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Apr.24.2009
I wrote my first piece for Tina Brown's site The Daily Beast, called "How Male Bisexuality Got Cool."
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Apr.21.2009
Japan's Biggest Export It’s official. Japan is no longer the dominant exporter of electronics and cars, but of its popular culture. Despite the economic downturn, conventions promoting Japanese pop culture are making more money than ever. Ronald Kelts, author of Japanamerica: How Japanese Pop...
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Apr.20.2009
Susan Boyle’s Got Peep
Posted by Hal Tags:
So what’s the one thing we know about overnight Scottish singing sensation Susan Boyle? What’s the one fact that resonates with all of us? Answer: It’s that she’s NEVER BEEN KISSED. This is the source of our fascination with her....
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Mar.20.2009
More great news! New Musical Expess, the esteemed British music weekly, is featuring rock photog Tom Wright's amazing images in an online gallery. Check it out here.
The photos – of the Who, Faces, Rod Stewart, Elvis Costello, and more – are from Raising Hell On The Rock 'N' Roll Highway,...
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Feb.02.2009
A review once described my work as “moving between the registers of the fabulous and the mundane;” as I write, however, I don’t purposely aim to interlace tonalities – I amass, pile, and occasionally flatten as I beat my matter into text.
Poetry needs no one new party to lead it into the fraying...
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Dec.06.2008
While the elites are focused on their own fluff stories like “The World’s Most Secretive Billionaires,” the rest of us might watch a little t.v. I do. I wish I could have a full time critical mind. I don’t. I engage in “mindless” activities that often include sitting in front of an electrified box...
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Nov.18.2008
I hear literary agents are wooing Sarah Palin. I can also hear the tut-tuts doing the rounds with a sneer. Oh dear, she will cash in on this, they will say. Sure as hell she will, as she must.
If others can capitalise on her “blonde moment” and her banality, then so can she. Forget her politics,...
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Sep.07.2008
I heard an interesting exchange while I was at the National Aquarium in DC (yes, we have one), doing research for a Washington Post article I wrote: Aquatic Adventures and a Dolphin Birthday.
There was a man there with two little boys. I imagine they were his sons and he says to one of them,...
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Jun.26.2008
WHAT: Esotouric debuts "Crawling Down Cahuenga: Tom Waits' Los Angeles" bus tour, followed by a group reading and signing of host David Smay's new book "Tom Waits Swordfishtrombones" (Continuum's 33 1/3 series) WHEN: Bus tour is Saturday August 30, noon-4pm, reading follows at...
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