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Human Beings On Paper: A Night With Ab-Soul & Kendrick Lamar

Feature by MATT CONOVER The sky is falling, the wind is calling / Stand for something or die in the morning. – Kendrick Lamar on “HiiPower” The wind lashed rain against the car,…
LENGTH: 18 minutes (4610 words)

Human Beings on Paper: Ab-Soul and Kendrick Lamar

BET Music Matters Tour with Kendrick Lamar, Ab-Soul and Jay Rock The National, Richmond, VA September 8, 2012 The sky is falling, the wind is calling / Stand for something or die in the morning…
LENGTH: 16 minutes (4205 words)

Review: Mounting Evidence by Dr. Paul Rea

“Although this rendering reflects serious sleuthing, what you’ll find here is less a research treatise than a detective mystery in the spirit of Sherlock Holmes. The inquiry goes where…
LENGTH: 14 minutes (3601 words)

top scoring links : Foodforthought

Intelligent and thought provoking commentaries on life and culture Explorations of culture, people and society. FoodforThought is a DepthHub subreddit dedicated to longform articles and essays that…

Fiction Has Become Our Reality: Minority Report and the Surveillance State

“The Internet is watching us now. If they want to. They can see what sites you visit. In the future, television will be watching us, and customizing itself to what it knows about us. The…
LENGTH: 7 minutes (1798 words)

Letters from Chicago – Volume I: Fit to Burst

Saturday August 11, 2012 2:38 AM 2129 N Milwaukee Ave, Unit 3 Chicago, IL 60647 It’s Superfest 2012 and the Congress Theater down the block hosts heavy beats and youthful entropy. I spent the…
AUTHOR:Ben Wilkes
LENGTH: 4 minutes (1140 words)

A Plague Upon Your Ignorance: The Overwhelming Genius of Zappa

“I’m gonna tell you the way it is/And I’m not gonna be kind or easy” Frank Zappa, “Harry, You’re a Beast” The contributions that Frank Zappa made to…
LENGTH: 9 minutes (2367 words)

Linda, Before Paul McCartney

I first met Linda McCartney at the Scene on West 46th Street. A hip little grotto in a cellar, it was run by the cool Steve Paul. In the fall of 1965 everybody from Slim Harpo to Jimi Hendrix played…
LENGTH: 8 minutes (2143 words)

Blooms & Busts: Lollapalooza 2012

The sort of manic energy present at a music festival compressed into ten square blocks of downtown Chicago is hard to put into words. Grant Park, the city’s cornerstone public green-space that…
AUTHOR:Ben Wilkes
LENGTH: 6 minutes (1604 words)
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