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FUNNY WOMEN #118: Welcome to Your Wonderful Engagement Photo Shoot
You may have noticed that we are on a decrepit railroad bridge, Karen and Brad, and what better place to begin your engagement photo journey? You are matrimonial hobos riding the rails!
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David Biespiel’s Poetry Wire: The Poet’s Journey: Chapter 7
When you do not allow yourself to follow your impulses, it’s not that you are eluding or destroying those impulses. Instead, you’re converting what was potentially necessary to your imagination into something darker, less stable, and more insidious.
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #238
BUNK BEDS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing bunk beds.
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The Rumpus Interview with Luke Temple
Here We Go Magic’s Luke Temple sits down to discuss his recent solo album, the writing process, and his diverse sources of inspiration.
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: American Horror in New Orleans
I came home from work the other day and found a notice taped to my front door. It had the logo for the FX television series American Horror Story on it and announced they would be filming on my block…
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The Last Book I Loved: The Haunting of Hill House
I began the novel late one gray-skyed evening, under one of those warm spring rains that make everything a little greener, a little more earthy. Not unlike the first night the guests spend in the Hill House.
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The Last Movie I Loved: The Great Beauty
To make someone feel as they did as a child…is not only an act of love, but a gift. The Great Beauty is such a gift: to watch the film is to be transported back into childhood.
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Swinging Modern Sounds #50: The Big 5-0!
While it’s possible to find a lot to worry about in the world of contemporary music, there’s always something new to listen to as well, post-historical, outlying, pre- or anti- or minimally digital music. And so maybe there will be…
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Crossovers #3: Reporting Live from the Cultural Borderlines at the Comic Book Theater Festival
The Comic Book Theater Festival runs from June 3rd–29th at The Brick in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.
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Searching for Santería
Isnael felt spirits. That was how he first realized he had a calling, and that it was Santería.
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Paper Trumpets #2: Little Martyr Big Victory
I like combining joyful images with something dangerous or mysterious (I’m not sure about the reptile tail but I like how it adds a balance to it all).
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Ice, Ice Baby: A Cool Conversation with Bobby J. Robby, Stripper by Day, Drag King by Night
Bobby J. Robby talks about labor issues, gender identity, and the perils of dating other dancers.