Music
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Patti Smith Reads Just Kids
Yesterday we published Blythe Sheldon’s review of Patti Smith’s Just Kids, her memoir about life with Robert Mapplethorpe. Now you can hear Smith herself read from the book, thanks to KQED‘s reading series podcast, The Writers’ Block.
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Amanda F’n Palmer Goes to the Golden Globes
It might be new news or old news to you, but Amanda Palmer is engaged to Neil Gaiman, and because Coraline (based on Gaiman’s book) was nominated for best animated feature, Amanda Palmer ended up walking the red carpet at…
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Notable New York, This Week 2/1 – 2/7
This week in New York Unsound, the avant-garde culture festival that began in Eastern Europe, debuts in the city, historian Garry Wills discusses the atomic bomb, a night with filmmaker Ross McElwee at IFC, Jamaica Kincaid and Gary Shteyngart on…