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Carlos Brillembourg on Adam Bartos
Published on 2006-05-18 15:32:00
Carlos Brillembourg~BOMBThe photographs in Adam Bartos's Boulevard, taken in Paris and Los Angeles, document places that are at once ubiquitous and hidden. Bartos photographs a commonplace urban scene animated by a soft wash of light infused with col
R.I.P., 'Arrested Development'
Published on 2006-03-31 11:34:00
Tim Goodman~San Fransico Chronicle"Arrested Development," the critically praised but low-rated Fox show that won an Emmy for outstanding comedy series, as well as Emmys for writing, will not be resurrected on Showtime as rumors circulating for months
Interview with Damien Jurado
Published on 2006-03-31 11:14:00
Brian Hoscheit~30music30: So it’s the realism that touches people more easily? It seems like you used your character David like that.Jurado: David is actually David Bazan [of Pedro the Lion] from a dream I had where his wife and I go looking for hi
Borges and the Plain Sense of Things
Published on 2006-03-31 11:07:00
Gabriel Josipovici~ReadySteadyBookThe name of Borges, among readers of modern literature, has always been synonymous with labyrinths, babelic libraries, gardens of forking paths, parallel universes, refutations of time and all sorts of cunning intell
Interview with Ray Caesar
Published on 2006-03-29 16:16:00
Brentley Frazer~PixelsurgeonLike a wonderful old book you find that captures you with the mystery of the main character you read the beginning and fall under its spell and become unaware of the real nature of reality because you are absorbed by the s
2nd Annual Smallest, Coolest Apartment Contest
Published on 2006-03-29 16:11:00
Apartment TherapyThe Smallest, Coolest Apartment contest is a contest for all small apartments and homes in the lower 48 states under 650 square feet. We are seeking the most ingenious and beautiful 120 submissions along with all the tips and resourc
Concrete Island
Published on 2006-03-24 13:59:00
Geoff Manaugh~BLDG BLOGI suppose it's not even outside the realm of possibility to imagine, several hundred years from now, after nearly everyone's died of bird flu, AIDS, or open civil warfare, that freeways – those massive examples of widespread
D'oh The Right Thing
Published on 2006-03-24 13:53:00
New York Post"Simpsons" cast member Harry Shearer, who provides the voices of Ned Flanders, Mr. Burns and Rev. Lovejoy, among others, says vocal work on the movie has begun. Appearing on the syndicated Mancow radio show, Shearer said the movie dialog
A Controversy Over Empire
Published on 2006-03-24 11:13:26
Karen Rosenberg ~New York MagazineAt eight hours, Andy Warhol’s 1964 film Empire is something that one watches, as its creator said, “to see time go by.” Officially, the only way to see the artist’s epic stationary shot of the Empire State Bu
The Art of Fiction No. 11: Nelson Algren
Published on 2006-03-24 10:07:00
Alston Anderson & Terry Southern~Paris ReviewINTERVIEWER: Did you ever feel that you should try heroin, in connection with writing a book about users? ALGREN: No. No, I think you can do a thing like that best from a detached position. INTERVIEWER: We
An Interview with Dan Bejar of Destroyer
Published on 2006-03-23 15:51:00
Phil Hunt~The OdysseyIs there anything that inspires your lyrics? What are you reading right now? Yeah always I guess. Not maybe subject matter. The way I write is pretty fixed these days. I don't think I'm aping other writers the way I once did when