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Pussy Riot Jailhouse Interview
“We couldn’t even imagine that the authorities would be so dumb that they would actually legitimize our influence by arresting us. Sure, Tsentr E tried to intimidate us by tailing us constantly. But unlike Putin, we’re not chickenshit—so we didn’t…
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FUNNY WOMEN #86: Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis
Did Steve Harvey’s bestseller Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Man resonate with you? Then you’ll LOVE its nature-inspired spinoff, Act Like a Lady, Think Like a Mantis.
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READINGS at the Pop-Hop Shop
If you’re in Los Angeles, head over to the Pop-Hop Shop in Highland Park on Wednesday, September 26th for READINGS, hosted by Rumpus contributor Zoe Ruiz. The event will feature fellow Rumpus rockers Seth Fischer and Melissa Chadburn, along with…
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“My algorithm told me to arrest this man!”
The Wall Street Journal reviews Automate This: How Algorithms Came to Rule Our World, by Christopher Steiner. “In the mid-1970s, Joseph Weizenbaum of MIT railed against depriving humans of their capacity to choose, even if computers could decide everything for us.…
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The Rumpus Loves 826
826 Valencia’s upcoming quarterly anthology of excellent student writing will feature a foreword by our very own Isaac Fitzgerald, along with cover art and illustrations from artist and Rumpus contributor Wendy MacNaughton! This week is the perfect time to support…
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The real Tom Sawyer was a San Francisco Fireman
Not to mention a Mission Street Saloon owner, civil servant, and hero. The Smithsonian Magazine reports on a real-life Tom Sawyer who was one of Mark Twain’s (Samuel Clemens) drinking buddies during the author’s stay in San Francisco in the…
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“This is What the Depression Sounded Like”
Aldo Leopold, ecologist and author of Sand County Almanac took such detailed notes each morning from his back porch that researchers at University of Wisconsin-Madison have created his “resurrected soundscape” with digital bird calls. “Leopold recognized that you can get a pretty…
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Dan Weiss’s Morning Coffee
I guess it’s getting to be that time of year again, here are the Royal Observatory’s picks for space photos of the year. The internet was invented so I could look at 1929 Soviet avant-garde submissions for a Columbus memorial.…
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Two Dollar Radio launches Frequencies
“Scheduled to publish new volumes every Spring and Fall, Frequencies is a journal imprint of Two Dollar Radio that aims to champion artful or creative non-fiction that aggressively asserts the value of the individual, either through story or voice, in…
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“Does the Vagina Have a Consciousness?” No.
Roxane Gay on Vagina: “It is also troubling that so much of womanhood is reduced to the vagina and it’s intersection with virile men. One of the many things feminism tries to work against is the objectification of the female…
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“The question is no longer should the way artists and educators operate change, but how?”
Full Stop has launched a new series, Teaching in the Margins, to highlight and explore arts education. They will be asking “novelists, poets, educators and academics about their views on the present state of the arts and humanities and the…
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Notable San Francisco: 9/24-9/29
This Week in San Francisco! Monday 9/24: Celebrate the 20th anniversary of Critical Mass all week with bike, commuter, and social activism focused events all week. Tuesday 9/25: Inside Story Time presents MALEFACTORS, featuring readings by Michelle Gagnon, Nick Nicastro,…