Graduation Season Sugar
“The most terrible and beautiful and interesting things happen in a life. For some of you, those things have already happened. Whatever happens to you belongs to you. Make it…
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Frisked On the Way to School
“They asked us where we coming from, and they asked us to see ID. And we said ‘We 12, we don’t got ID.’” The NYPD stopped teenagers over 140,000 times…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Bad-ass watch: this dude turned his broke down car into a motorcycle to escape the desert. Robot animals are always neat. It is important to turn off the lights when…
Oakland In Popular Memory
Rumpus contributor Matt Werner’s Oakland In Popular Memory is a collection of interviews with leading young artists from Oakland, and established artists who’ve influenced Oakland musicians. Join Werner for a…
“Break All the Way Down”
Rumpus essays editor Roxane Gay has a new story over at Joyland. “The mother of my boyfriend’s youngest child called in the middle of the night. He was asleep, the…
Weekend Features
In case you weren’t checking the site over the long weekend, here’s all the good stuff that was going down: “Me Be Pretty One Day,” by our Saturday editor Michelle…
We Need To Talk About Kevin Giveaway
UPDATE: We have a winner! Ryan Van Meter of San Francisco! Congratulations! The recent film We Need To Talk About Kevin starring Tilda Swinton and John C. Reilly is being…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee (of the future)
In the future NASA will be all up in your business. In the future parking meters will text you when they are running out. In the future you’ll be able…
Memorial Day
We’re going to take it easy today, but we’ve still got some great pieces for y’all. Don’t miss “OG Dad #6” from Jerry Stahl, or this heartbreaking illustrated story by…
Notable San Francisco 5/29-6/2
This Week in San Francisco: After the BBQ’s and the bridge fireworks… Tuesday 5/29: Tosca Cafe hosts the Litquake Epicenter series featuring Carolyn Burke discussing her biography of Edith Piaf.…
Notable New York, This Week 5/28-6/3
This week in NYC: MONDAY 5/28: The Nervous Breakdown and Emergency Press bring you TNB New York, with performances and readings by Edgar Oliver, Elna Baker, Chad Faries, and Lenore…