by | Sep 10, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The New Yorker The Book of Prince Prince had grand plans for his autobiography, but only a few months to live. By Dan Piepenbring “Funk is the opposite of magic,” Prince said. “Funk is about rules.” © The Prince Estate On January 29, 2016, Prince summoned me to...
by | Sep 9, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from NPR Meet The Man Who Guards America’s Ketchup by DAN CHARLES Hector Osorno is the Kraft Heinz Ketchup Master, whose job it is to make sure around 70% of the ketchup sold in America tastes the way it should. Dan Charles/NPR My search for the secrets of...
by | Sep 8, 2019 | Weirdness
from MSN Mysterious radio bursts from space may soon have an explanation by Seth Shostak © CHIME The CHIME telescope Just when you think you’ve cataloged all the beasts of the cosmos, a new one howls to us from the celestial savanna. Fast radio bursts are now...
by | Sep 7, 2019 | Culture Music Art, Los Angeles, Mirth
from Curbed ‘BoJack Horseman’ is the only show that really gets my city Tucked into the often-bleak narrative are disarmingly familiar glimpses of Los Angeles life By Alissa Walker From the dingbat apartments to the ever-present freeways, BoJack Horseman nails the...
by | Sep 6, 2019 | Culture Music Art
from The New York Times Pedro Bell, Whose Wild Album Covers Defined Funkadelic, Dies at 69 His vivid imagery, hypersexualized and full of futuristic themes, helped create the mythology of George Clinton’s groundbreaking group. By Neil Genzlinger Pedro Bell in 2009....
