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Monthly Archives: July 2012
XXX Notes on the XXX Olympics Opening Ceremony
In which Greg Olear shares his impressions on the awe-inspiring Opening Ceremony. Continue reading
Pittsburgh: A Football Town with a Drinking Problem
In which Stacie Adams, a native and lifelong resident of Pittsburgh, hates on her hometown. Continue reading
Posted in Travel
Tagged Andy Warhol, Penguins, Pirates, Pittsburgh, STacie Adams, Steelers
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Ghosts in the Museum: Dawn Kasper and Mark Dion
Jennifer Kabat looks at art, looking at life and commenting on science and how things (even very ordinary ones) can change how we look at the world. Continue reading
The Kraken Inside Me
In which Tom Gualtieri’s inner demons are triggered by a single magic word, and the results are bloody. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged Candace Montgomery, faggot, gaybashing, justified anger, Kraken, Manhattan, Staten Island
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Love, Muddled and Stirred
In which Lauren Cerand mixes the elixir of life. Continue reading
Posted in Memoir
Tagged cocktails, Dorothy Parker, entertaining, London, New York, Samuel Beckett
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A Weeklings Special Feature: Symphony for the Devil
We know what Sean Beaudoin’s “666 Mix” is. Now the rest of the Weeklings crew — Elissa Schappell, Alex Clark, Greg Olear, Jennifer Kabat, Dennie Wendt, Janet Steen, and Diana Spechler — reveal their own private soundtracks to Hell. Continue reading
Posted in Special Features
Tagged Afternoon Delight, Ebony & Ivory, Indigo Girls, Radiohead, Spin Doctors, Third Eye Blind, u2, Van Heln
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Lame of Thrones
My wife and I tried to get into “Game of Thrones,” we really did, but we just couldn’t do it. Here are my thoughts on the two episodes we managed to get through. Continue reading
Posted in Popular Culture
Tagged Andy Samberg, Dothraki, Game of Thrones, George R. R. Martin, HBO, incest, more incest, Ned Stark, still more incest, wolves, yet more incest
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White Lines (Don’t Do It) – The Olympics Snarl Everything
Alex Clark looks at the last few days of Olympic preparations– shopkeepers arrested, traffic lanes made inscrutable with rings, rings themselves suddenly illegal… Continue reading
Posted in Sports
Tagged Bradley Wiggins, London 2012, Olympic Games, sponsorship, Tour de France
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Tess Mayer – SOMETHING OF THE ARBUS ABOUT HER
Tess Mayer, 17 years old and already something of Arbus in her photographs. Moving and elegant yet with all the weight of being a teenager. Continue reading
Posted in Sundays in the Part with Art
Tagged Bovina New York, diane arbus, rineke dijkstra, tess mayer
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A Tale Told by an Idiot or Triple Toil and Trouble
Tom Gualtieri agreed to revive his one-man show, “That Play: A Solo Macbeth.” Two days later, Alan Cumming announced that he, too, would mount a solo performance of Shakespeare’s bloodiest play. Talk about a walking shadow… Continue reading
Posted in The Arts
Tagged Alan Cumming, irony, Lady Macbeth, Macbeth, plagiarism, something wicked this way comes, Stephen Dillane, That Play, Tom Gualtieri
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