morning for the first time in a month of Sundays, I caught the puzzle segment with Will Shortz. While Will...
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By Matthew Battles

28th
Sep

Brigitte Bardot

Blonde bombshell BRIGITTE BARDOT (born 1934) exploded onto the world stage in the 1950s. A woman with the neotenic features of a child, Bardot’s...
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By Peggy Nelson

27th
Sep

Winds of Magic (3): Oral or Anal?

The first thing to be said about the concept of the “oral history,” as it applies to rock biography, is that Sigmund Freud —...
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By James Parker