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David Breithaupt
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Get Up and Go
Are you filled with seasonal summer ennui? Well, here’s a list that has something for everyone to inspire your get-up-and-go. No excuses.
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The Next Bukowski of Tattooing?
Jonathan Shaw is a writer and tattoo artist who has inked just about everybody. He’s at the top of his game. Check out this podcast and find out more.
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Don’t Forget the Bunting
If Basil Bunting were not remembered for “Briggflatts”—his longest and best poem, first published fifty years ago—he might still be remembered as the protagonist of a preposterously eventful twentieth-century life. Poet Basil Bunting had an unconventional life full of interesting journeys…
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Warhol’s Grave, the World’s Oldest Ham, and Graceland
From the world’s oldest ham to corvettes crushed in a sinkhole, some of the greatest wonders of our museums are available 24/7 through online webcams. Don’t miss these ten museum web cams trained upon unique sites around the world including Warhol’s…
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The Mystical Dick
What neither Scott nor most audiences of Blade Runner knew was that Dick’s mind really was every bit as far out as what was on the screen, if not more so. Philip K. Dick barely lived to see one movie made of…
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These Crazy Modern Times
At The Coachella Review, Heather Scott Partington and Bruce Bauman talk about postmodern madness and Bauman’s recent novel, Broken Sleep, which examines it all.
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So You Want to Be President
This year over a thousand people signed up to run for President of the United States. And you thought we had no choices. Craig Tomashoff decided to drive across country and see who some of these candidates are.
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Thought Police Are Lurking
Cooper tried reaching out to the technology giant via phone and numerous emails, but has only received a generic statement about a “violation of the terms of service agreement”; he has not been offered any precise explanation. At the end…
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Who’s Your Dada?
Be the first on your block to download these eight Dada magazines from 1917 which contain all your favorite surrealist heroes. Tristan Tzara, Hugo Ball, Emmy Hennings—the whole gang is here. Celebrate the centennial of Dada and relive its origins…
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Nighthawks of the Silver Screen
‘”Unconsciously, probably, I was painting the loneliness of a large city,” Edward Hopper once remarked of his masterpiece Nighthawks, the famous scene depicting a downtown diner late at night. “ Filmmaker Gustav Deutsch brings thirteen of Edward Hopper’s paintings to the big screen in a…
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Trump Alchemy Examined
“Get more, that inner music seems to be telling him. Get, finally, enough. Refute a lifetime of critics. Create a pile of unprecedented testimonials, attendance receipts, polling numbers, and pundit gasps that will, once and for all, prove—what?” George Saunders patrols the Trump campaign trail and…
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The Banksy of Twitter
Bilston’s witty, accessible, surprising verse has been likened to Banksy’s street art—satirical inversions of the status quo. The near rhyme, straggling line and wry take on modern life have made him Twitter’s most celebrated new poet. Just who is Brian Bilston,…