by | Apr 18, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from CNN Still spinnin’: America’s classic record stores By Brandon Griggs (CNN)Like phone booths and typewriters, record stores are a vanishing breed — another victim of the digital age. Camelot Music. Virgin Megastores. Wherehouse Music. Tower...
by | Apr 15, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Projects
from The San Jose Mercury News With Endgame: Proving Ground, Google’s Niantic Labs aims to improve on Ingress formula by Gieson Cacho Google’s Niantic Labs specializes in video games that revolve around the real world. It’s a heady space that mixes elements of...
by | Mar 18, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Projects
from The Huffington Post UK Lessons From SXSW by Caroline Norbury / CEO of Creative England Beau Willimon’s first thought when he wakes up every day is that he is going to die. This is apparently what “concentrates the mind” for the lead writer and...
by | Mar 15, 2015 | Culture Music Art, Mirth, Weirdness
from The Hollywood Reporter Gene Patton, Gene Gene the Dancing Machine From ‘The Gong Show,’ Dies at 82 Gene Patton, the NBC stagehand in Burbank who stole the spotlight as Gene Gene the Dancing Machine on NBC’s wacky The Gong Show, died Monday, his family...
by | Mar 13, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker Why Pi Matters BY STEVEN STROGATZ The beauty of pi, in part, is that it puts infinity within reach. CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY JEFFREY COOLIDGE / GETTY Every March 14th, mathematicians like me are prodded out of our burrows like Punxsutawney Phil on...
by | Mar 12, 2015 | Culture Music Art
from The New Yorker How Much Does Pacquiao-Mayweather Matter? BY KELEFA SANNEH Floyd Mayweather and Manny Pacquiao. CREDITPHOTOGRAPH BY ESTHER LIN/SHOWTIME® In a humid boxing gym in Hollywood on Tuesday, members of the sports media outnumbered world-class boxers by...
