I thought Twin Peaks: The Return went far deeper than the original series. I wrote this prediction before the premiere about how Twin Peaks: The Return would function: I expect the new season to be ab

I began my formal research in 1999, eight years after battling my way out of a secret, so-called Marxist-Leninist group whose leader controlled my life in its most intimate details. He determined what I wore: a version of the advice in John Molloy’s bestseller Dress for Success (1975), featuring…

1. ON THE PURPOSE OF CRITICISM THREE WEEKS AGO THE NEW YORKER 'S EMILY NUSSBAUM POSTED A STELLAR REVIEW OF WHAT WAS AT THE TIME THE LATEST EPISODE OF GIRLS . LATER THAT DAY SHE VOICED SOME CONCERN ON TWITTER THAT SO MUCH OF HER PIECE, AS WELL AS THE GENERAL DIALOGUE AROUND THE SHOW AT LARGE, DEALT…

Michael with a butterfly. This has been reposted from The Blue Review. Three days before 20-year-old Adam Lanza killed his mother, then opened fire on a classroom full of Connecticut kindergartners, my 13-year old son Michael (name changed) missed his bus because he was wearing the wrong color…

On Passport to Dreams Old and New, FoxxFur continues her unbroken record for highlighting insightful, deep design truths by examining the minutae of the design and evolution of the Disney theme parks. In the current post, "The Awkward Transitions of Disneyland!", she looks at the way that the…

Last month in Ireland, Savita Halappanavar died, and she shouldn't have. Savita was a 31-year-old married woman, four months pregnant, who went to the hospital with a miscarriage in progress that developed into a blood infection. She could easily have been saved if the already doomed fetus was…

At the live preview of some of Desertshore at Newcastle's AV Festival in March this year, there was in the room a sense of remembrance ritual for Peter 'Sleazy' Christopherson. As I wrote here , the set by Chris Carter and Cosey Fanni Tutti, film screenings and performance by Attila Csihar created…

The Grateful Dead in San Francisco, in 1970. “Our audience is like people who like licorice,” Jerry Garcia said. “Not everybody likes licorice, but the people who like licorice really like licorice.” Photograph by Robert Altman / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty One night in the winter of 1996, Rob…

The biggest thing in music this year? A supercharged version of something that nearly died in the '90s: the rave. Gideon Lewis-Kraus reports from the Electric Daisy Carnival, a three-ight (and surprisingly polite) bacchanal where international DJs spin for 100,000 wasted hedonists scantily dressed…

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Magazine ‘My So-Called Adulthood’ Illustration by Tom Gauld Long before we had much life to look back on, North Americans my age knew that nostalgia was a sickness. It’s not that we were aware the term was coined to describe the crippling melancholia that overcame many 17th-century Swiss soldiers…

Magazine FEB. 16, 2012 Antonio Bolfo/Reportage for The New York Times Andrew Pole had just started working as a statistician for Target in 2002, when two colleagues from the marketing department stopped by his desk to ask an odd question: “If we wanted to figure out if a customer is pregnant, even…

In order to tell this story, I have to start with me lying in a bathtub, in a house on Hollywood east of I-35, in the very early Eighties. The water has mellowed to lukewarm. My head is laid back, my eyes closed, my body buzzing. On the record player, playing over and over again is Skip Spence's Oar…

Right before I walked away from my first house, I walked away from my first house. Carried my baby down the street in the snow: dry flakes, whipping sideways past the neighbors’ houses. We were going to the liquor store around the corner to buy milk and a newspaper. I guess it was a shitty liquor…

This template for the SOPA blackout (the one we used) was created by Zachary Johnson . Depending on where you live, you might not be able to read the thought-provoking polemic posted by the Pirate Bay yesterday, so here it is in full. It’s well worth reading. INTERNETS, 18th of January 2012. PRESS…

(Editor’s Note: Any decent coverage of Anonymous is going to verge on some NSFW material at points. There will be questionable language and strange imagery.) Part Three of a Three-Part Series Examining the History of Anonymous. Part One . Part Two . “World War III is a guerrilla information war with…

Here at ComicsAlliance, we value our readership and are always open to what the masses of Internet readers have to say. That’s why every week, Senior Writer Chris Sims puts his comics culture knowledge to the test as he responds to your reader questions! Q: On Scooby-Doo, do you prefer the monsters…

Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated Scooby-Doo Created by Joe Ruby and Ken Spears Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated series produced and written by Mitch Watson Scooby-Doo Mystery Incorporated series Showrunners (Supervising Producers) Spike Brandt and Tony Cervone imdb , Cartoon Network, Various Times…

Occupy Wall Street protester Brandon Watts lies injured on the ground after clashes with police over the eviction of OWS from Zuccotti Park. Photograph: Allison Joyce/Getty Images U S citizens of all political persuasions are still reeling from images of unparallelled police brutality in a…

The easy way to start this story would be it’s the end of R.E.M. as we know it, and Michael Stipe feels fine. Except that’s not exactly true. Read between the lines of our half-hour conversation with Stipe on Friday — the first interviews he’s given in America since R.E.M. announced its disbanding…

Keyboard abuse: 'It made me feel so good, spending time with people who cared for me, even if they didn’t know I was a fake.' Photograph: Liz McBurney A nyone following her updates online could see that Mandy Wilson had been having a terrible few years. She was diagnosed with leukaemia at 37,…

by Mike Barthel Michael Walker was acting strangely. The 23-year-old Seattle soundman had just been re-introduced to Sara Merker, a college student a couple years older than he was, and the first thing he said was, “Can I take a picture of you for my blog?” This was the second time Merker had really…

This essay is a collaboration between Wowhead CM Perculia and guest poster Hamlet. Hamlet has been raiding since 2005, and is best known as the author of several Druid guides on Elitist Jerks . He can currently be found on Twitter at @HamletEJ . Update: Their replies to comments can be found here…

So as you may be aware, NPR crowd-sourced a list of the 100 greatest sci-fi and fantasy novels . As you might also be aware, 100 novels is a lot of novels. Chances are you’ve read or at least heard of some of them before, but let’s say you want to pick a new one, something you aren’t familiar with,…

It was my research editor who told me it was completely nuts to willingly get fucked at gunpoint. That's what she called me when I told her the story. We were drunk and in a karaoke bar, so at the time I came up with only a wounded face and a whiny, "I'm not completely nuuuuts!" Upon further…

Self-portrait by Tarn Adams, left, using characters from his game. Right, Zach Adams. Tarn Adams was in the carpeted spare bedroom that serves as his work space, trying to avert an apocalyptic outbreak of vampire dwarves. “If they just run wild biting people, half the dwarves in the colony will be…

Alberto Costa and his daughter, Tyche. Lydia Panas for The New York Times Early in the evening of June 25, 1995, hours after the birth of his first and only child, the course of Dr. Alberto Costa’s life and work took an abrupt turn. Still recovering from a traumatic delivery that required an…

It's high time people stopped kvetching about Wikipedia, which has long been the best encyclopedia available in English, and started figuring out what it portends instead. For one thing, Wikipedia is forcing us to confront the paradox inherent in the idea of learners as "doers, not recipients." If…