DJANGO BLOWOUT
Today we’re running five essays on Tarantino’s latest film, Django Unchained. The intention of running so many was not to give Django a disproportionate amount of coverage, but to reflect the controversy and conversation the…
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Notable San Francisco 1/7-1/12
This week in San Francisco! Monday 1/7: If 2013 has thus far been short on burlesque, things can change with Hubba Hubba, at Uptown, 9pm. Tuesday 1/8: Take part in…
Legs That Just Won’t Quit
Rumpus columnist Antonia Crane has a piece up at Salon about the curse/blessing of being a stripper with thick legs. A preview: We’d done this before, dancing for a week in…
Weekend Rumpus Roundup
The Rumpus was packed like a tasty dumpling with features this weekend! Amy Fusellman has an essay about what she learned besides tightrope walking while taking a tightrope-walking class. Your…
The Wishing Tree
Maria Popova of Brain Pickings got her hands on a copy of William Faulkner’s only children’s book, written for his stepdaughter (and a few other children in his life) and…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very important science news: orange cups make your hot chocolate taste better. The Atlantic takes you inside Chernobyl’s abandoned hospital (which is cool). Everyone loves WWI propaganda posters. Perhaps you…
Copy Editors Are Your Friends
Proper copy editing includes examining the focus, dredging the main point up from the tenth paragraph to make it more prominent. Proper copy editing addresses the language: rooting out cliches,…
The Dish Ran Away With the Andrew Sullivan Readers
Andrew Sullivan is lighting out on his own, hoping his blog The Dish will make enough money to stay afloat without the assistance of the Daily Beast or any other publication.…
Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
The universe is a bummer: maybe going to mars will give astronauts Alzheimer’s. Perhaps being overweight is good for you (no it is absolutely is not). It is tragic when…
“Our Education”
I think that most of us believe that time doesn’t really exist outside of the school. Or at least we act like it does not. This is to say, we…
Listening Love
Pitchfork wrote about our recently concluded Real Man Adventures series, which featured eight original songs inspired by chapters in T Cooper’s new memoir-cum-literary scrapbook. Thanks, Pitchfork, we love you back! If you missed…
On Being A “Vile, Loathsome, Despicable Pig”
Via Verge‘s best-of-2012 list, here’s an essay by Meghan Daum about the lakes of vitriol that make up so many online comments sections. She compares the unfavorable reaction to a somewhat…