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

06th
Jul

Hanns Eisler

Kurt Weill settled into a successful Broadway career after escaping Nazi Germany, but the American soujourn of Brecht’s other major Weimar-era musical collaborator did...
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By Franklin Bruno

06th
Jul

Double Exposure (5): the Zen of Leviathan

“My life is made up of so many other lives…. all of them rearranging themselves.” This advertisement for the Palm Pre smartphone promotes the...
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By Matthew Battles

05th
Jul

RZA

It seems impossible that the various identities — Prince Rakeem, Bobby Digital, RZArecta, The Abbot, Ruler Zig-Zag-Zig Allah — of rapper, producer, and film...
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By Tom Nealon

05th
Jul

Hilo Heroes, July 5-11

HAPPY BIRTHDAY, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HiLo Hero birthdays. JULY 5 It seems...
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By HILOBROW

04th
Jul

Rube Goldberg

Pulitzer prize-winning cartoonist RUBE GOLDBERG (1883-1970) pulls string (A) which activates bellows. Bellows (B) compresses, inflating balloon (C). Expanding balloon causes glass of water...
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By Joe Alterio

03rd
Jul

Franz Kafka

Patrick C. stared in silent disbelief at the bureaucrat who sat on the other side of the desk. Eventually he gathered himself and spoke...
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By Patrick Cates

03rd
Jul

I’d Like to Force the World to Sing

The secret origins of Generation Y
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By Joshua Glenn

02nd
Jul

Lindsay Lohan

Playing twins who change places, a teenager who swaps bodies with her mother, and a couple of appealing outcasts who find a way in,...
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By Ingrid Schorr