Oral Marley

from the Los Angeles Post-Examiner Safeguarding Bob Marley with “So Much Things to Say” BY STEPHEN COOPER In reviewing Roger Steffens’s latest book, So Much Things to Say: The Oral History of Bob Marley, Hua Hsu asserts in The New Yorker that Steffens’s contribution...

Help me, Obi X Kenobi. You’re my only hope.

from Vanity Fair Why Generation X Might Be Our Last, Best Hope Caught between vast, self-regarding waves of boomers and millennials, Generation X is steeped in irony, detachment, and a sense of dread. One of their rank argues that this attitude makes it the best...

Hyatt’s Gone

from WHAM 40-year-old East Rochester video store to close its doors by Carlet Cleare East Rochester, N.Y. – One of the largest and last local video stores in this digital era is closing. Walking into Hyatt’s Classic Video on West Commercial Street feels a...

Lost Languages Found

from The Times of India Scientists discover lost languages at Egyptian monastery by Tom Whipple, Science Editor The library at Saint Catherine’s monastery has been in continuous use for 1,500 years / KHALED ELFIQI Ancient works not read by humans since the Dark Ages...

Tobe Hooper Gone

from DEADLINE ‘Texas Chain Saw Massacre’ Director Tobe Hooper Dies At 74 by Mike Fleming Jr Tobe Hooper, one of the pioneers of the horror genre, died Saturday at age 74. He passed in Sherman Oaks. Hooper made two of the most distinguished films in the fright genre....

Aphex Technical Equipment Supply

from NPR How A Small Town Record Store Quietly Released An Exclusive Aphex Twin Record Working away from a cultural capital comes with significant upsides. by SCOTT STERLING Well beyond the obvious tropes of Motown, techno and hip-hop icons, evidence of metropolitan...