2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
What do we do now that the shuttles are gone? Party time on mars! Empty gas stations are pretty beautiful (blah blah blah). You know what the best thing is? 60s futuristic Finnish mobile homes. Just kidding, it’s actually Susan…
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The Rumpus Interview with Robert Ingersoll, the Hero of PROJECT NIM
In 1973, a psychology professor at Columbia University named Herb Terrace launched a study to see if a chimpanzee raised as a human could learn sign language.
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Shepard Fairey in Copenhagen
Street artist Shepard Fairey is perpetually towing the line between adoration/acceptance and hostility. Street art is anarchic and contentious in that way. He recently experienced the hostile side of this dichotomy in Copenhagen, when he was attacked following the after-party…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 8/15-8/21
This week in San Francisco- Monday, August 15: Bird & Beckett in Glen Park is hosting a free poetry and jazz pairing, featuring a lineup headed by Paula Hackett-the open mic starts up after scheduled reading wraps, so bring what…
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Love for Bookstores that Love Small Presses
This massive Milwaukee bookstore is overflowing with small press publications—an awesome bookstore size-to-indie love ratio that doesn’t seem to happen as much as it should. Besides Woodland Pattern’s impressively diverse chapbook section, the bookstore is integral to the literature community…
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The Poet as Pinup
Wild Women Press just wrapped a photo shoot for a 2012 calendar featuring a new nude poet for every month of the year, with proceeds from sales going to type one diabetes research. To top it off, all of the…
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Dispatches from the Great Mistakes Tour
Our intrepid managing editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, is out on the road with LA-based comic Kyle Kinane. Together they are traversing the American landscape, road-tripping and city-hopping for Kyle’s Great Mistakes tour. Isaac’s keeping us updated via a steady stream of…
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East German Spy Outfits
The artist Simon Menner is redefining “dress up,” an old childhood favorite by assembling a collection of Stasi spy outfits, because there is one for every occasion imaginable!
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #98
THE DICTIONARY ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing the dictionary.
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3-D Movies Here Forever?
Veteran directors Francis Ford Coppola, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg are jumping on the 3-D movie bandwagon, though this cinematic trend’s sustainability is currently being questioned. With movie studios and DVD sales in financially tenuous situations, 3-D movies could be…
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Top Ten Best New Poets
Flavorwire’s got “The Best of the Best New Poets 2011,” hand-selected from the 50 emerging poets included in this year’s Best New Poets. Though we tend to shy away from lists here on the Rumpus blog, we want to get…