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If you enjoy the coffee Dan Weiss brews every morning, you should hear the music he makes by night.
His band, longtime Rumpus favorites The Yellow Dress, are playing an album-preview show tonight at the Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, along with spooky folksters Low Magic and East Bay DIY hip-hop/R&B band Jaberi & Deutsch.
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Dan Weiss will return on January 24th. Until then…
Meet the oldest pebble in the world.
Looks like we’re not getting a Death Star after all.
A gloomy series of superimposed images from the past and present of this Detroit high school.
...moreThis week, The Porchlight Reading Series, highbrow porn at the Indie Erotic Film Festival, Barbie gets a makeover at the Altered Barbie Poetry Reading, and fetishists celebrate at the 27th Annual Folsom Street Fair.
Monday 9/20: San Francisco is nothing if not full of wonderful reading series all over the city nearly every night of the week. Tonight, the series is The Porchlight, the venue, The Verdi Club, and the readers spectacular (among them, The Rumpus’ own Managing Editor, Isaac Fitzgerald). See Isaac read with drag legend Vicki Marlane, publicist Nina Sazevich, and bookmaker (and beekeeper!) Pam DeLuco at this month’s reading, Kings and Queens.
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“When I was younger, I had pretty severe dyslexia, so I learned how to read a lot later than other people – late second grade/early third grade. Once I overcame it, I immediately became a more avid reader than most people I know.
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The French protest Nicolas Sarkozy by reading his least favorite book. (via Maud)
The Pope tells Africans condoms will actually make the AIDS epidemic worse. WTF, Pope?
Now you can unsend Gmail.
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