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Sometimes It Snows In April (Try not to cry….)

Fuckin’ A – Just unbelievable.

Party’s Gone Out Of Bounds

from The New York Times Partying Underground in Paris’s Secret Corners By SARA LIEBERMAN Dmitry Kostyukov for The New York Times  PARIS — Inside an abandoned seven-floor, 70-room house near the Arc de Triomphe, more than 650 revelers in floor-length gowns, curly white wigs and feathered masks gathered on a Friday night in January. A nearly […]

Black Mayo

from NAUTILUS In the “Black Mayonnaise” of Brooklyn’s Gowanus Canal, Alien Life Is Being Born POSTED BY TYLER J. KELLEY Illustration by Simon Fraser/Eugene Lehnert On a late fall morning, Joseph Alexiou fastened his life jacket and stepped into an eight-foot fiberglass boat floating on the Gowanus Canal. A licensed New York City tour guide, […]

Thirty Years of BLUE VELVET

from The Village Voice Thirty Years on, ‘Blue Velvet’ Still Enraptures and Confounds BY MELISSA ANDERSON Courtesy Film Forum Three decades after its initial release, David Lynch’s Blue Velvet has lost none of its power to derange, terrify, and exhilarate. Debuting in September 1986, deep into the Reagan presidency and the same year that Top Gun was the biggest box […]

Nabokov, Amateur Lepidopterist

from The New Yorker Vladimir Nabokov, Butterfly Illustrator BY ELIF BATUMAN Vladimir Nabokov began collecting lepidoptera at the age of seven. Throughout a long and protean literary career, his passion for insects remained unwavering. He published his first verses as a teen-ager, shortly before the Russian Revolution; in 1918, he fled St. Petersburg for Crimea, where […]

Ancient Trees

from National Geographic  These Ancient Trees Have Stories to Tell by Becky Harlan BETH MOON Over three trillion trees live on planet Earth, and yet we know so few of their stories. Of course all trees play an important role—purifying the air, hosting the feathered and the furry, teaching kids (and kids at heart) how to climb—but […]

Drone Racing

from CNBC ESPN to broadcast drone racing Sarah Whitten Getty Images Drones have officially become mainstream. The International Drone Racing Association said on Wednesday that it had signed a multi-year deal with ESPN to bring the new sport of drone racing to the sports network. “We look forward to providing drone racing fans a larger platform to […]

Iron Man Moving To Sonoran Desert

from WLEB 21 Robert Downey Moving to Yuma, Arizona photo by Gage Skidmore / CC BY-SA 2.0 / cropped YUMA, Arizona – In a big surprise to everyone in Los Angeles, Hollywood actor Robert Downey Jr reveals in a new interview that he is moving to the Yuma, Arizona area. He tells the magazine that […]

AMERICAN GOTHIC – Premiering This Summer (Preview)