Music
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Poet Jim
“The power of the Doors’ music is that it is so unabashedly arty that it begs to be made fun of, especially by older people or those who went through Doors periods themselves and are now into Steely Dan or…
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Five Questions
Nikolai Fraiture, bass player for The Strokes, interviews Jay Griffiths about her book Wild:
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Songs of Our Lives: Frida Hyvönen’s “Pony”
His loneliness lay around me like a fence. The promise was that once I solved the loneliness the fence would dissipate. But I couldn’t solve it.
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Artists Coming Out To Support Occupy San Francisco
Last night, as part of the Occupy SF Art and Performance Series, Foxtails Brigade, Sherilynn Connelly, and others came out to support the protestors at Bierman Park. By pretty much all accounts, it was incredible. Foxtails Brigade—with Laura Weinbach, Anton Patzner…
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Occupy SF Art and Performance Series
This week, come check out the Occupy SF Art and Performance Series, with local awesomes like Michelle Tea, Nato Green, Kamau Bell, Heklina, Literary Death Match’s Alia Volz, and more A few days ago, Hiya Swanhuyser and I ran into each…
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Albums of Our Lives: The Stooges’ Fun House
As an acne-faced and awkward wannabe punk rock teenager, I knew who Iggy Pop was. I knew who he was because a lot of the Goth girls I would meet at parties and teen dance clubs were way into his…
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Albums of Our Lives: Steve Martin’s Let’s Get Small
“Well, excuuuuuuuuuse me!” my mother says from the kitchen when we complain about baked chicken again. “Well excuuuuuuuuuuuse me!” grumbles my father when we change the channel from the Auburn game to Elvira’s Movie Macabre.
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The Week Social Media Broke My Heart
Do you still remember the Internet of last week, just another barrage of all-over-the-place political and cultural events in which millions of people watched, reacted and interacted online?
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Juggalos: True Fringe Culture
“Finally, something should be said for the fact that although I like to identify myself with punks and outcasts and ‘fringe culture’ (whatever the fuck that’s supposed to mean), the truth is that Juggalos are the real outcasts, they’re the…
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Netflix Roundup #3
“Dreamworks CEO Jeffrey Katzenberg told the newspaper the deal, worth $30 million per picture to Dreamworks over a number of years, was “game-changing” and represented a bet that viewers would soon no longer make distinctions between content streamed on the…
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The Rumpus Interview with Hot Head Show
As the opening band left the stage, before the house lights had lifted,
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Albums of Our Lives: Nirvana’s Nevermind
“I miss you; I’m not gonna crack” I was 14 and following older kids through the woods.