The Rumpus Review of Mysteries of Pittsburgh
Even though Rawson Marshall Thurber’s film The Mysteries of Pittsburgh is based on a Michael Chabon novel of the same name, its title is misleading.
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Swedish Pirates on the Rise
Most internet users have probably had some contact with The Pirate Bay, even if it’s indirect. It’s the Napster of bittorrent streaming, by which I mean it’s the loudest, most…
Imagine Finding Me in London
There are a number of reasons I wish I were in London today. Most of them are aesthetic. Take photographer Chino Otsuka’s Imagine Finding Me series, where the Tokyo-born, London-based…
Saturday Morning Links
I’m coming up on the end of a semester, so forgive me if this morning’s links seem a little obsessive about alcohol. For starters, what does the US have in…
A Classical Music Summit with an Element of Speed Dating Thrown In: The YouTube Symphony Orchestra at Carnegie Hall
Forget Ecclesiastes. There is something new under the sun–and it appeared, like a shower of shooting stars, on April 15 at Carnegie Hall, a place not known for wild innovation.…
Documenting the Human Cost
In 1991 the first President Bush signed a law making it illegal for the media to document the return of fallen US Soldiers. This law remained in effect until shortly…
Momoyo Torimitsu’s Salary Soldiers
When Japanese artist Momoyo Torimitsu takes her life-size, crawling robot businessman, Miyata Jiro, for a stroll
The Withdrawal Method
In his introduction to the Anchor Book of New American Short Stories, Ben Marcus writes that the best contemporary fiction synthesizes the heartfelt and the innovative.
The Daily Dish
Andrew Sullivan , one of the most popular bloggers in the world, is a bundle of contradictions – gay, conservative, Catholic. Though British (and Oxford-educated), Sullivan now writes primarily about…
U.S. Department of the Arts?
Famed producer Quincy Jones has asked President Obama to establish a cabinet-level position for culture and the arts. An online petition already has almost 300,000 signatures. Add your name to…