Want to keep up with The Rumpus when you’re elsewhere on the internets? I know, you don’t admit to going anywhere else, and we don’t blame you, but if you…
A new phase of matter? The study that led to the public pressure that made Craigslist shut down its adult services section is apparently really bad science. The RHIC generates…
Seemingly out of nowhere, a couple of pieces on The Wire, probably my favorite television show ever. The first is in The Threepenny Review, by W. S. DiPiero, a piece…
We should have linked to this yesterday, but it’s never too late to look at Houdini’s prop list. Everyone needs some microscopic insect photography from time to time. On the…
Sometimes when I am trying to find links I just end up reading long boring essays about Disneyland attractions and chairs, this is the life of the internet scavenger. Dear…
Sad Stuff on the Street is exactly it sounds like, pictures of sad stuff (like the broken rainbow umbrella above) on the street. Started by Greg Larson and Sloane Crosley…
Mid-century modern stained glass? Yes thanks. While we are on the subject, Christian Annyas has determined the average life-span of a Saul Bass logo. (via Letters of Note.) This light…
This week in San Francisco, Lit&Lunch, a book club meeting with Intersection for the Arts, radio magazine, The [Un]observed, launches at OHIO Studio, and the Portuguese Artists Colony celebrates its…
“In 1811, John Randel created a proposed street grid of Manhattan.” Now, thanks to a fun interactive map from the New York Times, you can compare Randel’s map “along with…
This week in New York RC Weslowski and a book party for Marie-Elizabeth Mali at louderArts, Deb Olin Unferth and Ben Marcus at The Center for Fiction, Dan Savage and…