August 2012
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SF Comedy and Burrito Festival
Do you like comedy? And burritos? Or maybe you like comedy while eating burritos? The SF Comedy and Burrito Festival is coming this October, and tickets are on sale now. Featuring Rumpus contributor and all-around funny woman Janine Brito, as…
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The Last City I Loved: Dublin
When an Irish person up and leaves for the United States, oftentimes the party thrown in their honor is referred to as an American Wake.
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Alex Gallo-Brown: The Last Book I Loved, Magic Hours
Magic Hours, Tom Bissell’s recent collection of non-fiction, surveys his magazine writing over the last decade or so. It is a genre, he informs us in the Author’s Note, he fell into more or less accidentally; it is also the…
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We’re Flying, by Peter Stamm
Most of the characters who populate the stories in We’re Flying were once happy. They were ordinary, but hopeful, representatives of Stamm’s native Switzerland: cheerful parents, loving spouses, young professionals. But, more often than not, we are introduced to them…
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Melding Web Content and Advertising
Choire Sicha writes about the visual evolution of the internet over at The Awl. Sicha discusses the fact that advertisements are being woven into the content of websites, such as promoted tweets from a corporation being plopped to the top of…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Big Picture brings you Early 20th century Russia: In Color! Let’s all play the game of Urban Renewal. Here come the 1800’s female sword swallowers. This would be the ideal time to dust off some old Star is Born puns.…
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Alternative Medicine
Xeni Jardin cautions against the use of alternative medicines at BoingBoing. “Green smoothies are great, but they alone cannot cure cancer. Oncology isn’t guaranteed to cure us, but quackery is guaranteed to kill us. What doctors like my rad-onc practice…
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The Love Songs for Lamps Roadshow
Brace yourselves: The Believer‘s totally rad rock show, The Love Songs for Lamps Roadshow, is coming to San Francisco this Sunday! In conjunction with its 2012 Music Issue—which you can buy here and read excerpts from here—The Believer has spent all of August touring…
