NY Times on how your brain physically manifests abstract ideas and the Tanzanian Spray Toad. The Hubble has detected an alien spacecraft (or just a comet or something, whatever). The…
Today we have a Rumpus Original Combo with Gabrielle Calvocoressi, which includes an interview as well as a Rumpus Original Poem: “Every Person in This Town Loves Football” Even the…
Poet D. A. Powell, a subject of a Supersized Combos last April, has been announced the winner of the $100,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award from Claremont Graduate University.
I really just want to use the phrase “acoustic wind pavilion.” A look at a few of the 180,000 pictures from the Magnum photo archives. Live feed of a Bald…
Kyle Kinane‘s debut album, Death of the Party, hits stores today. Kyle is a frequent Rumpus contributor and has performed stand-up at numerous Rumpus events. More importantly, he is one…
Why yes, I DO like pictures of Dubai. Pain Pack let’s you experience other’s emotional pain. Photographing e-waste. The ultimate graphic novel (in six panels). Blue whales voices dropping. What…
This week: Catch the tail ends of SF SketchFest and the SF Indie Winter Music Festival, Stop by 111 Minna for a decade of local art at the opening reception…
This week in New York Unsound, the avant-garde culture festival that began in Eastern Europe, debuts in the city, historian Garry Wills discusses the atomic bomb, a night with filmmaker…
Tiny Swedish lighthouses. A walk through JD Salinger’s New York. Philip K. Dick’s book covers. (via MeFi.) Behold the molecular Venus flytrap! Accidental contemporary art.