2011
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Danya Glabau’s Tech Links
Apple held its big yearly news event, known as WWDC, today. Highlights include a new version of OSX, called Lion, that will only be available online, new mobile operating system iOS 5, greater Twitter integration for the iPhone, and a…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #89
CARS 2 ★★★★★ (2 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Cars 2.
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YA Fiction Feud
This weekend twitter hosted a feud on the subject of young adult fiction, spurred by Meghan Cox Gurdon’s article in the Wall Street Journal, detailing the perils of contemporary young adult fiction. According to Gurdon, young adult fiction “can be…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week 6/06-6/12
This week in San Francisco, Quiet Lightening strikes at 111 Minna with Rob Brezsny of Free Will Astrology fame, Michael Krasny hosts an evening with Vendela Vida and Jennifer Egan and it’s Dine About Town time all over the city.
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Bye Bye, Boss
“Jesus spent three days in Hell. … I could only handle one.” Jack Shafer has published a collection of what “fired or resigned journalists wrote to their bosses on the way out” (the quote above is from Richard Morgan, “who…
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Monster Party
Lizzy Acker’s first book of stories Monster Party depicts lost adults, drifting into the coming storm.
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Notable New York, This Week 6/06-6/12
This week in New York begins the best season in New York, festivals, street fairs, and sunshine. Shakespeare in the Park begins with “Measure for Measure,” Literary Trivia Night at KGB Bar, Singing writers at WORD, a summer-camp-themed book party…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Soviet science illustrations? Yes please! Similarly: Old pictures of Teloscopes. Also: Welcome to the real world, heaviest elements. Oh, and: Hurray for cuttlefish! They can’t all be scientific: 70s Cuban film posters!
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All Over Coffee #537
Click image to enlarge: … All Over Coffee is published in the Sunday Datebook section of the San Francisco Chronicle, on SFGate.com, and in two book collections by City Lights Press, the second and newest book, Everything is its own…
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Kids With Guns: Notes and Photographs from Palestine
Palestine Speaks is a San Francisco-based, Kickstarter-funded independent journalism initiative collecting stories of daily life in Palestine. Assistant editor and Rumpus photographer Timothy Faust recently traveled to Palestine with the project. This report for The Rumpus is excerpted from his…