by | May 13, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Come On and Zoom-Zoom By David Kamp The transition from in-office meetings to at-home video conferencing has occasioned lots of memes and social-media posts about “my idea of a Zoom meeting,” usually accompanied by a grainy video or photo of...
by | May 11, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from AP ‘The grief is so unbearable’: Virus takes toll on Navajo By FELICIA FONSECA and TIM SULLIVAN Eugene Dinehdeal shields his face from the setting sun on the Dinehdeal family compound in Tuba City, Ariz., on the Navajo reservation on April 20, 2020....
by | May 10, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News, Weirdness
from The Guardian The real Lord of the Flies: what happened when six boys were shipwrecked for 15 months When a group of schoolboys were marooned on an island in 1965, it turned out very differently from William Golding’s bestseller, writes Rutger Bregman by Rutger...
by | May 9, 2020 | Culture Music Art
from Rolling Stone ‘I Majored in Mouth’: How Little Richard Invented the Rock Star With his “A-wop bop-a-loo-bop, a-lop bam boom” battle cry, the late singer-pianist embodied an irrepressible rebel spirit that inspired everyone from John Lennon to Jimi Hendrix ByROB...
by | May 8, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from Inside Hook The Long and Decorated Literary History of the MILF From Chaucer to Mrs. Robinson, one of literature’s most subversive archetypes is also a surprisingly old one BY ELIOTT GROVER KRISTEN LIU-WONG “How many of you,” I ask a roomful of half-awake...
by | May 5, 2020 | Culture Music Art, Literary News
from The Observer New Biography ‘Warhol’ Separates the Man From the Myth By David D’Arcy Andy in Studio, New York, Union Square, 1976. Michael Childers Warhol, by Blake Gopnik, begins moments after the militant feminist and Factory hanger-on Valerie Solanas shot...
