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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:25 am Sun, Jan 24, 2021
    Listen to James Baldwin's record collection on Spotify Black and white photo of James Baldwin

    If it's time to re-read Giovanni's Room and you want to set the mood, James Baldwin's record collection has been turned into a 478-song playlist on Spotify. Writer and Hammer… Read the rest of the article: Listen to James Baldwin's record collection on Spotify

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  • Janelle Hessig
    9:15 am Sun, Jan 10, 2021
    RIP Michael Apted, director of the decades-spanning documentary series Up

    We've lost another brilliant visionary. British filmmaker Michael Apted has passed away at age 79. In 1964, Apted turned his camera on to capture the hopes and dreams of 14… Read the rest of the article: RIP Michael Apted, director of the decades-spanning documentary series Up

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:15 am Fri, Jan 8, 2021
    Stacey Abrams, registering voters and ripping bodices stacey abrams in front of romance novels

    Like most Americans, I know Stacey Abrams as an accomplished politician, lawyer, and voting rights activist. It was only this week that I discovered her passion doesn't stop with politics.… Read the rest of the article: Stacey Abrams, registering voters and ripping bodices

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  • Janelle Hessig
    7:11 am Fri, Jan 8, 2021
    Children's television show about a man with a giant penis Stop motion man with mustache

    From the country that brought you a theme park featuring a dog fart rollercoaster comes "John Dillermand", a Denmark public television children's series featuring a man with a long, snaking,… Read the rest of the article: Children's television show about a man with a giant penis

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:51 am Wed, Jan 6, 2021
    Watch a film festival alone in a remote lighthouse lighthouse at night

    Is this a dream or a nightmare? It probably depends on whether or not you caught 2019's psychological thriller The Lighthouse (one vote for nightmare) and whether you were sober… Read the rest of the article: Watch a film festival alone in a remote lighthouse

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  • Janelle Hessig
    7:05 am Tue, Jan 5, 2021
    A giant hillside vagina is causing a stir in Brazil vagina sculpture on a hill

    Artist Juliana Notari has unveiled her latest work Diva, a 108 foot tall cement vagina sculpture, installed by hand by over 20 people on a hillside in Pernambuco. Though her… Read the rest of the article: A giant hillside vagina is causing a stir in Brazil

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  • Janelle Hessig
    12:59 pm Fri, Jan 1, 2021
    These robots are programmed to tear up the dance floor 3 robots dancing in a warehouse

    These gyrating, mashed potatoing robots might be your answer for a virus-free New Year's date. Robotics pioneers Boston Dynamics have just released a new video featuring four of their remarkably… Read the rest of the article: These robots are programmed to tear up the dance floor

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  • Janelle Hessig
    10:00 am Fri, Jan 1, 2021
    Luke McGarry's hilarious gag comics got me through 2020 drawing of luke mcgarry and the donnie darko bunny

    Every time I contemplate ditching social media, I remember all of the great artists I've stumbled across that I may not have found otherwise and resign myself to a life… Read the rest of the article: Luke McGarry's hilarious gag comics got me through 2020

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:13 am Thu, Dec 31, 2020
    Rest in Peace, dance legend Shabba-Doo Shabba-doo in Breakin

    Dance pioneer Adolfo "Shabba-Doo" Quiñones has died at age 65. Quiñones was part of the Lockers with Toni Basil, a dance crew that introduced locking to the world. An original… Read the rest of the article: Rest in Peace, dance legend Shabba-Doo

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:45 am Thu, Dec 31, 2020
    The extraordinary queer life of Harriet The Spy author Louise Fitzhugh black and white book cover, woman lying down

    Harriet the Spy was a YA fiction inspiration who possessed all of the ethics of a TMZ reporter. A young Upper East Side miscreant, Harriet's curiosity and ambition leads her… Read the rest of the article: The extraordinary queer life of Harriet The Spy author Louise Fitzhugh

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  • Janelle Hessig
    5:00 am Thu, Dec 31, 2020
    1983 boner comedy 'Get Crazy' could be your next New Year's Eve tradition 80s punks including Lee Ving hang out on a corner

    Like all things 2020, New Year's Eve is going to be hitting a little differently this year. No sidewalk revelry, no swapping spit with strangers on the dance floor, no… Read the rest of the article: 1983 boner comedy 'Get Crazy' could be your next New Year's Eve tradition

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  • Janelle Hessig
    9:15 am Mon, Dec 21, 2020
    The E-40 and Too $hort Verzuz battle is more popular than Christmas this year e40 and too short

    Timbaland and Swizz Beatz created Verzuz TV to keep us entertained with virtual DJ and MC battles while we're stuck in pandemic purgatory. Since March, they've streamed battles between the… Read the rest of the article: The E-40 and Too $hort Verzuz battle is more popular than Christmas this year

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  • Janelle Hessig
    8:51 am Mon, Dec 21, 2020
    Robin Gibb's pyromania and other trivia left out of the new Bee Gees documentary The Bee Gees

    The Bee Gees' ethereal harmonies have always hit me in a special place and Robin Gibb's voice in particular is one of my all-time favorites. He was like a gangly… Read the rest of the article: Robin Gibb's pyromania and other trivia left out of the new Bee Gees documentary

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  • Janelle Hessig
    2:36 pm Wed, Dec 16, 2020
    These spooky kinetic sculptures are mesmerizing Painting of skeleton ringing a bell in a graveyard

    When she's not in her tattoo studio, New Orleans artist Jamie Winn is creating haunting automata pieces that are truly a delight. The painted wood pieces featuring both nature and… Read the rest of the article: These spooky kinetic sculptures are mesmerizing

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  • Janelle Hessig
    11:08 am Wed, Dec 16, 2020
    Good news: Ikea Monkey is living his best life monkey chewing on some leaves

    It's the uplifting "Where are they now?" file we all need to hear right now. Back in 2012, a Japanese macaque monkey named Darwin entered pop culture history, and all… Read the rest of the article: Good news: Ikea Monkey is living his best life

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  • Janelle Hessig
    9:46 am Sat, Dec 12, 2020
    This deep funk Hanukkah song is a holiday classic in the making Man plays bass in front of menorahs

    Many have tried and all have failed to create a proper holiday pop song for Hanukkah that is both educational and possesses a nasty bass line. Luckily for us, funk… Read the rest of the article: This deep funk Hanukkah song is a holiday classic in the making

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  • Janelle Hessig
    7:39 am Tue, Dec 8, 2020
    A Lifetime mini-movie about Colonel Sanders (presented by Kentucky Fried Chicken) is apparently real. Mario Lopez dressed as Colonel Sanders holds a woman against a dramatic backdrop

    Is this what Voltaire meant went he spoke of the best of all possible worlds? When I saw the Lifetime movie poster online featuring Saved By the Bell actor Mario… Read the rest of the article: A Lifetime mini-movie about Colonel Sanders (presented by Kentucky Fried Chicken) is apparently real.

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  • Janelle Hessig
    7:38 am Sat, Dec 5, 2020
    Pee-Wee's Playhouse artist Wayne White makes a surprise appearance on David Letterman, 1984 david letterman holds a microphone to Wayne White

    Two years before he first basked in the art world's limelight with his set and puppet design on Pee-Wee's Playhouse and Art Direction on Peter Gabriel's "Big Time" video, artist… Read the rest of the article: Pee-Wee's Playhouse artist Wayne White makes a surprise appearance on David Letterman, 1984

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:27 am Sat, Dec 5, 2020
    City of Aurora files to dismiss Elijah McClain wrongful death lawsuit Elijah McClain

    The City of Aurora, Colorado is attempting to get a court to dismiss a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the family of Elijah McClain, who died in August 2019. In case you… Read the rest of the article: City of Aurora files to dismiss Elijah McClain wrongful death lawsuit

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  • Janelle Hessig
    6:00 am Fri, Dec 4, 2020
    Cartoonist with ALS uses eye gaze-tracking technology in order to continue creating. Grey scale head portrait

    I discovered Athens-based cartoonist Patrick Dean through Devlin Thompson, owner of the celebrated mainstay comics shop and weirdo refuge Bizarro Wuxtry. I became an instant fan of Patrick's loose and… Read the rest of the article: Cartoonist with ALS uses eye gaze-tracking technology in order to continue creating.

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