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The Lost Beach Boy: Dennis Wilson’s Pacific Ocean Blue At 40 Sounding Board August 24, 2017 3:30 PM Over the years, the Beach Boys have often been reduced to one thing or another. Yes, they gave the w

Sound art, free beer and acid communism meet in Carl Neville's brillianty imagined political thriller, finds Paul Raven Carl Neville’s Eminent Domain begins with a death – at least, that’s the first t

Long before the internet caught wind of him, Henry Earl was already a local legend. By the time the Charleston Gazette dubbed him a “cult-status hero” and Newsweek called him the “town drunk,” Earl wa

Wyndham Wallace speaks to Brian and Roger Eno about their new mini-LP Luminous and the state of the world in 2020 On March 20, 2020, three days before the coronavirus lockdown began in Britain – and a

Last year Chicago poet Eve L. Ewing published 1919 , a volume that channels her city’s Red Summer into blues. It is a magical work. The voices of house-keepers and stockyard hands are summoned. The th

Painting, calligraphy, photography, and flower arranging — all in the service of a creative, genuine life. Honoring the 25th anniversary of his death, we present the dharma art teachings and artworks

Fernando Pessoa. Public domain, via Wikimedia Commons. Fernando Pessoa’s life divides neatly into three periods. In a letter to the British Journal of Astrology dated February 8, 1918, he wrote that t

It pains me to say it, but I am a failed artist. “Pains me” because nothing in my life has given me the boundless psychic bliss of making art for tens of hours at a stretch for a decade in my 20s and

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Henry Grimes. Photo by Peter Gannushkin “Henry was not hired to fill the role of a bass player; he was hired to be Henry,” declares fellow bassist William Parker Henry Grimes was one of greatest music

Congress Needs a Plan to Confront the Coronavirus. I Have One. Government action is essential to save lives and to rescue our economy. Let’s get back to work. Ms. Warren is a Democratic senator from M

NOTE: This article is a narrative version of a talk I’ve given for developers at the Craft Conference and for product managers and designers at Mind The Product . In this article I’d like to discuss t

(image courtesy the author for Hyperallergic) Chanting on video chat is one of the oddest life experiences. Chanting can be difficult enough, though soothing once you get a hang of it, but online, wit

The idea that the bubonic plague woke the brilliance in Isaac Newton is both wrong and misleading. Illustration from Oxford Science Archive / Getty On July 25, 1665, a five-year-old boy named John Mor

Listening to Chances with Wolves’s lonesome, dusty mixtapes during a year of transition, loss, and decline. Christopher Colville, Coyote #6 , 2016, from the series “Beyond Reckoning . ” Courtesy Rick

We’re Banning Facial Recognition. We’re Missing the Point. The whole point of modern surveillance is to treat people differently, and facial recognition technologies are only a small part of that. Bru

Aaron North eases his dirty silver truck onto Sunset Boulevard and tells me how this is going to go. “I don’t want to be interrogated,” he says on this mid-summer night, sliding into Hollywood traffic

Suppose you’ve been asked to write a science-fiction story. You might start by contemplating the future. You could research anticipated developments in science, technology, and society and ask how the

Inner sleeve of Mkwaju Ensemble’s Ki-Motion Words by: We Release Whatever the Fuck We Want Records is one of the key players in today’s thriving reissue culture, releasing everything from B movie soun

The Japanese composer and percussionist Midori Takada released “Through the Looking Glass” in 1983. Three decades later, a YouTube algorithm introduced it to a world of new listeners. Credit... Rozett

I t is the end of June, and I am wandering about my small island in Maine. I’ve been thinking about the materiality of the world. Today, I just want to experience the fleshiness of this island. I run

Alcohol Why Camille Paglia hates affirmative action, defends Rush Limbaugh, and respects Ayn Rand | From the August/September 1995 issue Media Contact & Reprint Requests Hurricane Camille swept into A

We Have Ruined Childhood For youngsters these days, an hour of free play is like a drop of water in the desert. Of course they’re miserable. Ms. Brooks is a writer. Credit... João Fazenda 阅读简体中文版 閱讀繁體

Share Post Bookmark Lynch’s two films are filled with dualities, and they double each other as well. David Lynch is one of the most distinctive directors in film history. His visuals, themes, narrativ

August 28, 2019 Part of: Feeling healthy Finding balance Copied link to guide! Our two brain hemispheres play inherently different roles when it comes to our state of mind: the right hemisphere is pre

Audio: George Saunders reads. Today is to be Parts of the Parts of my Sure, Jer Please do Point at parts of me while saying the name of it off our list of Words Worth Knowing. Agespot Finger Wrist At

YoshimiO—“Just my name with a circle at the end,” the drummer explains—is a multi-instrumentalist and creative force at the center of a number of extraordinary musical powerhouses in Japanese experime

The Enthusiast The author of “Dhalgren” and dozens of other books “gives readers fiction that reflects and explores the social truths of our world,” the novelist Jordy Rosenberg writes. Samuel R. Dela

I’ll begin by confessing: I fucked up . I fucked up as a friend, an acquaintance, a stranger, a neighbor, and as a partner. I said cruel things; I said provocative things; I said obscene things; I sai

[Also available as podcast here ] I. Allen Ginsberg’s famous poem on Moloch: What sphinx of cement and aluminum bashed open their skulls and ate up their brains and imagination? Moloch! Solitude! Filt

“Toward the evening of a gone world, the light of its last summer pouring into a Chelsea street found and suffused the red waistcoat of Henry James, lord of decorum, en promenade , exposing his Boston

Four turntables and a 909: Will Lynch talks shop with one of the very best. " I say it to this day, if you ain't listened to the The Wizard You ain't have a fucking clue what you was missing. " That's

This essay is adapted from a talk given at California’s Novato Public Library earlier this year. There are ecological reasons to question how books are made out of trees but metaphysical reasons to re

One day in March of 2000, six of Google ’s best engineers gathered in a makeshift war room. The company was in the midst of an unprecedented emergency. In October, its core systems, which crawled the

With Janet Jackson's (woefully belated) acceptance into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame, it's well past time for a broader reckoning with her place in popular culture, and especially the way she's chal

Are we our illnesses? At the Aspen Ideas Festival, thought leaders gather under the Koch Tent to pursue a “culture of health.” An essay on the kingdom of the sick in the age of biotech. Incomprehensib

Fisher feared that we were losing our ability to conceptualize a tomorrow that was radically different from our present. Photograph by Georg Gatsas / Verso Books Mark Fisher was a writer and academic from the English Midlands who, in the early two-thousands, felt at odds with many of the…

By Ernest Hilbert I amble down Walnut Street in Philadelphia, on lunch break from my job as an antiquarian bookseller on the top floor of the art-deco Sun Oil Building, when I develop a pronounced lim