SQUAREPUSHER Damogen Furies Woo-hoo

from Paste Magazine Squarepusher Announces New Album Damogen Furies, Shares New Track By Jeff Pearson Since 2012’s Ufabulum, prolific English producer Squarepusher (Tom Jenkinson) has been relatively quiet. He released the Music for Robots EP last year, a composition...

Meditation Boom

from The LA Times MEDITATION BOOMS AS PEOPLE SEEK A WAY TO SLOW DOWN By MARY MACVEAN Participants meditate during a class at Unplug, a new meditation studio in Los Angeles, on April 24, 2014. (Katie Falkenberg / Los Angeles Times) One hundred fifty people sat in the...

Philip Levine Gone

from The New York Times An Appraisal: The Poet Philip Levine, an Outsider Archiving the Forgotten By DWIGHT GARNER Della and Tatum, Sweet Pea and Packy, Ida and Cal. You met a lot of unpretentious people in Philip Levine’s spare, ironic poems of the industrial...

Michele Ferrero, Creator of Nutella Gone

from The New York Times Michele Ferrero, Tycoon Who Gave the World Nutella, Dies at 89 By HILARY STOUT Michele Ferrero, widely regarded as the richest man in Italy and — a distinction more notable to lovers of sweets everywhere — the creator of Nutella, died on...