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Nick Cave Monday #52: The Bad Seeds
In our last installment of Nick Cave Monday, it is time to pay tribute to the music mafia who are The Bad Seeds. As you would expect, The Bad Seeds are kind of a supergroup unto themselves. Though not in…
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Weekend Rumpus Roundup
Christ…brace yourself for an emotionally crippling time with these weekend features. (The pain is worth it! It always is!) In Saturday’s feature, the tragic end to an interplanetary love story shivers with loss—one of Yumi Sakugawa’s best comics yet. Sunday’s…
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White Girls and Cultural Appropriation
White people clamoring to up their cred by appropriating nonwhite culture do so hoping to be rewarded for choices that are falsely seen as inherent in people of color. In an essay on cultural appropriation for the New Inquiry, Ayesha…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Today I heard someone use the phrase “randos” and I don’t know how I feel about it. Also I haven’t done one of these in a while. Jellyfish are terrifying, fascinating, and taking over. 2013 is the year of bacteria…
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Lit-Link Round-up
The launch of Not Your Eyes, an online and print fiction and nonfiction publishing house. To hair or not to hair? In this age of proudly organic and hemp products, Millicent Borges Accardi wonders why women still pursue shaving and waxing…
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The Sunday Rumpus Essay: Possession
A bad play; a lover whose name has slipped forever into the cracks of history; a crash on a deserted highway in the middle of the night…Jennifer Pastiloff remembers the ingredients of jealousy, shame, regret, and the transformational power of…
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Notable Los Angeles: 9/7-9/13
Saturday 9/7: Write Large Press presents LAB●FEST in celebration of the grand opening of DT●LAB (an independent art, literature, music and creative space.) Readers include Sesshu Foster, Luis Javier Rodriguez, Rumpus contributor Wendy C. Ortiz and many more. Noon-11 p.m.…
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Babylon Salon in SF
This Saturday don’t miss the Babylon Salon at Cash Bar Exotica! The event features Dean Rader, Ben Loory, Mark Morford, Anita Barrows, and Lindsay Tam Holland. Learn more about the event here. The doors open at 6:30 p.m., reading starts at 7:00.
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Barevolution, Hello Revolution!
If George Orwell survived a shot in the throat by a fascist sniper, surely I could muster the courage to walk past a pro-government storm trooper to offer a polite flower. Viken Berberian writes about the tumultuous political evolution of…
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Literature hits the streets of LA
Save the date! The Rumpus & Dirty Laundry Lit present a fun-filled event for the first-ever Lit-Crawl in Los Angeles. The stellar line-up includes Susan Orlean, Simone Kang, and Johnny Alfie, as well as Rumpus Contributors Jillian Lauren, Natashia Deón, Kima Jones and Zoë Ruiz. The event…
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The Joyners: Comic Adaptation
We’re definitely intrigued by The Joyners, a book that will include 3D art. It’s also described as a meeting of The Jetsons and American Beauty! Learn more about The Joyners on The 25 Most Anticipated Comic Books of Fall 2013.
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
Very expensive toilets. As if our own earthquakes weren’t enough to worry about, the bay area should probably be more scared of quakes in Alaska. 16th Century comets. Gravity(‘s constant measurement) is heavier than we thought. And now let us…