2011
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Self-promotion alert: maybe you’d like to help my band finish recording our second album? The Gatsby house may soon be no more. There is a lot I could say about these pictures of Milan, but basically it just comes down…
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A FAN’S NOTES, The Rumpus Sports Column #35: The Monster and Carmelo Anthony
Thanks to the most anticipated trade of this year’s NBA season, Carmelo Anthony (“Melo” for short) has left behind the soothing powder blue uniform of the Denver Nuggets and switched to the orange-and-royal-blue hues of the New York Knicks.
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Annotating Tennyson
Actually, everything’s like that, isn’t it? You know: layered, couched in events, touched—soiled, perhaps, or perhaps sanctified—by hands, eyes. Sometimes briefly glimpsed. Sometimes lightly pondered. Occasionally, noted.
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Save Humblebees
Morning Coffee editor Dan “The Man” Weiss has a band. That band’s name is The Yellow Dress. The Yellow Dress is working on a new album. That album is (tentatively) titled Humblebees. But we’re all going to be Humblebees-less unless…
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Poem of the Week
This week’s Poem of The Week from the Guardian is The Seasons by Irish poet Derek Mahon. The accompanying article delves richly into Mahon’s craft, while the reader’s comments at the bottom provide a sometimes more abrasive forum for critique.
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Lasarow to HuffPo: “Brava, Madame Capitalist”
“We went to our writers before beginning to post last year and the response was overwhelming. Go ahead and post. Yet, less than one year later, the reaction to our possible withdrawal was just as decisive in the opposite direction.…
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Hacking the Middle East
Simplistic pronouncements about the role of social media in stirring uprisings and toppling dictators have by now, thankfully, seemed to die down. That Facebook, Twitter, YouTube and other digital tools have been important to the historic upheaval in the Middle…
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The Lost Books of the Science of Judaism
They’ve traveled the world for more than half a century, in the suitcases of antiques dealers and in the collections of academic institutes. Now important books from the Science of Judaism collection, curated by a Jewish librarian at the start…
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The NPR Uncontroversial Controversy
For a group of people who likes to claim that liberals are constantly playing the victim, the Tea Party sure screams like a little baby when anyone dares point out their many and varied issues. The latest people to face…