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Albert Speer Would Be Proud
Not to mention Leni Riefenstahl. If Berlin has no mountains, why not build one? Architect Jakob Tigges suggests putting Berlin back on the monumentalist map by erecting a 3,000-foot mountain on the site of the recently decommissioned Tempelhof airport. Summer…
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Morning Coffee
Flavorwire on the loss of Pop-up pioneer Wally Hunt and the best Pop-up Books of all time. I don’t know how people made found art before google maps. It is pretty terrifying to imagine being fully conscious and in a…
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Wish You Were Here
Rumpus Street Team Leader Sona Avakian will be reading at a highly-anticipated and soon-to-be-critically-acclaimed event at 826 Valencia on December 5th in San Francisco. At WISH YOU WERE HERE, Sona will read along with Sarah Fran Wisby, author of Viva…
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If Twitter Is a Person, Then What am I?
Seriously. Time Magazine originally started out selecting a “Man of the Year” as a way to sell magazines in the down holiday season, which then turned into “Person of the Year”. Now they’re thinking of naming Twitter as 2009’s Person…
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Notable New York, This Week 11/23-11/29
This week in New York Justin Taylor and literary collective Wu Ming read, Tim Burton exhibit opens, Ingmar Bergman’s Scenes from a Marriage and other films screen, Julian Plenti performs, a short video helps you tighten your table-side manners for…
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Back from The War – Here’s some Ecstasy.
Rates of PTSD for Iraq war veterans have been estimated as up to 35% in a Stanford University study. The Army has reached out to alternative therapies from yoga to reiki to holding and petting an animal, and now…
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Kyle Kinane’s I’m Dead and It’s All My Fault #12
You don’t have to pay the mafia back if you can outsmart them, Doug. Check out this wig.
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Morning Coffee
Kurt Vonnegut’s letter home. Abandoned wood burning stoves. A look inside a San Francisco opium den circa 1889. Rebecca Ward‘s tape installations. Pickled evidence for evolution.
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Poetic Lives Online: Links by Brian Spears
Congratulations to Keith Waldrop, winner of the National Book Award in Poetry. Here’s their interview with Waldrop. Mark Scroggins uses the Barrett Watten reading I mentioned last week as a jumping off point for an interesting discussion of, as he…
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Science Saturday
The Large Hadron Collider has started up again. The collisions aren’t supposed to begin until January, which is ahead of schedule. Perhaps that’s why there hasn’t been a big-budget disaster flick about it–still time to get something on the SyFy…
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Notable South Florida
As almost anyone who’s lived down here can testify, the music scene is, well, uneven at best, unless you enjoy seeing bands that put out iffy music twenty years ago and are still touring to pay off their original record…