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Financial scandals haven't kept celebs away.
Controversial speakers abound at the fourth annual conference.
Wait Wait… Don't Tell Me is better live.
The enduring legacy of Clarissa Pinkola Estes' Women Who Run with the Wolves.
Daniel Handler (aka Lemony Snicket) wants more sex in Young Adult fiction.
The man-bat doesn’t miss his wings.
Something must be done about all the podcast “creaky voices.”
“Water.”
Rereading Stephen King's clown novel 30 years later.
Steely Dan and Godard affect the Victorian era.
Western Civilization culminates in that so-so film.
What will it mean in a cultural climate hypersensitive to gender politics?
I don't hate conceptual art, but it had better be smart.
Failed modernist experimenter.
I once thought our popular culture had embarked on an unstoppable upward trajectory.
The Beatles kept inflating rock ‘n’ roll until it popped.
We really can't get into a situation in which races own images.
To quote Kid Rock, this is for the questions that don't have any answers.
From And/Or Studio for stock footage firm Dissolve. Via Boing Boing.
The 288-page reprint of the classic '80s hardcore zine also features new interviews with Ian MacKaye, Keith Morris, and members of Agnostic Front, Bad Brains, and Cro-Mags, as well as a 19-song compilation, Still Having Their Say. Below, Nomads cover Crucifix's "How When And Where" and Agnostic Front's "The Eliminator." More at Decibel.
Great Big Story talks to Ryan Elder, the sole composer for Cartoon Network's hit show. Via The AV Club.
A short documentary produced by the Nevada Museum of Art for its ongoing Burning Man exhibition. Via Boing Boing.
Artist Terence Eduarte's "100 Days of Secrets" project, in which he draws odd portraits of friends and strangers alike, provided they tell him a secret. Via Neatorama.
NowThis has obtained the full screenplay of Bannon's never-produced '90s rap musical The Thing I Am, a remake of Shakepeare's Coriolanus set during the 1992 L.A. riots. Watch the table read here. Via The AV Club.
From artist Butcher Billy. Check it out at Behance. Via Boing Boing.
An installation by Zadok Ben-David, currently on display at the Shoshana Wayne Gallery in Santa Monica, CA. The installation features more than 3,000 metal figurines, all of them from photographs Ben-David took while traveling around the world. Via Colossal. Design Milk has a short video.
