Notable San Francisco: 12/19-12/25
This week in San Francisco-entertain yourself in prep for merry you-know-what. Monday 12/19: December’s Porchlight Reading Series is happening at Verdi Club.
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Notable New York, This Week 12/19-12/25
This week in New York, a reading at The Poetry Project, Digable Planets at Brooklyn Bowl, Page Meets Stage with Jeffrey McDaniel and Amber Tamblyn, The Soundtrack storytelling series, and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here are the best thing that happened in the natural world in 2011 (spoiler alert: a sloth yawns). We are totally about to build the world’s second largest structure. Here…
No More Kisses for Oscar Wilde’s Tomb
“On her blog, ‘A Love Letter From London,’ an architectural historian named Lisa Marie, who blogs under the name Miss Marie, wrote that ‘the continued devotion of Oscar Wilde’s fans…
Science Saturday
So glad that Wired Science didn’t title this piece “A Star is Born” because that would have been really cheesy. X-Men bacteria Comet Lovejoy is pretty badass. The National Institutes…
Saturday Morning Links
Tonight, I will be geeking out hard. There will likely be evidence of this on my various other interweb presences. Klingons are involved. Gene Marks, writing for Forbes, informed the…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
So tell me, what DO colorblind people see? Remembering the Automat. Coming soon to a touch screen near you: texture! This is potentially pretty huge: Ambien seems to be waking…
On Race and Empathy
In the last few days there have been many thoughtful take-downs of the already infamous Forbes “If I were a poor black kid” column. Don’t miss Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic response…
Sugar Love
Writer Logan Sachon included Sugar’s “The Truth that lives there” in her top five longreads of 2011. Hooray! “I’m a Sugar devotee; her columns have been such a help to…
More Year-End Love
Rumpus contributor Roxane Gay’s book Ayiti was listed by the The National Book Critics Circle blog as one of their Small Press Highlights of 2011. Of Ayiti they write “The…