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December 4, 2012
DiversitYA
from The New York Times
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December 3, 2012
Rothko Rocks Both Grapes & Gold
from artnet
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December 2, 2012
Peanut Cheese
from The New Yorker
A CHUNKY HISTORY OF PEANUT BUTTER
Posted by Jon Michaud
Shipped off to boarding school in England during the Great Depression, the twelve-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr., was sustained by regular care packages from his father. The biweekly deliveries contained a case of grapefruit and a large jar of peanut butter. In a 1981 essay [...]
A CHUNKY HISTORY OF PEANUT BUTTER
Posted by Jon Michaud
Shipped off to boarding school in England during the Great Depression, the twelve-year-old William F. Buckley, Jr., was sustained by regular care packages from his father. The biweekly deliveries contained a case of grapefruit and a large jar of peanut butter. In a 1981 essay [...]
December 1, 2012
The Greatest Hip-Hop Album Ever
from LA Weekly
The Making of The Chronic
By Ben Westhoff
Dr. Dre’s seminal 1992 album, The Chronic, turns 20 next month. Though a sensation upon its release, the raw-but-melodic work’s legend has only grown in the ensuing decades, and today seemingly every MC-producer duo fancies itself the next Dre and Snoop Dogg. It has become the most influential rap [...]
The Making of The Chronic
By Ben Westhoff
Dr. Dre’s seminal 1992 album, The Chronic, turns 20 next month. Though a sensation upon its release, the raw-but-melodic work’s legend has only grown in the ensuing decades, and today seemingly every MC-producer duo fancies itself the next Dre and Snoop Dogg. It has become the most influential rap [...]
November 30, 2012
Rikki Tikki Dante
from The New York Daily News
Fearless dog saves woman from deadly cottonmouth snake - and almost dies
MICHAEL WALSH
Man’s best friend doubles as a doggone good bodyguard.
Gudrun Mastriano of Kissimmee, Fla., was walking her daughter’s black lab Dante home when a venomous cottonmouth snake, mere inches away, attacked her. The protective canine lunged in [...]
Fearless dog saves woman from deadly cottonmouth snake - and almost dies
MICHAEL WALSH
Man’s best friend doubles as a doggone good bodyguard.
Gudrun Mastriano of Kissimmee, Fla., was walking her daughter’s black lab Dante home when a venomous cottonmouth snake, mere inches away, attacked her. The protective canine lunged in [...]
November 29, 2012
Drive-in Sex Box
from The Telegraph
Zurich to open drive-in sex boxes
The Swiss city of Zurich is to open drive-in sex boxes in an attempt to rid the town of street prostitution.
By Matthew Day
Zurich council has approved a plan to build the boxes, which will, it hopes, provide a discreet location for prostitutes and their clients to conduct business when [...]
Zurich to open drive-in sex boxes
The Swiss city of Zurich is to open drive-in sex boxes in an attempt to rid the town of street prostitution.
By Matthew Day
Zurich council has approved a plan to build the boxes, which will, it hopes, provide a discreet location for prostitutes and their clients to conduct business when [...]
November 28, 2012
Prince Richardson Fizz
from Complex
Terry Richardson Photographs Richard Prince With His AriZona Lemon Fizz Collaboration
BY CEDAR PASORI
In light of his recently announced collaboration with AriZona on a “Lemon Fizz” drink, artist Richard Prince had an impromptu photo shoot with Terry Richardson, where he’s pictured with a case of the product. The Pop Art-inspired 23-oz. can has representations of Prince’s Nurse and Jokes paintings alongside larger black and [...]
Terry Richardson Photographs Richard Prince With His AriZona Lemon Fizz Collaboration
BY CEDAR PASORI
In light of his recently announced collaboration with AriZona on a “Lemon Fizz” drink, artist Richard Prince had an impromptu photo shoot with Terry Richardson, where he’s pictured with a case of the product. The Pop Art-inspired 23-oz. can has representations of Prince’s Nurse and Jokes paintings alongside larger black and [...]
November 26, 2012
Twist’d Punk’d
(A truly uncoolly fooly…)
November 25, 2012
Vagina, Eugenics, Hippocampus, Bastardization
from The New York Times
Neuroscience: Under Attack
By ALISSA QUART
THIS fall, science writers have made sport of yet another instance of bad neuroscience. The culprit this time is Naomi Wolf; her new book, “Vagina,” has been roundly drubbed for misrepresenting the brain and neurochemicals like dopamine and oxytocin
Earlier in the year, Chris Mooney raised similar ire [...]
Neuroscience: Under Attack
By ALISSA QUART
THIS fall, science writers have made sport of yet another instance of bad neuroscience. The culprit this time is Naomi Wolf; her new book, “Vagina,” has been roundly drubbed for misrepresenting the brain and neurochemicals like dopamine and oxytocin
Earlier in the year, Chris Mooney raised similar ire [...]
November 24, 2012
Capt. Tony Nelson Gone
from TIME Magazine
Dallas Star Larry Hagman Dies in Texas
By Associated Press
(LOS ANGELES) — Larry Hagman, whose predatory oil baron J.R. Ewing on television’s long-running nighttime soap opera “Dallas” became a symbol for 1980s greed and coaxed forth a Texas-sized gusher of TV ratings, has died. He was 81.
Hagman, who returned as J.R. in a new edition of “Dallas” this year, passed [...]
Dallas Star Larry Hagman Dies in Texas
By Associated Press
(LOS ANGELES) — Larry Hagman, whose predatory oil baron J.R. Ewing on television’s long-running nighttime soap opera “Dallas” became a symbol for 1980s greed and coaxed forth a Texas-sized gusher of TV ratings, has died. He was 81.
Hagman, who returned as J.R. in a new edition of “Dallas” this year, passed [...]
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