New Yorkers, Enter Your Garden State
Dust off your seersucker and sun hats and head out to a garden party. The New York Observer has found a few patches of cultured grass for you to set…
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Morning Coffee
Flavorwire has kindly pointed us to this famous artists pronunciation guide. I would very much like to stay in the official Pantone Hotel. The scuba helmet of the future, today!…
Don’t Forget
Don’t forget to sign up for The Rumpus Book Club: One Rumpus, One Book, launched today and featuring Citrus County by John Brandon, forthcoming from McSweeney’s. Many readers have already…
“I THINK I WANT TO EAT YOUR SMILE TONIGHT”
“Daniel Bailey is a genius. Daniel Bailey’s poems may or may not be genius and that is precisely the reason why Daniel Bailey is, in fact, a genius.” Joseph Goosey…
The Harvard Grifter
Adam Wheeler is a 23 year-old Harvard Senior “who was indicted Monday for falsifying information in his applications to Harvard and for several scholarships.” Wheeler has pleaded not guilty to…
Morning Coffee
Makoto Azuma is your hipster florist of the moment. Eco-benches of the year 3000. The Navy is about to show off its trained marine animals in San Francisco. This is…
FUNNY WOMEN #25: Next to Famous
I live down the street from a real life celebrity: not one of those fake celebrities who’s won a Nobel Prize or appeared in the local newspaper because she raised…
“For many college aspirants, loans and grants aren’t within reach”
ScholarMatch is an important new project from the folks at 826 National that matches potential donors with gifted young scholars who need help paying for college. It is a fantastic…
Notable New York, This Week 5/18 – 5/23
This week in New York Ben Marcus and Deb Olin Unferth read, John Lydon (formerly Johnny Rotten of the Sex Pistols) performs with PiL, MobyLives presents book trailer awards, One…
Morning Coffee
Welcome to the known world, sweet-ass spike-nosed frog. (updated with actual link, not coworkers address.) This is an article about bat fellatio. Outdated cities of the future. Oh hey telephone…
Notable San Francisco, this Week: 5/17-5/23
This week, wood block prints, films about farms, have a nerd-gasm at Cory Doctorow’s EFF reading at 111 Minna, see suspense-master Palahniuk at the Swedish American Music Hall, and get…