February 2012
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January 2012
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December 2011
7 posts
michellej 2.0: Why Menu and Hours? →
Michelle Jones makes a compelling case for her app Menu and Hours, a Kickstarter project. Urban Spoon’s app is fine for traveling (user approval ratings), but Menu and Hours is an app that will make this townie’s life easier at home in Louisville on a regular basis (small print: as soon as the Android version is built):
michellej:
Some people have said that Menu and Hours is...
Elizabeth Banks (A.K.A. Effie Trinket) is the Face...
birchbox:
Photo: Beauty High
More news from the Hunger Games nail polish front: Elizabeth Banks (in full Effie Trinket mode) is now appearing as China Glaze’s spokesmodel for the much-anticipated line of polishes.
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Surprisingly, I am less sure than this guy on...
Bookstores: a miracle. How do they work?
towirr:
A gentleman named Farhad Manjoo just posted a proudly contrarian article on Slate explaining why independent bookstores are not only irrelevent but maybe even harmful. I work at an independent bookstore, so that’s an argument I’d be very very curious to see made well. Honestly, I know the failings of small booksellers as well as anyone, and it’d...
November 2011
2 posts
“This wasn’t about competition. It wasn’t about who’s better and who’s worse … It...”
– Kevin Arnold, dick (Season 2, episode 7, “Coda”)
He really is.
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October 2011
3 posts
Someone please explain to me
how I can go to so many rowdy shows — The Pogues, DBT, The Hold Steady, Li’l Wayne, Titus Andronicus, Gaslight Anthem, Lucero, just to name a few groups whose fans like to sling a drink or two — and have never been defiled, and yet tonight, in The Palace of all places, that venerable, rococo gem of an antique theatre, at a FLEET FOXES concert, of all things, I can end up soaked in beer from...
September 2011
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Discovering Louisville: Come to The Paper release... →
Yes. Do.
discoveringlouisville:
This Friday (Sept. 2nd) between the hours of 6 and 9, Louisville’s newest paper, The Paper, will be releasing it’s new September issue at coffee, treats, and record shop Please & Thank You. This will be a happenin’ time, folks. They are working on having a release party every first Friday of…
August 2011
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In which I chat about narrative with Craig Finn
The Hold Steady is ready to play words with friends
The pop song is the ultimate confessional. Stripped of equivocation, with little room for elaboration, pop songs have been confessing their writers’ secret desires since that first “baby, baby” rocked those early juke-joint crowds. Narrative songwriting, on the other hand, has long been the domain of the folk singer. Pop songwriters who...
Pet book reviews: Enslaved by Ducks →
It’s one thing to get blurbs from former teachers and more accomplished friends and lesser-known authors of similar books. Everyone who publishes a book manages to pull off that trick, and if you’ve been through an MFA program, it’s really pretty easy to get someone to churn out some rote praise for you. It’s another thing entirely to get a Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist and an icon to laud...
Love, war and sexy dreams: my True Blood recap →
Those mandatory nine hours of undergraduate theology come in handy while recapping last night’s “True Blood” for Salon. Somewhere, Father Zoeller punches a wall with his cane in glee.
An open letter to fans of 'The Help' from the... →
In the end, The Help is not a story about the millions of hardworking and dignified black women who labored in white homes to support their families and communities. Rather, it is the coming-of-age story of a white protagonist, who uses myths about the lives of black women to make sense of her own. The Association of Black Women Historians finds it unacceptable for either this book or this...
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slow motion crawl: ATTENTION TEENAGE GIRLS WITH... →
At first I thought this was a Young Manhattanite post and I made one of those yikes faces.
tulletulle:
For a site I am starting in September we are doing a monthly feature called FRIEND CRUSH where you nominate a friend or girl you admire [stalk] from afar from your school/community and talk about how much you love her and we all SPREAD THE GIRL LOVE AROUND. If you would like to nominate...
Q&A: Dropkick Murphys' Ken Casey On Shipping Up To... →
heathalouise:
It’s only been, uh, 15 years since I last wrote something for the Voice’s music section?
Interesting side bit on NKOTB: Donnie Wahlberg is “kind of the businessman, the brains behind the operation with them.” !!!
Book reviews, decoded
Enjoy Full Stop’s book review to English dictionary, which includes ever-popular terms like:
Carveresque: formerly Hemingwayesque; short sentences about drunk people watching their neighbors.
Read it and weep.
July 2011
4 posts
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Dirty cop: the peculiar tension of the...
Fiction writers are often called upon to review novels, and many book reviewers end up publishing novels themselves. Literary reviews are different from, say, movie or music reviews, in which the critics are rarely screening their own films or touring with their own bands. Lev Grossman, noted book critic and bestselling author, lays out one side of the problem:
“When a critic writes a...
Official Statement By Our Spokesperson, 10:15pm
realvillagevoice:
“We have reached a tentative agreement that is going to be presented to the membership for their approval in the morning.”—Graham A. Rayman, Village Voice staff writer and union spokesperson
Rayman said he could not discuss the terms until the offer has been presented to the membership.
June 2011
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...: Village Voice Staff Stages Walk-Out →
realvillagevoice:
At exactly 4pm this afternoon, a creaking of chairs could be heard across the 3rd floor of 36 Cooper Square, and then an eerie silence as over 50 union employees and sympathizers walked off the job at the Village Voice, as a sign of dissatisfaction over the lack of movement by management at…
The Real Voice: STRIKE LOOMS AT VILLAGE VOICE →
Solidarity.
realvillagevoice:
June 28, 2011: For immediate release
The current three-year contract between Village Voice Media and UAW Local 2110, representing the workers of The Village Voice, expires midnight June 30. The membership has unanimously passed a strike authorization vote.
Over the past three years, the
Death Becomes Her
flashesofreality:
I have been writing obituaries for years. Many, many years. A lot of people think: what an interesting occupation. Other people think: what special kind of touched or stupid is she for stalling out so low on the journalism ladder. Most people will never have to cold-call someone rife with grief, quiz them about someone beloved who isn’t yet resting in the cold, hard ground or...
This is how ideas like 'fluffy mackerel pudding'... →
Found on the Internet: a recipe for something called (my fingers can’t make fingerquotes emphatic enough to indicate how much of a perversion this dish name is) “savory cupcakes,” which are, seriously, lasagna noodles filled with buffalo chicken and topped with cheese and bechamel sauce. Do the noodles stay flaccid like lasagna or get crispy like, well, uncooked lasagna...
Map of Metal →
I wish it had pop-ups of the groups like the map of Westeros in the opening credits of Game of Thrones, especially of groups that already sound like Westeros houses, like Hammerfall and Dragonforce.