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

31st
Aug

Pinakothek (9): Basquiat

The first time I met Jean-Michel Basquiat was in November or December 1978, at the Mudd Club. His hair was dyed orange and cut...
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By Lucy Sante

31st
Aug

Raymond Williams

He began his critical career as a Welsh signalman’s son drawn to English literary tradition, and ended it as a Cambridge don extolling the...
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By Franklin Bruno

30th
Aug

Fred MacMurray

Though often cast as a lovable father in middlebrow comedies like The Shaggy Dog and the long-running TV show My Three Sons, FRED MACMURRAY...
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By Katie Hennessey

29th
Aug

Living in the Feral City

James D. Griffioen is a Detroit photographer, blogger, and father whose work chronicles the strangely ruinous renaissance taking place in his city. I first...
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By Matthew Battles

29th
Aug

Odd Cameos

I’ve been watching a lot of movies on my desktop, lately, via Netflix: Watch Instantly. Works great. The only problem is, the selection is...
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By Joshua Glenn

29th
Aug

Preston Sturges

Filmmaker PRESTON STURGES (1898-1959) made a joyful mockery of the Hays Code with his improbably wholesome card sharks, unwed mothers, imposters and flimflammers, his...
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By Mimi Lipson

28th
Aug

Quatschwatch (2): The Keeping-My-Baby Meme

The era of guilt- and con­sequence-free sex ended in 1982.
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By Joshua Glenn

28th
Aug

Jack Kirby

Insanely prolific, unbelievably vital, formally inventive.
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By David Smay