FROM EACH…

10 Radium Age art works depicting precisely engineered and designed utopias.

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By Joshua Glenn

CROSS YOUR ENTHUSIASM (11)

HARRY NILSSON, COMPUTER GENIUS

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By Heather Quinlan

11th
Aug

Steve Wozniak

When most people hear “Steve” and “Apple” mentioned in the same sentence, they think of Steve Jobs, ringmaster of technology fetishists, evangelizing about the...
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By Patrick Cates

10th
Aug

Pinakothek (6): Vile Smut

Reminiscing about my early days in the used-paper trade, I find that I can become tender if not actually moist-eyed at the thought of...
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By Lucy Sante

10th
Aug

Norma Shearer

Known as “that ugly girl who can’t dance,” NORMA SHEARER (1902-83) was a self-made urchin who became the Queen of (Pre-Code) Hollywood, personifying the...
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By Peggy Nelson

09th
Aug

Tove Jansson

In all of her writing and art TOVE JANSSON (1914-2001) paid keen attention to the beauty and detail in the natural world. But the...
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By Tor Aarestad

08th
Aug

Kool Moe Dee

Pity Mohandas Dewese, d/b/a KOOL MOE DEE (born 1962): briefly one of the most popular rappers alive, he’s now mostly remembered for a feud...
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By Douglas Wolk

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