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From Hayao Miyazaki's "Ponyo" If someone wrote a constitution outlining the powers allotted the contemporary storyteller, one of its central clauses might read like this: “So-called ‘myths,’ an antiquated genre cobbled together from perpetuated falsity, if written at all, must be done so for the s...
Photo: Shari Altman Dear Autumn, You are the sexiest of all the seasons. When you come around, I drop everything and give myself to you wholly. I will be your mistress, and I will love you even on the darkest and greyest of days...
Snake, c.1860. Gold, diamond. Photo: John Bigelow Taylor Ask Sarah Palin after everyone learned she spent $150,000 on clothes. Ask Cindy McCain after the media slammed her for wearing an outfit that totaled $300,000...
From the New York Times: Mistakes in Typography Grate the Purists. Seeing the clean, crisp shapes of those letters and numbers at station entrances, on the platforms and inside the trains is always a treat, at least it is until I spot the “Do not lean …” sign on the train doors. Ugh! Ther...
The restored bus on which Rosa Parks refused to give up her seat. With Liberty and Justice For All, a permanent exhibit at the Henry Ford in Dearborn, Michigan, sets out to do more than weave a narrative or artfully display a collection...
Glaucus and Scylla from Ovid's "Metamorphoses" (William Turner, 1841) There ought to be in every hand a well-thumbed and annotated copy of Ovid’s Metamorphoses. It should be found – splayed, its leaves fattened with moisture and sun – wedged between windshields and dashboards. The ...
I’ve lately been reading all manner of goodness on The Rabbit Room. The blog’s title is a nod to The Eagle and Child pub where the Inklings met to discuss their writings, drink beer, and be merry. As a rabid Tolkien and C.S. Lewis fan, I was sold on the virtual concept immediately. I ...
From Foreign Policy: Why TV, not Facebook or Twitter, is going to revolutionize the world. Indeed, television, that 1920s technology so many of us take for granted, is still coming to tens of millions with a transformative power — for the good — that the world is only now coming to understand. Th...
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New Yorkers: come out tonight for a gallery opening and show at our publisher's space in midtown Manhattan!
http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=17
IAM Gallery Opening
Location:IAM Space 38|39
Time:7:00PM Friday, November 6th
Book-to-movie adaptations: how do we watch them? Okay, look — you’ve told me a few times that the book is better than the movie. Did you know that I read the book, too? Honestly, I also like it better than the movie. I guess the folks that adapted it for the screen really left out a lot. Tw...
Photo: Andrea Leganza My grandfather is dying again. I know because my mom called. And she knows because Aunty Cathy called her. This is the fourth time in two years my mom has called me with this news; the fourth time, she got the call from Aunty Cathy...
Photo: Rebecca Brame It was the suckiest letter I ever received. One friend pored over the words and responded, “It reads vindictive. How could someone speak this way about your beautiful writing? ...
From the Telegraph: The secret behind Mona Lisa’s enigmatic smile. Now scientists claim to have come up with an answer to her changing moods – our eyes are sending mixed signals to the brain. Th...
From the New York Times: Pushing Fresh Produce Instead of Cookies at the Corner Market. Until recently, small corner grocery stores were seen by public health officials as part of theobesity problem...
From the Wall Street Journal: The Art World Goes Local. At the height of the boom, art collectors scrambled to acquire works by top artists from rising markets including China, Russia, India and the Middle East...
