Fun fact: you’re being totally racist when you talk about what kind of comedy you like. River wolves eeeeee! You ain’t so old moon. 1960s futurescapes. Also, brand new Portuguese…
Some Mexican politicians and public officials–in addition to a significant portion of the Mexican public–believe that it is “time to go back to a policy of peaceful co-existence with the…
The Pew Research Center performed a study on the value of higher education, as perceived the general public. The result divided along gender lines. Out of the 2100 Americans surveyed,…
The summer I turned 19, after my first year of college, I took off, leaving behind my small midwestern campus, to work in a gift shop in Yosemite National Park.…
Stay away from me hyper-aggressive rats! It’s always a good day to think about world’s fairs of the past. Scientifically explaining drunk vision. Literary pets are also wonderful things to…
The Rumpus and the Believer Magazine Proudly Present: “Let’s Talk About Us” Click Here to Purchase Tickets! September 12th, 7pm, The Make-Out Room, 3225 22nd Street, San Francisco. Featuring brilliant…
Dan Savage, the renowned journalist behind the sex advice column, Savage Love, is surfing the Sugar wave! He links to Sugar’s last column, agreeing with her relationship advice: “…when I…
Visiting writers’ houses does align with everyone’s preferences. This kind of literary tourism isn’t necessarily useful to understanding the artistic sensibilities of the writer who once inhabited it, or is…
What do we do now that the shuttles are gone? Party time on mars! Empty gas stations are pretty beautiful (blah blah blah). You know what the best thing is?…
This week in San Francisco- Monday, August 15: Bird & Beckett in Glen Park is hosting a free poetry and jazz pairing, featuring a lineup headed by Paula Hackett-the open…
Our intrepid managing editor, Isaac Fitzgerald, is out on the road with LA-based comic Kyle Kinane. Together they are traversing the American landscape, road-tripping and city-hopping for Kyle’s Great Mistakes…
This week in New York the Franklin Park Reading Series on Missed Connections; Word for Word features the poets of Letras Latinas; a party for My Drunk Kitchen; Poetry from…