Rumpus And Beyond

from the New Yorker     CRASH MANSION    With the Christian Science Monitor announcing that it plans to cease publishing a print edition and move its operations entirely to the Internet and the same strategy reportedly in the works at U.S. News & World Report and...

House of Blues Heritage In Dire Straits

from the Dallas Observer Downtown Dallas at the Crossroads The city’s effort to clean up downtown could cost us important parts of history. By Robert Wilonsky It stands at the end of a short, out-of-the-way dead-end street a few blocks from City Hall: 508 Park...

International Bright Young Things

from the NY Observer Vile Bodies BY DAMIAN DA COSTA  |  Bright Young People: The Lost Generation of London’s Jazz AgeBy D.J. TaylorFarrar, Straus and Giroux, 361 pages, $27 British tabloids of the 1920s bestowed the sobriquet “Bright Young People” on the generation...