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New Order: a marvellously unexpected rebirth

New Order: braving the elements in 2012, they headline at Bestival. At the pavement table of a hotel bar on a sunny Sunday afternoon in London, Bernard Sumner is revisiting the most calamitous…
PUBLISHED: Sept. 6, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2092 words)

Manufacturing Taste

Tell me what you think of Kraft Dinner, and I will tell you who you are. If you belong to Canada’s comfortable class, you probably think of the dish as a childish indulgence and a clandestine…
LENGTH: 22 minutes (5742 words)

Kiss: The Pagan Beasties of Teenage Rock

Ace Frehley, Gene Simmons, Paul Stanley and Peter Criss of KISS. Peter Cade/Central Press/Getty Images April 27, 2012 3:10 PM ET This story is from the April 7th, 1977 issue of Rolling Stone. "We bro
PUBLISHED: April 27, 2012
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1631 words)

The A-Z of Gore Vidal

On the campaign … congressional candidate Vidal with presidential hopeful JF Kennedy, August 1960. Photograph: Associated Press A is for AmericaVidal described his homeland as the United States of…
PUBLISHED: Aug. 1, 2012
LENGTH: 11 minutes (2890 words)

The Messy Business of Tacos

Unwrapping the history of Mexico's real national snack uncovers classism, dynamite, and shifting definitions of culture. Image from Flickr via Jeremy Brooks The search for authentic Mexican…
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2588 words)

Walking

I wish to speak a word for Nature, for absolute freedom and wildness, as contrasted with a freedom and culture merely civil—to regard man as an inhabitant, or a part and parcel of Nature,…
LENGTH: 48 minutes (12111 words)

How Qatar is taking on the world

Qatar's sovereign wealth fund owns 95% of the Shard in London, western Europe's tallest building. Photograph: Andy Rain/EPA On Thursday evening Sheikh Hamad bin Jassim al-Thani, who combines the…
PUBLISHED: July 7, 2012
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2127 words)

Does Love Survive Loss?

The 14th-century tomb effigy in Chichester Cathedral that inspired Larkin's poem "An Arundel Tomb"Photograph by Tom Oates.
PUBLISHED: May 28, 2012
LENGTH: 10 minutes (2587 words)
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Slake: Los Angeles—Mexican Gringo—A City And Its Stories

By Daniel Hernandez By Daniel Hernandez In Mexico City, noise, like smog, means people, commerce, signs of life. There is safety in noise as there is safety in numbers. This is not an easy concept to…
SOURCE:slake.la
LENGTH: 12 minutes (3059 words)
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