Music
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Notable New York, This Week 7/12 – 7/18
This week in New York Diane Williams, Rebecca Curtis and Joshua Cohen read at The Bastille Day Soirée, Chuck Klosterman is back Eating Dinosaurs, Candance Bushnell embodies Carrie and takes us back to college, Christopher Finch tells us about Chuck…
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The Rumpus Interview with Jesse Hlebo
I like to play the part of the pessimist from time to time, but it’s all a façade – I’m a total believer. I genuinely think things can somehow get better and I’m constantly inspired by the people I know,…
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The Rumpus Mini-Interview Project #22: Nicholas Rombes in Conversation with Alex Smith
Alex Smith lives in New York City, where he works as a homepage editor at MSN and as a freelance contributor for the New Yorker. During the interview, Alex drank a Kingfisher, and Rombes an Oberon. Some of Alex’s writing…
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NY Summer Concerts at MoMA PS1
MoMA PS1’s acclaimed summer concert series Warm Up is underway. MoMA PS1, the exhibition space devoted to “the most experimental art in the world,” is host to this annual event—a fusion of music and art like no other in the…
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Notable New York, This Week 7/6 – 7/11
This week in New York Jennifer Egan and Jane Mendelsohn talk about rocking out, Happy Ending provides us with another happy ending, Jakub Ziolkowski exhibits at Hauser & Wirth, David Farley asks who stole Jesus’s foreskin, She & Him sing,…
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Notable San Francisco, This Week: 7/5-7/11
This week in San Francisco: Lilith Fair is back with a vengeance, Damn Handsome & The Birthday Suits frontman and excellent author, Joshua Mohr, reads from his latest book at City Lights, and Elissa Bassist hosts her last San Francisco Literary…
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For the Record…
Jolie Holland and Rick Moody are still having a conversation in the comments section of the latest Swinging Modern Sounds.