2011
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A Very Good Point
Sam Biddle argues that “Facebook is AOLifying the Internet,” and explains why “that sucks.”
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 3/21-3/27
This week in San Francisco, Lit&Lunch, a book club meeting with Intersection for the Arts, radio magazine, The [Un]observed, launches at OHIO Studio, and the Portuguese Artists Colony celebrates its first birthday at Fivepoints Arthouse. Monday 3/21: Ever wondered about…
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Grid Growth
“In 1811, John Randel created a proposed street grid of Manhattan.” Now, thanks to a fun interactive map from the New York Times, you can compare Randel’s map “along with other historic information,” to the Manhattan we know today.
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Spalding Gray Review in Cineaste
Cineaste Magazine has published a long, considered review of the new documentary by Stephen Soderbergh about Spalding Gray, And Everything Is Going Fine. The film consists entirely of footage of Gray himself, either performing his monologues or being interviewed. The…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #79
MOUNT RUSHMORE ★★★★★ (4 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Mount Rushmore.
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Happy Fear and Loathing Day
“Forty years ago today, on March 21, 1971, Hunter S. Thompson and a Chicano activist attorney named Oscar Zeta Acosta drove from Los Angeles to Las Vegas to talk over an article Thompson was writing about the barrios of East…
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So Much Goodness in Rumpus Comics
Rumpus Comics editor Paul Madonna drops another stunningly beautiful All Over Coffee, “Out of the Grapevine,” while Lisa Brown continues her amazing Welcome to the Ten-in-One series with Act #3, “The Fire Eater.” Be sure not to miss those, and…
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Notable New York, This Week 3/21-3/27
This week in New York RC Weslowski and a book party for Marie-Elizabeth Mali at louderArts, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Marcus at The Center for Fiction, Dan Savage and his partner Terry Miller on It Gets Better at Barnes…
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The Mother Who Stayed
Laura Furman’s new concerto of stories, The Mother Who Stayed, ties its parts together in an illuminating and subtle fashion.
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Lydia Heberling: The Last Book I Loved, After the Quake
I feel like now is an inappropriate time to admit that the last book I loved is a book called After the Quake by Japanese author Haruki Murakami, a book more or less about Japan’s last devastating earthquake in Kobe.…
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Newspaper Guild Calls for HuffPo Strike
Last week, the Newspaper Guild, a 26,000-member-strong national union of media workers, called on all unpaid Huffington Post bloggers “to withhold their work.” The strike asks specifically for an immediate pay schedule for all contributors. Read their official press release. As you…