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Hand-Operated Shearing Instruments
There are a lot of performance issues when it comes to scissoring. Everyone’s tried it, at least once. This is what I tell people when I have this conversation after two or three beers. It’s a lesbian rite of passage.
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RIP Lou Reed
Lou Reed, who changed the face of rock music both with the Velvet Underground and as a solo artist, passed away yesterday at the age of 71. We trust you know where to find his music, but you may also…
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“He Put Her Out in the Cold”
When she aims the pistol at the doorman, he grabs her wrist and snatches the gun, then she starts to scream, “Baby, what have I done?” For The Paris Review, Aaron Gilbreath writes about jazz, heroin and love gone wrong. Read…
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Next Letter in the Mail: Ray Shea, Part II
Mark your calendars: the next Letter in the Mail, going out November 1, is a second letter from Ray Shea. Ray has contributed to our Readers Report series as well as our Last Book I Loved series, and has been…
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Ted Wilson Reviews the World #205
FLAMETHROWERS ★★★★★ (3 out of 5) Hello, and welcome to my week-by-week review of everything in the world. Today I am reviewing flamethrowers.
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Notable San Francisco: 10/28–11/3
Monday 10/28: The “On Arts” series, benefiting the 826 Valencia Scholarship Program, presents British author Zadie Smith in conversation with Steve Winn. $27, 7:30pm at Nourse Theater. Tuesday 10/29: The Moth comes to The Booksmith, featuring an opening story from…
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Good Work from the Museum of Bad Art
Travel blog Atlas Obscura has a post up on Slate about Massachusetts’s Museum of Bad Art, whose collection of paintings “displays a glaring gap between the artist’s sincerity and skill level.” It may seem cruel at first, but founders Scott…
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Notable Los Angeles: 10/28–11/3
Monday 10/28: Gavin Edwards presents and signs Last Night at the Viper Room: River Phoenix and the Hollywood He Left Behind. 7 p.m. at Book Soup. Book Bound is a mobile library where you can get a book for free,…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Now it’s time to see the most popular boy names since 1960 (spoiler alert: it’s basically all Michael). Important news: cosmetics look like outer space if you photograph them close up. I guess billion-year data storage could be a thing…
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The Country Outside Us
In Ireland, I fell in love easily and often. On the bus from Galway to Dublin; in a smoky, centuries-old pub; on a Donegal beach, my hair wet with rain.
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Notable Chicago 10/27–11/2
Sunday 10/27: Every week, you’re invited to join poets and spectators alike for the Uptown Poetry Slam. This is where slam poetry began and where it continues to grow. 7 PM, $6, The Green Mill. Monday 10/28: If you’ve been…