Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: “Y’all ready?” I ask the cops, clustered near the corner of Napoleon and St Charles. “Been ready,” one shoots…
Let’s all just take a moment to look at buildings in the puddles of New York. These are things people spend money on: a $350 hundred year old stick of…
Recurring dispatches from Benjamin Morris covering New Orleans Mardi Gras, 2011: This is how it begins: with a lot of standing around. Some of us are drunk. Some of us…
These poll results are a couple of days old, but given the trend over the last two weeks, I think it’s fair to suggest they’re still accurate. Majorities favor collective…
What are you heartless? The loneliest whale in all the world. Competition Competition just picked out the best losing architecture proposals of 2010. Can we all agree that “Thunder Thighs”…
As American women, we are privileged to have every March dedicated to our accomplishments. For thirty-one incredible days, we can walk into any elementary school classroom and see our sisters’…
Here is a thing: evil people living in modernist homes in popular films. Time marches along and before you know it there are no more WWI vets. NASA gets ready…
This week in San Francisco, Feast of Words, film night at the San Francisco Buddhist Center, Babylon Salon at Cantina, and raise money for public health with your mouth full…
Meet Dan Sinker, the man behind the hilarious @MayorEmanuel Twitter account “who has a heart made out of Chicago and balls of punk rock.” (via @MotherJones)
This week in New York the 92nd Street Y focuses on “Literature and Revolution in the Middle East,” readings from Granta and Flatmancrooked, the Third Annual Chapbook Festival, Kevin Young…
This week in “exciting” Flickr galleries: iconography of justice and mid-century corporate design! Let’s talk a bit about Walt Disney’s Magic Highway (USA). The Book of Eclipses. This is why…
The Rumpus and Flavorpill Present: The book release party for Wesley Stace’s new novel: Charles Jessold, Considered as a Murderer February 27 at Amnesia, 853 Valencia Street, San Francisco, 7pm Featuring Wesley…