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

07th
Aug

Bruce Dickinson

With the ouster of original vocalist Paul Di’Anno and the hiring of BRUCE DICKINSON (born 1958) just before the release of their immortal third...
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By Tor Aarestad

06th
Aug

Farber Schwartzen

LONG BEFORE PRISON, Martha Stewart proposed and then dropped a plan to endow the Martha Stewart Professorship in Home Economics at the Harvard Business...
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By Matthew Battles

06th
Aug

Michelle Yeoh

Most Western filmgoers didn’t discover the greatest female action star in the history of film until Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon — or when she...
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By David Smay

06th
Aug

1854-63: Plutonians

The 1854-63 cohort are spelunkers, in search of deep truths.
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By Joshua Glenn

05th
Aug

On the difficulty of identifying Hilobrows

Nobrows are easily recognized, for their gait is dancing and bold. But HiLobrows frequently deceive one because their bearing is curiously like that of...
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By Joshua Glenn

05th
Aug

Paranoid Theory: The Ape That’s All Wet

Elaine Morgan is a Welsh screen writer whose credits include Dr Finlay’s Casebook and How Green Was My Valley. But for more than thirty...
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By Matthew Battles

05th
Aug

Wendell Berry

As a kid, my upbringing pulled me in divergent directions: on my mother’s side, an urban technophile Jewishness (inspired, in part by her own...
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By Jason Grote

04th
Aug

Comedy and the Death of God

Hey, PhD students looking for a thesis topic — here’s a freebie. These sketchy notes are inspired by a B&N.com review of Thomas Pynchon’s...
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By Joshua Glenn