Pocket Notes: Documentations of the Creative Process
“What happens between the idea and the product?” Pocket Notes is a project about compiling ideas. Their focus is not on the destination, but the journey; it is not the…
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Parallel Streets of San Francisco: Postcard Edition
Remember our delightful “Parallel Streets of San Francisco” illustrations? They’re now available as postcard-sized screen prints, both on Etsy and at Rag SF. Now you can send a little part of…
“Male Rapper” List Spoofs Industry Sexism
From his boy-next-door looks, you sure wouldn’t peg Eminem as superstar material. But put a beat behind him, and he turns from a feisty-cute Detroit blonde into a raging microphone…
Every Noise at Once
All-powerful algorithms strike again! This time, they bring visualization of relations between all genres of music from Chinese Traditional to Dirty South Rap to Turbo Folk. Each genre includes a…
“No, It’s Not Called Dear Salty.”
Steve Almond, a longtime Rumpus columnist and the original Dear Sugar before Cheryl Strayed took over, is sharing his two cents again! This time he’s giving advice every Monday at WBUR…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Here come the other universes. Here come the mind-controlled exoskeletons. Here come the x-ray pictures of lightning. Here comes Kim Jong-il’s sushi chef. Here comes the 1920s whimsical science fiction…
A Book That Spans Decades In More Ways Than One
Rumpus contributor Nicholas Rombes is writing a twenty-year novel. What precisely does that mean? It means that the first pieces of the novel were published in 2009 as A Cultural Dictionary of…
Reductress: Women’s News. Feminized.
In lieu of a “Funny Women” column today, please read all of Reductress, a new satirical women’s web magazine like The Onion that “tells the stories of real women, written by…
An Invitation to RADAR’s 10th Birthday Party
RADAR Productions, the queer-centric literary-event non-profit founded by Rumpus pal Michelle Tea, is turning ten! Come celebrate those double digits at RADAR Superstar, a free event featuring Jibz Cameron, Brian…
More On Turkey
Here are a couple more resources for anyone looking to get a better handle on the situation in Turkey right now. Gawker has a simple, accessible FAQ-style explanation for those…
Celebrate 20th Century Italian Poetry
Join the Center for the Art of Translation and the Istituto Italiano di Cultura in their celebration of Italy’s “Year of Italian Culture in the USA.” They will be bringing Italy to San…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
This is a story about a cat being caught smuggling a cellphone into a Russian prison. NASA is going to 3d print the heck out of some tasty pizzas. Life…