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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 out-front face of p2p filesharing. Their recent trial (which just…
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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 good-kind-of-manipulator morphs together images of her former and current selves…
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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 common with Fiji, Palau and Micronesia? We’re the only non-Muslim…
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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. While teabaggers across the land looked back on their day…
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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 after Obama’s swearing in. Big Picture offers a photo essay…
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Momoyo Torimitsu’s Salary Soldiers
When Japanese artist Momoyo Torimitsu takes her life-size, crawling robot businessman, Miyata Jiro, for a stroll
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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.
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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 American politics from his base at The Atlantic in D.C.…