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

10th
Jul

Tura Satana

Clad in a leather jumpsuit, tiny waist offset by enormous bosom, her performance in Russ Meyer’s Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill! (1965) transformed what could...
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By Lynn Peril

10th
Jul

The Sweetest Hangover

I've got the sweetest hangover... I don't wanna get over.
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By Joshua Glenn

10th
Jul

Significant Objects

EARLIER THIS WEEK, Rob Walker and I launched an online experiment called Significant Objects. The project, in brief: Rob’s “Consumed” column in the New...
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By Joshua Glenn

10th
Jul

Falling Is Free

FREEFALL IS ONE chief theme in this season’s action films. One of the most scintillating scenes of the J. J. Abrams Star Trek movie...
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By Matthew Battles

09th
Jul

Mervyn Peake

The castle of consciousness, turret and coign, too huge for the human head, where stalk the battlements, robed and forbidding, the super-intelligent dead, has...
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By James Parker

09th
Jul

Pinakothek (1) — Détournement

ONE DAY VERY SOON it will happen that our heroes, having searched and studied ancient property maps on file at the bureau of records,...
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By Lucy Sante

08th
Jul

Louis Jordan

For a good chunk of the 1940s, the R&B chart (or the “race records” chart, as Billboard called it then) might just as well...
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By Douglas Wolk

07th
Jul

Robert A. Heinlein

The biography of ROBERT A. HEINLEIN (1907-88) firmly places Golden-Age SF on the grand continuum of Americana: the no-nonsense engineer’s mentality of his Kansas...
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By Jason Grote