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I’m not going to lie to you, all of these things are awesome. Hey guess what, some sharks can turn invisible. Maps that changed the world. Let’s take a look…
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Always there to make horrible things look beautiful, Big Picture has your newest oil spill photo-recap. Turning weather into art (is something we are in favor of). Speaking of awesome…
BroBos v. BoBos
In his entertaining essay “BroBos in Paradise,” a pun on David Brooks’s pop-culture treatise BoBos in Paradise, Leon Neyfakh explores what he calls a new variation on Brooks’s term “Bourgeois…
Morning Coffee
Department of promotional-material-used-to-be-so-much-cooler: The Frolie Grasshopper Circus. Nova Scotian living wall! Say what you will, but I quite enjoy whimsical street art (like this). Asparagus is trying to destroy japan. (The…
Notable San Francisco, This Week: 5/24-5/30
This week, Monday gets more tolerable with cocktails and local art at Make My Monday, Bobby Blanchard, Lesbian Gym Teacher takes over El Rio, demystify the history of the Wiggle…
“A Curiously Obsessive First Novel”
“On its face, the novel’s title suggests both communal and individual aspects of identity. What defines Paul? If blood, he’s half Samoan, half white. If experience, his years in prison…
Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #34
Doug, I’m sweating and having trouble breathing. A what? Don’t be so melodramatic. If anything it’s a Big Mac attack. Be a pal and go get me the cure, yeah?…
Notable New York, This Week 5/24 – 5/30
This week in New York, BookExpo America (BEA) kicks off, and this year with a new feature: New York Book Week–events that are open to the public. Daniel Handler (aka…
Morning Coffee
Happy birthday, self. Look I’m not going to lie to you, I am really into this sweet Portuguese bar. Paper plane art is the best kind of art. “Rational exploration…