This week in New York Danzy Senna at BookCourt, Europa turns out its 100th book; I Am Turning Into My Mother six-word stories at 92YTribeca; Steamboat literary comedy series at…
When I go, I want to go on a euthanasia-coaster. A look at the history of Science Fiction. Icons Zootomicae. Admit it, you want to look at 1960s Paris fashion.…
File these two under “a freaky campaign to get adults to play with dolls”: Did you know that Barbie likes director David Lynch’s organic coffee? Or that your favorite doll…
Late last year, Gaby Dunn, a New York journalist and comedian, set out to interview 100 people in a year (deadline October 1, 2011) for her project titled “100 Interviews.”…
“Captain America punching Hitler in the jaw is Captain America knocking him across the room with the weight of the culture. The X-Men going from multiracial to white to needing…
Want to get entangled quantum-ly? Conceptual artist Jonathon Keats has developed a way for the two of you to join at the subatomic level. “Keats has designed an entangling apparatus,…
Nicola Twilley, writing at The Atlantic, provides a brief design history of the plastic lid that aggravates so many of us when we’re trying to ingest our precious, precious caffeinated…
There’s a Tricorder X-Prize now. I just had a nerdgasm. I don’t know whether this says more about human engineers or slime molds, but either way, it’s interesting. How rare…
So after 11 years of unmarried bliss, Amy and I are getting married. A high school sophomore challenges Congressperson Michelle Bachmann to a debate and facts-test on the Constitution. I’d…
A letter from Sugar: Dearest sweet peas whose letters have been published in my columns, I need your help. As many of you have suggested, I’m pursuing the possibility of…