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FUNNY WOMEN #64: A Call for Artists
How often have you read application guidelines such as: “Artists working in their home countries, women, emerging writers, and people of color are encouraged to apply”? Have you felt flattered by the special invitation?
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Linear Parks
Linear parks have sprung from abandoned rail lines in cities nationwide. This article looks at the most well-known of these industrial transformations, New York’s High Line park, along with examples of other abandoned railroads, bridges, canals and factories that have…
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An Occupy Wall Street Roundup
The Occupy Wall Street protests enter their second month, and have started to garner a lot more media attention. One of the people responsible for that attention is NYPD Deputy Inspector Johnny Cardona, who spun a protestor around and punched…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Can we just agree that being buried alive is the scariest possible thing? Occupy the Tundra! Maybe we live inside a black hole. Maybe a lot of things. Oh Jean Cocteau, what will we do with you? I think we…
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Occupy Wall Street Roundup
Today marks ONE MONTH for #OccupyWallStreet, which has reached more than 900 cities across the globe. “There is no honor hurting unarmed civilians and I won’t let it happen.” Sergeant Shamar Thomas lectures NYPD, plus a little about #OccupyMARINES. #OccupyLondon:…
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Ohio’s Middle Class
“‘You’re not really about to fire somebody else, are you?’ I ask. ‘Yeah.’ ‘You just fired somebody less than 10 minutes ago.’ ‘Yeah, but he’s been taking too many breaks.’ ‘Are you kidding? Is anybody going to ask him why…
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Notable San Francisco 10/17-10/23
This week in San Francisco! Monday 10/17: POETS! At Bird & Beckett books features Nancy Wakeman, Kit Kennedy and Don Brennan. As always, readings are followed by an open mic. 7PM, FREE. Khaled Hosseini discusses the transformation and re-release of…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #106
INCEPTION ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing Inception.
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Notable New York, This Week 10/17-10/23
This week in New York, Scary stories with Storychord.com; Deborah Baker on The Convert at the NYPL; a reading by US Poet Laureate Philip Levine; Colson Whitehead on zombies at McNally Jackson; Record Collecting for Girls; the CMJ Music Marathon…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Let’s all take a moment out of our day to appreciate old Welsh pop albums. If you can steal an entire bridge I’m pretty sure it legally belongs to you. the Pergamon World Atlas (here’s your flickr set for the…
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Small Fates with Teju Cole
While doing research for a book set in his hometown, Lagos, Nigeria, author Teju Cole (Open City) kept coming across these incidents in the newspapers of Lagos. Known in the French as fait divers, Cole describes the stories as “an…
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Free Books: Public Bookshelves in Germany
You know those “leave a penny, take a penny” trays that are sometimes at delis, grocery stores, and as stations? It’s a small but kind gesture that can inspire a pay-it-forward mentality in people. In Germany, they’ve taken this gesture…