PLANET OF PERIL (51)
How did Tombstone become the mascot of the San Francisco Press Club?
MEDIA DIET
Annalee Newitz on: paperbacks, “Interview with the Vampire,” 404Media.
06th
Jul
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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06th
Jul
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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05th
Jul
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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05th
Jul
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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04th
Jul
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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03rd
Jul
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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02nd
Jul
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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