Torture As Art

from the LA Times Torture devices seeking righteous buyer   Carolyn Cole / Los Angeles Times Iron masks are among the items in a collection of torture devices that is up for auction. The Tongue Tearer and other terrifying contraptions from the 16th century land...

Some Truer Words of Wisdom

from The New Bankrupt Times QUOTATION OF THE DAY “Banking should not be exciting. If banking is exciting there is something wrong with it.” CLAY EWING, president of German American Bancorp., a community bank in Jasper,...

Kate Moss is going to live forever.

from SANS ARTIFICE TARRED & FEATHERED By Sans TAR is not a fashion magazine – its editor, Evan Schindler will tell you as much. Sure a few fashion personalities make special guest appearances and there is a smattering of editorial content but ultimately these are...

A Jazz Memoir in Verse

from Shelf-Awareness Birth of the Cool: Minnesota I know, Miles, you didn’t have rural southern Minnesota in mind when you blew your classic mute on your Birth of the Cool sessions in New York, circa 1949. But it’s the way the paper-thin ice forms on the...