2011
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Why Zombies?
Today’s zombies are not what they once were—being one of the walking dead comes with a whole slew of creepier characteristics. Thus being one of the most popular creepy fiction phenomena around, zombies have been somewhat reinvented throughout the years.…
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48 Hours of Magazine-Making, Illustrated
48 hours of grueling magazine production never looked so pretty. Here is the making of Issue 2 of Longshot Magazine, as illustrated by our columnist Wendy MacNaughton.
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Rombes’ Blogs for Filmmaker Magazine
Rumpus columnist Nick Rombes’ shot-by-shot breakdown of Blue Velvet has officially begun. The breakdown is happening in a trifecta of weekly blog posts for Filmmaker Magazine, 47-second increments of the film detailed in cinematic analysis. Scott Macaulay introduces the project,…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #97
SCRATCH AND SNIFF ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Scratch and Sniff.
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A Podcast to Assuage Today’s Difficult Musical Decisions
The Best Radio You’ve Never Heard podcast is the perfect thing to listen to you when you want to relinquish all playlist control and introduce something new into your sonic repertoire. And the playlists are themed, free and all available…
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Is there one hacker culture, or many? Here’s a a photo comparison of the Black Hat and Defcon conventions. Some tech folks are on edge today, with an eye on the stock markets following last week’s debt deal and downgrade…
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All Over Coffee #545 Collaboration with Isaac Fitzgerald
A beautiful All Over Coffee from artist Paul Madonna and author Isaac Fitzgerald. Click here to view. …more
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The Last Poet I Loved: Maggie Nelson
After four years in England, I know that summer is not the season of budding trees, shy morning sunlight, blue skies, and merry picnics on the grass that my Midwestern American childhood promised me. It is the season of gray.…
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Tom Lutz on the Missing Generation of Journalists
Tom Lutz’s recent essay for the LA Review of Books discusses the missing generation of journalists, the layoffs that have forced out some of the greatest book reviewers from their staff positions on newspaper mastheads and the diminishing of the…
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“We Love You From the Start” (Today!)
The Rumpus and the Bay Citizen are excited to announce our next monthly event, “We Love You From the Start.” August’s event features a slew of brilliant writers: Melissa Febos, Brendan Constantine, Steve Fainaru, and Steve Almond. Nato Green is…
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Notable New York, This Week 8/08-8/14
This week in New York Airplane! at Bryant Park, Lev Grossman reads from The Magician King, Moth StorySLAM on business, The Center for Book Arts annual summer reading, authors Emma Forest and Jon Ronson at McNally Jackson, The Final Episode…