2011
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A New Shirt to Not Wear
This one’s been getting the social media special today, but is always worthy of a re-mentioning. The latest in sartorial controversy is one very offensive JCPenney shirt that actually delivered this message to the 7-16 year old girls for whom…
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A Didion Present For You
Today the internet’s got some literary gold to offer you! Joan Didion’s essay, “Some Dreamers of the Golden Dream,” one of the essays from Slouching Towards Bethlehem, is online! (via @bookslut)
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“O Cinema Falado”
Brazilian songwriter/musician Caetano Veloso had a quick foray into the world of filmmaking from which O Cinema Falado (or in English, “Talking Cinema”) was born. UbuWeb’s got the experimental film in its entirety. The film’s got a ton of dialogue…
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Kashmir Festival Over Before it Starts
Kashmir was supposed to hold its very first literary festival at the end of September, but preempting violence from organizers and growing fears have unfortunately postponed the event. Salman Rushdie occupies contentious author-space overseas. His novel, The Satanic Verses was…
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The Rumpus Interview with Madeline Adams
Madeline Adams, best known by her stage moniker “Madeline” sings sweet, soft country-influenced folk, with a voice that emits the passion of Joni Mitchell
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Tonight in Brooklyn!
Whatcha doin tonight, Brooklyn? There’s no better way to celebrate the end of the storm than going to this Believer Magazine event at Public Assembly. It’s a celebration of the 2011 music issue (a copy of which is rewarded to…
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Drug Violence and the Lacking American Media Response
The recent massacre at a casino in Monterrey, Mexico marks the pinnacle of drug war-related violence. The response to this tragic episode by the American media reveal the frailties of our news coverage—this story was seriously lacking the attention it…
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Erin Rose’s Tech Links
HP’s not quite ready to give up on its TouchPad … yet. Sure, it writes, but can your pen transform paper scribblings into digital files? Berlin’s awesome video game museum. Rock paper scissors glove competes against its owner.
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Run Yvonne, Run
Yvonne is the craftiest farm animal to evade slaughter since Wilbur. After this six-year old German cow ran away en route to the slaughterhouse back in May, she’s been on the loose, making headlines, garnering sympathy from the public and…
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Happy Words Win
Headed by the University of Vermont’s Isabel Klouman, a team of researchers did a massive language study that revealed an optimistic tendency of the English language—there are more positive words than negative. Compiling words from years of the New York…
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The Day I Got Burned I Wanted to Be Burned
If you like Hayes, if you like little books, if you like political poetry, or, if you are like me and like all three, you’ll find this book compelling.