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Remain In Light 2020

from Rolling Stone Talking Heads Guitarist Jerry Harrison on His 2020 ‘Remain in Light’ Anniversary Tour by ANDY GREENE When the Bonnaroo poster went online earlier this month, many were surprised to see Jerry Harrison’s name listed on the fifth line of the Friday lineup. The Talking Heads guitarist hasn’t gone on a tour of any sort […]

Bad Teens!

from Detroit Free Press Teens accused of putting porn on I-75 billboard have been charged by Meredith Spelbring Two teens have been charged in connection with a pornographic billboard display along I-75 in October.  The 16-year-old, who was responsible for going into the shed and posting the X-rated video display, this week was placed in […]

Snubs

from IGN Oscar Snubs 2020: All the Major Nominations Missing From the Academy This Year Knives Out, Hustlers, Rocketman and more big snubs. By Jesse Schedeen The 2020 Oscar Nominations have been revealed. While we’re excited to see terrific films like The Irishman and Joker get plenty of love, this year’s nominations are once again as defined by […]

Mining Marianas

from The Atlantic History’s Largest Mining Operation Is About to Begin It’s underwater—and the consequences are unimaginable. by  Wil S. Hylton Unless you are given to chronic anxiety or suffer from nihilistic despair, you probably haven’t spent much time contemplating the bottom of the ocean. Many people imagine the seabed to be a vast expanse of sand, […]

No More Cowbell – Neil Peart Gone

from The New Yorker THE MISFIT AWESOMENESS OF NEIL PEART AND RUSH By Amanda Petrusich Neil Peart, the lyricist and virtuosic drummer of the Canadian progressive-rock band Rush, died on Tuesday, in Santa Monica, California. He was sixty-seven, and had been fighting brain cancer for several years. Rush formed in Toronto, in 1968 (Peart joined in […]

Medication Nation

from BBC The medications that change who we are By Zaria Gorvett They’ve been linked to road rage, pathological gambling, and complicated acts of fraud. Some make us less neurotic, and others may even shape our social relationships. It turns out many ordinary medications don’t just affect our bodies – they affect our brains. Why? […]

Buck Henry Gone

from DEADLINE Remembering Buck Henry: Al Franken, Judd Apatow, Sarah Silverman, Albert Brooks Join In Praise For Comedy Legend By Bruce Haring UPDATE, with additional reactions Genius, a giant, legendary – those are just some of the words that writers strained to come up with to describe the titanic impact that Buck Henry had on their world. The Graduate screenwriter and SNL host […]

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First Illustrated Book Found

from The Observer The Oldest Copy of the First Illustrated Book Has Been Discovered in Egypt By Helen Holmes It’s always exciting when some kind of human civilizational first is discovered or unearthed by experts, as evidenced by the thrill generated by a recent discovery of cave paintings, thought to be the earliest example of pictorial […]