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Jim Hanas on: The Fall, The Possessed, Upper Middle
03rd
May
May
HiLo Heroes, May 3-9
Happy birthday, this week, to the following high-, low-, no-, and hilobrow heroes. Click here for more HILO birthdays. *** MAY 3 James Brown...
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01st
May
May
HiLo Heroes, May 1-2
In the HiLobrow galaxy, there are many stars. We’re frantically mapping constellations of our favorite hilobrows; and we ooh and ahh with delight as...
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01st
May
May
TO THE MOON!
FREELANCERS, GIVE UP your paltry hopes of making a killing by cooking up a killer iPhone app. The Google Lunar X Prize — $30...
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29th
Apr
Apr
GERD ARNTZ: TYPE & ISOTYPE
BORN IN 1900, German artist Gerd Arntz designed a pattern language for life in the twentieth century. His prints and designs were intended to...
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24th
Apr
Apr
Wild Things
WHY DO WE go to the woods, where the wild things are? Because it’s where the wild things are. Lars von Trier’s forthcoming film...
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22nd
Apr
Apr
High-Altitude Hilobrow
MELDING ‘PATAPHYSICS and popular mechanics, Proust and power tools, Dada and do-it-yourself, Eric Kraft is a hilobrow novelist par excellence. With the publication of...
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17th
Apr
Apr
I’M HEAVY, & YOU’RE NOT MY BROTHER
“You called the tune of irony from the first time you met me."
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17th
Apr
Apr
Of Coral, Crochet, & the Hyperbolic Sublime
MARGARET and CHRISTINE WERTHEIM are crocheting a coral reef, and they’re eager for help. The sisters direct the Institute for Figuring in Los Angeles,...
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